and charles blow, in for alicia menendez. we begin tonight with breaking news. former first leader first lady rosalynn carter has died at age 96. they say miss carter passed away peacefully in her home in plains, georgia, after being in hospice care on friday. roslyn and the 49th president of the united states partners in both politics and philanthropy. former president carter s statement tonight weeding in part, as long as rosalind was in the world, i always knew some wendy loved and supported me. lawmakers from both parties are praising the late first lady s legacy of public service. president biden and first lady paid tribute to rosalynn carter a short time ago. [inaudible] i was speaking to her grandson, and the family just showing up. they re really incredible family, because they wish [inaudible] she was well known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women s rights. so i hope that during the holidays, we will consider including the carter fam
this country and the tributes from across the world. also breaking, the deal to release dozens of hostages held by hamas may soon be possible. we are closer than we have been in quite some time. plus, israel releasing video of what it says shows hamas taking hostages to the main hospital in gaza back on october 7th while today dozens of premature babies were evacuated from that same hospital. a nasty storm set to sweep across much of the country and scramble holiday travel plans. what you need to know. inside the u.s. air force base where drones carrying weapons are controlled. rare access to pilots who direct deadly drones like these from half a world away. taylor swift postpones a concert in brazil after someone in the crowd died, and the video that fans say shows swift struggling in the brutal heat. and you don t need to wait until black friday. the new numbers just in. why retailers are already slashing prices. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow.
to maximo torero cullen, chief economist at the fao, and began by asking him which regions are most affected by the current crisis. most affected regions are in african, all regions of africa increasing the levels of chronic undernourished. we stage in the caribbean because of the lockdowns and effects they had over tourism, the two ingredients which are doing better r latin america and asia. latin america mostly because they have social protection system in place which allows them to better cope and also because their recovery has meant the income effect of the recovery has been able to be higher than the increase in the prices of food and power bill so they have compensated something that did not happen in africa, whether affected not only by prices by exchange rate evaluation because they do not have solid central banks and also because
of the level of debt to stress that they have. of the level of debt to stress that they have. you are warning in some countries that they have. you are warning in some countries this - that they have. you are warning in some countries this problem | in some countries this problem is going to deteriorate in the nearfuture, what is going to deteriorate in the near future, what needs to happen to improve the situation in these worst affected areas? most of the countries and food crisis it is because of conflict, we need to find a way to integrate humanitarian development and peace building policies that is the only way we can move out of conflict countries, africa needs to learn from latin america and trying to bring the structure and capacity to immediately have a social protection programme that can expand and respond to this type ofjokes but it should be linked to production, not only to conditions on cash but means of production when there is a potential for that. production when t
the rest of the world will take a look at that and say russia has turned its back on ensuring that the countries of the global south and africa and latin america and asia can get the food they need at affordable prices, and i think that will come at an enormous diplomatic cost to russia going forward. joining us now is cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric leighton. colonel, i want to ask you about this grain deal in a moment. but first your thoughts on the ukrainians being able to train on these f-16 fighter jets it s significant. we ve talked about this before. yes, we have, jim. it is extremely important. it should have happened months ago. the problem is that training for the f-16 is going to take a long time. when two ukrainian pilots came to arizona to take a look at f-16 training possibilities, the arizona air national guard actually assessed their capability to train, and they came up with a plan that would take about eight months to train them. these ar