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
we also need to be focused on the day after, and so in conversations that we ll be having through the course of this weekend, i expect you ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples, which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state that they re entitled to. so these will be the things that we re focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues, but i am convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place. that s what we ll be working to do. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point, and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on? and are you confident you ll actually be able to get them to make any movement on this given the maximalist positions we ve seen? as has been said and it s important, isr
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