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important and potentially crippling development, connecting russians to the rest of the world, as big corporations continue to cut their ties with russia over its brutal war against ukraine. russia s main airline, aeroflot, has now been cut off from the global system used for airline reservations. cnn s aviation correspondent, pete muntean, is here. pete, it s hard to run an airline when you have no spare parts coming in, no airspace to fly through and a limited ability to allow people to reserve seats. this seems like a pretty big deal. this is what crippling russia s economy looks like. think about this, russia about twice the size of the continental u.s. in terms of area, so this move will have a big impact on just getting around. aeroflot is russia s largest airline and corners the market. it now cannot sell tickets. the reservation system you
sent me a copy of a letter that my son s grandmother wrote telling us she was fine. the only thing that they did not have is water and electricity but they are both fine and confirm his airline reservations that we have made to both storms. this morning, we were in the town and we found sour son, would you like to speak to him. of course, it was just amazing and like i said, the first time i spoke to everyone, the first thing my son is going to say is i am sorry for not being able to reach you. yeah, what was that phone call with him like? um, my goodness gracious, i was filled with so much joy and of course, first and for most, thanking god that my son is safe and he kept them safe and his
the house overwhelmingly large vote for the usa freedom act, time for the senate to act. i don t try to suggest what the senate should or shouldn t do but the senate needs to act and when they act we ll get the next step. reporter: there is some reluctance jose among republicans who control the senate to have too much of a change to the nsa. they believe that although those were very controversial programs, they want to proceed carefully in how they might alter that because of the wider implications for national security. so not an easy thing to do and a lot to do in just a matter of a few days. majority leader mitch mcconnell told his colleagues don t make any airline reservations yet until we know how long they plan to be in town. jose? kelly, wisconsin governor scott walker was on the hill this morning. what s he up to there? reporter: that happens from time to time where you have someone who s a national figure with presidential ambitions, who is from outside washington whi