Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Urgent help is on the way for travelers at one of the nations busiest airports tonight after hundreds missed their flights on sunday, because of understaffed tsa checkpoints and very long lines. Today the head of the tsa apologized to passengers affected by the bottleneck at chicagos ohare airport, and dispatched a crisis team to get things moving. Increasingly long waits at security checkpoints across the country have caused tens of thousands to miss flights this year, and the fact that were already seeing meltdowns on a scale of what happened sunday in chicago, ahead of the busy travel season is deepening concerns. The developments in this unfolding crisis. Reporter long lines again this morning at chicagos this, after many were forced to sleep on cots sunday. The entire airport, for the entire domestic flights. Its like crazy. Reporter today
Can you even we have not ended the scourge and the threat of home violent extremism. People ask me what keep you up at night. Thats thing number one. The prospect of another home grown or home born, violent extremists acquiring a weapon or a tool of Mass Violence and carrying out an attack some place here in the homeland. It cannot be quantified. It is difficult to detect and given the nature of it. In my view, what we and Homeland Security needs to do in addition to all the they thinks we are doing is to continually to remind the American People of all the things we are doing and 10 or 12 things we are doing and constantly securing our homeland but to also say to them there is a role for a public of awareness and vigilance. You cannot eliminate all risks whether it is a terror attack or a mass shooting or gun violence. We cannot end it tomorrow. We can and reduce it as much as possible, consistent with our values and laws. But, the prospect of an hbe attack is still there and we need
Of the companys wave gliders are right now tweeting back information and photos from inside the hurricane headed for hawaiis big island. The difference here is that typically youve got this information from the satellite which is above the clouds and were on the Ocean Surface collecting this data which has never been done before. Reporter amanda of oakland is also tracking the hurricane and hoping her family, all of whom live on the big island, are prepared when the storm hits. I almost started crying talking to my mom. You know, im really worried about them and i love them. I love everybody. Reporter most of her family including her mother live in kona in the storms path but her dad is in hilo which will likely get hit first. My mom is Still Holding up hope that mauna kea, the big island, will brick eak up the system. I dont know if thats possible. Shes holding out hope that the storm wont make it to the big island. One direct flighting from sfo to kona has been canceled. Flights to h
Crackpot scheme and root beer stands when we colonized, so yes someone like a former tough marine said i would have gone up there in a heartbeat and the early pilot who ended up flying in the powder puff derby she would have been there in a moment but some of them are like are you kidding i want to stay down here with my feet on the ground and of course they all hope we will continue to explore and push the envelope as their husband used to say. I will just mention very deeply the red leather diary, my first book because i think it reflects on how i wanted to talk this kind of story. I grew up in chicago. And it was a new york guy in a city girl. I was in new york with that density of people Walking Around looking at these Old Buildings into these windows lit up and i just sort of naive, just to be an incredible amount of Untold Stories but there are and how everybody has a story and somehow i just wanted to be able to reveal some of those distant stars. So very serendipitously i have
Francisco. [applause] thank you, sharon and welcome everyone. Thanks for coming. I am very pleased to give you an introduction to eric leu who is an author and educator and entrepreneur and ceo of Citizen University that works to create a strong culture of citizenship which we will be talking about later. Hes a former white house speechwriter for president bill clinton and was later the president to the domestic policy adviser after the white house he was an executive at the Digital Media company at the networks. In 2002, he was named one of the World Economic Global Leaders of tomorrow. He coauthored the National Bestseller the gardens of democracy at the new american story of citizenship, the economy and the role of government. He has written several other books including the true patriots and imagination first unlocking the power of possibility. His latest book is entitled a china mans chance one mans journey into the chinese american dream. Please join me in welcoming eric leu. [ap