As the holiday weekend comes to a close, some passengers are facing delays at Newark and other airports. Meanwhile, hundreds of people have been rescued from rip currents this weekend in California and some 25 million people remain under heat alerts out west. NBC News' Dana Griffin reports from Santa Monica. Rescuers are urgently looking for survivors following a powerful earthquake in Afghanistan that has killed at least 800 people. The Taliban government is now asking for international assistance. NBC News' Keir Simmons reports. Nine former CDC directors and acting directors accuse Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a new New York Times op-ed, that he is "endangering every American's health" after CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired last week. NBC News has reached out to HHS and the CDC for comment but have not heard back. NBC's Maggie Vespa reports. Protestors in Chicago rallied against a potential move by President Trump to send national guard troops to fight crime there. But one Democratic alderman supports federal help after 53 people were shot and 7 people were killed this weekend. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports. NBC News' Sam Brock speaks with the hero dad, John Sampson, who sprang into action and rescued a child who wandered onto the monorail at Herseypark. Across the country, homelessness among seniors is a growing crisis. Researchers estimate that the number of homeless Americans over the age of 65 could more than double in the next five years. NBC News traveled to Phoenix, Arizona to speak to those both experiencing and combatting homelessness across the city. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports. New Orleans musician Troy Andrews aka Trombone Shorty founded the Trombone Shorty Foundation to support young musicians in the city in the wake of Katrina. The foundation provides music education, mentorship and so much more, in an effort to ensure Katrina didn't drown the city's musical and cultural soul. Andrews, along with his high school classmate and fellow musician Julian Gosin are paying it forward to ensure the music and the sounds of New Orleans live on. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson reports. 

The leaders of China, Russia and North Korea appeared at a military parade in Beijing. At one point, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were heard on a hot mic talking about how organ transplants could lead to human immortality. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports. In Central California, multiple active wildfires are burning at once. The blaze has burned more than 13,000 acres. The ‘6-5' fire ignited near Yosemite National Park after a lightning storm and forced evacuations as it spread through Tuolumne County. NBC News' Liz Kreutz reports from the fire zone. Officials said at least 15 people were killed in Portugal after a tram popular with tourists derailed and crashed. Firefighters said it appears a cable came loose, causing the tram to hurtle down a hill and crash into a building. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat, are leading the effort to get enough signatures to force a vote to compel the Department of Justice to release all Epstein files. NBC News' Hallie Jackson reports. NBC News' Keir Simmons reports. Florida's surgeon general announced the state plans to end vaccine mandates, including for school attendance. The move is sparking concern in the medical community, with one expert telling NBC News that unvaccinated children in the state will become "a walking time bomb." NBC News' Anne Thompson reports. Just a day before the Philadelphia Eagles take the field against the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Llamas speaks with NBC Sports' Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth to discuss the kickoff game between two rivals, the new NFL rule for measuring first downs and who they think will perform at the Super Bowl.