The pandemic it is really crippling San Franciscos Tourism Industry theres a new forecast from the San Francisco travel association. They expect to see a loss of nearly 11 billion dollars over the next 2 years. Kron fours Maureen Kelly has the story. San franciscos legendary palace hotel established in 1875. Now has its entrance blocked off by planters and plywood temporarily closed because of coronavirus along with 52 other hotels in the city. So San Franciscos most popular tourist destinations like chinatown nearly deserted with shops and restaurants dated shot. This is going to be a year unlike any that weve experienced a pretty much in the history of tourism in San Francisco of last year was our 10th year in a row a record breaking numbers and this year, its just all collapsed the president and ceo of San Francisco travel has the grim Economic Outlook in 2019 the city saw more than 26 million visitors this year its projected we will get less than 13 million est 53 drop and thats go
today on inside politics a fateful choice. president biden announced he s decided how the u.s. will respond to a deadly attack on american troops in jordan, as fears grow that retaliating against iranian forces could further ignite a region already on fire. plus, china s promise. xi jinping gave joe biden his word that china will not meddle in the 2024 election. we re going to bring you exclusive, new reporting on their high-stakes conversation. and we can t shake it off. everyone loves to weigh in on taylor swift s relationship with travis kelce, but now a far-right media and even former presidential candidate conspiracy, they re all pushing an absurd theory that the most famous woman on the planet is plotting with the nfl to get joe biden re-elected. talk about bad blood. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do start with the breaking news. president biden is speaking to reporters at the whi
killed in an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah mwarning israelis thi won t be tolerated. and claudine gay is officially out as harvard s president. her controversial testimony on capitol hill about anti-semitism. kaitlyn collins is off tonight. this is the source. i m brianna keeler. tonight donald trump s legal team appealing the decision by maine secretary of state to remove the former president from the state s primary ballot. trump, of course, was booted off the primary ballot in colorado. we re still waiting on that appeal. we will have more on this breaking news in just a moment, but it is all unfolding 13 days from the iowa caucuses, where republican voters will have their first say about who they want the party s nominee to be. if you think those court battles are getting in trump s way, think again. not only did he nail down an endorsement today from the second highest majority leader in the house, majority leader steve scalise, but his base is growing mo
cnn newsroom. i m abby phillip in washington to very serious charges for that 21 year old air national guardsman accused of leaking a trove of sensitive classified documents online. you can see there jack to share as parents outside of the courthouse this morning in boston. there, son was in shackles facing a judge less than 24 hours after he peacefully surrendered to a swarm of heavily armed fbi agents. prosecutors revealed today that to share a had a top secret clearance since 2021 that he allegedly leaked the alleged leading began long afterward in a online discord group. the pentagon says that this was a deliberate criminal act, and the new court documents show that members of that chat group gave the fbi information that could be key to making that case. cnn s natasha bertrand is at the pentagon, natasha so lay out what the charges that he s facing our yeah, abby, so he did appear in court in massachusetts this morning, and he was officially charged with two separate cou
tonight. a walkout by 60,000 workers could derail the u.s. economy. the biden administration is considering executive action to avoid a shutdown. let s get the latest from cnn s pete muntean. reporter: it is the latest effort to put the brakes on a possible rail worker strike that could deal a major blow to the economy. bosses representing unions and railroads met with the labor secretary in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal by midnight thursday. that s when 60,000 workers could walk off the job in solidarity with train engineers fighting for sick time. a strike will mean freight rail, which makes up 40% of all freight in the u.s., will grind to a halt impacting everything from parts for cars to fertilizer for farming. transportation is a big part of the cost to the consumer and i don t believe there s one person in the country that it won t affect. reporter: starting thursday, some railroads will stop accepting shipments of grain critical to feed livestock and drivin