Tonight travel chaos coast to coast, hundreds of flights grounded at the nation's biggest

airports and the new warning tonight that it's likely to get even worse.

Mass cancellations nationwide, hundreds more on the chopping block each day as the FAA cuts

back flights due to the government shutdown.

Major delays at airports in cities like Houston, Phoenix, and Washington, passengers beyond frustrated. And now the Transportation Secretary saying up to 20% of all flights could be

slashed. The major reversal on food assistance today, the Trump administration

will fund it for those in need, and the surprise pardon for baseball star Daryl Strawberry

convicted of tax evasion. Path of destruction, new images of the aftermath from that deadly

UPS plane crash in Kentucky, the clue just in from the black boxes, a bell going

off in the cockpit before the crash.

Another U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean are Richard Engel on the ground in Colombia.

What the defense minister just told him, does he believe these boats are carrying drugs? The mother of a missing nine-year-old

girl arrested in California, but not charged with her disappearance. The new video of the two of

them in wigs before she vanished are police any closer to finding her. Shot through the door,

the housekeeper and mother of four killed after showing up at the wrong

address, her husband, who was with her when she died, speaking out. Caught on camera the high-speed

chase, police pursuing a stolen ambulance, how it ended.

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas.

And good evening.

Airlines today slash their flight schedules at airports across America as part of the government mandate to cut back on air traffic as the government shutdown drags on.

700 flights were canceled today across the four biggest airlines, and those

cuts will continue through the weekend. And in the days ahead, the reductions will get even steeper,

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