also tonight the pentagon approveathize deployment of some 1,500 u.s. troops to the southern border with mexico as the u.s. braces for a new surge of thousands of migrants. the pentagon press secretary joins us live to discuss the timing and the scope of this new military mission. and senators clash over a proposed code of ethics for the u.s. supreme court justices at a hearing prompted by scrutiny of justice clarence thomas. i ll speak with chairman dick durbin who s accusing the high court of being in his word oblivious to these ethics issues. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with two very consequential deadlines for the biden administration and the country, for that matter. the u.s. facing the dire possibility of defaulting on its debt next month, and a major migrant surge across the southern border is expected next week when a key trump era immigration policy expires. our
dw. strikes by security guards at london heathrow airport will go ahead as planned from today, after last ditch talks failed to resolve a pay dispute. the walkout will end on easter sunday. it threatens disruption at the uk s largest airport at the start of the easter school holidays. i spoke to our transport correspondent katy austin a little earlier. well, it s security guards who work at terminal five at heathrow, which is only used by british airways. they are walking out today, and also security workers who deal with cargo coming in and out of the airport as well. but even though it is only those specific groups of security officers taking part in the strike, it does mean that staffing is stretched when it comes to security, and this is a very busy few days. today, the weekend, is the start of the easter getaway, so lots of passengers expected to be turning up to go on those holidays. and i think the impact on the ground, when we were at terminalfive earlier, to be fair,
ed, i ve been to norman a bunch of times. i know this is the worst thing to wake up to. it s the toughest to be able to make sure you re in a safe place? well, i ve always said, there s nothing worse than the overnight tornadoes in the dark. you have no idea, really, where it s coming from. and this is what the neighbors the residents in this neighborhood are dealing with. trees, about a foot in diameter, snapped in half. take a look way up there in the tree, about 30 feet high, a giant piece of plywood stuck in the branches there. that is rooftop that has been shredded off people s home. you can see, it gives you a sense of all of the debris that was flying around here, so wickedly. and here in this backyard, really gives you a sense, you can get in here because the fence has been completely blown out, but in particular home, fortunately, the owner of this home was in tulsa at the home, but this was you can also get a sense here of when you re inside your home and the
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue, and this morning at about 7:00, there were still problems validating that the messages were going out. so for safety reasons to make sure that every aircraft that took off was doing so safely, faa implemented a ground stop. secretary buttigieg said it s still not clear what caused this system failure, but it does not appear to be a cyberattack. what is clear is the ripple effect for thousands of passengers so let s bring in cnn s adrienne broaddus. what are passengers telling you, adrienne?
Now. We are rocking it. Theyre throwing grenades, shooting people with paint balls but were in here. Be safe, be safe. God bless and godspeed and keep going. Get it, jess. Do your [ bleep ]. This is what we [ bleep ] lived up for. Everything we trained for. We begin tonight on the start of hispanic heritage month, when americans are supposed to celebrate the culture and contributions of americans with ancestors from mexico, the caribbean, and central and south america. It was president lint Lyndon Johnson who created hispanic Heritage Week after appealing the most xenophobic antiimmigration law. Today, while Many Americans are honoring those hispanic contributions, last night, Florida Governor ron desantis had a different idea. Proudly taking credit for sending two plane loads of latino migrants to Marthas Vineyard in massachusetts. Roughly 50 venezuelan and colombian migrants, many fleeing Venezuelas Maduro regime, said they had gun from san francisco, texas, where they were offered f