NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas Monday, October 20, 2025
Oct 21, 2025
A massive global outage linked to Amazon's cloud services disrupts airlines and banks, raising concerns about misconfiguration. A daring heist at the Louvre involves thieves using a ladder to make off with priceless jewels, igniting questions about security. An elevated hunting stand near a presidential landing site sparks an FBI investigation. In Florida, parents face felony charges after leaving their infant unattended on a beach. Additionally, human remains identified in Philadelphia lead to new charges, while safety issues with Roblox are under scrutiny.
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Family Tip Stops Potential Airport Attack
- Billy Joe Cagle was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson after his family alerted police that he was streaming threats to “shoot it up.”
- Officers caught the 6'3", 320-pound suspect unarmed near a TSA checkpoint and found an AR-15 in his truck.
Cloud Concentration Creates Systemic Fragility
- A single cloud provider outage cascaded across airlines, banks, schools and apps worldwide.
- Relying on a few massive providers creates systemic fragility in global IT infrastructure.
Four-Minute Heist at The Louvre
- Thieves drove a truck with an extendable ladder to the Louvre, entered at 9:34 a.m., and were inside the Apollo Gallery for just four minutes.
- They used grinders, dropped a diamond-encrusted crown during the escape, and fled on motorbikes through Paris traffic.