Joining us. let me bring up to date with our top stories this hour. officials are investigating crowd surge in yemen that left at least 78 people dead. it happened whilst local merchants were handing out money to people at the ramadan charity event. the victims were hoping to receive a donation worth about $10. the u. s. supreme court has decided to temporarily extend access to the abortion pill kristen until friday at midnight. that s when they are expected to issue a decision on a texas judge s ruling to ban the drug. the pilot shortage in the u. s is already in dire straits and it s expected to get a lot worse in the coming years. that s the word from some airline industry officials who testified before congressional hearing on wednesday. here s cnn s pete mountain with more bianca max. the alarm bells about the airline pilot shortage are only getting louder now the head of the regional airline association that represents the smaller airlines that operate flights between small citie
Is a screen grab from very disturbing video that you mentioned there, max that shows this surge of people. you re literally looking at a wall of humanity, a crush of bodies, and if you watch that video, which again we re not playing, because it s too disturbed. you hear very harrowing screams of people trapped inside between these bodies. you can see arms flailing, hoping for help people trying to pull them out. but they simply can t. this took place outside of a school where two local merchants were distributing aid at sunset. that s a very normal tradition that happens during ramadan. we re just at the turn of idle fitter, of course, one of the most important holidays in the muslim calendar and these people were gathered to get just $10.78 people killed waiting for just $10. i mean, truly, truly heartbreaking. now who s the officials say those two merchants did not coordinate with local authorities? that s what caused this crowd surge. they ve arrested those two merchants, and they a
Like they re almost daring people to shoot in these situations. brian todd, cnn, washington uniquely american situation, isn t it all right now to yemen s capital, where officials say at least 78 people have been killed and dozens injured in a crowd surge. we want to warn you. this video is disturbing. so this happened during a charity event where local merchants were reportedly giving away cash to mark the end of ramadan. witnesses described what happened as a stampede. cnn s salma abdelaziz tracking this from london. now we re hearing some of that. the hearing the event organizer has been arrested handing out i guess the equivalent of 10 u s dollars. i mean, what? what can you tell us? i mean, this is a truly heartbreaking tragedy in one of the most hard struck corners of the world. i know you just showed that video. i don t know if we can play a little bit more of it again. but you can see in that video. just a wall of humanity. just this horde of