advisors said i can t wait to hear that. the second amendment and supreme court. states are trying to take your rights away already. first, flying this july 4 weekend? is proving to be a big holiday headache. thousands of flight cancellations and delays are ruining plans across the country. the latest, 2000031509 and that was just today. cancellations, 2881. 7100 flights into and out of and across the u.s. were delayed and another 500 plus canceled yesterday. one airline is handing out major paydays to anyone willing to get off their flight. delta offered ten grand to get off of flight from michigan to minnesota. i have to tell you, normally i fly american airlines that i have switched to delta because they offer me $10000, i will do that. i agree but we ve got to get more facts. the big problem is why are there so many cancellations? what bothers me, the biden administration would stop the vaccine mandates, let people quit or lost their jobs so they created this pr
move closer to shore what you can do to avoid what lies beneath. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we begin with breaking news massive ground stops and delays across some of the country s biggest airports, making the holiday travel chaos even more complicated. a difficult summer travel season is now going from challenging to worse before the severe weather even moved in, americans facing a rare combination of high gas prices, high airfare, and mass cancellations across the country. the july fourth getaway is under way it is unclear how far people will get. nearly 50 million navigating clogged airports and roads gas prices down slightly, still painfully high for so many americans tracking it all for us tonight, tom costello who starts us off. reporter: friday night and america s july 4th getaway looks dicey. critical airports up and down the east coast in ground stops with severe thunderstorms from or
is $4.82 a gallon. the average is above $5 a gallon in ten states and d.c. there are also concerns about this weekend s weather in some parts of the country. tropical storm colin threats severe warning in the east. fox team coverage senior correspondent claudia is live in los angeles. meteorologist adam is live in the fox weather center. but first to alexis mcadams why bit new york s laguardia airport. alexis are you seeing long lines there? christie at the lines are really nuts unless the flights of already been canceled or delayed. people are not happy and i do not blame them for they came here yesterday, today they told the comeback, white and hotel, wait a few hours they still have not left new york city but take a look here this is a check in line at american airlines. there really are not a lot of people there as we mentioned because american canceled the most flights out of any airline in the country. travelers are not happy, listen. maxwell, first i got one day in o
administration to end the remain in mexico policy put in place by his predecessor. these decisions also marking the end of justice stephen breyer s time on the bench. in less than an hour, he will officially retire after 21 years, leading the way for ketanji brown jackson to officially sit on the supreme court. pete williams is here. pete, we obviously want to talk about the history playing out, but let s talk about these last two meetings of the session. on a 6-3 vote, what the epa wanted to do which was encourage the power generation community in america to shift to more renewable resources like wind and solar is such a big change that only congress can give the epa the authority to do that. it can t do it on its own. and because congress has never done that, the epa has no authority to do that. the chief justice writing in his opinion, it is not plausible that congress gave epa the authority to adopt on its own such a major change in environmental regulation. on the seco
come up, we were too busy investigating and prosecuting real crime, we knew then that politics ruins whatever it touches. religion, education, sports, and our justice system. now we are trying to reconcile competing realities, prosecutors like to ask question, who, what, where, when and how. and the evidence. what does the law say. we focus on the law because we re a nation of laws. no one is above the law. but no one is beneath it either. fairness, impartiality, equality should mean something, the best way to prove their meaning is by applying them equal to friend and foe, lead justice is blindfolded for a reason. the competing reality we confront is the past 6 years of watching the department of justice and fbi, they are seen as extensions. the political parties now, we were jim comey s press of conference. we remember the fbi agent who desmirched a republican presidential candidate, yet put in charge of investigating that same candidate. we remember that agent said he coul