tupelo mississippi where the sheriff s office says a man is in custody after spinning a twin turbo propeller airplane and threatening to crash it into a local walmart, triggering an evacuation. nbc s covering the story. bring us up to date as to what we know so far, and how it is this guy managed to meant steal the plane in the first place. you know, as, minimal start with the most important thing. incredibly, there were no injuries at the end of this. which is really unbelievable when you consider the fact that for the better part of five hours he had an airplane that was circling parts of tupelo and beyond and threatening to injure people on the ground. amazingly, nobody was hurt. at the end of the five hours or so, he eventually landed in a field. he wasn t injured himself, and he was taken into custody. we ll start with the incredible way that he was able to get access to the plane. we learned during a news congress that happened 30 minutes ago, that this was an employe
this is the 76th anniversary of this event. i want you to know i wasn t there because i was too young to make it up. these birds have a new appreciation of the word let freedom ring. president biden with some jokes during the turkey pardon at the white house yesterday. meanwhile his campaign is facing calls from fellow democrats to become more active and aggressive against donald trump. speaking of the former president, we ll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order hearing for his federal election interference case. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest in the hostage negotiations between hamas and israel, which appear to be centered on a pause in the fighting in gaza. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, november 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get isto this morning, and we ll begin with new polling that shows americans overwhelmingly supporting boosting security at the southern bord
about the planned munch launch of the artemis mission which was scrapped once again. engineers were unable to contain leaks of hydrogen, while attempting to loaded into the rocket tanks. i want to bring in former astronaut and chris hadfield. welcome to you both. thanks for joining us on this. hey charles, let me start with you on this one. just talk us through how they came to this decision. what went wrong here and why did it take till today to figure out, we can t do this thing? well, i don t think it took till today, first of all let me thank you for including me in the conversation. it s great to see you and to see chris. this is something that we encountered on the first attempt when we had a hydrogen leak. i called it the tale service mast. the leak is emanating from an oh ring which is outside the vehicle. it s in the pad itself. we got through that on the last