late on sunday the us national transportation safety board or ntsb confirmed the part had been found by a member of the public in his backyard in portland. i am excited to announce that we have found the door plug. thank you, bob. i will not give you bob s last name, but bob contacted us at witness@ntsb.gov with two photos of the door plug and said he found it in his back yard. it s the latest controversy to affect the boeing 737 max airliner, since it was launched back in 2015. 189 people died when a 737 max operated by indonesia s lion air, crashed into the java sea in october 2018 13 minutes after take off. then in march 2019 a 737 max operated by ethiopian air went down 6 minutes after take off from addis abbaba killing all 157 people on board. the jet was grounded worldwide for 20 months. a us investigation found boeing had failed in its design and development of the max. us aviation regulators were also criticised. our business correspondent, theo leggett, has b
sustainability stories. this week, is it a boat or a plane? i am on board the ferry that can fly! why has nobody made an electric hydrofoil, flying ferry before? i think the main reason is it is freaking hard! we are in india where solar dryers are battling food waste. and an eye in the sky on energy use. nice outfit by the way. thank you. i m taking the world temperature to assess climate action. stockholm, capital of sweden and the city of islands, 14 of them to be precise, which makes water transport a big thing around these parts. so today i have decided to take the ferry. but this is no ordinary ferry. because this ferry can fly! this is the candela p i2, the prototype of a ferry which should go into service injuly 2024 and its cruising speed of 25 knots and wings called hydrofoils provide huge amounts of lift in the same way that aircraft wings can get a plane off the ground, these wings can raise the whole hull above the surface. i ve started to notice more and more bo
attention and watch it because it s pretty important. hope is not a strategy. should get something done. this is true. i m gillian turner. we re on mccarthy watch. we ll bring you any news out of the speaker s office as it comes out at this hour. a presidential candidate is raising alarms, saying linkedin intentionally censored him. this was no accident. this was intentional viewpoint-based censorship. i fear it s just the beginning of what we ll see all over again this election cycle like we did in the last one. he s accusing microsoft-owned linkedin of shutting down his posts on climate and china. the company s response and mollie hemingway just head. passengers near pre-pandemic levels. as to has already screened over 2.6 million people, the highest number since 2019, pre-pandemic. spike and near misses on runways have hit the industry hard as it is trying to bounce back. president biden s transportation chief says things are getting better. listen. we re a l
the 2024 road show has begun. the lead starts right now. president biden leaving the beltway. taking the state of the union message to voters in some key battleground states. will he get cheers or jeers from the american people? then, more than 12,000 people now have been killed. the death toll from the earthquake in turkey and syria continuing to rise to staggering heights as hope fades of finding survivors left in the rubble. and a passenger s battery catching on fire mid flight, forcing a plane to make an emergency landing and sending four people to the hospital. what you need to know about flying with potentially dangerous electronic devices. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the scene after the state of the union address looks like the campaign trail. president biden is in the crucial swing state of wisconsin, where he is talk ja jobs and the economy. echoing the themes of last night. kamala harris is in georgia, another key battleground state, that you mig
increase in medical tourists heading south of the border coming up. on page 1 of that threat assessment, china, among the fascinating details, how beijing is doubling its efforts to sway local politicians in the u.s. as a way to gain some diplomatic breathing room with washington. but we start with the brand new litmus test for republicans, being forced to publicly choose sides following the latest release of videos from january 6th. for a second straight night, fox news host tucker carlson perpetuated the lie that the insurrection was a mostly peaceful group of meek and orderly people who were sightseeing that characterization drew an angry, even visceral reaction from some republicans, although not all of them. i think what happened on january 6th was despicable, if you disagree with something congress is doing or not doing, you can t try to take over the capitol. tucker carlson that january 6th was i don t know what tucker carlson said. he said it was mostly