not knowing if you re going to have enough water from one day to another. we re in for another hot day across california. 40 million, 155 plus records expected. it s pretty stifling. even our ac at home can do so much. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington. pamela brown has the night off and you are in the cnn newsroom. a pilot threatens a mississippi community for hours and lands in jail. the bizarre drama playing out in the skies over tupelo. police saying before dawn, the pilot of the stolen plane called 911 and threatened to crash into a local walmart. pete monoteen followed the five-hour drama. reporter: jessica, this is the best possible outcome after a man who worked at a local airport in tupelo, mississippi stole a plane, threatened to crash it into a local walmart and then ultimately crash landed in a nearby soybean field. his name, cory wayne patterson. an employee of tupelo aviation. the operator of the tupelo regional airport, where he fueled ai
sacred, the only truly sacred obligation we have is to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harm s way and care for them and their families when they return home. and when they don t. this is an obligation that unites americans. and brings us together to make sure the women and men who are willing to lay down their lives for us get the very best from us in return. i want to acknowledge that we re making progress in key areas like bipartisan legislation advancing in congress that would deliver health care services and benefits to veterans and to survivors impacted by toxic exposures. you don t know how many americans and service members may have died because of what they re exposed to in the battle field. toxic smoke from burn pits near where they were based. burn pits that were incinerated from the hazardous material and jet fuel and so much more. we have a duty to do right by them. and i m determined to make sure that our brave service families and members that
not knowing if you re going to have enough water from one day to another. we re in for another hot day across california. 40 million, 155 plus records expected. it s pretty stifling. even our ac at home can do so much. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington. pamela brown has the night off and you are in the cnn newsroom. a pilot threatens a mississippi community for hours and lands in jail. the bizarre drama playing out in the skies over tupelo. police saying before dawn, the pilot of the stolen plane called 911 and threatened to crash into a local walmart. pete monoteen followed the five-hour drama.
public transportation mask order is not in effect right now at airports across the country. our aviation correspondent pete monoteen joins us with more. what did the judge say in their decision? reporter: anderson, this is so interest because this is the first time i m at reagan national airport. i ve done hundreds of live shots throughout the pandemic wearing a mask. this is the first time we re not wearing a mask because of this federal judge decision, katherine kimball. she was appointed by president trump. she says this rule is essentially void, that the cdc s authority doesn t go over. this is pending a federal review. it came by surprise and was very abrupt. we know the mask mandate was slated to end today. it got sfwextended by two weeks. airlines quickly pushed back
we ve been listening to president biden right there wrapping up remarks about the historic weather event we re seeing really across the country from the gulf coast to the northeast. and even the fires out west. the flooding that you re seeing on your screen from wpvi in the philadelphia area is just unbelievable as well as what we have been watching play out for days now in louisiana with so many people without power and blistering heat after hurricane ida hit. we re covering all of this for you this hour. let me start with cnn s pete monoteen on the ground in philadelphia with the latest there. pete, what are you seeing? reporter: kate, this is the skugle. can food warning from the national service says in effect here in the philadelphia area, until 7:00 tomorrow morning, so we are just at the beginning of the end, in fact, the weather service doesn t anticipate the