And we begin with breaking news, the u. S. Air force reports one of its helicopters have crashed in the united kingdom. There are reports of four people killed. The helicopter went down during a Training Mission on the east coast of great britain. Local police have cordoned off a quarter mile area around the scene, which is near an u. S. Air base. More on this story coming up. Well try to reach phil ittner for the very latest. The deep freeze has turned deadly, 11 people have died. People who have had to go outside today did everything they could, well, everything they could think of to stay warm, including lots of layers. A lot of people have been stranded by the cold as flights have been canceled, cars and trains have gotten stuck. Jonathan betz is live for us now at New York Penn station. Jonathan, boy, how is this deep freeze impacting travel for people across the country . Yeah, a lot of people impacted, tony. Frankly, frozen in their tracks, whether at train stations or airports
Up a lot of our time and attention in our coverage tonight. But we also have this race in georgia. We just got a live report from blayne alexander on the increasing pace of the count there. This is painstaking work. In some places we have live cameras where we can see the election workers going through bins and bins. Theres the nevada totals right now. They are taking bins of ballots that have been folded, in some cases folded for weeks, straightening them out, recording the votes, tallying them up, in some cases scanning them. But this is important. This is transparent. This is live closed Circuit Television of a sorting facility in nevada. So everyone can see whats going on. No high jinx, no shenanigans, no monkey business. Thats the way we like it when the prize is at stake. Steve kornacki at the board, going over all the numbers, including numbers that have been incoming tonight in the time weve been on the air, steve. Brian, thats right. The most dramatic we saw tonight was in ari
News coverage of this mass shooting in las vegas. The worst in modern American History as we keep pointing out. Brian williams here with you at nbc news headquarters in new york. Since this tragedy we have watched the city of las vegas come together. We have watched blood drives that threatened to overwhelm clinics today. We have seen donations of goods and food for victims and families and First Responders. So many items donated they had to politely tell people to cool it tonight. And then tonight multiple vigils in las vegas and other cities around our country. Correspondent jo ling kent is back with us. Shes at one such vigil location in las vegas. Jo ling, the last couple you spoke to, when they talked about the dynamic, Walking Around this music festival, if you accidentally gave somebody a shoulder, ran into someone, you would turn around and say forgive me, excuse me. Just that it was a very it was a polite such a light gathering that was met with such a vicious and brutal end.