And new information of where those contagious variants are threatening. Our nbc news exclusive with spacexs founder, elon musk. Announcing the first all civilian mission to state. The commander of fellow billionaire with a lifesaving mission of its own President Biden meeting with Senate Republicans the first major test for his call of unity. The new Body Cam Video, a nineyearold girl pepper sprayed in the back of the Police Officer what is now happening to the officer. The sudden death of dustin diamond. Tony bennetts secret battle, the secret, he kept for years. This is nbcs nightly news with lester holt we are spending the first several minutes of our broadcast in our lead story, the major Winter Snowstorm in the northeast with blizzardlike conditions over a foot of snow is already on the ground and still falling. The city under a state of emergency, not Essential Travel is banned but the impact is felt by 65 Million People under central appalachia to new england. It also forced man
i thought, no, this can t be happening i looked down the tracks and i see this train with three huge white lights coming right at us. reporter: tonight the pilot is recovering in the hospital the officer who is saved him say to call him lucky is an understatement, especially when you consider how close they were when the plane went down. so this over here, this is your police station. and then we got planes landing over here. this is the intersection where it happened that s right. this is right where it happened i think this guy is a very lucky man not only was it right by the police station. i think he cheated death twice in about ten minutes. i think he should buy a lottery ticket reporter: all of it coming together in the final critical seconds when those officers transformed into the literal hands of fate. gatti schwartz, nbc news los angeles. i want to know his lottery numbers. amazing. that s nightly news for this monday. thank you for watching, everyone i m lester hol