far as south as louisville. ainsley: looks like it s gotten worse as the day is progression. an hour ago it was not as bad. over # hundred million americans urged to stay indoors a void breathing this hazardous air. coming from hundreds of wildfires up north burning across canada. steve: filly sports plex down in philly right now. let s check a little closer to home. fox weather correspondent nicole valdez joins us live from hears new york. you are just across the river from manhattan and you can see it, but it s not as easy as it normally is. steve ainsley, brian, good morning. let me paint the picture for you here. you mentioned on long island sitting here in queens. we are overlooking the city. you will notice there the haze, the smoke still very present over my shoulder midtown, as you look further west, you should be seeing downtown, the wall street district. maybe even the world trade center but you re not seeing those buildings, that smoke still very much prevale
to try to knock trump out of the race are counter productive. they backfire. as you know he feeds on grievance just like a fire feeds on oxygen. and this is going to end up as a grievance that helps him. did colorado just hand donald trump a political gift by barring him from the ballot? why some say the effort to rue the former president could actually help his campaign. plus how president biden is responding. this as nbc news has learned the colorado supreme court justices who ruled in the case are now facing a flood of threats after their historic decision. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest out of the israel-hamas war as israel defense forces uncover hamas extensive tunnel network in gaza city. and the blunt warning from chinese president xi jinping to president biden about beijing s intentions with taiwan. all right, good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, december 21st. i am not jonathan lemire. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. now, th
insurrection. the questions tonight, could it happen in other states, and will the supreme court weigh in? also tonight, the grim milestone in gaza. an estimated 20,000 now dead just as hopes grow for another cease-fire. the deal to free ten americans in a prisoner swap with venezuela and who the u.s. released in return. the powerful storm slamming the west coast while in the northeast, new rescues and evacuations days after that deadly storm. the christmas travel rush kicking off inside the tsa as they brace for massive numbers. our nbc news exclusive, the warning china s president gave to president biden at their summit last month about taiwan. nbc news investigates why patients are dying when they are not properly monitored. the lapses one woman says led to her husband s death. and the touching tributes at the secret christmas tree in central park. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. even as they tr
the next general election. he ll be live on the sofa at 7:30am. the country s largest supermarket tesco is the latest to impose limits on certain fruit and vegetables, as shortages on the shelves continue. i ll have the latest. england s lionesses roar once more. they thrash belgium to retain the arnold clark cup and are now unbeaten in 29 matches. the cloud and rain across england and wales. all the details here on brick dust. breakfast. it s thursday, 23rd february. our main story. an off duty police officer is in a critical but stable condition after being shot at a sports complex in omagh in county tyrone. the police federation for northern ireland said the shooting happened at around 8 o clock last night while the officer coached young people playing football. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy reports. the shooting happened in front of young players, training at a football coaching session. it s thought the off duty officer was shot multiple times at around 8 o cl
politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. coast to coast chaos. nationwide system outage delays flights all across the country. right now planes are back in the air, but too little runway, too little airspace, means thousands of travelers are stuck. president biden says he doesn t know how classified documents found their way into his private office. and enough. influential new york republicans call for one of their own, george santos to resign, after a dismantling of his campaign lies and shady accounting. we begin with a morning of travel hell and demands that the government get its act together. the faa says right now its flight control system is back online and it is working. an early morning outage grounded all flights earlier today. in all that means more than 6,000 flights were delayed and as a result more than 1,000 were canceled. today s mess comes, of course, weeks after the southwest airlines holiday season meltdown that led