Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Our top story, a horrific air crash. A collision between an air force fighter jet and a small private plane over the skies near charleston South Carolina. Witnesses described parts including a jet engine falling down from the sky moments after hearing the sickening impact. Both planes went down in pieces somehow sparing lives and property below. But two lives were lost in the collision itself. Nbcs tom costello has the latest. Reporter on the ground in South Carolina all thats left of an air force f16 after it collided with a singleengine cessna raining debris on the fields below. It happened about 11 miles north of charleston over Moncks Corner near the cooper river. Witnesses reporteded the f16 appeared to have struck the side of the cessna. The impact causing a massive fireball in the sky and ripping the fighter planes engine off, sending it crashing to the ground narrowly missing a mobile home. All we
It broke out around 3 45. The 12,000 block of white drive. You can see extensive damage here. The flames are now automatic, but the house was pretty much fully engulfed when nair fighters arrived here. We still have smoke rising from the chimney and the Center Portion of that house. Too early to say exactly what caused this blaze. But certainly, theyre doing their job trying to get a better look inside the home. Weve seen firefighters use ladders to go up into the second floor. And their big priority here is determining whether anyone was home at the time that this fire broke out in the studio. Megan, were going to keep checking in out there the morning. And were also going to check in with storm four meteorologist tom kierein. Tom. What we dont need is more rain and here it comes. More rain moving into western maryland. Eastern West Virginia, its very light rain, may hold together from hagerstown, winchester, down to luray. Low 70s to the west. And weve got some breaks in the clouds.
To todays outage suffered by the wall street journal site and by united airlines. More on both of those in a bit. Sources tell cnbc that the New York Stock Exchange problem may have been the result of an overnight Software Upgrade and traders got a little bit of warning because before the exchange opened this morning there was a bulletin sent out, we have got some kind of a technical problem. So, when it actually struck about 11 30 there wasnt panic there wasnt a big selloff, because there still was trading. These stocks that couldnt be traded on the New York Stock Exchange could be traded on the internet on something called bats. So, in summary, problem fixed, not a hack attack and no official word on what caused the worst technical outage ever to strike the New York Stock Exchange. Steve handelsman, thanks steve. Now to the other big computer glitch thats still causing a Summer Travel nightmare for thousands of people. United airlines was forced to ground some 3500 flights across the
Michelle apon as you make your way out the door give yourself some extra time because drizzle mist and fog will be the main concern because the war to the coast of youre heading into downtown San Francisco you will start to see that because you get to the setting that show you what looks like we do have a few light showers across the north bank and is a lake port and a clover dell and is not tracking off in the south east and direction but it was a truck off the coast off because below that will continue to spin is wanted it wasnt Cool Temperatures and plentiful cloud cover along with a few shower chances at jamaica went out the door or the umbrella some people will not see any shower policy little bit of the the the best our chances will part of here and there will want to talk about what is right now low to mid 60s across the bay and and and spots a cool star at the close to the upper 50s into the lunch hour you may still thought to see a few spotty showers much of the area into the
Francisco the bay bridge toll plaza is a normal wait time about 15 minutes to get you into downtown San Francisco is not bad thats me avoided if you can and drive into San Francisco this morning on the and that the vapors the mineralize returned about half an hour ago and hear the nimitz commute for east bay writer economic take this one in 14 minutes into downtown not that bad so far at this hour. Mark more brick kennels were falling out of san leandro there with a Home Invasion robbery and should roberts went home owner and the robert this happened just before 1 this morning near Longview Drive inscribe your drive police said to suspect broke into our home of a home on a was there and they change gunfire the home owner was hit his and hospital right now with serious injuries and expected to survive the is revised to a shelter in place in the area of theyre looking for those gunman the show some unpleasant just been lifted but the suspects are still on the loose this morning. Darya ta