Go go and Serena Williams marching towards history and tennis coveted prize, the epic showdown with her sister on the sports biggest stage. Stars filling the stands as serena moves one step closer to history. We do say good morning, america. Who stayed up to watch the match last night . It went three sets and now Serena Williams just two wins away from becoming the first player since steffi graf in 1988 to win the calendar grand slam and that hug with her sister at the end. Beautiful. It really was. I know, but they are truly each others number one fans. They are. That was so evident. Choked me up. Same way. Yeah. Well see a lot more of it coming up. We will begin with that fiery scene on a runway in las vegas. British airways jet, more than 170 people on board and burst into flames on the tarmac. You see the passengers streaming off the plane and abcs matt gutman on the scene in las vegas. Good morning, matt. Good morning, york. When investigators arrived here later this morning. They
We havent seen numbers like that since the end of august, as you can see there. Meanwhile on capitol hill, this pandemic and the economic toll that it continues to take on millions of americans is dialing up the urgency for some sort of additional covid relief package. The white house just carved out its third position on the relief bill in four days. In just a few moments, ill get an update from speaker of the house nancy pelosi on where the negotiations stand, but we start with the latest developments involving president Trumps Health and the campaign trail. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is covering the white house for us. Dr. Kavita patel is an nbc news medical contributor and also former Health Policy director in the obama white house, and nbcs mike memoli is following the Biden Campaign. Hes in las vegas for us today. Kelly o. , ill start with you. We know the president is angling to get back out there on the trail, wants to hold this rally tomorrow perhaps in florida. Is this rally actuall
Kevin corke at the white house on a fed chief move. No matter what the president said, the fed chair made it clear today hes not going to step boy from this job. He says im going to serve each and every year of the fouryear term on the side to side otherwise. Thats his word that despite the criticism from president trump, the man who appointed him, and you may have seen this. They fed chief was asked by Maxine Waters of california if he would heed a theoretical call by the president to step down. Mr. Chairman, if you got a call from the president today or tomorrow and he said im firing you, pack up, its time to go, what would you do . Of course i would not do that. I would not do that. Powell stating he has no intention of leaving, no intention of being forced out or leaving other than on his own accord. White house Officials Say that powells job is safe for now. Theres no effort to remove him. I will say that unequivocally at the present time. Did you notice what larry said, at the pr