Many of us heading to the airport for this holiday season, and abc news has learned tonight about a Record Number of guns confiscated in the security lines. 37 in just one week. So what kind of guns and why the surge . Abcs Senior National correspondent jim avila starts us off. Reporter this guy is clearly not going to make his plane because just like a Record Number of travelers this year, he brought a gun to the airport, this one. Thats right, nearly 1,750 times, tsa screeners have pulled luggage from the Security Belt because it carried a gun, often loaded, carried by some otherwise smart people. There is bill russell, nba legend. This is his confiscated weapon. Or the wife of noted gunadvocate ted nugent, she was carrying this piece through dallas. What are people thinking . Virtually everybody says i forgot or i got a different bag than i usually have. Reporter the number of guns confiscated by the tsa has skyrocketed from 660 in 2005 to double that in 2011, and nearly triple in 2
Brian williams. Special good evening to our viewers in the west tonight. And as we come on the air, a breaking story along the atlantic coast. Because previous might time rocket launches have been so spectacular to watch, a lot of folks from the carolinas to maine were indeed ready to watch tonight at 6 22 eastern time when an unmanned rocket launched from Wallops Island on coastal virginia carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies up to the International Space station. But it didnt clear the tower by much before it fell to earth and exploded. We get a late report tonight from our National Correspondent peter alexander. Four, three, two, one reporter it was an unmanned antares rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space station when seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, at 6 22 this evening, something went very wrong. Team be advised stay at your consoles. Reporter the rocket with 5,000 pounds of supplies on board exploded in the night sky. Nasa reported no loss of life, but e
Announcer katrina ten years later. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from new orleans. Good evening. Exactly 10 years ago the streets behind me were virtually empty. Landfall of Hurricane Katrina was just over 12 hours away. A monster storm that would slam the gulf coast and knock this city to its knees. We will look back at katrina a bit later in this newscast. But its another storm named erika that we want to lead off with tonight. Right now hitting the Dominican Republic with high winds and heavy rain and beating a path toward florida, which is under a state of emergency at this hour. Tropical storm erika has already killed at least 12 people in the caribbean before barreling into puerto rico. Nbcs Janet Shamlian is in san juan. She starts us off tonight. Reporter devastation on the tiny island of dominica. 12 dead, as many as 20 missing after more than a foot of rain from Tropical Storm erika triggered mudslides and flooding. Turning roads into rivers. [
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