Tonight the deadly plane collision in Japan just hours after a powerful earthquake rocked the country.

The massive Fireball as a Japan Airlines plane collides with a Coast Guard aircraft on the runway then bursting into flames.

Smoke filling the cabin, all 379 people on board escaping, but five on the Japanese Coast

Guard aircraft killed on their way to help with earthquake relief.

How did they end up on the same runway?

Also tonight the desperate search for survivors after that Japan earthquake killed dozens.

The major announcement from Harvard's president

after the backlash to her testimony about anti-Semitism

and plagiarism allegations.

The senior Hamas leader killed in a blast not in Gaza but north of Israel in

Beirut a growing fears of a widening war. Just in former President Donald

Trump appealing Maine's decision to ban him from the 2024

ballot over his conduct around January 6th.

The standoff of the Colorado Supreme Court after an armed man breaks in and opens fire.

New details in the deadly New Year's crash into pedestrians in Western New York, the

SUV packed with gas cans, and the mystery in Michigan who's holding the powerball ticket worth

842 million dollars.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

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Officials in Japan tonight are piecing together the tragic chain of events that left two planes on a collision

course ending in a fiery and deadly impact on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

Surveillance cameras captured the moment of disaster as a Japan Airlines airbus with

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