as frank costello was already, i think on the radar of law enforcement. i think the key thing about the well, one thing i should say, too, is, you know, the committee tried to when folks would not want to testify, there were. there were repercussions in terms of contempt citations and contempt and prosecutions by the senate and not all of those ended up being supported. they were overturned later on. but the other thing to keep in mind is that the committee wasn't doing a lot to create new information or new charges about crime in the united states. it was really drawing on a lot of work that had been done at that local and state level and bringing it to more popular light. and so in that sense, you know, they weren't there's no real stories of particular criminals who were outed because of the committee. and then and then, you know, prosecuted, hadn't been on the radar before. i will say, though, in some states, even even governors and mayors who were on the list of people that the committee was charging with not doing its job, ultimately did then take a

as frank costello was already, i think on the radar of law enforcement. i think the key thing about the well, one thing i should say, too, is, you know, the committee tried to when folks would not want to testify, there were. there were repercussions in terms of contempt citations and contempt and prosecutions by the senate and not all of those ended up being supported. they were overturned later on. but the other thing to keep in mind is that the committee wasn't doing a lot to create new information or new charges about crime in the united states. it was really drawing on a lot of work that had been done at that local and state level and bringing it to more popular light. and so in that sense, you know, they weren't there's no real stories of particular criminals who were outed because of the committee. and then and then, you know, prosecuted, hadn't been on the radar before. i will say, though, in some states, even even governors and mayors who were on the list of people that the committee was charging with not doing its job, ultimately did then take a

tom costello breaks down the timeline that has some investors pretty worried. >> reporter: this morning the world's richest and most controversial men and his company are under increasing pressure. >> the clock has struck midnight for musk to lay out a strategic plan for the future. >> reporter: this is a big day for tesla. as it reports earnings and elon musk lays out a strategy to get off a rocky road. car sales dropped 8.5% in the first three months of the year. the stock, down 43% so far this year. 4,000 tesla cyber trucks under recall for a faulty accelerator. the company laying off 10% of the workforce, perhaps more. just as the tesla board pushes for a $56 billion pay package for musk, negotiated years ago if he achieved certain sales targets, which he did. a judge threw that out, ruling the board was too cozy with musk. in an interview with don lemon last month, musk remained confident and defiant. >> tesla is worth about as much as the rest of the car industry combined. from nothing. so, you know, that's pretty good. >> reporter: but investors want to know what's next? pushing

who costello's hoping to sell one of his customers today? the potential buyer is also the organizer of the market to the mode of on making sure everything comes together. for some of the screw. this jingled, obviously, i can put into words how important this market is to me. it's in my blood. oh, sometimes my father, my grandfather is in my entire family, always had horses and that's how they earned the living within. you know, i don't of course it's like a child who remembered if i'm courses are like members of the family for us. romano . so that really for me to, to listen to them we'll see, belongs to the romani ethnic with like almost all those taking part in the market. the 1st through many people arrived in transylvania in the mid 14th century from india and anatolia horse trading as one of this ethnic minorities oldest and most respected professions. with a lot of fanfare, the men try to get potential buyers to notice their voices. negotiations are conducted in a rather crude manner. enough few for such like 3000 fuel chunk scoundrel,

here's senior correspondent tom costello. >> reporter: the u.s. navy's 3d sonar images provide the first view yet of the francis scott key bridge now resting on the muddy bottom of the patapsco river. >> what we're seeing in the water is that the wreckage has been completely collapsed. some use the term pancaked. >> reporter: 3d provides the best visuals of the razor-sharp metal the dive teams will face as they start cutting the bridge into smaller pieces to be lifted out of the water. the water itself so cloudy and dark, divers can only see a foot or two in front of them. shining an underwater light only reflects back like a snowstorm, making photos or video nearly impossible. >> that's making it very difficult to even determine where to cut, how to cut. it's very dangerous for our divers to be able to go into this area. >> reporter: above water, salvage teams have been using torches to cut and remove massive chunks of the bridge, some weighing 200 tons. as the coast guard has now opened two small channels, mostly for tugs and barges involved in

lester. >> all right, tom costello tonight. >>> jury selection in former president trump's hush money trial resumes tomorrow after a break today. meantime, president biden has been in a key swing state calling for new restrictions on china. gabe gutierrez is in pittsburgh with the latest. >> reporter: courting union members in battleground pennsylvania, tonight president biden is calling for the tripling of tariffs on chinese steel and aluminum. >> i'm not looking for a fight with china. i'm looking for competition, but fair competition. >> reporter: the administration accuses china of overproducing goods and flooding the u.s. market hurting the american economy. china denies it. president biden has kept most of the tariffs on china that the trump white house first imposed. former president trump has pledged even higher tariffs if he wins. >> my predecessor and the maga republicans want across-the-board tariffs on all imports from all countries that could badly hurt american consumers. >> reporter: the president is focusing on economic issues during a three-day trip through a crucial

jose, back to you. >> tom costello, thank you so very much.nd all the information. so i'm just thinking what kind of really happens during a solar eclipse, and you know, tom was telling us why, but why is this one so special? >> well, eclipses actually happen all the time. if you think about the earth orbiting the sun and the moon orbiting the earth, and the earth spinning, it's just that most of the time these eclipses happen over the ocean because the ocean covers the vast majority of the earth, but every now and then the path of totality goes over, you know, big population centers like this time. every couple of decades or so or even sooner sometimes, we get part of the north america that is covered in that zone, and this is one of those times, and so it will get very dark if you're in the path of totality. if you're not, it will still get a little bit darker depending on how far away you are. but it won't last very long as tom was saying, only about three, three and a half minutes. but it will be a pretty cool thing to see. >> you're actua

here's tom costello. >> reporter: the video is hard to watch.-year-old thrown in the air after being hit in the crosswalk by what police say was an unlicensed driver. >> i feel like it really could have been avoided if she was paying attention. >> reporter: in the er, landon's injuries proved minor. in washington, d.c., you have to look closely to see a woman in the crosswalk hit by a delivery van. she suffered serious injuries. >> one of the big challenges we have right now is pedestrian fatalities. >> reporter: pete buttigieg announcing new automatic emergency brake or aeb standards for all cars and light trucks within five years. to reduce the 43,000 people who die on americans' roads each year. aeb works by using radar,video or infrared sensors to scan for potential collisions. most new cars already come with automatic braking, but the government is telling car makers they need to make the technology even better. current aeb prevents 85% of crashes under 30 miles per hour, with just 30% of crashes at 40 miles per hour. the new standards will

tom costello has details. >> reporter: already under unprecedented scrutiny, boeing is tonight facing new allegations. the faa tells nbc news it's investigating new whistle-blower claims first disclosed by "the new york times," made by a boeing quality engineer who warns the 787 dreamliner's fuselage was improperly fastened together. in a letter to the faa, his attorney writes, "it is likely to cause premature fatigue failure over time in two major airplane joints that could cause the plane to break apart after many thousands of flights." >> he is alleging that boeing knowingly took a series of manufacturing shortcuts in the construction of the 787. >> reporter: but boeing strongly objects, insisting the 787 is very safe and has undergone intense stress testing, saying, "these claims about the structural integrity of the 787 are inaccurate and do not represent the comprehensive work boeing has done to ensure the quality and long-term safety of the aircraft." still, the new claims come after two fatal max 8 crashes overseas, and the max 9 door plug blowout in january, all to be the sub

here is tom costello. >> reporter: breaking this afternoon, honolulu police reporting a brief 911 outage in the city coming after more outages wednesday night on the mainland. >> you may have difficulty reaching us internally. we're having difficulty receiving 911 calls. >> reporter: 6:00 p.m. central time, multiple 911 centers cut off, in parts of four states. south dakota, nebraska, nevada, and texas. several call centers pushed out emergency alerts telling locals to use their cell phones or text for help. >> to our knowledge, we have never experienced an outage of this magnitude. >> reporter: service provider looma technologies blame three outages on a cut fire line due to a third-party company installing a light pole writing, we restored all services in approximately 2 1/2 hours. >> we're dealing with 911 and last-century technology. we're in the 21st century. we need to ensure that our 911 systems are current technology. >> reporter: while an isolated vent, the outage underscores an urgent concern. >> 911, what is the emergency? >> reporter: u.s. cybersecurity warned that hackers wa

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with that, here is tom costello. >> reporter: now under faa and ntsb investigation, a close call with a la guardian airport tower on march 23rd. southwest flight 147 nashville to new york hit thick fog and heavy wind as it approached runway 4. waving off its first landing attempt, as a tailwind pushed it to the right of the runway. >> southwest 147, we got to go around. >> reporter: but on its second attempt, pilots were even further offcourse. controllers radioed an urgent warning. >> go around, go around, climb, maintain 2,000, climb 2,000, 2,000. >> reporter: but the plane passed right over the top of the airport terminal and close to the control tower. though the precise distance is hard to calculate. the controller clearly rattled. >> that was not in line with the runway at all. he was not going to land on the runway. >> reporter: this was definitely too close, so, there's a lot of questions here. it was definitely a close event in very, very bad weather. >> reporter: the plane diverted to baltimore before returning safely to laguardia. southwest tells nbc news, "we are reviewing

hearings were heard throughout the country and included key figures, including crime boss frank costello, resulting in the fbi's acknowledging a national crime syndicate and the passing of the racketeering and corrupt organizations act in 1970. watch congress investigates, saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span 2. >> sunday on q&a, steven kahn shares his book, which argues the reality of rural america today is vastly different from the way it is often portrayed by politicians and the media. >> one of the things i discovered, much to my own surprise, is that a great deal of american automobile manufacturing now takes place in what we would call rural areas, especially the japanese companies toyota and honda, who built these plants starting in the 1970's and 1980's not inside urban areas but out in the cornfields, and that. so rural people are not farmers, statistically speaking, much at all. they are factory workers. they are long-haul truck drivers. they are doing all of these things which are connected to our industrial society. >> steven conn with his book, "lies of the land" on c-s

costello. we'll use every resource in our command to see that he's brought to contempt. and he was arrested by the united states senate. so many people were interested in watching these televised hearings that some of them were shown in movie theaters where people who did not have televisions at home could go and watch these hearings themselves. americans tuned into these hearings in incredible numbers. one report was that there were more americans watching the committee hearings than had watched the world series in 1950. the committee's immediate legislative accomplishments were somewhat modest. but senator kefauver became a nationally known figure, and he adopted as a trademark, a coonskin cap that evoked the another well-known tennessean, daniel boone. and he wore this coonskin cap, which you can see here in the case, to many of his events. it made him instantly recognizable to the public who knew about his investigations into the mob. the kefauver investigation into the organized crime was one of those instances where there wasn't a huge legislative output from the i

tom costello with what you need to know before you book. >> reporter: the new rules will make refundsatic when airlines owe passengers money for flights that are significantly delayed or canceled. >> it's stressful, and it's a lot of money that you don't get refunded. >> reporter: right now every airline handles refunds differently. soon they'll be required to issue credit card refunds within seven days if passengers decline alternative transportation or travel credits. for domestic flights delayed more than three hours and not taken, six-hour delays on international flights, refunds if a checked bag is not delivered within 12 hours, or if you pay for something you don't get, like wi-fi or a better seat, cash refunds, not vouchers. >> we hear again and again from passengers who describe how hard they have to push just to get the refunds that are owed to them. >> reporter: the white house also targeting so-called junk fees, requiring airlines to disclose up-front baggage and reservation change fees, assure passengers that buying a ticket guarantees a seat. you don't have to pay more to

and they had michael cohen sign a privilege waiver and then based on the information that bob costellom, that is why the u.s. attorney's office decided not to bring this case because they knew they couldn't rely on the word of michael cohen. so even though -- >> well i have to jump in on this -- >> the determination is admissible, but the information is. >> and i would jump in, whether or not cohen waived that for the purposes of his cooperation with the government and i think most lawyers would say going out and talking about a former client and describing his mental anguish or potential alleged suicidal ideation is beyond the pail. and then two, it is a complex set of reasons why the sdny didn't go forward with the wider case. that is the simplest way i could put it. i want to put that nt owe the record. but i want to double back to what we said earlier because you raised something that we showed viewers, which is this theory of misdemeanor turns into felony based on some second crime and they gave several options on the menu. could be attacked. how would they attack that at trial on

or costello, as everyone calls and has a close, almost familial like bond with his horses killing my for most of the most horses are the most beautiful animals on this planet. i have loved horses since i was a kid. when i was 8, i bought myself a donkey. i couldn't afford anything more delicate, bought the food to a now a days not only does cost, i'll have enough money to pursue his passion. he's also turned into a source of income, eastern breeding, and selling horses for 30 years. the the list of, hey look here. so we the guy, come to papa. let give me your leg, the good boy, a good boy. but i. but as those he's still young because that if you don't train him now he'll kick you in the face later. you have to learn now the thing just like a child the deal, but as much as he correspond to the animals. at some point, it's time to let them go. one of the reasons most important markets is taking place tomorrow. stella, the mirror is due to change, hands for the negotiations are already in full swing. until the part that means i've asked for 4500 years. i don't know if i'll get that. i h