bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also examining if more can be to avoid potential disasters. we have seen an uptick in serious close calls that we must address. transportation secretary pete buttigieg kicked off today s aviation safety summit with a warning. more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates when planes are pushing back, in control towers and on flight decks. the government says it s investigating six runway incursions this year alone, including one at washington s reagan airport 8
Good morning. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. Erin burnett is live in tel aviv, israel. That is where President Biden is headed tomorrow tore a highstakes visit. The humanitarian crisis in gaza is escalating. And the president is under growing pressure to help get desperately needed aid, food, walter, other aid to the millions of civilians stuck in this war zone. This morning we are continuing to see israel strike gaza. Some airstrikes were right near the Border Crossing between gaza and egypt. That crossing remains closed as israels blockade continues and this is new video of smoke rising near the border wall there. It is the same Border Crossing where vital humanitarian aid has been piling up. The World Health Organization is now warning that water is running out for Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinians. Satellite images show 30foot bomb craters blocking the roadway nearing the crossing. Another top priority for President Biden, securing the release of hostages. Ham
good to be back with you in this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead, the high intensity at times down right contentious hearing testing the limits of the first amendment, as a lawyer for donald trump fights a gag order in the federal election case. will trump s rhetoric win out or the risk to witnesses? we ve got clues from inside the courtroom. developing overseas, israel releases footage it says shows hostages and a hamas tunnel at the hospital that s become a symbol of the war itself. and what we re learning about heavy fighting happening at another hospital in gaza. the 44,000 hours of footage from the january 6th attack being made public as one republican senator pushes yet another conspiracy theory about that day. we ve got a fact check. and he s been dubbed the oppenheimer of our age. the truly wild shakeup involving the ai guru, who compares the scale of his work to the manhattan project. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developm
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