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>> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, and welcome. after a dangerous confrontation in the skies, a warning tonight from russia to the u.s. not to fly aircraft near its airspace throwing the onus on the united states for that midair collision between a russian and american plane over the black sea yesterday. the u.s. making clear its pilotless surveillance plane was flying legally in international airspace when it was knocked from the sky by a russian fighter jet that had been flying close and aggressively the act raising alarms in the pentagon. sec...

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Families without heat in frigid temperatures. >> people with families, kids, the elderly, and we have no heat. pretty crazy. >> reporter: the race to restore power for tens of thousands under way on both coasts. back-to-back storms blasted an already waterlogged california. >> i was devastated. i just started crying. i want to cry now. >> reporter: relentless rain collapsing this hillside today carrying apartments along with it, and in northern california, hurricane-force winds uprooted towering trees, ravaging apartments and crushing cars. >> too much lightning but then there was a big thud. ...