At just under at the airport here. I would say 100 feet below us. Only 100 feet from the wing. Was the drone doing so close to the tower notified other flights of the potential danger near one of the nations busiest airports. The airliner with five crew members and 154 pass season goes din need to take action and landed safely. A collision the drone could have caused damage similar to a bird strike or worse. Take off and landing the critical phases of flight where you need total concentration. Quite frankly, it is very dangerous. This could can can be into a turbine engine and the same thing as, you know, hitting a bird. On the down from, passengers wonder why anyone would be flying a drone anywhere napper the airport. When you hear this binges like that. People get very nervous. So somehow they have to restrict that but he you know, on the other hand you see more and more drones and you go to costco and you can buy and the faa does have rule ares on the books banning drones from flyin
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with breaking developments in the race for president. We now know the ten candidates who made the cut for the first Republican Debate in primetime this thursday. You can see the stage positions right there. The final two slots go to christie and kasich, edging out rick perry. And just in time for that debate, jeb bush may have ignited a new flashpoint in the race for president with comments he made today about funding Womens Health programs. Remarks immediately pounced on by Hillary Clinton. Nbc News National correspondent Peter Alexander starts us off. Reporter on the day that republicans learned the final cut for thursdays primetime debate Hillary Clinton is blasting jeb bush for his call today to defund planned parenthood. Im not sure we need half a billion dollars for Womens Health issues. Reporter clinton tweeted, jeb bush, you are absolutely unequivoca
Reporter late tonight jeb bush released a statement saying that hu that he supports providing critical Womens Health services, especially to lowincome women but adding that he believes federal money shouldnt be spent on planned parenthood because of allegations is involved in selling lester . Thanks us now. Andrea, is this a oneday issue for jeb bush . It depends on how he handles it. Clinton pounced. Shes been so much on the defensive. All the republicans ganging up on her. Her own poll numbers sliding, even among women. And now shes got an issue. And an issue with the largest voting bloc, wome hu and it depends on whether jeb bush really articulates that he understands the importance of federal funding for Womens Health. Its a huge issue with women voters. Republicans as well as democrats. Andrea mitchell tonight, thank you. Now to a story that hits home with anyone whos taken their family to summertime outdoor fairs or festivals. The deaths of a father and his young daughter when a
School it can be a huge impact on their lives and, yes it is a sex crime and the involve the da and as parents were thinking oh, your kids can go on the social months and posts things that their friends might be sending them and like i said again, it is a lack of awareness and i just want to be the one to let parents and the panel know that somewhere in the policy should be stated that kids should not do that because when it comes up or if it is worded differently in the policy we dont know kids can post anything and be jailed you know it can affect their whole entire lives i want to thank you for just hearing me out and unfortunately my son he goes to kidnap sf academy and is up for expulsion so i want to give him a chance to speak with that because he was not being treated fairly it was like a number of other children maybe 8 or 9 kids were involved in it and you know my son got as an africanamerican male he got you know the wrong end of the stick got treat the worst like he made the
Have updated numbers to share with you on the two fires here in the bay area. After being closed for months, two bay area lakes are going to open to the public. The problem might have been fixed and it may be be a good day to go to the lake. Lets check in with rosemary. Clearing up, we will be clearing up as we get into the second part of the morning at least for the inland areas. As we get into the afternoon, mostly sunny skies away from the coastline for in and around San Francisco and the east bay. Here is a look at all that fog out there this morning. A bit soupy out there and we have temperatures a bit on the cool side, be prepared, brick an extra layer or two. Here is a look from the oaklandest rarely, low clouds and the fog have swallowed San Francisco. Starting out in the mid50s for San Francisco, san to rosa 53. Oakland upper east. Livermore as well. San jose at about 62. Here is a look at the cloud cover from up above. Inside the bay, north bay down through the south bay. As