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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

Sunday, May 3, 2026

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas

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3.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Spirit Airlines’ abrupt closure strands thousands of travelers; Concerns grow as high oil prices drive up cost of jet fuel; Trump says the U.S. will ‘free up’ ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0

Tonight, thousands of passengers stranded in the fallout from the collapse of Spirit Airlines.

0:06.0

The sudden shutdown triggering a travel nightmare. People telling us they're struggling to get a flight home or paying big bucks for one.

0:13.0

Now other airlines stepping into health. Why spirits collapse could mean higher prices no matter what you fly.

0:19.0

And the new numbers late today

0:21.1

showing how soaring jet fuel costs could play into it all. President Trump revealing a new

0:26.0

operation set to start just hours from now to get ships safely through the key straight

0:30.8

of Hormuz. What else he's saying late tonight about the prospect of peace with Iran? New pushback

0:36.5

in the growing fight over access to a widely used

0:39.1

abortion pill after a major ruling limiting access to it with all eyes turning to the Supreme

0:45.0

Court. Rip current danger in Florida, rough conditions being blamed for at least one death there.

0:51.1

We're tracking it all. Dramatic new surveillance video of a car. Look at this, plowing into a gym before bursting

0:57.0

into flames. The latest on that investigation. This is NBC Nightly News with Hallie Jackson.

1:04.9

Good evening. We begin tonight with the stress for spirit passengers. Thousands of them, some stranded with no easy way home after the

1:12.8

airline's sudden shutdown less than 36 hours ago. The counters across the country, look at this,

1:18.5

empty with spirit telling people not to go to the airport to try to rebook flights. So the big

1:23.7

question now for many, how will they get home tonight? The new offers from other airlines, the new details from the Trump administration

1:30.9

about why no government bailout materialized, and the new warnings this could make ticket prices

1:35.9

higher for all flyers in a shutdown affecting not just spirit customers, but thousands of

1:41.2

spirit employees now out of work.

1:43.5

Our Kathy Park starts us off.

1:46.6

Tonight, growing fallout after the collapse of Spirit Airlines, with hundreds of thousands

1:51.3

of bookings now canceled. I'm literally sitting here stranded in the Virgin Islands right now.

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