was at the get a, delta said they should have removed him. they offered refund to commerce on board that flight. a united airlines 747 bound for tokyo landed safely back if san francisco after one of its four engines failed after takeoff. one passenger reported a loud bang and flames coming from the engine. the plane landed without incident. a passenger on board a united flight pued emergency exit door and jumped out of the plane as it was taxiing in houston. the woman jumped to the ground and ran to the terminal before she was taken into custody. the improvement. just as high as the force awakens. yesterday was the first day of the ticket pre sales ahead of the premier. fandango's ticket site went up

t. website started to crash. customers took to social media complaining about long waits and the site going down. fandango tells customers a digital wait room had been created. hopefully after waiting in that wait room, you guy versus your tickets and are you all set for december 16th. >> yeah, not getting a lot of confirmation people got their tickets. we may have to do it the old fashioned way. after all the shopping, it's today is giving tuesday. we will tell you about that ahead. first, nbc meteorologist bill karins is looking out ahead today. >> first, the pictures were amazing what happened near the gatlinburg area. high winds continues. we still see wind ten-to-20 miles per hour during the day today. the radar is encouraging. >> that will continue through the morning hours.

mississippi, louisiana, and a portion of tennessee here, maybe an isolated tornado. here's a closer look at your day ahead. so we're going to g another round of severe storms, this afternoon into this evening. so we'll get a break this morning. a little clean-up from that wind damage in mississippi. also, heavy rain will be moving up, airport delays are likely. so we're going to have airport delays. we had hopfully, we won't have too many tornado today. >> bill, thank you very much. just ahead, an unusual development in the charleston massacre case. then an incapacitated driver leads to a harrowing rescue and it is all caught on tape. "early today" is back in two.

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