Underwater, up to ten inches of rain could fall before it all ends. Also tonight, countdown to the shutdown. Lastditch efforts to fund the government fail with no plan in sight. Speaker mccarthy under pressure. Millions of workers set to go without pay and millions more could lose services in just over 24 hours. The death of a states woman. Dianne feinstein, the Trailblazing California Democrat who served in the senate for three decades. How she broke the Glass Ceiling for so many. Bipartisan tributes coming in tonight. Just in, the first guilty plea in the trump election interference case in georgia. A Surprise Arrest in the murder of rapper tupac shakur. Why now after 30 years . The uaw expanding its strike against ford and gm as talks stall. The fight over electric cars. And harry smith on whether a new Grocery Store could help Feed One American Town and heal old wounds. Reporter this is nbc Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. As we come on the air, a Nightm
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
from gaza s besieged al shifa hospital transported in mobile incubators by ambulances into egypt for urgent treatment. it comes as president biden says he believes a deal to free some of hamas s hostages is close. israel releasing video saying it shows hamas dragging hostages into the al shifa hospital as well as footage inside an alleged hamas tunnel shaft at the complex. fierce fighting now breaking out near another gaza hospital. and our nbc news exclusive look inside israel s drone warfare. also tonight, reports of tornadoes as a storm sweeps across the country just as holiday air travel is expected to break records. al roker will time it out. former president donald trump fighting the gag order in his federal election interference case. what an appeals court signaled today. the tributes pouring in for rosalynn carter. how the former first lady is being remembered tonight. the shake-up in the company behind chatgpt and the ceo s next move after his surprise ouster.
he s real close. reporter: the rules of separation in the skies breached. the faa s latest numbers show planes came too close nearly 4,400 times in one year. 41 of them deemed high-risk events. they are scary. they re unacceptable. they re worked on. but there s a backup system and people are safe. reporter: it s an air traffic system under stress. increasing air traffic and a potential shortage of controllers. thousands more need to be hired and trained over the next seven years. some experts worry the agency s new hiring practices could make matters worse. the agency no longer gives preference to recent graduates from aviation colleges. just last month, a government auditor said he would study controller staffing levels and the impact of retirement. but incidents where planes get too close aren t necessarily controller errors. these mistakes can occur through a controller making an
security chief, janet napolitano, today is warning of longer lines at the nation s airports especially in customs. as sequestration goes into effect over the next weeks and months, average wait times to clear customs can increase by a significant percentage, up to 50%, and at our busiest airports like newark and jfk, lax and o hare, peak wait times which even now is too long, peak wait times at some of these airports can approach two hours, could actually grow to almost four hours. we re trying to mitigate that as much as we can. jon: this as we re also getting reports of trouble in the skies. the washington post reports a new government audit finds an alarming jump in the number of air traffic errors, and at the facility that supervises air traffic in the washington, d.c. area airports, a whopping 95% increase in controller errors. word of this comes as the