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y averted a railroad strike that could have crippled the U.S. economy before the holidays. The Senate voted to impose an agreement on the railroad unions a day after it cleared the chamber, but rejected the paid sick leave for workers that the unions wanted in the bill. now goes to President Biden for his signature also tonight the president hosts his first state dinner for Frenchman Emanuel Macron what the two leaders said today about Ukraine the big win for the Justice Department a federal appeals court overturning the review special of the classified documents seized at Mar-A-Lago but at the end of the fight the school bus crashed into a house pinning a car underneath it several students injured the police outside Antonio Brown's house while trying arrest former NFL star domestic violence allegations facing William and Kate visits Boston but faces backlash at home our interview with woman who says Williams God another interrogated her with racist questions NBC News investigates possible chemicals that cause cancer in a neighborhood of a major US city and the young athlete overcoming the odds to become a sportsman Illustrator's Sports Kid of the Year, I'm NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, good evening everyone.

President Biden tonight welcomed a Senate vote this afternoon that will move the country away from the economic blow of a major railroad strike that the Senate initiated today to stop a threat. The Dec. 9 strike is underway a day after the House gave its go-ahead to the bill imposing a labor contract previously negotiated by the White House, President Biden in a statement saying we have saved this country a Christmas catastrophe in our grocery stores, in our workplaces, and in our communities, but Congress forced through a deal that left many union members with a bad taste in their mouths tonight.

Peter Alexander is in Washington, where the president is also engaging in high-level foreign diplomacy tonight. President Biden is preparing for the pomp and pageantry of his first state dinner. with a foreign leader French President Emmanuel Macron a domestic crisis now averted late today Senate approves deal to avert devastating rail strike that White House warned could have triggered recession on its own Joint resolution passes bipartisan bill for the first time in 30 years, Congress is intervened to stop a railroad strike that will force union railroad workers to accept a deal negotiated by the White House months ago that includes a 24-fold wage increase over five years, but right now only one paid sick day workers don't get any some unions rejected the deal because of that today the president was pressed why didn't he push for more paid sick time I negotiated a contract no one else could negotiate the only thing that was left out was whether or not it was paid leave, you know, I've been trying to get paid leave not just for real workers for everyone tonight, a vote in the Senate to include additional paid leave failed.

Freight driver Dan Banks in Ohio says railroad crews deserve much better. My brothers and sisters in the crew room with me were just shark teeth. one of those falls, they push another right in the place where there is almost no would be on the presidents of Ukraine, Biden and Macron, tonight showing a united front against Russian aggression. Mr. Biden says he has no plans to contact Russian President Vladimir Putin, but opens the door to a face-to-face meeting. I am prepared to talk to Mr. Putin if there is indeed interest in his partnership and he is looking for a way to end the war, it hasn't yet and Peter tonight is a mix legal headlines for the Biden administration minus that's right and a victory for the justice department and the appeals court has now completed the special independent review of the Master of thousands of documents seized from former President Trump's Mar-A-Lago property also tonight a setback for President Biden's proposed student debt forgiveness program Supreme Court will not block court order and will hear arguments in February Lester is well Peter Alexander well watched tonight thanks to some new encouraging economic signs today, including healthy spending by Americans heading into the holidays despite high inflation and higher interest rates and new signs that the FED may ease those rate hikes here's Tom Costello just over two weeks until Hanukkah three until Christmas and the latest data suggests Americans are still spending with 40-year high inflation continuing to ease October consumer spending just out shows the biggest gain since June, even as families pay more for rent, food and new cars.

Retailers report nearly 200 million people flock to stores from Thanksgiving to Cyber ​​Monday in Atlanta. Whitney and Joe Novak own kazoo toys and say buyers are sensitive to inflation, but we've still had purchases. a good year or we are positive, I mean we will keep people employed, we are not worried that toys are one of those nice industries where we are not going to have big roller coasters of ups and downs. Supply, demand, I mean, children are always going to want toys: inflation in October was six percent, slightly lower than in September. Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell now says the Fed could soon slow the pace of its interest rate increases aimed at controlling inflation.

The time may come to moderate the pace of rate increases. as soon as members meet, that could mean a half-point rate hike in two weeks instead of another three-quarter-point hike, meanwhile, gas prices now average 347 a gallon, a drop of 28 cents in a month. Third quarter GDP is even stronger than we initially reported. kind of like waiting for the recession like they're waiting for Godot, it hasn't happened yet um and with each passing month the economy proves to be more resilient consumers continue to spend tomorrow we'll get the November employment report 200,000 new jobs expected data that the FED will be used when deciding whether it can really slow the pace of big hikes in December Lester Tom Costello thanks a rather disturbing scene today in a suburb just north of New York City when a school bus crashed into a house after colliding with two cars parked, police say the bus driver and seven children were injured, most of the injuries were minor, fortunately two five-year-old children suffered injuries that were more serious but not life-threatening in Tampa, Florida, this night, more problems for former NFL star Antonio Brown.

As police attempt to arrest him for a misdemeanor stemming from an alleged domestic dispute, Sam Brock has late details tonight. Tampa police say they are trying to arrest former NFL player Antonio Brown by making multiple attempts outside this home to serve a domestic assault warrant. violence, the department told NBC News it cites failure to communicate with police officers, is the latest twist in the 34-year saga that has gone far beyond the Gridiron, the charges stem from an incident Monday involving Brown and the mother of four of his children, according to court documents. Brown threw a shoe at the woman, hitting her in the ponytail.

The victim had no injuries, but he believed the shoe was intended for her head. In the same document, police describe learning that Brown threw the woman's belongings outside the home and then threatened over the speaker that if she entered the home, he would shoot her in front of police. He also says that the children did not want to come in because they were afraid of his father when he gets into a destructive mood after the incident. A petition to remove Brown's guns and ammunition. under a risk protection order was rejected by a Florida judge citing lack of physical action.

How is it possible that there wasn't enough evidence to take away his guns but there is enough evidence to potentially prosecute him for domestic violence? The judge was wrong. The Florida statute that allows these risk protection orders provides a number of factors that can be considered by the court. Several of them Antonio Brown is a risk not only for himself but for members of the community and obviously for the mother of his children. According to the petition, he had two firearms in the house, a pistol and a rifle. NBC News has not been able to reach Brown's legal team for comment as tonight he remains a wanted man by Tampa police, so Sam, what do we know about the police's steps?

They are willing to accept this situation, yes, Lester Tampa. The police tell me right now that they are not going to risk the security officer for a misdemeanor warrant. Now obviously that could change if Brown escalates the situation, as for the women and children, police say they are no longer home Lester Sam Brock thanks, he was known as the king of cryptocurrencies, but now Sam Bankman, released, apologizes for a historic financial collapse as potentially more than a million investors fight to get their money back, as Gabe Gutierrez reports that Congress is now investigating weeks after the collapse of his massive FDX cryptocurrency exchange.

Sam Bankman free is on an apology tour. What are your lawyers telling you right now? Are they suggesting that it's a good idea for you to talk? A former billionaire of one year says he had no intention of committing fraud and says management failures and sloppy accounting caused FDX to implode in early November. Crypto outlet Outlet Coindesks reported potential problems with banker Freed's other company, Alameda, a hedge fund that soon worried investors. his FTX money caused what amounted to a bank run and forced The Exchange to declare bankruptcy. Clearly, I made a lot of mistakes or things that I would give anything to be able to do again, I never tried. commit fraud against anyone Congress is now investigating the collapse of FTX these events uncovered an alarming lack of internal controls and egregious governance failures A key question is whether FTX misappropriated customer funds when it made loans to banker Freed's hedge fund .

I won't come knowingly, but many of ftx investors don't believe it, they can simply ruin so many people. Manny Bautista says he can't access his assets with FTX worth about thirty-five thousand dollars and is looking for a ride-sharing service to make ends meet, what do you think? should happen to him i think you should go to jail and there should be some way for users to get their funds back the freed banker was once estimated to be worth over 20 billion dollars, he says it's now down to a hundred thousand and a credit card Lester, okay, Gabe, thanks.

In 60 seconds we'll hear from the woman at the center of a royal scandal over racism what she says about those disturbing questions Prince Williams' godmother asked her. We're back now with William and Kate's visit to the As controversy rages in the United States tonight at her home in the United Kingdom, the woman who says Williams' godmother asked her a series of racist questions during an event talking about our priest simmons, the executive of the british charity ngozi philani spoke about the treatment she received from prince william's godmother in buckingham. Event at the palace this week. I've been there for five minutes when this lady approaches me and the first thing she does is grab my hair and move it.

I think I don't know who she is, but she's already felt like she has the right to physically put her hand on me to move my hair so she can see my name tag, then she says she was interrogated for eight minutes about her ethnicity Eddie, I'm bored and I'm British, yeah well what's your nationality? because Prince William has said that there is no place for racism in our society. Do you think that's what I believed? I believe or know. I know what racism is. Lady Susan Hussey, who is close to Queen Elizabeth, has stepped down from her role as Queen Camilla.

Consort, where am I safe from this? When are we going to confront this type of behavior instead of excusing it? British

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papers call it a real disaster and now no one sees what is happening behind closed doors. Harry and Megan release this trailer for their Netflix documentary yes I had to do everything I could to protect my family tonight we reached out to Netflix and the Duke and Duchess's representatives about the moment with no response tomorrow the prince and princess They will meet with the president while staying focused on theircauses, not in controversy Lester Simmons thanks Danger is approaching from the volcano in Hawaii as lava flows toward a key highway and a neighborhood where cancer is common.

There are chemicals both above and below the earth. The cause of our investigation is the following. New images tonight of Mauna Loa erupting lava from the world's largest volcano. An active volcano now threatens to cut off the main highway on the Big Island of Hawaii and there are growing health concerns for residents as the volcano spews ash and acidic gases into the air. We now turn to an NBC News investigation into potentially carcinogenic chemicals found in a neighborhood and Houston residents are fighting to hold one of the country's largest railroad companies accountable. Priscilla Thompson reports that she loved to cook and rap in the shower.

Latonya Payne still holds onto memories of her son Corinthian since he died of leukemia last year at age 13 it was difficult he coughed up blood from his lungs he was on dialysis they tried everything and nothing worked two months after his death Latonya was diagnosed breast cancer for the second time Dr. Community suffers this group of cancer in 2019 State Health officials found higher rates of certain cancers in adults in Houston's Fifth District. A year later, another bombshell in area children contracted leukemia at a rate nearly five times the state average. The second report from the State Department of Health was even more disturbing because it involved children. true, but they never listed a cause, they never listed a cause for years, history, historically, the black and brown community has blamed higher cancer rates on the rail yard now owned by Union Pacific, which is blocks away In many homes, decades ago, workers used creosote to preserve wood.

The railroad tracks at that site were closed in 1984, but the chemical the CDC believes causes cancer leaked into the soil and groundwater beneath more than a hundred homes and businesses, according to the Department of State Health Services. of Texas is this environmental racism yes, it should be happening in some community no Union Pacific declined NBC's interview request, but says over the past 25 years they have implemented remediation efforts in the area, including installing more than 120 wells removing impacted soil and monitoring groundwater this house here Mr. Don died of cancer this lady here her husband died by Council Sandra Edwards lost her grandfather to bone cancer a decade ago Fifth Ward Black Bay obituaries everything Cancer everything counts Edwards is a community activist why stay I have no other place to go this is what I can afford and my family worked hard to keep this house in September a significant discovery the Houston Health Department found another probable carcinogen in the area dioxin this time on the surface of the soil The fact that we are finding dioxins on the surface of the soil where residents may be exposed is what is so alarming.

Union Pacific says in part that dioxin levels in city samples are far below state requirements and that attributing contamination solely to its site is Unreasonable and inaccurate attorneys representing neighborhood families say thousands have filed lawsuits against Union Pacific, including Latonya Payne, as compensation won't eliminate nighttime crying, but justice is when those in hand are held accountable Priscilla Thompson NBC News Houston Up next, how autism became her superpower and helped a young golfer become the sports kid of the year. It's finally in the pages of Sports Illustrated even as his own clothing line, but for an inspiring young athlete, golf is much more than a right-shoulder-down game.

The game of golf opened up a new world for 11 year old Bono Carter, the first experience playing golf was really amazing and I just liked hitting the golf ball before I started playing. Carter had difficulties, he says he was bullied at school and that he had trouble socializing. Carter has a form of autism Carter's type of autism is high-functioning Ash Burgers. He is able to communicate, but his social skills are not where they should be. Medical experts say that some children with Asperger's tend to focus all their energy on one thing at a time. Carter used that to his advantage on the golf course.

Golf definitely helped me with my anger management and when I was having a bad day I would just go to the golf course and that made me feel good. Golf really saved his life because now he had something to do. I hope something he was good at Carter was just named sports kid of the year. He hopes to one day play in the PGA and has his own clothing line. Part of the profits Carter donates to an organization that helps families and children with autism and It feels amazing to be able to help other children because I really want to help other people if they need help.

A young role model hoping to inspire other kids like him and I will continue to be a good advocate and tell people to stay positive. That's Nightly. News to learn more about Carter's story tune in to this Saturday's Nightly News Kids edition here on NBC thanks for watching everyone. I'm Lester Holt, please take care of yourselves and each other. Good night. Almost thanks for watching our YouTube channel. Follow today's top stories. breaking news by downloading the NBC News app