Still have time. We will tell you exactly how much. Good evening. Its great to have you with us on this busy friday night. Im cecilia vega, in for david. As we come on the air tonight, the Holiday Travel rush at a peak. And brought to a crawl for millions of americans. And it can only get worse. And were tracking backtoback storms sweeping across the country as a Record Number of travelers are on the road and in the air. Major airports reporting hundreds of flight delays. This is the scene in los angeles today, in denver, the security lines, painful. And in new york, brace yourselves. That is not all. Dangerous driving on the highways. Cars sliding off icy roads in new mexico. And weather alerts across 23 states. Snow and heavy rain from california to massachusetts. David kerley starts us off tonight. Reporter the holiday road home is a blizzard of snow and ice for some tonight, with a wreath to keep the spirit in iowa. Its flooding out west. California, hit hard by rain. Rescuers pull
Who was here in germany. The fbi arrested five members of that network on terrorrelated actio actions. Cnn had a chance to look at 5 500page document where amri is mentioned carrying out terror attacks. It raises the possibility that there could be more members of this network out there hiding him now. Today throughout germany we saw a number of raids, including a raid at a port in denmark. No arrests so far, though there is new evidence tying amri to the scene of the attack. His fingerprints were found both inside the truck cabin and on the door. Authorities now saying they are certain theyre looking for the right man. Don . Erin, thank you so much for that. And tonight there is latebreaking news in germany. Police in essence say they have foiled a planned terror plot that was to be carried out in a shopping mall. Two suspects are in custody now. Police say they are brothers from kosovo. Now i want to get to the Israeli Government calling on donald trump to intervene ahead of a vote o
All right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im poppy harlow in the chair today for carol costello. We have a lot of breaking news to get to. Lets begin out of the mediterranean island of malta. Where we know at this hour two hijackers with grenades have taken over a passenger plane. They are, at this moment, threatening to blow it up on the tarmac. The Maltese Police conducting negotiations with the hijackers by phone, obviously this has been intense feig, going on for a few hours now. It is 3 00 in the afternoon there. In malta. We know that at least some of the passengers we know have been released. Potentially all of them. We are staying on top of this story. Ian lee joins us now with more, this is an airbus 320. This is a plane that left from the libyan city headed for tripoli, obviously diverted to malta. What else do we know about the passengers on that plane, ian . Well, there was 111 passengers on that plane and were
Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im kate snow, in for lester. Tonight the tweet from the president elect stunned Nuclear Experts not only because of the words written, but the fact that the comment was made on as casual a medium as twitter. For years, Nuclear Policy has focused on drawing down the u. S. Arsenal, not building it up. But today donald trump and russian president Vladimir Putin talked about strengthening nuclear forces. We begin tonight with andrea mitchell. Reporter after setting off alarm bells throughout the campaign about how he would handle Nuclear Weapons, donald trump today signalled he wants more nukes, shocking Nuclear Experts by tweeting, the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability, until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes. Reversing u. S. Policy since Ronald Reagan to cut the number of Nuclear Weapons. Only hours
You have to hear her voice. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a thursday night, and we begin with the showdown over the wall. President trump telling us just 24 hours ago that americans will pay at first, but mexico will pay us back. Tonight, the mexican president saying that wont happen. And there is new fallout. President pena nietos meeting to the white house next week, now canceled. Abcs chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, at the white house. Reporter mexico may insist its not going to happen, but today donald trump was as defiant as ever. Ive said many times that the American People will not pay for the wall. And i have made that clear to the government of mexico. Reporter this only 24 hours after the president signed his order to begin the process of building the border wall with american money. Something the president described to david as basically a down payment. We will be in a form, reimbursed by mexico. They will pay us back . Yeah, absolut