alone welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i am rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, a tanking swiss bank gets a lifeline, but nervous markets are taking a beating as fears of a broader financial crisis whom. is it safe to fly right now? after a series of near runway misses and no clear answers on why this keeps happening, u.s. aviation authorities host a rare safety summit. plus, georgia investigators have another reporting of donald trump pressuring a state official to overturn the 2020 election. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. global markets are jittery another bank teachers on the brink of failure, but credit suisse will be getting a helping hand from a swiss national bank as it plans to borrow up to 54 billion dollars in the hope of reassuring investors. now this comes after two credit rating firms downgraded americas first after concerns that deposit
are so alarming. surely they could put in motion these solutions now and get something done quickly because it is not only equipment, it is also more staff. equipment, more staff, and really at some airports, particular in the united states, some of them are very old and they have a configuration where runways and taxiways intersect and they have intersected. in fact there are many airports in the u.s., there is an old configuration where the runways cross, and that was a configuration, literally before the second world war. and there is not much that can be done about that, because the airports now are hampton with traffic. so in the short term, because we have seen a massive ramp up of aviation demand, and the system is congested, it is very crowded right now because of the demand, literally at these different called airports, or at the airport hotspots, where runway incursions and maher
the cancellation fees, all of the extra charges. they really account for a lot of the money, so in today s safety summit, the airlines said that well, no, what we really need is actually more cash, and they wanted the government to put the cash in for additional air traffic controllers. for extra safety equipment, equipment that would actually alert the pilots when we were crossing the wrong runway, lined up in incorrect places of soda, or just what is called airport hotspots, those airports that the faa have decided really pose a danger of a runway encouragements. by the way, that equipment has been available, or that technology has been available literally since 2000. and the eu is looking to put it in, but the united states still has not made it fully operational. so lots of requests at the summit, today but really no conclusions except that, my goodness, what these numbers are alarming and something must be done. really, as you said, they