this was the scene on the tarmac where passengers were forced to deplane. one person onboard the flight said as soon as the plane came to a halt the flight attendants began shottinuting for everyone evacuate. what have you learned? reporter: the key tell here is that all passengers and the crew onthality flight are okay at this hour as this investigation gets started. in terms of the flight itself it touched down in la guardia strange enough about the time it was scheduled to land after its service from indianapolis. again service from indianapolis. port authority investigators telling us that towards the end of that flight there were some passengers aboard that plane that reported to the crew there was one of their fellow passengers that was behaving strangely, erratic was the way they described it, at one point even suddenly reached for his luggage. they reached to the ground crew here where emergency responders quickly deployed here. a huge presence we saw a few hours
congress is heading towards an october 18th deadline before the federal government is expected to run out of money. concern is growing tonight as president biden hints at taking away the filibuster option from republicans who don t want to go along with the trillion dollar spending plan. and you details tonight about the manhunt for brian laundry. still considered a person of interest in the death of gabby. his sister now speaking out with harsh words for her brother and her own parents. we begin tonight with a heated debate over the justice department s new plan to look into what it calls threats and intimidation against school officials across the country. digging into the story. good evening, matt. good evening. many of us have seen those viral videos over the past couple of months of outraged parents and school employees trying to take a stand against school boards and polarizing topics like mask mandates, pronouns, and critical race theory. now a memo from attorney g
the trump years we continue to be warned about the danger of failing to raise the debt limit by 18th of october. treasury secretary yellen described an economy plunged into recession and as the chairman of the sec put, it financial markets would be in uncharted waters democrats are now privately discussing potentially changing filibuster rules, in order to raise the limit without having to get ten republican votes. earlier this afternoon, senate democratic leader schumer again, expressed his frustration with the republicans. we could prevent a catastrophic defaults with a simple majority vote tomorrow if republicans would just get out of the damn way we could get it all done. the president spent much of the day in michigan promoting his economic agenda, trying to sell union members on overhauling infrastructure, and expanding the u.s. social safety net these bills are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive there about leading the world or continuing to
effects on your retirement funds and your ability to borrow money. it could bring a halt to social security benefits, medicare benefits. millions of jobs could be wiped out. why would washington even think of risking all of that not to mention the catastrophic impact on america s standing in the world? to be clear, raising the debt limit is to cover money already spent during the trump administration. raising the debt ceiling right now does not authorize any of president biden s future spending plans. and to start us off this hour, we have nbc news capitol hill reporter leigh ann caldwell, jake sherman, and yamiche alcindor. yamiche and jake are both msnbc contributors. jake, i saw a tweet where you tweeted some news and it was prefaced with two siren emojis. that s not the tweet i m talking about. bring us up to speed on this offer from mitch mcconnell to chuck schumer today. mitch mcconnell offered told republicans he would offer a short term debt ceiling increase until
shooting this morning. four people were hurt. we are new details. we ll take you live to the scene in a minute. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team ready to go as we watch what goes on, leigh ann caldwell at capitol hill, shannon pettypiece at the white house, guys, let me just take a pause here, because we don t want to assume that everybody knows everything about what the plan is moving forward and what the options are. so let s talk about what the options could be as it relates to this debt ceiling showdown. and there are new developments here. five possible outcomes, not all of them with happy endings. option 1, republicans blink and back off on their insistence that they will not join democrats to suspend the debt limit. this option just got kind of real with republicans sort of blinking with our new reporting in the last hour that senator mitch mcconnell is offering up a short term deal, but it s more of a maneuvering. the senate republicans