Thursday, May 21, 2026
NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight storms across the country wreaking havoc on the busiest day of Memorial Day travel. |
| 0:06.8 | New storms firing up right now in what's set to be a holiday weekend washout. |
| 0:12.2 | This truck in Tennessee skidding down the highway, drivers escaping the floods from their sunroof, |
| 0:18.7 | torrential rain from Atlanta to New York, long lines at some of the |
| 0:23.3 | biggest airports, and that sinkhole at LaGuardia, the runway, still shut down. Breaking tonight, |
| 0:30.1 | legendary NASCAR driver Kyle Bush, dead at 41. What we know about is sudden death. Also tonight, |
| 0:37.4 | Ebola outbreak, chaos in Africa, angry crowds |
| 0:41.7 | setting hospital tents on fire. The new images of that American doctor fighting for his life |
| 0:47.9 | in a biocontainment unit, plus the plane rerouted away from the U.S. over fears of the deadly virus. |
| 0:55.8 | The surprise twist in the school shooting trial, the judge tossing out the case for the vice |
| 1:01.4 | principal charged after a teacher was shot by a six-year-old, why the judge cited with the defense. |
| 1:08.4 | On the run, video of a suspect wanted for Medicaid fraud in Minneapolis, |
| 1:13.4 | fleeing after jumping off a balcony as 15 people are accused of stealing $90 million. Republican |
| 1:20.9 | backlash to President Trump's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. Will his own party kill it? |
| 1:28.6 | And why the president said he may not attend his son, Don Jr.'s wedding this weekend. |
| 1:33.8 | Our series, the cost of denial and the surprise apology from a health care CEO after our |
| 1:40.5 | investigation into the struggles of military families. |
| 1:44.3 | Trapped in a wall, the bizarre rescue, a man stuck there for 10 hours, |
| 1:49.9 | why he was arrested just after being freed. |
| 1:52.9 | The police car dangling off a bridge, what happened to the officer inside? |
| 1:57.9 | And there's good news tonight, the big reveals, the senior class taking off the mask |
| 2:03.9 | for the very first time. Nightly News starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. |
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