currents, including former nfl quarterback. how to protect yourself and the place where summer vacations past live on forever announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. next week americans will be celebrating summer s biggest holiday. but along with packing, many also preparing themselves for the potential linchpin in their holiday plans air travel the frustrating cycle of flight disruptions we ve seen this week, triggered by severe weather, once agai today crushing the best laid plans of passengers and the air carriers as we come on the air, there have been over 5,000 delayed flights for the day, close to 1,000 cancellations. united customers bearing some of the worst of it as the airline makes a rare financial offer to some of its employees to help recover its schedule but as maddening as it may be to flyers, one group of delta passengers may have wished their flight had been canceled after their charlotte-bound flight was force
vladimir putin is greeted by a swarm of supporters during a rare surprise crowd appearance. this comes hours after the reported target of prigozhin s failed russian revolt is revealed. and erin burnett visits troops training near the front lines in southern ukraine. she s live from the ground. then we re getting our first look at pieces of the destroyed titan submersible. the giant sections of debris from the sub that imploded near the site of the titanic wreckage are now above the surface. what those pieces could tell investigators about what went wrong more than two miles under water. plus an invisible danger in the water as peep head to the ocean. what has killed 11 people in the last two weeks at gulf coast beaches including a former nfl quarterback. welcome to the lead, i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. we star with our law and justice lead and two major developments in the special counsel investigation into donald trump s attempts to over turn the 2020 el
russia s president trying to show he s in full control. he s showing he s a man of the people, the rebellion of the mutiny has been quelled and he s back in charge. questions are now mounting about the whereabouts of sergey surovikin. if he s been arrested because he was involved with prigozhin and wagner, that s not good news for this general. this is the worst travel experience in my lifetime. the worry is whether airlines can handle the july h4th holida rush. expect delays, expect cancellations. i don t want to be in here anymore. there s no question with all h of these storms, it s created a lot of challenges for the system. president biden was questioned on the white house lawn about whether he was involved or aware of a text hunter allegedly sent to a chinese business partner in 2017. were you involved? were you? no. there were certain steps we weren t allowed to take that could have led us to president biden. the u.s. coast guard now says pr
more than 75 million americans from the south to the midwest. norah: the airport chaos ahead of the holiday weekend. and a scary landing for a delta flight. a wave of fatal drownings in the u.s. how to protect yourself from dangerous rip currents. it will take their lives when you are not used to that type of conditions. norah: new reporting tonight, a senior russian general knew in advance of the armed revolt in russia. what it means for the war in ukraine. breaking news. pop icon madonna rushed to the hospital. new details about her condition. crews have recovered debris from the titan vessel that was headed to the site of the titanic. it is expected to help investigators understand what happened. norah: the dire shortage of life-saving cancer drugs, as it leads to delays in chemo for patients. do you know if the drugs will be available for the rest of your treatment? there is no guarantee. norah: and simone biles to return to gymna