organizations experienced in dealing with exactly this kind of material. the timeline here, the waste removal was paused over the weekend following complaints from texas and michigan officials who said they didn t know the waste would come to their jurisdictions. why didn t they know what was coming their way? i don t know all the details of the environmental cleanup process. what i know is that there are ways that are set up for states to communicate with each other about this. and there is often a private sector role as contractors who have that extremely rigorous epa certifica certif certify step up to do that challenging work. this is both in responding to disasters like this and in routine operations. it happens a lot, which is why it is regulated so tightly, so carefully and closely. and epa has taken over the process originally led by norfolk southern to make sure that it s going to be handled well. of course, every situation, politics playing a role in this. som
program, a ruling that will impact millions of people, one of the court s most influential cases this term with implications beyond the student loan issue. the plaintiffs which include six republican-led states, two borrowers who do not qualify for this program, are challenging the legality of the plan which would cancel up to $20,000 in debt for some borrowers. so just to give you an idea of the scope here, outstanding student loan debt in this country is more than $1.7 trillion. the vast majority of that, we re talking more than 90%, is from federal student loans and those are the ones that would be eligible for some forgiveness under biden s plan. so far 16 million borrowers had been approved for that relief. when the legal challenges put the plan on hold, officials estimate the program could cost some $400 billion. education secretary miguel cardona speaking with cnn this morning talked about why the administration is so focused on this and why the administration believ
Sensation. the idea that this is actually based on a real life story. tell them the poor bear died, but i m laughing at the movie. it s funny. and the other thing you told me about. oh, there s now a meth gator. i think it s by the sharknado people. i had no idea. what are you going to do? sad the real bear died, but the movie looks like it s fun. wasn t that ray liotta s last movie? yeah, he is in it. okay. well, now that you know all of that, you know everything this morning. you got the crew laughing, high bar. cnn newsroom starts right now. is it a high bar? it s a high bar. guys it s a high bar. good morning, top of the hour here, i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. next hour the supreme court will hear arguments about president biden s student loan forgiveness