Friday, March 20, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight our exclusive new reporting, the Pentagon, presenting President Trump with plans to send ground troops into Iran. |
| 0:09.0 | As the stock market tumbles on fears, this war will drag on. |
| 0:13.0 | The explosion inside Jerusalem's old city, as part of an Iranian missile nearly crashes near some of the holiest sites on earth. |
| 0:22.0 | And new details on thousands more U.S. troops now rushing to the region, the options presented |
| 0:27.7 | to the president to possibly send in ground troops to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and |
| 0:33.3 | the new threat to American tourists tonight. |
| 0:36.1 | Stock market meltdown, Wall Street in a free fall, |
| 0:39.4 | as not only gas prices rise again, but mortgage rates as well. Catastrophic flooding in |
| 0:45.4 | paradise, thousands told to evacuate in Hawaii, cars underwater, roads washed away, |
| 0:52.3 | and the urgent warning that a dam may be about to break. |
| 0:56.2 | The worst day yet for long lines at airports, passengers forced to wait as long as three hours |
| 1:02.7 | and will tell you which major airports have private security and aren't affected at all. |
| 1:09.1 | Plus, the flight crew carried off in stretchers after extreme turbulence on a Delta plane. |
| 1:14.9 | Campus in Fear, an 18-year-old student, shot and killed just steps from her Chicago College. |
| 1:21.2 | The killer still on the loose. |
| 1:23.7 | The war hits the heartland hundreds lining the streets in Iowa for two fallen soldiers. |
| 1:29.7 | The shattering images in Kentucky, a family clinging to a flag-draved casket and the Ohio father grieving his only son. |
| 1:38.2 | What he's revealing about his private moment with the president. |
| 1:41.8 | Nightly News starts right now. |
| 1:48.1 | This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. And good evening. Last night we broke the news that the Pentagon was rushing more U.S. |
| 1:55.2 | troops to the Middle East, including ground forces. And tonight we have exclusive new details |
| 2:00.1 | that the Pentagon has laid out |
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