the showdown in the courtroom. the coldest blast of the season so far from texas to the northeast. we re tracking it. the delta pilot charged with pulling a gun in the cockpit why authorities say he threatened to shoot the captain midflight. and the marathon man running on the road to redemption announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. a diplomatic breakthrough has cracked open the door that has left foreigners, including americans, trapped inside war-torn gaza tonight, americans are among a handful of people who were able to leave gaza after egypt partially opened a key border crossing. gaza has become an increasingly dangerous place for foreigners and residents since israel launched its assault on hamas tonight with israeli troops on the ground there taking their own casualties, a new communications outage is making life even more difficult israel is facing condemnation for yesterday s deadly strike on a refugee camp where
hundreds of foreign nationals crowding at the rafah border crossing to flee gaza for egypt including a handful of americans, but for palestinians, only some of the injured allowed through in northern gaza. israel confirming its second deadly strike in as many days on a refugee camp accusing hamas of hiding a terrorist command center among the homes. our teams inside israel and gaza. also tonight, the cornell student in court accused of making online threats to kill jewish students. the chilling rise of hate across the u.s. donald trump jr. taking the stand. the first of the former president s children to testify at the fraud trial threatening the family s business empire. the showdown in the courtroom. the coldest blast of the season so far from texas to the northeast. we re tracking it. the delta pilot charged with pulling a gun in the cockpit. why authorities say he threatened to shoot the captain midflight. and the marathon man running on the road to redemption
install counter measures in the cars to cause the car to decelerate if the brakes and gas pedals are pushed at the same time and also, engineering teams are looking over cars that consumers have complained about and critics say the company has not moved fast enough and toyota paid a record $48.8 million in fines, to the u.s. government, over the handling of a couple of recalls. bill: all right, the mystery continues to an extent, molly, thank you for that, molly henneberg live in washington, martha. martha: hundreds more americans could soon be out of work because continental airlines will reportedly cut 500 jobs in houston. all of this is said to start in april and has to do with the merger with united last year that created the world s largest airline, continue them and united getting together and we understand the layoffs are mainly going to affect management and clerical staffers in those headquarters. bill: dire warning now from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressing
investigation has now revealed that the u.k. did, quote, all it could to help free the lockerbie bomber abdelbaset al-megrahi. you will remember he was the only person convicted for killing hundreds of people in that bombing and he was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 because the doctor said he had only weeks, months to live, and was sent to libya to live out the rest of his days and a ye year-and-a-half later he s still alive and the british prime minister is blasting the previous administration in the case. listen to this: was it really right for the british government to facilitate an appeal by the libyans to the scottish government, in the case of an individual who was convicted of murdering 270 people including 43 british citizens, and 190 americans, and 19 other nationalities? i believe it was profoundly wrong. and, the fact that 18 months later, the lockerbie bomber is,
yart. here s more from the interview. let there be no doubt there are extremists determined to do damage to the united states of america. and to kill americans. and to impose a caliphate over a large fraction of the globe. and they have weapons of increasing lethality at their. disposal. disposal and beck and call. martha: that is the crux of the neoconservative argument, this is a serious matter and that perhaps this particular administration does not have the same perspective on it as these gentlemen do. and we are seeing, we are seeing, people are saying what will happen if there is a chaos in egypt, does egypt become another iran and do you have jihadists and terrorism and people who wants to establish islamic governments and caliphates throughout the world. will you see that in egypt, or is egypt going to go in a different direction and be a fledgling democracy and stumbling but more like iraq and is a point that has been