{"id":224445,"date":"2026-09-17T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/l-a-news-helicopter-crash-kills-3-and-board-votes-to-close-kennedy-center-morning-rundown-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:18:37","slug":"l-a-news-helicopter-crash-kills-3-and-board-votes-to-close-kennedy-center-morning-rundown-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/l-a-news-helicopter-crash-kills-3-and-board-votes-to-close-kennedy-center-morning-rundown-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. news helicopter crash kills 3 and board votes to close Kennedy Center: Morning Rundown – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A journalist and pilot were among the people killed when a news helicopter reporting for NBC L.A. crashed. The Federal Reserve is set to decide whether to raise its key interest rate. And the opening acts for Ed Sheeran\u2019s tour withdraw in protest of rapper Macklemore being dropped over his \u201cFree Palestine\u201d remarks.
Here\u2019s what to know today.
A helicopter affiliated with NBC Los Angeles crashed while it was covering a fatal bus collision yesterday evening, killing the photojournalist and pilot on board and one person on the ground, the station and officials said.
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The aircraft crashed in a parking lot close to a self-storage facility in the community of Chatsworth, which is in Los Angeles\u2019 San Fernando Valley, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department and news video on the ground from NBC Los Angeles.
The helicopter was operated by Angel City Air and affiliated with the news station, which broadcast that it had lost contact with those on board.
\u201cWe knew it was a news chopper, we knew we\u2019d lost contact with our people out there, and we\u2019ve just received the confirmation that, in fact, NewsChopper 4 went down just before 7 o\u2019clock tonight in Chatsworth,\u201d anchor Colleen Williams said.
The victims aboard the helicopter were identified by NBC Los Angeles as Angel City Air employees Eliana Moreno, an aerial photojournalist familiar to viewers of the station and its Spanish-language sister station, Telemundo 52, and pilot George Marciniw. The two had been flying together since 2023. Here\u2019s what we know about the victims.<\/strong><\/a>
The helicopter crash occurred after two people were killed and others were injured in a crash between a Los Angeles Metro bus and a passenger vehicle, according to the fire department.
Here\u2019s what else we know about the crash.<\/strong><\/a>
The Federal Reserve is set to announce today whether it will raise its key interest rate in the face of stubbornly high prices \u2014 or keep it steady yet again. Wall Street expects Fed Chair Kevin Warsh to announce a rate hike. President Donald Trump wants a rate cut. The Fed has not raised interest rates since 2023.
Several factors are stoking inflation. Energy prices have soared back to near all-time highs, with gas prices 45% higher than February, when the Iran war began, and diesel prices at their highest level ever. The Trump administration also entered a potentially protracted trade war with Canada.
Experts anticipate Trump\u2019s reaction if rates rise.<\/strong><\/a>
Trump\u2019s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted to immediately shutter the performing arts center, shortly after a federal judge in Washington rejected the board\u2019s latest effort to add Trump\u2019s name to the building\u2019s facade. The vote came the same day that Chief Financial Officer Donna Kauranen resigned from her position. The board cited the center\u2019s \u201cdire\u201d structural condition in voting to close and warned it faces potential bankruptcy.
Attorneys for the board have said that legal action has kept them from doing necessary repairs, though the judge presiding over the case said in a hearing yesterday his earlier order preventing full closure still allowed for emergency repairs. Trump also joined the closed-door meeting and got into a shouting match with an ex-board member, according to a source who joined the virtual meeting.
Here\u2019s what else happened in Tuesday\u2019s hearing.<\/strong><\/a>
Ed Sheeran\u2019s tour is now without any of its opening acts after Finneas and other musical artists withdrew in protest of Macklemore being dropped from the tour over his \u201cFree Palestine\u201d remarks during a recent show. The rapper announced Monday that he was no longer on the tour and claimed that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft organized a boycott against him.
In addition to Finneas, Irish singer Aaron Rowe, Sheeran\u2019s house band Beoga and Danish band Lukas Graham have dropped out. Sheeran put out a statement yesterday as the backlash against him grew, saying that it was not his decision to remove Macklemore from the tour.
What Sheeran and other artists are saying.<\/strong><\/a>
My colleague Colin Sheeley and I noticed a social media post a few weeks ago from the Sikh Coalition alleging ICE was targeting Sikh Punjabi immigrant truckers across the country. This led to interviewing sources and advocates who told us that not only was ICE targeting Sikh truckers but also targeting immigrant truckers in general<\/strong><\/a>. The Trump administration took away their commercial drivers licenses and in many cases, detained these truckers. Now, a federal appeals court case could determine the fates of nearly 200,000 foreign-born truckers.
We spoke to several people affected by the Trump administration\u2019s targeting of noncitizen truck drivers, as well as advocates about how the Sikh Punjabi community has been impacted. \u2014 <\/em>Tavleen Tarrant<\/strong><\/em>, social newsgathering reporter<\/em>
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