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
racial discrimination. the president said he s directing his department of education to light the way, so on the subject of what happens next, let us ask the head of that department. united states education secretary miguel cardona, who joins us now. mr. secretary, thank you very much for being here. i know how you feel about this decision, that you said it takes our country backward, the president, though, in trying to look forward as we head into a new era says he wants you, as the department of education to light the way, find new areas. how is that going to look? how is it going to work? thank you for having me. first of all, my message to the students and families who are listening to this decision and worrying, we re going to keep fighting you. as the president said, this is not the last word and we have a plan on trying to make sure we continue to promote rich diversity on our campuses. we know that makes learning better, and everyone wins when they re learning in a
washington i m bret baier. president biden n says neither us or nato played any part in the weekends a brief but meaningful insurrection in russia. this afternoon russian president vladimir putin thanks the nation for its unity. questions remain on how much control potent still house in the wake of the ukraine invasion and rebellion that for some time this weekend seem to be getting russian soldiers on board. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in the capital of kyiv tonight. good evening greg. hi britt. restaurant present president biden repaired met with his defense minister and top security and put a short video out on state v. with one more attempt by the russian leader to regain control of the narrative in his country which the past few days has been spending badly out of control. more follow-up from this week it s probably events in russia. the mercenary group for time saturday took over major city in southern russia. then headed to moscow only to
putin s power is becoming tenuous for the first time in 23 years. good evening. good evening to you, trace. the civil war that appeared to be on the point of breaking out in russia has become a war of words with a clearly angry russian president lashing out at those who led what he called the rebellion. they wanted russian soldiers to kill each other. soldiers and civilians would die and russia would lose and our society split. choke in a bloody strife. putin never mentioned the mercenary leader by name but the notorious head of the group was central to everything putin said. once a close friend and ally he s putin s public enemy number one. locations and intents unknown. giving no clues in an audio statement released today in which he come papered the ease of his troop s movement through russia to the failures of russia s regular army when they invaded ukraine 16 months ago. a master class on how february 24th, 2022 should look like. did not have the goal of over thr
soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. the washington post reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia s private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it s an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new york city that the air quality index th