NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas - Friday, July 10, 2026

Episode Date: July 11, 2026

Passenger partly sucked through airplane window; Urgent flooding rescues in the heartland; Parents of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells speak out on his death; and more on tonight’s broadcast. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tonight the nightmare scenario mid-flight, a passenger partially sucked out of a window, passengers pulling him back in. The video from inside the plane showing the blown out window, oxygen masks dangling, a man reportedly sucked out head first, his seatbelt and other passengers saving him. Was this engine with blades broken off to blame? And should you be concerned sitting in the window seat? catastrophic flood emergency, this family trapped on the roof of a house. First responders rushing in to save them. Floods destroying this kitchen and a man rescuing this horse nearly

swept away. Those dangerous storms on the move tonight disrupting summer travel. Our emotional sit down with the parents of Nolan Wells, the college athlete found dead after a boat trip with friends. The new details they share about the timeline and the phone call they got saying, he was missing. Alarming new reporting about a new Iranian plot to kill President Trump. The president's plan if he was assassinated. New video of the moments leading up to a deadly ice involved shooting in Houston, what the video reveals.

And the new admission that the man killed wasn't the target of the officers. The low flyover buzzing of packed beach, the Apache helicopter pilots suspended, how Pete Hegson is now stepping in. News starts right now. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yomas. Hey, good evening. We thank you for joining us tonight. We want to begin with a stunning and terrifying incident in the air. An airline passenger lucky to be alive tonight after being sucked out partially out of the window

shortly after the plane took off. This was the scary scene on board that Ryan Air Flight from Greece to Germany. You see passengers right here wearing oxygen masks. And here look closely. You can see that blown out window up close. Greek media reports that the window suddenly exploded while the plane was in the air and that the passenger's head was even pulled outside of the main cabin. The big question tonight, how could this possibly happen? Investigators zeroing in on the engine.

You see it here. It's ripped apart with a giant hole in the side. A piece of it could have blown out that window. Our Tom Costello covers aviation for us, and he has the latest. Video from inside the Ryan Air flight shows dangling oxygen masks and the blown out window. Greek media reports a passenger partially sucked out, his head outside the window, and pulled back inside by fellow passengers. One passenger told Greek radio, the head and shoulders of one passenger were outside the window. Fortunately, he had not taken off his seatbelt.

The Boeing 737-800 had just taken off, flying from Greece to Germany when Ryanair says a passenger window dislodged in flight. The aircraft landed normally and passengers returned to the terminal. One passenger treated for injuries. Video on X appears to show engine fan blades broken off. Experts say engine shrapnel may have blown out that window. This is the engine cowling, the casing around the engine. An uncontained engine failure is when the fan blades,

spinning at a very high rate, suddenly break apart and punch through the cowling, potentially endangering the plane. This man that was partially sucked out of the airplane is extremely lucky that he was not killed, as well as all of the other passengers on board that airplane. Today's incident eerily similar to the 2018 Southwest Airlines emergency, when pieces of the cowling itself blew out a window, pulling a mother of two to her death. both engines made by CFM with GE, a joint partner. The company today says CFM is supporting our customers and assisting with the investigation.

Tom, let's pick it up right there. After that Southwest Airlines blowout, the FAA order changes to that engine casing design and even more inspections. Yeah, that's right. So more fan blade inspections and a redesign of that engine cowling, the casing to contain any failure. Investigators will look at whether that work was done. Boeing tells us it is in contact with Ryanair. The NTSB and the FAA have assigned investigators to assist, Tom. Okay, Tom Costello leading us off.

Also tonight we are tracking the life-threatening flash flooding in the Midwest. Families fleeing the rising waters rescued from rooftops. Ryan Chandler with the new images just coming in. Tonight, search and rescue teams racing to catastrophic flooding in southeast Missouri. First responders rescuing dozens of stranded residents from 100,000. high water. Pretty much anything near the Black River is going to be completely submerged. The National Weather Service declaring a flash flood emergency in parts of multiple counties. Water rising to the rooftops of homes, you see it there as rivers exploded out of their banks

after as much as a foot of rain. Rescue teams still searching for one person unaccounted for in Crawford County. Heavy rain also swamping parts of the northeast in the last 24 hours. Outside Philadelphia, of first responders rescuing one woman, her car stranded in the water. And that weather is impacting air travel all across the country. Here in Dallas, the biggest weather danger is the heat. It's going to feel close to 100 today, even more on this hot tarmac. American Airlines making sure their workers stay hydrated. A second straight weekend of packed airports as millions take to stormy skies late this week,

with more than 5,000 delays Friday. I had a delay on the way there, and then this morning we had an hour. hour and a half delay. And in Montreal, an air Canada flight arriving from Los Angeles veered off the taxiway in the rain. None of the 162 people on board were hers. And Tom, so many Americans are hoping for calmer skies tonight, but still more than 20 million people from Missouri to Pennsylvania still face a risk for potential flooding. Tom. So many families still trying to get home. Okay, Ryan, thank you. Tonight the parents of Nolan Wells are offering new details on how they learned their 18-year-old son was missing after a 4th of July

outing with friends in Mississippi. Our Kate Snow sat down with him and their lawyer just a few hours ago. We're doing this because we want answers. Christine Wells-Wansley and Elmore Wansley say their son Nolan went out for a fun boat trip to Horn Island with a bunch of his high school friends. Late on July 4th, his mom says her heart dropped when she saw one of Nolan's friends calling. What did he say? He said, Ms. Christine, have you seen Nolan or talked to Nolan? I said, no, I thought he was with you guys. You know, he was like, no, nobody's talked to him. We left the island at, I think he said, 3 p.m. And he wanted to stay because he was talking to a girl.

That friend's mother, a local judge, posted on Facebook that Nolan told the boys he was going to stay on the island. But the family's attorney, Ben Crump, says another teenager said Nolan was going back with his friends. It's unclear who Nolan was with when he disappeared. Do you think there's a possibility that your son drowned accidentally? Honestly, because of the way the stories are just so inconsistent and how that day went, it's just, you know, we can't say for sure. And I don't, honestly, I don't know how to answer that. Monday, the college athlete's body was recovered in the water.

The location of Nolan's phone now fueling. the family's questions. His mother tracked it to a friend's home back on land. Teenagers love their phones. And two, that's his means of communication. Um, if something happens, you need your phone. There are hundreds of people on that island. Nobody sees what happened to him. And he stays behind and doesn't ask for his phone. We asked about this video from the fourth, which many on social media suggest shows an argument involving Nolan. Do you hear your son in that video? I can't say yay or nay to that.

Do you see him in the video? I do not just because of the way it shot. The family's high-profile attorney has repeatedly invoked race. Do you think that race may be involved in what happened to your son? I don't want to believe it is, but unfortunately, there's patterns, right? So many things have happened, and so many things have been swept under the road. They say they want their son to be remembered as a sweet soul. He just, he just had a big heart.

Like, to really know him, uh, Nolan, to have him as your friend was just, it was something special. Do you worry that he might have trusted too much sometimes? Yeah. And that was something we always talked to him about. Incredibly sad with that family's going through. Kate Snow joins us now, and Kate, the family has ordered their own independent autopsy. They have, Tom. And we should note that authorities to this point have not said what the cause of death was and also the results of that autopsy, the family ordered not out just yet. All right, Kate, Snow, with that new interview, Kate, we thank you for that.

Now, to the alarming report that Israel has warned the U.S. that Iran is plotting to kill President Trump. Kelly, O'Donnell's at the White House. And, Kelly, this comes as Iran has publicly called for the president's death. And Tom, the White House is not commenting on that report. And yet the president said today that, that Israel came up with nothing. Now, this all comes as demonstrators in the streets of Iran carried those signs written in English, notably, calling for the assassination of President Trump. The president said, today, I've left instructions if anything happens to just literally bomb them at levels they've never seen before, end quote. New tonight, senior White House officials said Iran must issue a public statement pledging the Strait of Hormuz would remain open to commercial shipping.

after Iran violated the ceasefire by firing at those ships that had been using that thoroughfare. Tom? Okay, Kelly O'Donnell at the White House. We have new video tonight showing the moments before 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Arajo was killed by ICE officers in Houston, and it's raising new questions about how the shooting unfolded. And as our Priscilla Thompson reports, he may not have been the initial target. New video shows the clearest images yet of what led up to the deadly shooting of 50, 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Arajo by ICE agents.

This video posted by his son shows Arajo leaving for work that morning. Surveillance video later picks him up, turning a corner, being tailed by a dark SUV that appears to try to get around the van. Another angle shows a second SUV cutting through a parking lot to catch up. Moments later, the vehicles circle back around. And ICE agents appear to pull someone from the van. Salgado then seen here on the ground moments after being shot. DHS initially said Salgado weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ice officer who fired in self-defense.

That is simply false. Now, the others inside that van currently in detention are speaking out through their attorney. I believe that the shots did come from the size of it. Tonight, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia says the acting ICE director told her Salgado wasn't the target. ICE was searching for an individual with a final removal order who officers believe had entered the van. In a new statement, DHS says they observed a white van with an individual who resembled the target. Late today, borders are Tom Holman saying this.

If our agents violate policy, they violate the law and they'll be dealt with. DHS says the officers involved were not wearing body cams, but that all field offices will have them in the next 60 days. Tom. Okay, Priscilla Thompson, thank you. When we return in 60 seconds, the new twist after Apache helicopters. You see them here. Those pilots were suspended for this low flyover on the fourth. That's next. We're back now with images from one of the deadliest wildfires in Spain's history. Skies are red in a wall of fire and smoke has chart 140,000 acres of the Spanish countryside. Firefighters, you see him here forced to pump water from a swimming pool. to help try and get the fire under control.

At least 12 people have been killed and 23 others are still missing. It comes as Spain grapples with a major heat wave. Also tonight back here at home, Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth, stepping in after eight pilots of Apache choppers were grounded by the South Carolina National Guard for a review of this low flyby to celebrate the 4th of July. You could see crowds on the beach cheering and waving flags as they flew by. Hagseth intervened to lift that suspension, calling the crew patriots.

And take a look at this remarkable body cam video of a rescue off the coast of Florida, authority saving seven people who were left stranded. After the boat crashed onto a rocks on Florida's East Coast, you can see those deputies there throwing life preservers and pulling each person to safety from the boat that had listed badly. That's nightly news for this Friday. I'm Tom Yamas. We thank you so much for watching tonight.

And always, we're here for you. Have a great weekend. Good night.