On this Labor Day, the race to get back, millions scrambling to head home before the work week starts, with extreme weather making a mess for some.

Now, the new flooding in Texas. At least two people swept away in San Antonio. Out west, high heat, plus old issues creating new problems at major airport hubs.

The deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, hundreds killed inside the desperate rush to rescue

more in the mountains, remote and risky.

Protests across the country this Labor Day taking on the White House all ahead of what could

be a National Guard showdown in Chicago,

as that city braces for a potential immigration crackdown.

The warning from nine former CDC directors saying the health secretaries putting lives at risk,

COVID cases ticking up again, and what the president's now saying about the vaccine tonight.

The dramatic rescue caught on camera after this child wanders onto the monorail tracks.

Tonight, you'll hear from the man who rushed to pluck him to safety.

Like a Geiger level skill set come from.

I'll call it more of like dad strength.

The Army football standout who helped save a driver from a car seconds before it burst into

flames. Look at that. And School of Hard Knocks, after winning title after title in the NFL,

can Bill Belichick win again as he makes his college coaching debut. Nightly News starts right now.

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. Good evening. I'm Halley Jackson in for Tom tonight. And we are coming on the air with the rush home after one of the busiest Labor Day weekends in years and millions battling

the elements with extreme weather turning deadly. Two people swept away in Texas with serious

flooding in San Antonio and in Houston, where you can see this group abandoning their car in the

middle of the road. Even tonight thunderstorms in the south and Midwest could make travel tricky for folks flying in or out of Miami, Dallas, and Kansas City. In New Jersey,

delays from ground stops at Newark because of staffing problems. And farther west, millions

sweltering in a heat wave as summer comes to a close with record-breaking temperatures expected

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