joe biden s airports. i wish you good luck. the faa is warning is going to be one of the busiest holiday weekend of the year appeared more than 3,000 flights delayed already today. and people are acting as insane as ever. a guy freaking out over the overhead storage bin and getting himself kicked off the flight. he was repeatedly complaining about another dude stashing too many bags in his overhead bin space. and who can forget the acts-wielding pilot who went berserk on a parking gate, giving 23 wax until cops arrested him. transportation secretary pete buttigieg trying to act like he is on top of all of the flight chaos, but just wound up blaming the usual suspects for his incompetence. listen. not only are we seeing the system rebound from the worst effects of covid, but we are seeing things come more in line with what we would have regarded as normal. now that doesn t mean the system was immune from some tough travel days this year and this summer, most of the rough day
joe biden s airports. i wish you good luck. the faa is warning is going to be one of the busiest holiday weekend of the year appeared more than 3,000 flights delayed already today. and people are acting as insane as ever. a guy freaking out over the overhead storage bin and getting himself kicked off the flight. he was repeatedly complaining about another dude stashing too many bags in his overhead bin space. and who can forget the acts-wielding pilot who went berserk on a parking gate, giving 23 wax until cops arrested him. transportation secretary pete buttigieg trying to act like he is on top of all of the flight chaos, but just wound up blaming the usual suspects for his incompetence. listen. not only are we seeing the system rebound from the worst effects of covid, but we are seeing things come more in line with what we would have regarded as normal. now that doesn t mean the system was immune from some tough travel days this year and this summer, most of the rough day
also breaking, massive wildfires in washington state. thousands fleeing their homes, the view from the sky, terrifying, and new fear of powerful winds fueling the flames deadly missile strike in ukraine, russia hitting this theater, at least seven killed, more than 100 injured. major derailment in oklahoma, what sent these train cars flying off the rails. new video of a driverless taxi and a fire engine colliding. the major decision about this new technology protests over the death of a beloved orca held in captivity it was set to go free. why animal rights groups are outraged. we need to do better than this and the united airlines pilot who said he hit a breaking point. what drove him to attack this parking gate with an ax. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening, we begin tonight with a hurricane barrelling toward the united states that in itself is a major headline, but what makes this storm so historic and so dangerous is wh
tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. tornadoes slamming the northeast. and the major hurricane now bearing down on the u.s., historic in size. first, the images coming in tonight, that rare tornado on the ground near providence, rhode island. the twister crossing interstate 295. a driver telling authorities her car was lifted into the air. two tornados in massachusetts. homes damaged, trees down. trevor ault standing by with late reporting. also tonight, bracing for that rare monster hurricane in the west. the first ever tropical storm watch now issued for southern california. the storm, hilary, a powerful category-4 hurricane as we come on tonight. winds up to 130 miles per hour. millions now bracing for heavy rain and flash flooding. major american cities in the bull s-eye from san diego to las vegas. meteorologist lee goldberg timing this out. we are just back from maui tonight, and 24 hours after answering tough questions on why maui did not sound
he falsely claimed that mexico was sending drugs and rapists and this type of rhetoric moved from the fringe right to the mainstream talk points with the so-called invasion of the sojourner border and now with trump vying for another bid at the white house, this rhetoric has only gotten worse in recent months as he promised the largest deportation and to scare voters is the spread of the rhetoric, but the data shows us something different. it shows that trump s claims against the migrants are baseless including with the comments of the should crime wave. the nbc news review of crime data in blue cities where migrants are bussed and flown with texas governor abbott shows crime dropping, in fact, immigrant crime research over the past 20 years have shown that immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born americans, but despite the facts, anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric is foundation and fear mongering for many of the policies like in arizona where a bill passed up the stat