these are live pictures from atlanta s jackson airport where you can see long security lines already forming this morning. we re tracking hundreds of delays and cancellations at airports across the country. where we re seeing those slowdowns and where the weather could impact your travel plans right now on new day. we re so grateful that you re starting your holiday weekend with us. it is saturday, july 2nd, just two sleeps away from fireworks and hot dogs and all the good stuff. thanks so much for waking up with us. good morning, kristen. good morning, boris. yeah, just two days away if you can get there as you look at all of these major travel disruptions that we re seeing this morning at airports across the united states. they re threatening to spoil the holiday for millions of americans. airports being put to the test as the number of people traveling by plane this fourth of july weekend climbs to near pre-pandemic levels. but staffing issues, cancellations and su
side. the truth is what we as a country moving forward, will we continue to operate the truth? do we continue to be the place where the truth matters or will we fall to the lies where we succumb to the biggest lie of them all? you know the big lie i am talking about, that s the lie of the stolen election of the big fraud. it is not hyperbole to say the january 6th hearing that s hours away of what comes out of them will be an indication of whether we can keep our fragile democracy right now. it is hanging by a thread whether we can keep it or not. are you paying attention? you should. tomorrow we ll listen to testimonies, live, from three republicans who know exactly how far the former president was willing to go to overturn our free and fair election. all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have because we won the state. it is outrageous. this is not just about what happened more than a year ago. it is about what s happening
cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. sarah sidner, thank you so much. i appreciate it. this is don lemon tonight. i can t tell you how important this is. so pay attention to me, please. this is something we can both side. the truth is what we as a country moving forward, will we continue to operate the truth? do we continue to be the place where the truth matters or will we fall to the lies where we succumb to the biggest lie of them all? you know the big lie i am talking about, that s the lie of the stolen election of the big fraud. it is not hyperbole to say the january 6th hearing that s hours away of what comes out of them will be an indication of whether we can keep our fragile democracy right now. it is hanging by a thread whether we can keep it or not. are you paying attention? you should. tomorrow we ll listen to testimonies, live, from three republicans who know exactly how far the former president was willing to go to overturn our free and fair elect
what the president s role was in trying to get states to name alter n alter nat slates of electors. we ll hear about his pressure on the states to replace the electors chosen by the voters. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show. it is tuesday, june 21, and we begin with unsettling new details about the police response to the school shooting in uvalde, texas nearly one month after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. the texas tribune revealed documents that described ongoing confusion at the scene and details of equipment that officers had access to including four ballistic shields with the first arriving nearly an hour before the officers stormed the classrooms. it is unclear at what point during the standoff this image was taken. you can see there. but the new images and information will only intensify questions. this image obtained shows at least three officers you can see there in the hallway of robb elementary school
and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thi