as a bird strike sparks a fire in a plane engine how airports are trying to stop birds from causing potential air disasters. is there a future for bed bath & beyond? as the chain files for bankruptcy, what you need to know how artificial intelligence is helping the visually impaired the life-altering technology in our series a.i. revolution. and d the tributes pouring in for dance legend len goodman announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome on this monday we start with three major headlines from the media world swirling tonight that involve some of the most influential and/or provocative figures in the business starting close to home for us tonight where jeff shell, the now former ceo of nbc universal, is out, becoming the latest hollywood executive accused of sexual harassment and sex discrimination admitting he had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company that news eclipsed this morning with word embattled cnn
because of the pandemic, when factories shutdown in asia they had no idea they were supplying essential materials to us, shutdown around the world. these small computer chips, the size of your finger tip, they affect nearly everything in our lives. our cell phones. automobiles, refrigerators, weapons systems, everything. america invented these chips we made them smaller, faster and more powerful. but over time we went from producing 40% of the world s chips down to just 10% of them despite leading the world in research and design. you saw what happened during the pandemic when the global economy came to a halt overseas factories that made the chips shutdown driving up the costs for everyone around the world, particularly american families every new car built needs as many as 3,000 of these chips during the pandemic, that s the reason car prices skyrocketed. and in some cases new car production shutdown because the chips were in short supply but now the private sector at home
two weeks before the coronation, a new bbc poll suggesting less than a third of young adults want the monarchy to continue. hello and welcome. we start in sudan, where more than two dozen countries have been evacuating their citizens from the capital khartoum as fighting between two rival armed groups continues. this was french nationals leaving earlier. most of those being evacuated are diplomats and their families. spain, germany and italy are among other countries still evacuating people, the us and uk have already flown diplomats out, as well as canada. its prime minister, justin trudeau, tweeted that canadian officials in nearby countries have also been mobilized to help . he says they re stationed in nearby djibouti, which has european and american military bases. sudan s army has been fighting a rival paramilitary group, the rsf, for more than a week, and this is what khartoum looks like right now. and while foreign nationals are airlifted out, sudan s civilians rem
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dana: thousands of americans remain trapped in sudan. many of them hold dual citizenship of america and sudan. they have no safe way to get out. as of now, there are no u.s. plans for additional evacuations. the pentagon describing the rescue mission at the embassy as fast and clean. reminded me how proud i am to be a member of the military but how grateful i am to be an american. the only country that can do what occurred tonight. bill: general jack keane has analysis. jennifer griffin, national security correspondent has the word from the pentagon. what are you hearing? right now the u.s. military is flying unmanned surveillance drones over the dangerous overland route from khartoum to port sudan to protect a u.n. convoy exiting the capital. dozens of citizens have joined the convoy and they re setting up an international naval task force to help assist foreigners and americans trying to lead. congressional leaders were briefed on friday about the high risk evacuati