tonight 70 million Americans facing down severe weather threats sweeping Coast to Coast the massive rain maker pounding the West roads flooded this is nuts oh my God this is so bad this car Swept Away drivers rescued parts of the Pacific Coast Highway collapsing tourists stranded and the storm is now churning East a new video as the cleanup of that Baltimore Bridge has begun while in Oklahoma a barge runs into another Bridge stopping traffic and Israel's deadly air strikes hitting tents directly
outside a hospital and the massive protests against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu tonight and police in Texas reportedly seeking NFL star Rashi rice wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs possibly tied to a major car crash involving a Lamborghini and a Corvette bystanders hurt and police say some involved fled the scene and a major pay raise starts tomorrow for fast food workers here in California will the cost of your favorite burger go up with it and a major city taking the most drastic
step yet to curb out ofc control gridlock charging 15 bucks to enter downtown well the other cities follow suit and on this Easter Sunday Pope Francis and King Charles powering through Health struggles as the world celebrates the holiday this is NBC Nightly [Music] News good evening and happy Easter I'm Gotti Schwarz and as Millions prepare to travel back home after the holiday the weather is set to create problems from Los Angeles to Delaware starting today some 70 million Americans are under
severe weather threats it's already started here in California look at this along Highway 101 a major freeway here cars literally submerged by Rushing Water and you've probably heard of the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway well you can see parts of it collapsed shutting it down and the pounding rain on the coast has turned into driving snow in the mountain mountains areas getting close to 2 ft and that storm system is set to tear through most of the country bringing wind rain and the potential
for deadly tornadoes Jesse kersch is covering it all tonight oh my God this is the 101 in Southern California nearly 2 Ines of rain falling in just one hour oh my God this is so bad Twi dougas filming this video yesterday alongside her husband Scott on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County severe flooding temporarily shutting down the highway in both directions it was surreal I had never been in water like that and I was really worried oh oh God look at this poor car some drivers left stranded off
icials say eight people were rescued and one driver was treated for hypothermia the heavy rains also washing out part of Highway 1 a nearby Lodge opening its doors for stranded visitors Charmaine schwat was escorted out of the area this afternoon it's a total roller coaster because we went from in one moment thinking that we'd have to start rationing our energy bars to being told we could leave dangerous wet roads in Orange County causing this car to spin out and crash into a ditch according to
local reports possibility that you could start to see some flooding here Millions tonight under flood alerts across California who that was a bright one take a look at this video appearing to show a plane getting struck by lightning near San Jose and further north this is debris from a plane crash overnight that left two people dead according to airport officials the cause has not been determined though it was snowing in the area the NTSB is investigating more than 2 feet of snow fell this weeke
nd in parts of the Sierra Nevadas and on this Easter Sunday the storm is racing across the Rockies as the eastern half of the country braces for storms and Jesse joins us from Cincinnati and Jesse the severe weather is head your way right yeah that's right Gotti here in the Ohio Valley we could be seeing up to 4 in of Rain by Tuesday that means the risk of flooding meanwhile across stretches of the southeast there's the potential for record heat through Tuesday and in southern Texas and parts of
that state there could be triple digit temperatures tomorrow Gotti Jesse kers thanks so much and tonight we are getting new details and some new video from that massive aroundthe clock cleanup operation that just started at the bridge disaster in Baltimore and it comes as yet another huge boat hit and damaged a different Bridge Aaron Gilchrist is in Baltimore with more tonight the first view of a beam Carried Away by crane from the wreckage of the Key Bridge Coast Guard video showing Crews usin
g cutting torches to slice through steel officials confirming the first Salvage efforts were a success including a 200 ton piece of the northern part of the bridge cut away and removed on Saturday still it's just a small fraction of the work to be done these are more the secondary pieces cuz we're hoping to open up secondary channels and what's your understanding about now we're a week later the probability of actually finding these four men who are missing and what it's going to take to do that
we owe it to these families to bring a sense of closure and so as soon as it is safe for our divers to get back into the water those divers are going back in the water even as the 247 effort on the water ramps up political debate in Washington with Republicans criticizing President Biden's quick promise to pay for a new bridge in Baltimore if we could see Republicans and Democrats cooperate to get President Biden's infrastructure package through surely they can cooperate to help America and Bal
timore deal with this tragedy holy hell holy and in Oklahoma on Saturday another Bridge pillar Hit This Time by a barge temporarily closing the span over the Arkansas River how it didn't knock that bridge down I don't know oh oh my God two Bridge incidents less than a week apart now fueling new concerns about America's aging infrastructure certainly this incident is going to give uh America's Bridge Builders and engineering community a lot to think about and Aaron joins us from the side of the B
altimore Bridge Aaron what other resources are on their way well Gotti we understand that a fourth crane from the Navy is expected to arrive here tomorrow along with several dozen more support ships in the coming days we also expect to see President Biden here to tour the wreckage site this week Gotti Aaron Gilchrist thanks so much and overseas now more deadly strikes on Gaza today hitting tents at one of the few hospitals still standing and this comes as there are major protests calling for the
resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Megan Fitzgerald reports tonight more Bloodshed in Gaza Israel believed to have hit tents outside aloa Hospital kill killing and injuring a number of people including journalists according to Gaza Health officials I fell to the ground this journalist tells NBC News and saw my leg was swollen we were in a journalist tent why did they target us the Israeli military issuing this statement calling the attacks a Precision strike meant to minim
ize harm to uninvolved civilians saying the IDF and Isa struck an operational Islamic Jihad Command Center positioned in the the courtyard of the Alexa Hospital there is no Victory without entering Rafa Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying today the operation in Rafa has been approved and will move forward and move the Biden Administration has called a red line while in Israel a new and fierce wave of protest thousands taking to the streets in Tel Aviv and across the country for a se
cond day in a row calling for prime minister Netanyahu to resign go sign this deal get the hostages back there are measures that should have been taken and they didn't take them protesters gathering tonight warning they're not going home until the hostages are back Megan Fitzgerald NBC News and back in this country police are reportedly searching for Kansas City Chief's wide receiver Rashi rice following a major car crash in Dallas Priscilla Thompson has latebreaking details tonight Dallas polic
e are reportedly looking for Kansas City Chief's wide receiver rasid rice in connection with the high-speed crash involving a car believed to be registered or leased to Rice law enforcement officials tell the Dallas Morning News the six vehicle crash sent two people to the hospital with minor injury Saturday police say new photos obtained by TMZ sports appear to show the occupants leaving the cars in question a preliminary investigation found the crash was caused by two drivers speeding one in a
Corvette and the other in a Lamborghini police say the drivers lost control the Lamborghini slamming into the center median causing a collision occupants of the Lamborghini and Corvette all ran from the scene police say without stopping to determine if anyone needed medical help or providing their information rise's alleged involvement in the crash if any is unclear and police say they are still working to identify suspects the star wide receiver grew up in the Dallas area and is one of the chi
ef's leading receivers helping the reigning Super Bowl champs secure this year's win NBC News reached out to the Kansas City Chiefs and the NFL but has not received a response for comment tonight life off the field in the spotlight as the crash investigation continues Priscilla Thompson NBC News and now to some breaking news about a massive data leak AT&T is investigating the breach involving about 7 3 million former and current customers and information leaked under the dark web could include S
ocial Security numbers names email and addresses AT&T says it's reaching out to customers with plans to offer free identity theft and credit monitoring services to those impacted and for the world's Christians it was an Easter Sunday of prayer and celebration led by Pope Francis whose own fragile health issues didn't stop him from spreading his pleas for peace here's Marissa Para for a Christian holiday filled with hope the face of the Catholic Church delivered exactly that on Easter Sunday at t
imes in need of a wheelchair sounding horse the Pope's appearance otherwise reassuring days after sparking Health worries when he canceled his Good Friday's procession at the last minute the royal family no stranger to health concerns outside a windsor Easter Service the Princess of Wales not joining father-in-law King Charles for a public appearance his first major engagement since they both disclosed their cancer diagnoses earlier this year looking well looking well as Millions celebrate Easte
r Across America today including some of them here in Miami this is a familiar scene across countries and across languages from Australia to Iraq hallu to the Philippines signs of the Christian Holy Week written across continents and observed even among those enduring unspeakable hardships solemn Services seen in Ukraine and in Gaza City highlighted by the pope today in his sermon who once again called for a ceasefire last night protesters in New York St Patrick's Cathedral demanding the [Music]
same happy e but blocks away and hours later those tensions had eased in time for the New York Easter bonnet par the streets a sea of pastel flowers and Feathers Galore a day to celebrate hope whatever that looks like in difficult times R sapara NBC News and still ahead tonight fast food workers are getting a big pay raise but does that mean you could end up paying more for your favorite burger plus a saw blade spinning out of control the shockingly close call caught on camera and starting tomo
rrow fast food workers in one state will make 20 bucks an hour it is a big boost to their bottom line but there's already concern over the Ripple effects including layoffs and a rise in prices for your burger and fries David Nora has a preview starting Monday a pay Boost for more than half a million Californians good news for liette aguiler who after 17 years working for McDonald's still has trouble making ends meat we ask her how she feels and eager she says for that first bigger paycheck it'll
help with bills and maybe she'll get something special for her 9-year-old son Marcos California's new law sets a $20 an hour minimum wage for fast food workers up from the current 16 most workers affected are women of color this is a big deal $20 an hour one of the biggest questions is how will this affect consumers especially in a state where everything's already very expensive and a lot of people have a hard time affording Basics like housing and food food McDonald's Starbucks Chipotle and ot
her major chains have said publicly they intend to raise prices but by how much some economists anticipate about 5% others as little as 2% so for a $5 Mac that would be a dime 10 cents people notice it but I don't think they'll change their behavior critics say the wage increase will accelerate trends that hurt workers like replacing cashiers with electronic kiosks some pizza franchise owners have already announced layoffs of In-House drivers switching to third-party delivery apps instead and th
ere's no question the rise in labor costs will put pressure on franchise owners like Carrie Harper Hoy whose family owns 21 McDonald's in the Los Angeles area we will of course as everyone else's have to increase prices in some way shape or form and what people don't understand is they say oh what doesn't matter McDonald's and taco bail they're just big corporations We Are Family businesses some fast food customers say even if they do pay more it's a price worth paying I'm okay with it you know
cuz it feels like everything else is going up and it's about time wages go up David Nora NBC News Los Angeles and we are back in a moment with a drastic and pricey new plan to battle gridlock it's never been done in the United States before and it's already firing up a lot of drivers could your city be next and we have a truly jawdropping close call to show you tonight check this out surveillance video shows that a man in Oregon walked into a store and I watch extremely closely there almost out
of nowhere a giant Buzz saw saw blade comes barreling across that parking lot hits the side of the door where he was just walking take another look there that saw blade came loose from a nearby construction site and impaled itself into the spot where the man was just a few seconds before incredible no one was hurt and for so many of us traffic is the most miserable part of the day but now one major city is launching a controversial new plan to battle mind numbing gridlock and that other cities m
ay follow suit soon but that plan comes at quite the cost and George sise reports from New York City it seems the only thing some New Yorkers hate more than its Infamous traffic it's the worst thing in the world it's going to destroy New York it's the new plan to ease it where do you stand on where do I stand personally I'm against it just affects too much York making history as the first in the nation to Greenlight congestion pricing this or this this that's the attitude that's my attitude the
plan approved this week will charge most motorists $15 to drive into Midtown and Lower Manhattan during Peak Travel hours Advocates say it will encourage some people to take public transportation or carpool decreasing traffic by as much as 177% we should give it a chance yeah I think so and the city desperately needs it the latest data shows the average speed in Midtown for cars cars just over 4 M an hour for context the average person walks at 3 mph the plan doesn't start till summer but toll r
eaders are already in place coming this summer in New York this is either going to be a pedestrian's best friend or a commuter's worst nightmare could other cities be next former New York City traffic commissioner Sam Schwarz says yes every city that has implemented has kept it in because it's been successful in London where it's been on the books for more than 20 years traffic congestion has been reduced by 30% Singapore saw a 20% drop immediately after it implemented congestion pricing 50 year
s ago if New York is successful and I think it will be successful you'll begin to see this tried out all across the United States Boston city council has called for hearings to introduce congestion pricing the May are not ruling it out anything should be on the table in Los Angeles there's a congestion pricing proposal to reduce traffic and help pay for the 2028 Summer Olympics others like San Francisco Chicago Seattle have all considered or are considering variations on congestion pricing back
in New York City the opposition is strong New York Jersey governor Phil Murphy and other local groups suing I think it is um a money grab Susan Lee thinks this will hurt everyday people their cost of food is rising their cost of everyday life is rising and so it's really not fair to put this burden on the backs of working class New Yorkers but even those Ford say each city is different and plans will need to adapt this is a pretty imperfect system the city will have to make adjustments as time g
oes on the road to solve congestion could have more twist and turns ahead George ciss NBC News New York that's NBC Nightly News for this Sunday I'm Gotti Schwarz thanks so much for watching this Easter Sunday and have a great night thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media
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