Evening Wire: Democratic Civil War In the Senate & Nvidia Spy Scandal Heads to Capitol Hill | 11.13.26

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The FAA grounds all flights due to extraordinary circumstances, a Democratic Civil War breaks out in the Senate, and the Nvidia spy scandal heads to Capitol Hill. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Friday, November 13th, and this is Evening Wire.

In a developing story, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide groundstop Friday, halting departures at all US airports due to what it called, quote, extraordinary circumstances and reasons of safety. An air traffic control advisory, reposted by Transportation Secretary Scott Duffy, announced, quote, all departing traffic should remain groundstopped until further notice. Inbound international flights will be managed on a case-by-case basis, end quote. Officials have initially attributed the groundstop to an equipment outage, immediately triggering a full pause on all flights across the country.

Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen addressed the disruption.

Markwayne Mullin (2:51)

There is no indication, and we had no reason to believe, as of right now, that this was a threat to the United States.

This was a telecommunication outage throughout FAA. Out of abundant caution, we have grounded all the flights, and all the flights are accounted for.

Georgia Howe (3:14)

Those flights that are airborne have been told to expect delays on landing. Secretary Duffy says more details will be coming soon. Go to dailywire.com for the latest.

Police say that the gunman who shot up a popular DC neighborhood before taking his own life was a 55-year-old doctor. Daily Wire contributor Tim Pearce has more.

John Bickley (3:32)

Police say Matt Lambert shot and killed his building manager in a gym before he barricaded himself in his apartment. Then from his balcony, he wounded four more people before eventually turning his gun on himself. Police said that Lambert may have also attempted to set his building on fire as well. Here was DC's interim chief of police, Jeffrey Carroll.

Jeffrey Carroll (3:51)

We don't have any indication about how long he was playing this. It was inside containers inside of the apartment. We do know, and there's some video on social media that you've probably seen of the flames coming out of the side of the building. We do suspect that there was probably some level of exhalerant. We don't know if it was gasoline or something else. There were some other flammable liquids that were found inside of there.

So we do believe there were probably was some level of pouring there. Again, to finalize that will be part of the overall investigation.

John Bickley (4:16)

Before the shooting, Lambert had been locked in a legal battle with his buildings management over mold issue. CNN reports that at least two witnesses say Lambert made several phone calls to explain his actions and reference the dispute. Lambert told one person, according to a witness, that he had to do it to quote, get attention. Here's what Lambert's attorney had to say.

SPEAKER_6 (4:36)

So I'm gonna say I'm deeply saddened and shaken by the events that took place today. When a matter is in litigation, there's never a need to resolve these things by violence.