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the showdown in the courtroom. the coldest blast of the season so far from texas to the northeast. we're tracking it. the delta pilot charged with pulling a gun in the cockpit why authorities say he threatened to shoot the captain midflight. and the marathon man running on the road to redemption >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, and welcome. a diplomatic breakthrough has cracked open the door that has left foreigners, including americans, trapped inside war-torn gaza tonight, americans are among a handful of people who were able to leave ...

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State. was he having hallucinations of some sort was he imagining things that were not there. that's sort of what that doctor that medical report was sort of alluding to here. again, we don't know for sure. we also know some of the medications he was taking, some of the side effects of the medications can be blurred vision. there's a lot of moving pieces here. but when it comes to psychosomatic, it basically means the mind is making up an illness or imagining an illness that does not exist, wolf. >> dr. sanjay gupta, as usual, thanks very much. >> you got it wolf. thank you. more perspective...

>> however, critics say airlines aren't doing enough when it comes to screening pilots for psychological problems. we'll take a look at that part of this story when we come back. "ride away" (by roy orbison begins to play) ♪ i ride the highway... ♪ i'm going my way... ♪i leave a story untold... he just keeps sending more pictures... if you're a free-range chicken, you roam free. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. ♪ two wheels a turnin'...

Take a real hard look at how much we are paying and training and investing in pilot safety as we move on in the future. this is going to it start affecting us in the world in 5 or 10 years. >> and perhaps how much we are screening pilots and are they ever to be left alone in the cockpit. thank you john. >> the co-pilot has a connection to the united states. we are learning that he partly trained in a flight school in phoenix in 2008. we have more on the ground and live report coming up. we want to hear from you as well. this was described as a deliberate crash. should a pilot of only 600 hours...