Tonight the new plans just in for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter as the nation honors its 39th

president. The tributes tonight for the peanut farmer, the president, the peacemaker, remembering

Jimmy Carter's life and legacy from his unlikely rise to the White House and his impact on the Middle

East to his work as a champion for human rights. Mr. Carter, dying at the age of 100

in the home he shared with his wife of 77 years and just revealed the official schedule

when the public is invited to pay respects in both Georgia and Washington and the national

day of morning before his final journey home.

Also tonight, new details in the plane crash that killed nearly 180 people in South Korea.

One of the two survivors now awake and speaking what he's saying to doctors.

And the growing questions now after landing gear issues on a second plane operated by the same airline. The new blow for President-elect

Trump in his push to overturn his $5 million sexual abuse and defamation civil verdict. The security

concerns in the final countdown to 2025 inside the NYPD's final preparations to protect Times Square.

And the president and the pulpit, Jimmy Carter,

in his own words, on the faith that guided him for a century. This is NBC Nightly News with

Lester Holt. Good evening. I'm Hallie Jackson in for Lester. We are coming on the air tonight with the details

just into us on how the nation will pause to remember Jimmy Carter. As you can see memorials to the

39th president growing in Atlanta and in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. A live look there at

flags flying at half staff across the country. The former president's

state funeral proceedings will begin Saturday in Georgia, then Mr. Carter will make one final

trip to Washington to lie in state at the Capitol before a funeral service next Thursday at

the National Cathedral, a moment when the nation's leaders will come together united by grief

to honor and celebrate the former president, and a day when the federal's leaders will come together, united by grief, to honor and celebrate the former president,

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