looking like the most crowded memorial day weekend travel that we ve seen in the better part of two decades. i m neil cavuto. we re on top of the fast-moving developments with alexis mcadams and how flyers are faring in secaucus, new jersey. we begin with alexis. good afternoon from new york international. it s not too bad. check it out. it has been ebbing and flowing throughout the day. just in the past hour or so, there s a ground stop here at newark that has been lefted. there s issues that airports across the country. so let s take a look at this flight aware map that shows you what airports are dealing with. we re talking about more than 3,000 delays in and out of the u.s. right now and about 100 cancellations and counting. there s that ground stop or there was a ground stop at denver international due to the bad weather that was lifted moments ago. this morning, transportation secretary pete buttigieg tweeted out that things are moving along smoothly so far saying yes
going on there. a lot going on. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. till debt do us part. right now the debt is there. we re still stuck at a ceiling of 31.4 trillion. to hear the administration tell it and janet yellen warn about it, come june 1, we run out of dough. there s no more change. we re told that we re down to our last $88 billion. nobody can say whether that is the case or not, whether there s some wiggle room there. they re still talking in the oval office. let s go to jacqui heinrich what she s hearing right now of these talks and where things stand. hey, jacqui. hi, neil. the biggest news that you just touched on, they would not confirm in the briefing early and now we re getting confirmation that the president is cancelling plans to go to australia and new guinea after the g-7. he s slated to leave tomorrow. he took a lot of criticism for planning to be out of the country for eight of the 16 remaining days before the country could default on its
challengers if not his biggest challenger former president donald trump is playing to undercut the campaign launch. speaking of trump, the special counsel investigating the former president is about to get some crucial documents from the national archives today. they could end up potentially being key evidence in his probe. and the man accused of ramming the barricades near the white house and threatening to kill the president will appear in court. new details about what the suspect said after the crash. also guam getting slammed by one of the most devastating storms we have seen there in decades. today marks one year since that mass shooting in uvalde that left 19 elementary school children and two teachers dead. president biden is planning to address the anniversary calling for an end to the gun violence epidemic happening in america. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. today florida governor ron desantis will officially launch his presidential race. we
doesn t face any prison time. for has the jury found him guilty of raping miss carroll but found he defamed her and sexually abused her. for that, the jury has ordered him the pay $5 million in damages. we ll take you through these two stories and indeed how they link up in a political sense a little later this hour. let s first get the latest on this e. jean carroll case. bryan llenas in new york with the latest. good afternoon. in less than three hours, this jury came to their decision remarkably quick considering that they were considering ten different issues whether former president trump was liable. this jury found that former president trump was and is liable of battery, more specifically of sexually abusing and forcibly touching e. jean carroll in a new york city department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation founding that he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation. that did harm to her professionally and personally and asked to award her with
every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that s 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware can. why is the university withholding the so-called gift agreement of the mystery funder of maintaining those documents? and did the money come from china after the ccp sent $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and was able to get penn to lobby for the china initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee chairman james comer told me recently. we i now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an inves