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darkness 80 americans how the operation came together plus bills to get hundreds of americans trapped out. an american airlines plane catching fire. the dramatic moment on board as passengers brace for an emergency landing. >> i was afraid that we were going to crash. >> it comes just days after flames tore through the wing of another american airlines flight. ready to announce. president biden would like to make his reelection run official within days why our new nbc news poll sho...

this week on speaker kevin mccarthys plan to raise the debt ceiling also ahead, the state department pulls u.s. personnel out of the embassy in sudan amid fierce fighting in the country well have the latest on the deadly conflict and whats next for thousands of americans who are still over there plus, well dig into new reporting on a possible spring counteroffensive from ukraine. >> looks like the russians are actually retreating or starting to evacuate people from areas around khe...

the man responsible for the death of khashoggi. >> bill: whether he damaged americas standing on the world stage. his response at the white house late at night. >> president biden: why dont you guys talk about something that matters? ask questions about something that matters. >> will inflation go down from here? >> president biden: i hope so. >> dana: 93% of americans are extremely concerned about rising prices. >> bill: as costs go up the poll does the opposite. 31% now. >> dana: cas...

These professionals are prepared to deal with that situation and keep the airplane safe. >> reporter: jesse kirsch, nbc news the 2024 race could begin in earnest this week. president biden expected to launch his campaign for reelection within days but our new nbc news poll shows that voters would not want to see a biden-trump rematch. monica alba reports from the white house. >> reporter: president biden getting ready to run again, set the launch his reelection bid as early as tuesday as an nb...

Safe and keep the airplane safe to go out on the 5:00 a.m. mission. im going on the 5:00 p.m. mission. we have to keep our noaa $150 million airplane safe. and the quality of the data is everything. those are the things im looking at. >> yeah, we greatly appreciate it, the work that you do. best of luck on your trip. jack parrish from noaa, thanks. >> thanks, trace. >> just ahead, joe biden responding after "the washington post" disputed a personal story that he told about a war hero. that and m...

You think that he understood? >> well, it is a difficult subject for the pilot, because we are again, here, to keep the passengers safe, to keep the airplane safe, to keep the crew safe, and so to go where this young man went, it is hard for me to go there, and to say that i am fit to fly, i am good to go and ready to take on the airplane. >> reporter: and all of the lives in the back this is. >> that is right. >> reporter: approximately 9 minutes later -- >> pull up, pull up. terrain, terrain. ...

>> reporter: the motion of hitting 100 in this situation is unthinkable for you? >> absolutely. why would i do that? it goes against every grain in my body. theres no reason why i would do that. >> reporter: you know the consequences of that action. >> absolutely. >> reporter: if you had to step in this young mans mind, do you think he understood? >> its a very difficult subject for a pilot because we are, again, here, to keep our passengers safe. to keep the airplane safe, to keep our crews saf...

Alarms triggered. young yng kyung lah shows us firsthand. >> lock the physical door. it will totally lock out that door. >> reporter: so begins what is the likely descent and the a320 simulator simulator. >> just dialled in. got the airplane going down. >> reporter: the motion of hitting 100 in this situation is unthinkable for you? >> absolutely. why would i do that? it goes against every grain in my body. theres no reason why i would do that. >> reporter: you know the consequences of that acti...

End if it pinpoints traffic in the vicinity as a conflict to that airplane. >> you think there will be a knee-jerk reaction here and every. >> reporter: in inclement weather, not to fly or pull back flights? >> right now, everything is under scrutiny. the system works very well in the united states. it is probably one of the safest in the entire world. >> a whole other story in that neck of the world? >> it is still safe. still the same safe airplanes. they have every complex equipment in there ...

Thunderstorms, the whole objective is to deviate around the thunderstorms. the more experience we have the more we have a good idea of what each individual thunderstorm may do. its a pure automation stand point from the radar, what it may show us however were able to control that radar with some certain ---with dials and switches but we use a heavy select mode most of the sophisticated airplanes that we fly in this day and age, we do our best to fly around the thunderstorms to mitigate the turbu...