especially because it s your birthday. happy birthday. you missed your kid s concert for you is my present. so we re grateful to have you go home, talk to your kids. have a great day. thanks to all of you for joining us. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now. this morning, the dam hasn t broken, but there are more and more cracks. now. 17 congressional democrats are joining the chorus, calling for president biden to drop out of the race after the president s high stakes news conference aimed at quelling fears about his candidacy. and we now have new exclusive reporting on what president obama and nancy pelosi are now saying about biden s reelection. there s also breaking news this morning of a massive data breach at at&t. text messages and call records for nearly all of their customers may have been leaked in what they re calling an illegal download. we have new details and nearly a million people in texas still do not have power now d
after they helped behind his remains. their lawyer is fighting on their behalf. chris and roberta laundrie are parents, they have feelings, they are children. one of their children has been confirmed dead. it s sad under any circumstances. gabby petito, notwithstanding, for any family, for any parent out there, this is a loss of a loved one. they re grieving. i would just respectfully ask people outside their home, go home, give it a break, get a good night s sleep. leave the laundries alone, even for one night. if you haven t booked your flights for the holidays you may already be behind. experts are warning about a major travel surge we could expect. we re going to break down what you need to know before locking in your plans. as we do say good morning, everybody, it is saturday, october 23rd. i m kendis gibson. and i m lindsey reiser taking a live look at lax in los angeles. if you re trying to travel out of lax today or anywhere on the west coast you might be in
horror and heart break. the film industry reeling from what many are calling an unfathomable mistake with new details release overnight. alec baldwin seen in anguish thursday after firing a prop gun on the set of rust, an independent western, killing cinematographer helena hupins and injuring director joe souza. we need help immediately. reporter: another crew member and assistant director on the film grabbed a prop gun off the cart handed it to baldwin and called gold gun unaware it was loaded with live rounds. huchins took a lethal shot to the chest and souza what was standing halloween her was injured. hannah gutierrez reed, the armorer appeared on a podcast last month revealing she s brand-new to the role following in her esteemed father s footsteps. i m still learning. but yeah dad has taught me everything. i think loading blanks was like the scariest thing to me. reporter: a safety bulletin for the industry says live ammunition is never to be use except fo
found its way onto set. during a rehearsal in october 2021 the gun fired and killed halyna hutchins, the film s cinematographer and injured the directorjoel souza. alec baldwin is set to go on trial in new mexico injuly for involu natrity manslaughter. let s get the latest from our north america cprrespondent, will vernon. hannah gutierrez reed was an armourer working on that the film set of rust, and meaning she was in charge of all the weapons. it means she brought a live round on set, put it into that weapon, which went on to kill halyna hutchins and injure another crew member. she was convicted on manslaughter charges on the basis that she floated basic gun safety procedures, hannah gutierrez reed. these are guidelines that basically entail rudimentary checks to ensure the rounds you have just put into a weapon are blanks, not live rounds, and thatis blanks, not live rounds, and that is basically the basis of the charge. it was noted in court that hannah gutierrez read wa
i really do believe that. i think the british empire explains so much about people s daily lives around the world, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the bbc world service used to be known as the bbc empire service. it explains so much about our daily news. you ve just come back from guyana there s a border dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, there s a gap between the way in which britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did before we go around pontificating on things like democracy and the environment and human rights. we need to remember our distinctly patchy records on those things during the age of empire. but do you think your perspective is driven in part by your own background 7 you re of indian heritage, born and raised in the united kingdom, so britain and india matter particularly t