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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Saturday, January 7, 2024

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Piece of Alaska Airlines plane detaches mid-flight, prompting emergency landing; First winter storm of new year moves through Northeast; U.S. official: Pentagon waited days to inform W.H. officials of defense secretary’s hospitalization; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight the terrifying moments aboard an Alaska Airlines flight after a whole blows open in the

0:05.4

cabinet 17,000 feet.

0:07.4

The FAA quickly grounding nearly 200 other planes.

0:11.8

New video shows the dramatic near disaster, a nightmare scenario for passengers.

0:17.0

The clothes on one child sucked out oxygen masks dropping.

0:21.0

We hear from those on board.

0:24.4

I feel the plane drop I started freaking out.

0:27.8

Now the investigation into what went wrong is this model of plane safe.

0:33.6

The storm system now pushing into the northeast snow and ice triggering a series of crashes.

0:39.3

Nearly 50 million Americans bracing for a serious snowfall will some major cities get

0:44.7

their first significant snow in nearly two years. Why was the Defense

0:49.8

Secretary's health scare kept secret? Lloyd Austin was in the ICU for four days this week.

0:55.8

The Pentagon not telling the President or the public for days.

1:00.4

We have new details.

1:02.4

Good evening, I'm Peter Alexander in for Jose, and tonight the FAA has ordered the temporary

1:06.8

grounding in immediate inspection of nearly 200 Boeing 737 Maxine aircraft after that terrifying mid-air emergency Friday night.

1:15.4

Check this out.

1:16.0

This was the scene in the skies above Portland, Oregon after an entire panel of an Alaska Airlines

1:22.1

plane broke off mid-flight. As you can see, it left that

1:26.2

gaping hole on the plane's left side and passengers rushing to put on oxygen masks

1:31.5

as they stared out at the night sky.

1:34.3

Amazingly, the Alaska Airlines flight landed safely and no one was seriously hurt,

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