they used a single digits missile 20 shoot the unmanned air ship out of the sky. arthel was on air when discussing the threat to taiwan and the war in ukraine. watch. other thing is we have to up gun taiwan. if we learned anything out of the ukraine war because we weren t able to deter it and most everything the ukraines are using now pardon p me, general, we hava live shoot of the balloon going down. it s been taken down. it s now falling from the sky. they re over surf side beach, south carolisouth carolina arthel: they say that i had geopolitical the take down from president biden on wednesday and waited until it was out of the way for debris to not harm people on the ground. the page reading pop secret, spy balloon shot down after white house hid it for a week . live news coverage alexandria hoff near the south carolina beach town where it was shot down but lucas tomlinson at the white house with more. brian, the u.s. navy dispatched three warships to comb the
President calling in the nypd to arrest more than 100 propalestinian protesters a day after she testified before congress about antisemitism on campus. The widespread 911 outage in four states. Millions unable to call for emergency help. The cause now being traced to a single light pole. The 18yearold arrested in maryland threatening to shoot up schools. The chilling 129page document and more that led a friend to call police. The close call at Reagan National airport. Two planes nearly colliding on the runway. Youll hear the frantic call from the tower. 15 members of rfk jr. s family sending him a sharp rebuke, blasting his president ial bid and endorsing President Biden. And the Southern Rock Legend and the cofounder of the allman brothers band. Remembering the iconic dickey betts. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. The trump Hush Money Trial appears to be speeding towards Opening Statements tonight, more quickly than many imagined, with 12
Trial. They said we have our jury after seating the 12 people that will decide the former president s fate, including an Investment Banker, a retired private Wealth Manager and Speech Therapist and the two jurors that were dismissed, a nurse and i. T. Worker. Why they were excused. Our team at the courthouse. Also tonight, Columbia Universitys President Calling in the nypd to arrest more than 100 propalestinian protesters a day after she testified before congress about antisemitism on campus. The widespread 911 out age in four states. People unable to call for help. It was traced to a single light pole. The 18yearold arrested in maryland threatening to shoot up schools. The 129page document and more that led a friend to call police. The close call at Reagan National airport. Two planes nearly colliding on the runway. Youll hear the frantic call from the tower. 15 members of rfk jr. s family sending him a sharp rebuke, blasting his president ial bid and endorsing President Biden. And So
we were cleared to cross runway 4. reporter: after it was cleared to taxi across the runway. clear at four. takeoff. reporter: a jetblue plane was about to take off according to the faa. but then also suddenly told to abort. stop. stop! reporter: a source says the planes came less than 1,000 feet of each other. something went amiss causing one controller to clear the airplane to take off and another ground controller clearing the southwest airlines to cross that same active runway. so, to me, it looks like it s what the faa calls an operational air involving a air operational error involving an air traffic control issue. reporter: after a string of near misses, a safety review found overtime is at a historically high level for air traffic controllers. and challenges including staffing shortages have caused an erosion of safety margin that s must be urgently addressed.