Tonight storm set to disrupt the record holiday travel rush. The summer travel crush kicks off a major test for America's airports, especially at Newark after the FAA reduced flights. Plus, when's the best time to hit the road? And the severe weather in the forecast this weekend. President Trump's new tariff threat demanding Apple start making iPhones

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in the Oval Office. Another escape from a Louisiana jail and inmate facing homicide and other

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The action taken against 18 Army instructors after soldiers fired weapons in front of a crowd

at a beach, a verdict in the Kim Kardashian jewelry heist trial in Paris, and the heartbreaking

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today show colleague, Chanel Jones, after his brave fight against cancer.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Now to the kickoff to the summer travel season, Americans are jamming the roads and packing

the nation's

airports and anticipated record-breaking numbers. Aaron McLaughlin now with the great holiday weekend

getaway. More than 45 million people, an all-time record, are expected to travel 50 miles or

more this holiday weekend, according to AAA. It's just awful for accidents already that I passed

today. What's happening out there? I don't know, bumper to bumper. It's very scary stuff.

Despite the rainy roads and chillier than average temps in the Northeast. It is 53 degrees and raining

at the end of May. I didn't want to see this jacket again until December.

With TSA expecting to screen 18 million passengers around the holiday, all lies on the troubled

Newark Airport after a recent series of disturbing communication outages. United Airlines today

reported immediate improvement in arrival delays after the FAA cut back the number of flights per hour.

In Dallas, long lines greeted passengers this morning.

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