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  • NUMBERS ON THE U.S.

  • ECONOMY, BOUNCING BACK

  • DESPITE THE FEARS OF A

  • RECESSION.

  • THE ECONOMY GROWING

  • MORE THAN EXPECTED IN

  • THE THIRD QUARTER

  • AFTER SHRINKING FOR

  • THE FIRST HALF OF THE

  • YEAR.

  • PRESIDENT BIDEN

  • TOUTING THE DATA IN

  • HIS CLOSING ARGUMENT,

  • 12 DAYS UNTIL THE

  • MIDTERMS, AND THE HOT

  • MIC MOMENT.

  • WHAT THE TOP SENATE

  • DEMOCRAT WAS HEARD

  • TELLING THE PRESIDENT

  • ABOUT A CRITICAL RACE.

  • >>> ALSO TONIGHT, THE

  • EMOTIONAL MEETING.

  • FAMILIES OF UVALDE

  • VICTIMS CALLING ON

  • THE DIRECTOR OF TEXAS

  • STATE POLICE TO RESIGN

  • AS NEW BODY CAM

  • EMERGES OF THE BOTCHED

  • RESPONSE.

  • WHAT IT SHOWS.

  • >>> THE SURGE IN CHILD

  • RESPIRATORY ILLNESS

  • SPREADING TO MORE

  • PARTS OF THE U.S.,

  • WHERE IN ONE STATE

  • CASES ARE UP 340%.

  • >>> VLADIMIR PUTIN

  • DENYING THAT RUSSIA

  • PLANS TO USE NUCLEAR

  • WEAPONS IN UKRAINE,

  • DESPITE HIS PREVIOUS

  • THREATS.

  • OUR TEAM INSIDE

  • UKRAINE.

  • >>> THE JANUARY 6th

  • RIOTER WHO DRAGGED A

  • POLICE OFFICER INTO

  • THE MOB.

  • HOW LONG HE HAS BEEN

  • SENTENCED TO PRISON.

  • >>> NBC NEWS

  • INVESTIGATES

  • ALLEGATIONS OF HUMAN

  • TRAFFICKING ON U.S.

  • MILITARY BASES

  • OVERSEAS.

  • >>> AIRLINE COMPLAINTS

  • SOARING MORE THAN 300%

  • ABOVE PREPANDEMIC

  • LEVELS.

  • WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW TO HIST

  • INSPIRING AMERICA.

  • ♪♪

  • >> Announcer: THIS IS

  • "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS"

  • WITH LESTER HOLT.

  • >> GOOD EVENING.

  • HOW'S THE ECONOMY?

  • WELL, PICK A NUMBER.

  • THE LATEST FIGURES

  • UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

  • TONIGHT THE GDP, A

  • MEASURE OF U.S.

  • ECONOMIC OUTPUT

  • BOUNCING BACK TODAY,

  • CLIMBING JUST OVER

  • 2.5%.

  • ON WALL STREET, THE

  • DOW LIKED THE NEWS,

  • CLIMBING 194 POINTS.

  • THE NASDAQ, HOWEVER,

  • FELL 178 POINTS AMID

  • MORE DISAPPOINTING

  • EARNINGS FOR BIG TECH

  • COMPANIES.

  • BUT CONFLICTING

  • CROSSWINDS COMING OF

  • COURSE AGAINST THE

  • BACKDROP OF STUBBORNLY

  • HIGH INFLATION NUMBERS

  • AND A SERIES OF

  • INTEREST RATE HIKES BY

  • THE FED DESIGNED TO

  • SLOW THE ECONOMY.

  • TONIGHT, THE MIXED

  • ECONOMIC SIGNALS, THE

  • GOOD AND BAD AND RISK

  • OF A RECESSION ALL

  • TAKING CENTER STAGE IN

  • THE 12 DAYS AHEAD OF

  • THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.

  • THAT'S WHERE WE START

  • TONIGHT WITH KELLY

  • O'DONNELL.

  • >> Reporter: A HOT MIC

  • PICKED UP DEMOCRATS'

  • MIDTERM ELECTION

  • PRESSURE TODAY.

  • SENATE LEADER CHUCK

  • SCHUMER GAMED OUT KEY

  • RACES THAT COULD

  • DECIDE PARTY CONTROL,

  • INCLUDING THAT

  • FACE-OFF WHERE

  • DEMOCRAT JOHN

  • FETTERMAN'S STROKE

  • RECOVERY WAS ON

  • DISPLAY AGAINST

  • REPUBLICAN MEHMET OZ.

  • >> DEBATE DIDN'T HURT

  • MUCH IN PENNSYLVANIA.

  • >> PRESIDENT BIDEN

  • GESTURING WITH FINGERS

  • CROSSED.

  • AND WITH JUST 12 DAYS

  • TO GO, THE PRESIDENT

  • SEIZING AN UNEXPECTED

  • POSITIVE SIGN.

  • >> GREAT ECONOMIC

  • REPORT TODAY.

  • THE GDP REPORT.

  • THINGS ARE LOOKING

  • GOOD.

  • >> Reporter: A

  • SURPRISE REBOUND.

  • THE U.S. ECONOMY GREW

  • FROM JULY TO

  • SEPTEMBER.

  • THE NATION'S GROSS

  • DOMESTIC PRODUCT

  • POSTING 2.6 GROWTH

  • AFTER SHRINKING IN THE

  • FIRST HALF OF THIS

  • YEAR.

  • FUELLED BY CONSUMER

  • SPENDING, EXPORTS, AND

  • A STRONG JOB MARKET.

  • THE PRESIDENT IN

  • SYRACUSE, NEW YORK,

  • URGED VOTERS TO REJECT

  • A REPUBLICAN TAKEOVER

  • OF CONGRESS.

  • >> THEY'RE DETERMINED

  • TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY

  • AND MEDICARE, AND

  • THEY'RE WILLING TO

  • TAKE DOWN THE ECONOMY

  • OVER IT.

  • >> Reporter: WHILE

  • REPUBLICANS BLAME THE

  • PRESIDENT AND

  • DEMOCRATS FOR SOARING

  • INFLATION.

  • >> IF YOU'RE TIRED OF

  • HAVING A 401(K) THAT

  • THE DEMOCRATS HAVE

  • CREATED TO A 201-K.

  • IF YOU'RE TIRED OF

  • PLAYING TOO MUCH FOR

  • GAS, WE HAVE A BETTER

  • PATH, A BETTER PLAN.

  • >> Reporter: WORKING

  • MOTHER OF TWO DION

  • SAYS HIGHER COSTS ARE

  • A DAILY STRESS.

  • >> WE ARE HANGING ON

  • BY A THREAD.

  • WE'RE HANGING ON BY A

  • THREAD.

  • INSTEAD OF PAYING THE

  • WHOLE LIGHT BILL, I

  • MAY HAVE TO PUT

  • SOMETHING DOWN ON IT

  • SO THE KIDS CAN GET

  • WHAT THEY NEED.

  • >> Reporter: AND FOR

  • HOMEOWNERS, A NEW

  • STING.

  • RATES FOR 30-YEAR

  • MORTGAGES TOPPED 7%

  • FOR THE FIRST TIME IN

  • TWO DECADES.

  • THE RESULT OF THE

  • FEDERAL RESERVE

  • RAISING INTEREST RATES

  • TO COUNTER INFLATION.

  • >> WE JUST HEARD THAT

  • HOT MIC MOMENT ABOUT

  • PENNSYLVANIA.

  • NOW THE WHITE HOUSE

  • WILL AGAIN BE FOCUSING

  • ON THAT RACE.

  • >> THAT'S RIGHT.

  • TOMORROW THE PRESIDENT

  • AND VICE PRESIDENT

  • WILL APPEAR TOGETHER

  • WITH ALL THE STATE'S

  • TOP DEMOCRATS IN

  • PHILADELPHIA TO

  • SUPPORT THEIR

  • CANDIDATES, INCLUDING

  • JOHN FETTERMAN WHO IS

  • RUNNING FOR THAT

  • CRITICAL SENATE SEAT.

  • LESTER?

  • >> KELLY O'DONNELL AT

  • THE WHITE HOUSE,

  • THANKS.

  • >>> IN TEXAS, NEW

  • DEMANDS TONIGHT FOR

  • THE RESIGNATION OF THE

  • STATE'S TOP POLICE

  • OFFICIAL BY FAMILIES

  • OF THOSE KILLED IN THE

  • UVALDE SCHOOL

  • MASSACRE, AND NEW BODY

  • CAM VIDEO PROVIDES

  • FRESH INSIGHTS INTO

  • THE DELAYED RESPONSE.

  • HERE IS MORGAN CHESKY.

  • >> Reporter: INSIDE

  • TEXAS DPS

  • HEADQUARTERS, UVALDE

  • FAMILIES FIGHTING

  • THROUGH PAIN.

  • >> HE BASICALLY LIT A

  • MATCH AND SET THE TOWN

  • ON FIRE.

  • IT'S TIME FOR YOU,

  • SIR, TO KEEP YOUR WORD

  • AND OFFER YOUR

  • RESIGNATION.

  • >> Reporter: DEMANDING

  • DPS DIRECTOR STEVEN

  • McCRAW STEP DOWN.

  • >> ARE YOU A MAN OF

  • YOUR WORD?

  • >> ABSOLUTELY.

  • >> THEN RESIGN.

  • >> Reporter: McCRAW AT

  • THE CENTER OF TODAY'S

  • MEETING, INTENDED TO

  • UPDATE THE ONGOING

  • SHOOTING

  • INVESTIGATION.

  • >> I CAN TELL YOU THIS

  • RIGHT NOW, DPS AS AN

  • INSTITUTION, OKAY,

  • RIGHT NOW DID NOT FAIL

  • THE COMMUNITY, PLAIN

  • AND SIMPLE.

  • >> Reporter: THE

  • SCHOOL MASSACRE IN MAY

  • NOW LEAVES THE TOWN IN

  • PERPETUAL MOURNING.

  • THIS AS APPARENT FURY

  • IS GROWING LOUDER OVER

  • NEW BODY CAM VIDEO

  • OBTAINED BY FBI

  • AFFILIATE WOAI.

  • DURING THE BOTCHED

  • RESPONSE BY MULTIPLE

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT

  • AGENCIES.

  • >> I FEEL SO BAD --

  • THAT HE SHOT KIDS.

  • >> Reporter: IN IT YOU

  • SEE SERGEANT JUAN

  • MALDONADO, THE FIRST

  • TROOPER FIRED FROM THE

  • INTERNAL INVESTIGATION

  • APPROACHED BY MULTIPLE

  • OFFICERS OUTSIDE ROBB

  • ELEMENTARY.

  • >> WHAT IS THE SAFEST

  • WAY TO DO THIS?

  • I'M NOT TRYING TO GET

  • CLAPPED DOWN.

  • >> Reporter: AND NEAR

  • THE VERY CLASSROOMS

  • WHERE THE GUNMAN

  • OPENED FIRE.

  • >> DOES ANYBODY KNOW?

  • >> HE HAS NINE KIDS IN

  • THERE?

  • >> IT'S BEEN ABOUT AN

  • HOUR.

  • >> IT'S DISGUSTING.

  • IT MAKES ME NAUSEATED.

  • THEY KNEW OUR KIDS

  • WERE RIGHT BEHIND THAT

  • HALLWAY.

  • IN THAT ROOM, THEY

  • WERE BLEEDING TO

  • DEATH.

  • >> Reporter: UVALDE

  • PLANS TO PAY TRIBUTE

  • TO THE 21 LIVES LOST

  • THIS WEEKEND IN AN

  • EVENT CALLED "REMEMBER

  • THEIR NAMES."

  • MEANWHILE, THE MAN IN

  • CHARGE OF TEXAS DPS

  • STRESSING HE'S NOT

  • LEAVING.

  • >> ONE OFFICER FIRED

  • AND MULTIPLE FACING

  • TERMINATION, DO YOU

  • PLAN ON GIVING YOUR

  • RESIGNATION?

  • >> NO.

  • NOT RIGHT NOW.

  • >> THANK YOU, THANK

  • YOU.

  • >> AND MORGAN, IT IS

  • NOT JUST FAMILIES

  • CALLING FOR THE DPS

  • DIRECTOR TO RESIGN?

  • >> YEAH, LESTER,

  • YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY

  • RIGHT.

  • WE HEARD FROM

  • REPUBLICAN TONY

  • GONZALEZ WHO IS A

  • CONGRESSMAN WHO

  • REPRESENTS UVALDE.

  • HE IS NOW JOINING WITH

  • WHAT DEMOCRATIC

  • LEADERS HAVE BEEN

  • SAYING FOR MONTHS, AND

  • THAT'S FOR DIRECTOR

  • McCRAW TO RESIGN

  • IMMEDIATELY.

  • >> LESTER, THANK YOU.

  • >> ALL RIGHT, MORGAN

  • CHESKY, THANK YOU.

  • >>> GROWING HEALTH

  • CONCERNS AS THE

  • RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES

  • AMONG CHILDREN SPREAD

  • TO MORE PARTS OF THE

  • COUNTRY.

  • BUT SOME HOSPITALS ARE

  • DEVELOPING NEW

  • TECHNIQUES TO TRY TO

  • KEEP UP.

  • GABE GUTIERREZ IS IN

  • ARIZONA FOR US

  • TONIGHT.

  • >> Reporter: INSIDE

  • PHOENIX CHILDREN'S

  • HOSPITAL, CHEYENNE

  • CHILDERS' TWO MONTH

  • OLD CHILD IS FIGHTING

  • RSV.

  • >> TERRIFYING.

  • IT'S A SERIOUS

  • ILLNESS, YOU KNOW,

  • WITH HIM BEING THIS

  • YOUNG.

  • HE DOESN'T HAVE AN

  • IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT

  • IT OFF.

  • >> Reporter: THIS YEAR

  • IN ARIZONA CASES OF

  • RSV ARE UP 344% OVER A

  • TYPICAL SEASON.

  • IT'S A COMMON VIRUS,

  • BUT IT'S AFFECTING

  • MORE KIDS BECAUSE OF

  • LOWER IMMUNITY AFTER

  • ISOLATING DURING THE

  • PANDEMIC.

  • DID YOU EVER THINK

  • THAT THIS RESPIRATORY

  • ILLNESS WOULD BE SO

  • SERIOUS?

  • >> NO.

  • I MEAN, WHEN I FIRST

  • HEARD ABOUT IT, I

  • THOUGHT IT WAS JUST

  • SOMETHING SMALL.

  • >> Reporter: NOW

  • PEDIATRIC HOSPITALS

  • ACROSS THE COUNTRY,

  • EVEN IN WARMER

  • CLIMATES ARE BRACING

  • FOR A ROUGH WINTER.

  • >> COVID-19 COMBINED

  • WITH A POTENTIALLY BAD

  • INFLUENZA SEASON, AND

  • NOW WE'RE SEEING RSV

  • GOING UP AT THE SAME

  • TIME.

  • THAT OBVIOUSLY MAKES

  • US CONCERNED THAT WE

  • MIGHT GET INTO THE

  • TRIPLE PANDEMIC

  • SITUATION.

  • >> Reporter: A KEY

  • PART OF THE FIGHT

  • AGAINST RSV HERE, WHAT

  • PHOENIX CHILDREN'S

  • CALLS THE FIRST OF ITS

  • KIND DIGITAL DATA

  • SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM,

  • KNOWN AS WATCHER.

  • IT USES A PREDICTIVE

  • ALGORITHM TO FORECAST

  • THE CHILDREN AT RISK

  • OF DETERIORATING

  • QUICKLY.

  • >> PEDIATRIC PATIENTS

  • ARE DIFFERENT THAN

  • ADULTS BECAUSE THEY

  • HAVE VERY SUBTLE

  • CHANGES IN THEIR

  • ASSESSMENT AND IN

  • THEIR VITAL SIGNS.

  • >> WATCH HER HEALTH

  • BECAUSE IN THE

  • BACKGROUND IT'S

  • MONITORING FOR THESE

  • LITTLE TINY THINGS.

  • >> Reporter: AND THE

  • NEW CDC REPORT OUT

  • TODAY FOUND THAT FLU

  • HOSPITALIZATIONS IN

  • CHILE, WHICH OFTEN

  • PREVIEWS THE FLU

  • SEASON HERE IN THE

  • U.S. WERE ACTUALLY

  • LOWER THAN PREPANDEMIC

  • LEVELS.

  • THAT'S ATTRIBUTED TO

  • HIGHER VACCINATION

  • RATES.

  • LESTER?

  • >> GABE GUTIERREZ,

  • THANK YOU.

  • >>> RUSSIAN PRESIDENT

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN TONIGHT

  • SAYING HE HAS NO

  • INTENTION OF USING

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN

  • UKRAINE, AND INSISTING

  • THE WEST IS TO BLAME

  • FOR THE WAR.

  • CAL PERRY IS IN

  • UKRAINE FOR US

  • TONIGHT.

  • >> Reporter: FACING

  • GROWING PRESSURE AT

  • HOME OVER UKRAINE,

  • TONIGHT A DEFIANT

  • RUSSIAN PRESIDENT.

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN BLAMING

  • HIS INVASION ON THE

  • WEST, SAYING THEY

  • WANTED THIS CONFLICT.

  • ONE DAY AFTER

  • OVERSEEING RUSSIAN

  • NUCLEAR DRILLS, NOW

  • PUTIN SAYING HE HAS NO

  • INTENTION OF USING

  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

  • BUT IN UKRAINE,

  • PUTIN'S WAR IS

  • EVERYWHERE.

  • IN THE SOUTHERN CITY

  • OF BAKHMUT, THE

  • FIGHTING RAGES.

  • AND CIVILIANS ARE

  • AGAIN CAUGHT IN THE

  • MIDDLE.

  • IN RUSSIAN OCCUPIED

  • KHERSON, THE FIGHTING

  • IS FIERCE,

  • JUST AS THE UKRAINE

  • ARMY LOOKED POISED TO

  • BREAK THROUGH, A CRUEL

  • TWIST AS THE RUSSIAN

  • ARMY FORCIBLY REMOVED

  • CIVILIANS, SAYING

  • ANYONE WHO REMAINS

  • WILL BE TREATED AS AN

  • ENEMY.

  • AND IN KYIV, THE

  • REALITY OF THIS WAR IS

  • NEVER FAR.

  • THESE ARE THE WIVES OF

  • UKRAINIAN P.O.W.s HELD

  • BY RUSSIA.

  • WE MET IVANA, HER

  • 26-YEAR-OLD HUSBAND

  • DIMITRI DISAPPEARED

  • FOUR MONTHS AGO

  • FIGHTING IN THE EAST.

  • >> WE WORRY ABOUT HIM,

  • AND WE WANT HIM BACK

  • HOME.

  • >> Reporter: A SENIOR

  • UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL IS

  • NOW PUBLICLY URGING

  • UKRAINIANS WHO ARE

  • ABROAD TO STAY ABROAD

  • AND NOT TO RETURN HOME

  • DURING THIS, THE

  • SECOND WINTER OF THE

  • WAR.

  • LESTER?

  • >> CAL PERRY, THANK

  • YOU.

  • >>> A TENNESSEE MAN

  • WHO DRAGGED A POLICE

  • OFFICER INTO A MOB

  • DURING THE CAPITOL

  • RIOT WAS SENTENCED TO

  • 7 1/2 YEARS IN PRISON

  • TODAY, THE SECOND

  • LONGEST SENTENCE SO

  • FAR.

  • HE HAD PLEADED GUILTY

  • TO ASSAULT IN FEDERAL

  • COURT TODAY.

  • POLICE OFFICER MICHAEL

  • FANONE SAID THE ATTACK

  • GAVE HIM A HEART

  • ATTACK AND A TRAUMATIC

  • BRAIN INJURY.

  • >>> NOW TO THE

  • AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE

  • IAN.

  • IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A

  • MONTH SINCE THE STORM

  • HIT FLORIDA, AND SINCE

  • THEN, SOME ENCOURAGING

  • SIGNS OF RECOVERY.

  • AFTER PARTS OF THE

  • SANIBEL CAUSEWAY WERE

  • DESTROYED, THE BRIDGE

  • TO THE ISLAND

  • REOPENING LAST WEEK

  • WITH TEMPORARY

  • REPAIRS.

  • BUT FOR SO MANY, THERE

  • IS STILL A LOT OF WORK

  • AHEAD.

  • HERE IS SAM BROCK.

  • >> Reporter: JUST

  • ABOUT ANY STREET ON

  • FORT MYERS BEACH

  • REVEALS THE DEPTH OF

  • DEVASTATION.

  • >> REALLY IS

  • UNIMAGINABLE.

  • I MEAN, PICTURES DON'T

  • DO IT JUSTICE.

  • >> Reporter: THERE ARE

  • STILL VACANT LOTS,

  • CARS TILTED IN DEBRIS

  • PILES, BOATS STICKING

  • OUT OF STREETS AND THE

  • SEA.

  • >> PROBABLY HALF THE

  • PEOPLE ARE LIKE THAT.

  • HALF SINK AND HALF

  • DON'T KNOW WHAT'S

  • GOING ON UNDER THE

  • WATER AND THE OTHER

  • HALF WE CAN SEE.

  • >> Reporter: 140 ARE

  • CONFIRMED DEAD, BUT AT

  • LEAST FIVE PEOPLE ARE

  • STILL MISSING,

  • INCLUDING DENNY HEARST

  • LIVING ON HIS BOAT IN

  • THIS MARINA.

  • >> THIS NOT KNOWING

  • IS -- IT'S JUST

  • KILLING US.

  • >> Reporter: WE

  • RECENTLY SPOKE WITH

  • HIS DAUGHTER SHANNON.

  • >> TODAY IS DAY 27.

  • I'M COUNTING EVERY

  • DAY.

  • DEAD OR ALIVE, I DON'T

  • CARE.

  • JUST FIND HIM.

  • >> Reporter: DESPITE

  • SUCH TANGIBLE PAIN,

  • THERE IS ALSO HOPE.

  • >> REALLY, THE

  • STRENGTH OF THIS

  • COMMUNITY, NOBODY CAN

  • UNDERESTIMATE WHAT

  • WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE

  • TO DO.

  • >> Reporter: THE MAYOR

  • OF SANIBEL ISLAND

  • SHOWING US SOME OF THE

  • WORK ALREADY UNDER

  • WAY.

  • >> WE ARE BASICALLY

  • TASKED TO REBUILD THE

  • CITY.

  • THE LEVEL OF

  • DESTRUCTION IS NOT

  • SINGULARLY FOCUSED IN

  • ONE LOCATION.

  • IT COVERS THE ENTIRE

  • ISLAND.

  • >> Reporter: OFFICIALS

  • HERE SAY EFFORTS TO

  • REPAIR THE SANIBEL

  • CAUSEWAY ALMOST DEFY

  • LOGIC.

  • A SHORT-TERM FIX IN

  • FOUR DAYS AND THEN A

  • LONG-TERM SOLUTION IN

  • LESS THAN A FEW WEEKS,

  • PATCHING FIVE

  • DIFFERENT BRIDGES AND

  • BRINGING CRITICAL

  • RESOURCES BACK ONLINE.

  • BACK IN FORT MYERS,

  • JENNIFER AND ROBBY

  • PODGORSKI'S HOME IS

  • UNLIVABLE.

  • >> THE WATER JUST CAME

  • UP THROUGH THE

  • FLOORBOARDS.

  • >> Reporter: AND IT'S

  • NOT JUST THEIR HOUSE

  • THAT WAS DESTROYED.

  • WHAT IS LEFT OF YOUR

  • GREEN CUP CAFE NOW?

  • >> THE CAFE IS GONE,

  • NOTHING.

  • IT'S A GUTTED SKELETON

  • OF WHAT IT USED TO

  • LOOK LIKE.

  • >> Reporter: THEIR

  • SHOP IS WIPED OUT, BUT

  • THEIR HEARTS ARE FULL

  • AFTER DOZENS OF PEOPLE

  • STEPPED UP TO HELP.

  • >> IT WAS JUST

  • EVERYTHING WHEN OUR

  • CULTURE TALKS ABOUT

  • THE WORD "COMMUNITY,"

  • IT WAS EVERYTHING THAT

  • WORD TRULY MEANT, AND

  • IT WAS AMAZING.

  • >> Reporter: A

  • COMMUNITY BINDING

  • TOGETHER BY GENEROSITY

  • OF SOUL AND SPIRIT.

  • SAM BROCK, NBC NEWS,

  • FORT MYERS.

  • >>> IN 60 SECONDS,

  • WITH THANKSGIVING A

  • MONTH AWAY, WE'LL

  • EXPLAIN HOW AIRLINES

  • ARE WORKING TO AVOID

  • CRIPPLING DELAYS THIS

  • HOLIDAY SEASON AS THEY

  • FIELD RISING

  • >>> BACK NOW WITH THE

  • NATION'S AIRLINES

  • UNDER INTENSE PRESSURE

  • TO IMPROVE THEIR

  • PERFORMANCE OVER THE

  • HOLIDAYS AFTER A ROUGH

  • SUMMER TRAVEL SEASON

  • THAT SAW PASSENGER

  • COMPLAINTS SOAR.

  • HERE IS TOM COSTELLO.

  • >> Reporter: FROM THE

  • COCKPIT TO THE CONTROL

  • TOWER TO THE TRAVELING

  • PUBLIC, NO ONE WANTS A

  • REPEAT OF THIS PAST

  • SUMMER'S TROUBLED

  • MELTDOWNS.

  • >> WE'RE VERY ANXIOUS.

  • WE JUST WANT TO GET

  • HOME.

  • >> THIS HAS BEEN THE

  • WORST EXPERIENCE EVER.

  • >> Reporter: NEW DATA

  • FROM THE D.O.T. SHOWS

  • THE LEVEL OF PASSENGER

  • FRUSTRATION HIT A

  • BOILING POINT.

  • IN AUGUST, COMPLAINTS

  • UP 6% OVER JULY, UP AN

  • EYE-POPPING 320% OVER

  • PREPANDEMIC LEVELS.

  • EVEN WITH 15% FEWER

  • FLIGHTS THAN 2019.

  • 22% OF ALL FLIGHTS

  • DELAYED, 2.5% CANCELED

  • IN AUGUST, WITH

  • THE BIDEN

  • ADMINISTRATION PUTTING

  • THE PRESSURE ON THE

  • AIRLINES NOW TO DO

  • BETTER, WITH

  • THANKSGIVING JUST FOUR

  • WEEKS AWAY.

  • >> I THINK IT WILL BE

  • AN IMPROVEMENT FROM

  • THE TOUGHEST MOMENTS

  • WE SAW OVER THE

  • SUMMER.

  • BUT NOT PERFECT.

  • >> Reporter: SOME

  • AIRLINES SAY THEY'RE

  • STILL RECOVERING AND

  • STAFFING UP.

  • >> WE'RE NEARLY

  • STAFFED.

  • WE ARE JUST SHORT

  • PILOTS TO FLY ALL OF

  • OUR AIRCRAFT.

  • >> Reporter: THIS

  • HOLIDAY SEASON,

  • PASSENGER VOLUME

  • EXPECTED TO APPROACH

  • 2019 LEVELS, DESPITE

  • SKY-HIGH INFLATION.

  • >> OUR PLANES HAVE

  • BEEN BASICALLY 90%

  • FULL.

  • >> I THINK TRAVEL

  • DEMAND FOR AIRLINES IS

  • PERMANENTLY HIGHER.

  • IT'S AT A HIGHER

  • LEVEL.

  • >> Reporter: TO ENSURE

  • YOUR TRAVEL GOES AS

  • SMOOTHLY AS POSSIBLE,

  • TRAVEL PROS RECOMMEND

  • BOOKING NOW, SEEK THE

  • EARLIEST FLIGHT OF THE

  • DAY, AND FLY DIRECT TO

  • AVOID CONNECTIONS.

  • THE TRANSPORTATION

  • DEPARTMENT SAYS IT

  • CONTINUES TO MONITOR

  • DELAYS AND

  • CANCELLATIONS TO

  • ASSURE THAT AIRLINES

  • ARE ACTUALLY FLYING

  • THE FLIGHTS THAT THEY

  • SELL.

  • AND THE PASSENGERS GET

  • A REFUND IF THEIR

  • FLIGHT IS CANCELED.

  • LESTER?

  • >> TOM COSTELLO AT LA

  • GUARDIA AIRPORT, THANK

  • YOU.

  • >>> UP NEXT, CLAIMS OF

  • HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON

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