flight attendant attacked a passenger as he tried to open the door in flight. i m kate bolduan, and we are looking at the breaking news. officials say they have located four americans abducted last week. sadly, two of them are dead. the video of the kidnapping is so troubling and terrifying, that you can see what investigators believe are members of the drug cartel loading the group into the back of the truck. this happened in broad daylight as you can see after a shooting that left one bystander dead. a source close to cnn said that the kidnappings here are a case of mistaken identity and the families were traveling from south carolina to mexico for a medical procedure. we go to josh campbell who has the very latest coming in. what are the official saying now? i have been talking to the officials familiar with the investigation since the investigation began and though they were holding out hope to rescue the four american victims they said it is looking very grim, becaus
kentucky reporting the suspect is in custody. we will track and find out the severity of the officers injuries tonight. also breaking tonight, a mass shooting on the streets of newark, new jersey, leaves nine injured including a child. the shots apparently coming from the vehicle outside a grocery store. we are following those details tonight. a young mother walking her 3-month-old baby in a stroller in new york city. and the supreme court on the final days of a historic term delivers a mixed bag for the biden administration, a blow to using the epa to carry out if the climate change strategy but a win on ending the trump-era remain in mexico policy. how will that affect what is happening already on the ground in border states? we will get reaction from texas lieutenant governor dan patrick. and a yoga teacher wanted for killing her romantic rival is in custody tonight, captured following six weeks on the run. we have a full report. we begin with president biden concluding hi
further allege that the impact of this merger would be particularly harmful for travelers who rely on what are known as the ultra low cost carriers in order to fly. those include the working and middle-class americans who travel for personal as opposed to business reasons, and must pay their own way. by acquiring spirit, jetblue will eliminate the largest ultra low-cost carrier in the united states. today, jetblue and spirit compete on hundreds of routes that serves tens of millions of travelers every year. direct competition between the two airlines has intensified in the last five years as spirit has expanded into markets where jetblue already offer ed routes on these routes, they have thousands of market shares. for example from the
justice, and we are taking our own actions, and we have not been usually involved in these actions, but it is changing today, because it is so important for the passengers to have choices and access to low fares and access to competition, and yet we have seen less and less and less of that competition over the years. back when airline deregulation played out over the 70s and 80s, at the time there were prediction by the time you got to the 21st century, there would be at least 100 competitive airlines operating in our skies. obviously what we see is something very different. each passing year, it feels like there are fewer choices and passenger choice is a vital part of what sustains good price competition and better customer service, so we are taking it a step that is again unusual in terms of the recent years, but it is the right thing to do, and supporting the doj s lawsuit and
remove half of the lower cost capacity in the united states. we agree. this merger comes in an already concentrated market. we allege that jetblue s take over will only exacerbate concentration and further stifle competition in the airline industry. jetblue s elimination of spirit as an independent company increases the risk that the remaining airlines, including jetblue would coordinate to reduce capacity on particular routes where spirit currently operates. in short, if the merger were approved, it would result in higher fares and fewer choices