violations, including unsanitary conditions in sturgis. abbott reopened that facility last weekend after it says the necessary fixes were made. still many lawmakers are calling for continued and better oversight. supply is critical. i m not disputing that at all. and equally critical is the safety of the product, and we have to be assured of at this moment. so we want to take you to live pictures now here at dfw airport, we have a second camera position. the third federally chartered fedex plane landing moments ago, a nearly ten-hour long flight from cologne, germany. some 110,000 pounds of baby formula, 1.6 million bottles, which will now be distributed from here. the secretary of health and human services is also here to
fort worth with the latest on this. a significant shipment but a drop in the bucket of what s needed. yeah, john, absolutely right. runways behind me at dfw international airport, we just watched the fedex plane land moments ago. we are going to tell you more about that in a second. but first, people up to speed on the back story. everyone knows the abbott laboratory plant in michigan, sturgis, michigan, the biggest for abbott and generates about a fifth of all of the baby formula consumed in the united states. all of that went off line in february when as we know the f.d.a. found traces of a potentially deadly bacteria at the plant. but the reporting of the wall street journal has uncovered now that employees of that sturgis factory had blew the whistle earlier about alleged workplace
DFW International Airport was the world's second busiest air travel hub for passengers in 2021, even though traffic was still far behind pre-pandemic levels, and trailed only Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
talked about, and this went on for more than an hour. she says they couldn t see individual people, but they could hear the suspect talking. at one time, hysterically screaming, she said, in multiple languages that he hates jews and that he picked this synagogue because it was the closest to the dfw international airport, but then would later dgo on to say that he wasn t a criminal. almost apologetic for the actions he was taking there. so it was that wild swing of emotions and swing of rhetoric that was just really terrifying for many of these congregants to hear. that is truly frightening, ed. i think it goes to why fbi, law enforcement, they ve been handling this so delicately throughout the afternoon. ed, great reporting. thanks for that. that s the latest information from ed lavandera on the scene