beliefs. another day of decisions split 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court in an opinion by chief justice john roberts the majority struck down the biden administration s plan to wipe out $430 billion until student loan debt. quote, we hold today that the act allows the education secretary to wave or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the education act. not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. the dissenters led by justice kagan argued the secretary did have that power. quote the statute read as written gives the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrowers abilities to repay their student loans. president biden who has repeatedly vowed to wipe out student loan debt while conceding he may not have authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s oth
and staff issues continue to wreak havoc on the holiday weekend getaway. speak with the faa says today will be the highest level of scheduled flights for the holiday. pour air quality alerts are in effect for millions across the country as smoke from canadian wildfires continues to spread. look how it has expanded from the midwest to all the way down into the deep south. speak of the defendant is not guilty. norah: breaking news. the school resource officer is acquitted of child negligence after not confronting the gunman in the deadliest high school shooting in american history. the secret service arrested a man accused of threatening to blow up former president barack obama s home. his alleged connection to january 6th. georgia s fresh peaches are expensive and scarce. always a diva fruit, preaches generally need 850 hours under 45 degrees fahrenheit to blossom. what worries me is it is becoming a lot more difficult to make peaches. grounded
july 4th holiday weekend, already this evening, those major airports slowing to a crawl. dangerous storms in the northeast causing a ripple effect tonight, stranding passengers across the u.s. a new round of storms now coming. flood watches also in the east at this hour. washington, d.c., up through philadelphia, new york to boston. and tonight, as we come on the air, the new warnings, the smoke from those canadian wildfires now set to return. already in chicago and the surrounding region. and tonight, new york s governor now warning it s coming back to parts of the northeast. also tonight, that audio recording of former president trump. abc news obtaining the recording, what trump can be heard saying about what he calls highly confidential secret information containing those potential plans to attack iran. trump saying, quote, this is secret information, look at this. a staff member later telling him, we have a problem. tonight, the new response from trump. pierre thomas i
getting started. dana: let s get to alexis mcadams live at newark airport in new jersey. how is it going? not so bad right now. a lot better than it has been since saturday and sunday where some of the people i ve been talking to have been sleeping at the floor at airports across the east coast trying to get home. we checked with airlines to see how they are doing. things aren t back to 100% and entering the busy time for the july 4th holiday weekend. as we mentioned people have not had anywhere to go except sleep on the floor. six hours, not even a bottle of water. frustrating. the line doesn t move. i know they don t have nothing to offer for us. that s kind of pretty hopeless. this is the scene at airports across the country as more than 28,000 flights and counting have been delayed and 7200 canceled since sunday. not a lot of good news. to say people are fed up is an understatement. hundreds of passengers left waiting on the tarmac for hours thinking they will l
july 4th holiday weekend, already this evening, those major airports slowing to a crawl. dangerous storms in the northeast causing a ripple effect tonight, stranding passengers across the u.s. a new round of storms now coming. flood watches also in the east at this hour. washington, d.c. up through philadelphia, new york to boston. and tonight, as we come on the air, the new warnings, the smoke from those canadian wildfires now set to return. already in chicago and the surrounding region. and tonight, new york s governor now warning it s coming back to parts of the northeast. also tonight, that audio recording of former president trump. abc news obtaining the recording, what trump can be heard saying about what he calls highly confidential secret information containing those potential plans to attack iran. trump saying, quote, this is secret information, look at this. a staff member later telling him, we have a problem. tonight, the new response from trump. pierre thomas in