Tonight the deadly dust storm whipping across Texas, the wall of high winds causing fatal crashes and tipping over semi-truck after semi-truck.

Vehicles piling up on the highway, the dangerous trail of wreckage, plus dangerous wildfires ripping through homes.

Plus the powerful storm system putting 113 million at risk, the alerts

for overnight tornadoes and baseball-sized hail.

The fire aboard an American Airlines plane.

No-do, no, no, no, no, no.

The distress call from the cockpit, passengers evacuating onto the wing and running for their

lives through the smoke.

A key witness talking to authorities about that missing student on spring break.

He may have been the last person to see her.

Jesse Kirsch is in the Dominican Republic with the latest tonight.

Another Columbia University student protester arrested by federal agents and newly released video

of the arrest of protest leader Mahmoud Khalil.

Markets bouncing back after a wild week in response to President Trump's trade war, the

president making a rare speech in the Department of Justice going after the prosecutors

who charged him.

The SpaceX crew ready for liftoff again on a mission to bring home astronauts Butch Wilmore

and Sonny Williams.

And the good news, the music and hope coming back to kids impacted by those L.A. wildfires.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome as we enter a volatile weekend of severe weather across the country.

Starting in Texas tonight, where fierce winds have created perilous conditions on the road,

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