targeted by deliberate attacks. and the new warning by the fda on how much salt you are eating what you need to know. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening the white house tonight responding to the growing supply chain disruption that has left cargo ships waiting at sea to unload and consumers and small retailers burdened with shortages and delivery delays for all kinds of products president biden today hailing a deal with the massive port of los angeles to begin operating 24/7 the second west coast port to go around the clock it is part of a major push to relieve supply shortages which helped push prices up 5.4% in september over last year president biden also leaning on major shippers to move to their own round the clock operations as the holidays approach miguel almaguer is in los angeles now with the latest. reporter: tonight the l.a. traffic jam creating shipping gridlock across the nation, facing a crush of cargo backed up for miles and for mo
invitations, moments ago shatner and his three crewmates arrived at the site from a remote stretch in west texas where the launches come from, originally scheduled on tuesday, postponed a day due to dangerous rough winds. the 90-year-old shatner tells anderson cooper ahead of the launch, he s understandably anxious before hurdling into space at three times the speed of sound. that s more than 2200 miles an hour. and he ll go 62 miles above the earth. have a listen. my fear is as you go up, that you can t draw a breath. that apparently is not going to happen. that s what they say. i m quite apprehensive as you might have guessed. the power of g forces. today will mark blue origin, the private space flight company, founded by amazon founder jeff bezos. the second launch of an all civilian crew. bezos and his brother and two others took blue origin s inaugural flight less than three months ago. we broadcast that live as well. cnn s space and defense correspondent kristen fis
on board the international space station, a japanese billionaire preparing to fly to orbit. we re seeing this rush of this new era of space tourism. no question. we re watching the crew get ready. it s called a shelter room there. we are just passing 30 minutes to launch time all these steps are key. they had to take off the little booties over your shoes. you want to keep, i would imagine, the capsule clean from dirt or dust. commander hadfield, can you explain how important these final little prep steps are because, again, space is hard, and you don t want to get anything in the way of a successful launch. i think one of the most important steps right now is bill shatner just sat down. that s a 90-year-old that just climbed multi stories. i really hope at 90 years old i m as physically able as bill is right now. i m glad he s taking a moment to catch his breath. but before bernard and i flew, we go through a quarantine. part of it is because we don t want to take diseas
who has traveled at warp speed and traveled the entire galactic universe. our team is preparing landing safety operations and recovery of our astronauts from the crew capsule. we ll be on the ground at the landing site to follow the action in just a bit. maybe even talk to the world s newest astronauts, some absolutely breathtaking stuff. i ll note that you re going to see the recovery team show up very shortly, we actually send them out before the capsule has landed. by now we re very, very good analyzing where the capsule is going to come down, where the winds are. we re going to see the recovery team come out there and, of course, they will also be joined by some of their friends and family to watch as they ve merge from the capsule. let s look at our four astronauts there in the texas desert after having gone up over the carmen line and back. hello everyone. i m kate bolduan. we re beginning with breaking news. just a beautiful sight to see. star trek actor william
developments at reagan national outside of d.c. what is the story behind these cance cancellations? reporter: it s a big operational mess for southwest airlines, erica. it s not like flipping on a switch to get it back to normal. this is more like the airline needs to unplug it and plug it back in again because it says these problems all started back on friday when there were weather and air traffic control issues. the federal aviation administration put out a statement saying there were no weather or agency issues on saturday and sunday when southwest experienced the lion s share of cancellations and delays. it canceled 800 flights on saturday, 1,100 nights on sunday, about a third of its overall schedule for the day. it s canceled about 350 flights today, about 1 in every 10 flights. there is a ripple effect southwest says it put planes and people in the wrong spots. some flight crews didn t even have hotels and that left tens of thousands of passengers in the lurch in th