i am alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. a cnn exclusive. mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff or donald trump, has been subpoenaed by the special counsel. meadows was in the room for most of the key events on january 6th and the days before. so, more on that in a moment. plus, what is going on with that ohio toxic train derailment? the railroad officials behind that toxic train derailment just backed out of a town hall meeting tonight because of what they say are threats to their employees. but people in the town of east palestine are demanding answers and they say they are getting sick. my kids, are they safe? is the future of this community safe? and another close call on the runway. we are just learning of a jet and a cargo plane almost colliding last month in honolulu. why are these near disasters happening? are we getting less safe in the sky? and on a lighter note, a professional baseball player who walked away from a multi millio
then, there was the near miss in where a fedex plane almost landed on top of a southwest flight. and of course, last month, thousands of americans were stuck in the airport when the vast airline computer system crashed and that led to the first nationwide stoppage of flight since the september 11th attacks. it s no wonder the acting head of the federal aviation administration faced a bipartisan drilling on capitol hill today. we have a backup redundant system. why couldn t we just go to that system? i thank you madam chair, for the question. i m asking you if you have an answer today about why that occurred. no, ma am. that investigation is ongoing. how did air traffic control direct one plane onto the runway to take off and another plane to land and have them both within hundred feet of each other? it is not what we would expect to have happen. but when we think about the controls, how we train both our controllers and our pilots, the
that russia has done these things. so we now know that this isn t speculation. this is the real world. and the two intelligence services participated, and that the only way that could happen was either at the request of or the approval of president putin. so it makes it very important for the administration to sit down with president putin at some point and effect an agreement where the stops. and it should stop on behalf of all other nations. nations should not be doing this to each other. because it is a highway that you go down. and that highway gets broader and broader and more and more gets taken into it west don t want to wake up some morning and see that our whole airline computer system down. or that as it happened once before, the whole stock exchange is down. right. before i let you go, and i know you re not prepared to say what you re going to do on the neil
this morning, today is that this particular issue was involving the entire airline, the entire operation domestically as well as internationally, so that s more than just an isolated flight to belfast. this is a major inconvenience. and last point here tamron this is going to cost united airlines a boatload of money today when they have planes sitting on the ramp like this for so long. and it will cost passengers as well those business travels, other people who have planned vacations and other issues they may encounter, folks out of school with their kids traveling, too. we know there has been a lot of talk of hacking. there was one individual. his claim was never verified that he was able to hack into an unknown airline computer system through entertainment. there is no indication this is something more regarding someone or an organization trying to get access to united s computers, is there? at this point we have no indication that this was something nefarious, but that is
here tamron about what may or may not have happened. listen, things do happen. a couple of years ago there was a trading firm called night trading group out of new york city. they basically blew themselves up with a bad software installation, caused their whole systems to go haywire. all these bad trades went through and the firm went under because of that. we don t know exactly what happened here but i think your point about united and the new york stock exchange is well taken. regardless if they re connected, regardless if there is some kind of a third party actor here because it s obvious you think about what may be going on this does not do a lot to instill confidence in the massive computer system backbone of the united states. absolutely. we ll continue to follow the developments here. as i mentioned at the top of the hour united airlines was attempting to get things back in working order as a result of a network computer problem with its airline computer system across the bo