it s very simple. three things just do these three things. pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep will smith s wife s name out of your mouth! i needed that this morning. i missed my morning. that s eddie murphy going there on the oscar slap after the golden globes returned. we re happy to have you here. you can see kaitlan is back in washington d.c. we ll get to kaitlan in a moment. a lot to talk about. ready? ready. let s go. we ll start in california, where millions remain under flood alerts, not over yet, more on the storm walloping that state. new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. that s president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding this mor
good wednesday morning. i m erica hill. and i m jim scuitto. perhaps some relief. the first flights taking off moments ago from reagan national airport here in d.c., this after the faa lifted the earl why are ground stop. now restarting all u.s. takeoffs, but the logistical nightmare continues as airports across the country try to get their flights back on schedule. they re still mounting. it all started early morning after a key faa system went down, halting all u.s. flight departures. and that spreads around the world. in london, passengers said they were stuck on the tarmac for hours waiting to be taken off. president biden has been briefed, and they re work ing - and we ll respond at that time. pete muntean is at reagan airport, and athena jones, and emeril walker there in atlanta. this is a vote good sign now that flights are taking off. a very good sign. things were at a standstill. that s when the faa alleviated this ground stop they had in place for a coup
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the rich are getting richer in america. new video of a baby rescued from the rubble and twitter war with the taliban. time to play reporter roulette. the new report contains the top 1% making more money and that s not the case for middle class. where does it come from and what does it say? you re absolutely right about that. this came out of the congressional office. it looked at how much income here in the u.s. has grown from 1979 to 2007. you know what it found? that the wealth gap is big but it s getting even bigger. you look at the top 1% of the population. incomes grew 275% for the middle class. incomes grew only 40%. in dollars and cents, what does this mean? if you earned $43,000 back in 1979 when gerald ford was president, in 2007 you only earned $60,000. that s not much of an increase. pretty sad, if you ask me, brooke. so why the disparity wean the rich and the middle class? that s a good question. and for one, the rich have higher paying jobs. think about it.