Chilling video of a suspected Drunk Driver Speeding into a building holding a birthday party. Two children killed. More than a dozen other people seriously hurt. Why them . The new warning to jewish students after heated protests at Columbia University. The campus rabbi who says theyre not safe and need to go home. Summer travel crunch. More americans than ever set to fly, but for some airlines, maybe fewer planes. What it means for the price of your summer vacay. A car on fire. A driver trapped. How a group of Good Samaritans saved his life. And kick off your sunday shoes because we are there as kevin bacon goes back to the school where he filmed footloose to make students prom dreams come true. The power that this movie has had just kind of brings people together. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with hallie jackson. Good evening, and we begin this evening with a milestone moment in a trial that will be full of them. Opening statements set to begin just hours from now in that Downt
Panthers vows to sell his team amud an investigation into Sexual Harassment claims against him as rose mcgowan wears a black in a silent protest at the golden globes. And inside the pentagons secret multimilliondollar ufo program. The u. P. S. Driver caught on camera stealing his own delivery. Why the number of porch pirates this season is way up. And the prince and the president. Do i need the british accent . Why former president obama is sitting down for an exclusive interview with prince harry. Today, monday, december 18th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Thank you for join us on a monday morning. As travel nightmares go, it doesnt get worse than a power outage of the Busiest Airport. I cant stop looking at the video of people camped out for hours. How about the guy on the luggage cart . That would be us. I wish i i could say its over. The power is back but the troubles continue. Our top story,
Was going at but we do know that it can go in excess of 120miles an hour. Whether it happen at the top speed or nothing, everything in the region grant to a halt. We will keep you posted. Keeping you posted on a dow that continues raising ahead. Clearly looking at 17th record of the year. Last time we saw that was back in 1995 and the last time we saw Something Like this where we had 5,000 points gain in the dow, well, we have never seen anything like that. A lot of this propels by talks that the house of representatives is going to move very, very quickly at the end of the senate and president s desk, is that doable in rapid time frame, lets ask, chad. Chad, what are they looking to do . Later today theres going to be a meeting of house of representatives where they hear one last time kind of what they need to know about the bill, they dont think this is going to be a problem at the house of representatives and then they go to what is called the rules committee, parameters of debate,
San francisco around 62 with the average of 57. Today is 6 degrees short of the record. We have High Pressure deflecting everything to the north except for some higher clouds or patchy fog. 30s on the temperatures inland and 40s near the bay. Temperatures will give way to above average temperatures by the afternoon the high 32 in gilroy, 33 boulder creek, felton 39, there were plenty of 30s from north to south and i did not see any 20s locally. There is enough of the easterly breeze to keep the beat going for the offshore direction. This low that gave us the wind in Southern California saturday has pushed into arizona and is now in new mexico. We will be quiet tomorrow as we have this fastmoving system late tuesday and wednesday we could get a quick shot of snow for the sierra. Today we have 60s under mostly sunny skies. Sal tells us traffic is . It is not bad but we do have some slowing. This is the week the last week of really significant morning traffic. Lets start with the east bay
Heres whats caused all of that trouble. Georgia power released two photos of fire damage to the underground electrical system. Passengers chee s cheered as th returned just before midnight. The first flights out of the airport didnt start taking off until 6 00 this morning. Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed. Airport Officials Say they hope to be back to normal later this afternoon. Now, the delays and cancellations are also happening at Philadelphia International airport, part of the trickledown effect. Five flights arriving from or departing for atlanta have been canceled today. Airport Officials Say, check with your carrier on the status of your flight. We caught up with one woman trying to get home to atlanta, who says she is beyond frustrated. Its just a mess. We had to find a hotel. The airlines arent accommodating anything. Its super frustrating. We have a baby. Dont have a car seat. We had to walk over to the marriott, luckily, theres an airport hotel. If there hadnt