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Passport, due back in court here on march 22nd. savannah? >> ron mott with the breaking news in chicago, thank you. now to the wild weather striking a huge part of the country, including the kind of winds that just blow you down the street. gusts up to 60 miles an hour creating danger on the roads, grounding flights, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands. heres nbcs kathy park. >> reporter: whipping winds clash with wintry weather in new york, creating large piles of ice. the danger ...

But not the instincts of this veteran, who jumped in to help after falling from the sky. miguel almaguer, nbc news. coming up, standing tall. the oscar moment that moved so many. everyones got to listen to mom.

Of faith. nbcs steve patterson is in san diego with the story of an octogenarian defying all of the odds and showing us all how to fly without wings. >> reporter: on a gray saturday outside saturday we learn something. people can fly. >> legs back. >> shorter, taller, bigger, smaller, younger -- and even a bit older. 86-year-old betty goedhart is the worlds oldest performing flying female trapezeartist, a title made official in the guinness worlds record book. >> its awful. you really do feel fr...

Werent for betty, but because betty was flying i wanted to make sure we had a place for her to fly. and fly she does. >> shes only 86. shes got a long ways to go. >> she spent her younger days soaring on skates, traveling the world performing for the famous holiday on ice, meeting world leaders, princesses and even kings. >> elvis came to see our show. he was just the nicest young man ever. >> shes lived her life with passion. >> these are my polo days. >> playing polo on a mens team, raising a ...

And technology and the spirit is the same. >> the ice canoe race began at the very first carnival in 1894 and attracted crowds to the cliffs ever since. reaching the finish line, gasping for air, happy and relieved. >> how was the ice? >> its great. there is plates of ice and broken ice and not too much. >> im exhausted. >> think its a young persons game? 60-year-old john andersons team won for the 21st time. >> its a way of living, something like this. >> a fiery passion for ice. kevin tibbles,...

General of new york, who called the move dangerous and unnecessary. lester? >> kristen welker, thank you. while president trump has vowed to remove all u.s. troops from syria, theres word tonight hes changing course. we have more on that from inside syria and the american-born isis bride fighting to return to the u.s. she speaks out to our richard engel. >> reporter: after promising to withdraw all american troops, the white house now says about 400 will remain in syria. >> its a very small, t...

Freaking news now it seven, whats next that darkness has settled in. >> cruise have been digging for hours trying to save a woman believed to be buried. the womans friend made it out alive. we are a staff of about 44. we had to hire for 26 new positions. >> plus the oakland teachers strike, far from over. we asked why its so hard for this district to keep its educators. and the on campus stabbing that put a bay area high school on lockdown. >> we are just getting word that this collapse has t...

And back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. im back. aleve pm for a better am. to the index, two cruise ships colliding in buenos aires. video shows the "msc" luxury ships drifting into each other at the dock. debris falling into the water. peengss watching and alarmed. only minor damage reported. the dangerous close call in jersey city, new jersey. the car speeding...

Were back now with a dramatic rescue on the ice after two clydesdale horses fell through a frozen lake in eastern pennsylvania over the weekend. emergency responders cut a rescue path and were able to lead the horses out with ropes. the two had escaped from a nearby farm. another harrowing rescue to tell you about. you dont hear about this very often. a hiker spending all night in the brutal cold in a national park after he got trapped in quicksand. nbcs gadi schwartz has details. >> reporter:...

To a frontline war where theyre battling russian-backed separatists. >> all russian officers? russian commanders? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: its a killing ground. trench warfare thats claimed 13,000 lives. russian snipers, they told me, just 300 yards away. a december cease-fire dead. this is a cease-fire in name only. broken thousands of times along this front line every week. the trump administration supplies weapons to ukraine. the u.s. now preparing new sanctions to a. this the main flashpoin...