welcome back to cnn newsroom. i m george howell. prime minister david cameron is promising to work to bolster flood defenses. communities across the united kingdom are struggling to recover from unprecedented flooding. both scotland and wales saw their wettest december on record. the rainfall will continue through the weekend. but by monday, that country will finally see some relief. there is very little rain in sight for the midwest but the flooding is far from over. that s because swollen waterways that pour into the mississippi river could mean more floods for at least six states. the cleanup has begun for some families returning to their homes, but for many, there s nothing left. cnn s dan simon has this report. reporter: this is what you call a giant debris field. you can see the magnitude of destruction in this community. all these household items that people have collected and brought over to this community
own if they balk at his plan. it will be an uphill battle. the president hopes to travel to cuba and perhaps more than a dozen other countries in what s shaping up to be a global farewell tour. but the president s agenda could be upended by setbacks in the war on isis. a foreign policy crisis that could complicate white house plans to have the president campaign heavily with the 2016 democratic nominee, a prospect that may well put him and hillary clinton on the trail together again. i think we ll have a strong democratic nominee, i think that nominee will win and i think i will have a democratic successor. first, he will lay out his plans as a fast approaching state of the union address less than two weeks away. don t expect a long laundry list of proposals in part because the president is almost out of time. jim acosta, cnn traveling with the president in honolulu. for some north koreans,
major u.s. airports. if you compare the top three busiest airports in the u.s., atlanta s hartsfield jackson has 178 armed police. los angeles, 572. while o hare is budgeted 175. numbers do not include additional security such as private security personnel. in an e-mail to cnn, the aviation department says the multilevel security has proven effective in stopping and preventing crime and that violent crime incidents are extremely low. but there s been no explanation why the nearly 300 aviation police officers here are unarmed. the department is declining to discuss security measures. cnn has surveyed large u.s. airports and found chicago s use of unarmed aviation police officers is unique. according to miami security expert wayne black, absurd. you ve got sworn law enforcement officers at a u.s. airport that are trained to hide if there s an attack.
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wouk to cnn newsroom. fair to say it s a busy travel weekend with a lot of people headed home after the holidays. in the city of chicago passengers at midway and chicago s o hare s airports may be surprised to learn some aviation officers are not only unarmed, they re told to runaway if there is an attack. hoarse cnn s senior investigative correspondent drew griffin with the story. take a look at the passenger terminals at chicago s o hare and midway airports and you will see what appear to be police officers. but take a closer look. not one of them is carrying a gun. in the event of an active shooter or terrorist strike here, you might be surprised to hear how they ve been told to react. not try to neutralize the threat but instead to run. you guys are police officers.