more than 60% of flights canceled. also tonight the water crisis. more than 100,000 without water. new reporting from jackson, mississippi where the system has failed again. border emergency. the bitter chill colliding with the crush at the border. many forced to sleep on the streets. plus the bus of migrants dropped off at vice president kamala harris s home on one of the coldest nights of the year. plane down. the crash landing into an icy creek. the kayaker who jumped into action to pull the pilot to safety. holiday spending up. way up. but tonight the new rules. shorter windows and added fees. what you need to know so you don t get burned on your returns. and inspiring america. when ten strangers knocked at the door, a buffalo family turned a winter disaster into shelter from the storm. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening. i m tom llamas, in for lester. tonight the images are coming in and the reports on this deadly blizz
it thought, what, what? i was flying from paris to dallas, i was the captain of a very large airplane, a triple 7. it was a gorgeous day. were coming home from paris. i was a passenger on air france zero zero four. flew into kazakhstan for an adoption and we adopted a little girl while they are. we left frankfurt on her way to dallas. it was flight 3299. we had already been out of the country for 25 days. we were more than anxious to get home. i was thinking it s a matter of hours now we will be home. we had family waiting for us. all the sudden all the flight attendants went white as a sheet. the plane slowed considerably, took a hard bank to the right. my first impression, i knew something was wrong. i thought there is probably another airplane nearby or something too. the flight attendant started clearing trays and closing doors. just kinda battening down the hatches it. we are merely of the middle of the north atlantic we got word one of the towers had b
states we will be landing in gander. and i thought what? a call on september 11, i was flying from paris to dallas. i was the captain of a very large airplane it was a 777. it was a gorgeous day. ask my partner sue and i were coming home from paris. i was a passenger on air france zero zero four. flew into kazakhstan for an adoption and we adopted a little girl while they are. we left frankfurt on her way to dallas. it was flight 3299. we had already been out of the country for 25 days. we were more than anxious to get home. i was thinking it s a matter of hours now we will be home. we had family waiting for us. all the sudden all the flight attendants went white as a sheet. the plane slowed considerably, took a hard bank to the right. my first impression, i knew something was wrong. i thought there is probably another airplane nearby or something too. the flight attendant started clearing trays and closing doors. just kinda battening down the hatches it. we are
around the nuclear plant. no signs of what putin called systemic shelling at the plant. video from inside shows russian vehicles in a turbine just a few hundred feet from the reactors. cnn did confirm the authenticity of the video but not the date it was taken. let s start with david mckenzie in the ukrainian capital of kyiv. david, obviously a very worrying situation. he s just visited kyiv and warned this could be another chernobyl, and now we have the russians and ukrainians blaming each other for these attacks. there s very little visibility into what s going on there. please lay out what we do know. reporter: well, what we do know is it s a very worrying situation. this is europe s largest nuclear power plant. if you look at where it is of that industrial zone and that nuclear power plant, it s right on the front line between russia and ukraine. on one side of the river, it s russians okay pig that nuclear power plant, on the other side of the river, it s ukraine. and
ukraine s first lady in a speech to congress detailing the suffering caused by russia s invasion and causing for more aid to defeat the enemy. translator: you help us and your help is very strong while russia kills, america saves. i appeal to all of you on behalf of those who were killed, on behalf of those people who lost their arms and legs. i am asking for weapons. weapons that would not be used to wage a war on somebody else s land but to protect one s home and the right to wake up alive in that home. the comments follow new revelations from the white house that putin s army is planning to tighten its grip over eastern ukraine by annexing the donbas region and the territories surrounding the crimean peninsula, fortifying their position away from the port city of odesa. at the start of the year, russia told the world it was not planning to invade ukraine. now we are expected to believe that they re not going to plan to annex ukrainian territory. annexation by force w