the proposed willow oil project in the national petroleum reserve could pump up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day projected to bring in billions of dollars of revenue and create thousands of jobs but climate activists are pressuring the president to kill it. supporters of the project say it s critical to the state and country. the oil and gas sector represents the backbone of alaska. if the president is talking about supporting the backbone of this country, it starts with the states themselves. the willow project is studied as it has been could represent anywhere near about $10 million over the life of it to local communities and state government. it is critical. bill: they waited more than 20 years to see if it can happen. mark meredith has the lowdown from the white house. president biden spends time talking about renewable energy products. now a bipartisan delegation from alaska urging the white house to approve the oil project as soon as possible. friday the president
top of a new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. it s good to be with you. president biden is in pennsylvania again giving remarks against the backdrop of a crumbling bridge. now undergoing repairs. the president said it s just one of the examples of how his administration has improved aging infrastructure across the country. as a result, pennsylvania has been able to repair fern hollow bridge in less than a year and by christmas god willing, we ll be walking. i m coming back to walk over this sucker. although my staff said to me, do you realize how many times you have been to pittsburgh? i said, no. they said, 19. i said, bobby, don t tell them scranton. the president is now heading to philadelphia for a private campaign event with john fetterman who is locked in one of the nation s most contentious midterm races. cnn s senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is at the white house. cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean is in philadelphia. all rig
travelers stranded over the holidays nearly a week to get back home. lines at the airports growing, frustrated travelers losing their patients, desperate passengers forced to spend days sleeping on the floor at terminals while the airline cut 80% of its schedule at the height of the holiday travel season. and surrounding them, lost luggage. take a look at this, thousands of bags with personal belongings piled up at airports across the country. passengers got little satisfaction to contact the airlines because the phone lines were jammed up. even southwest flight crews had trouble getting through to find out about their own schedules. take a look at the screenshots, flight attendants on hold nearly five hours and nearly eight hours waiting to be cut through to scheduling. the scheduling department to receive their assignments. reports of pilots waiting on hold for 20 plus hours. lisa boothe, what a mess! lisa: first of all, i eat too much during the holiday like chris farley
dollars into failed programs that do little to solve the issue, we ran through the numbers and the amounts spent are just staggering. san francisco spent an astonishing $100,000 for homeless person. new york shells at $58,000 per year for her homeless person, but it hasn t helped. a recent report says homelessness in the big apple has seen the highest level since the great depression and chicago spends about $9,000 per homeless person. the unmanageable homelessness problem putting the mcdonald ceo in a tough spot. they ve been trying to entice employees back to headquarters in chicago and called on city and business leaders to address problems that have arisen since the pandemic. everywhere i go i m confronted by the same question these days. what s going on in chicago? there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis. the truth is it s more difficult today for me to convince a promising mcdonald s executive to relocate to chicago from one of our other offices
after he became the first current or former president ever to be hit with a search warrant. and just hours after becoming the first ever to invoke his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, which is a pillar of civil liberties, but which he used to say only mobsters do, until he took the fifth and saying what only mobsters say when ever they re searched, in this case suggesting without anything at all to back it up, that federal agents planted evidence when they searched mar-a-lago on monday, which then quickly became a republican talking point, or in the case of lindsey graham, senator graham, who sits on the judiciary committee and who clearly should know better, just another toxic idea to smile and not along with. we know they doctor evidence. we know they plant evidence. sure. we know they hide evidence. we know they lie. we know they leak. i mean this is not anything new. this has been this has been years they ve been doing this. we can t just say, oh,