we will be playing country music over the place even if you are not a fan of country music, it is memorial day and patriotic. todd: it puts you in the mood to honor america but most importantly honor those who paid the ultimate price that we can enjoy today and everyday in the land of the free and of course, that the home of the brave. this is definitely the home of the brave. with that, a lot of you traveling will see a lot. a holiday crisis, gas prices and flights being canceled due to staff shortages at airlines. ashley: alexandria hoff live with more, alexandria. good morning, ashley, todd. i wrapped up my holiday travel at the airport and it was no joke. aaa predicts 25% more americans will travel for this holiday than they did last year between weather, airline staff issues, hundreds of flights canceled this week and including more than 200 so far today. that is on top of passengers already having to shell out more, listen. when i travel, i m not really surprise
psychopath, which is what senator cruz called him, was able to legally buy an assault rifle more than 1600 rounds of ammunition, and then walk freely into an elementary school because he wanted to kill kids. there are two small funeral homes not enough to handle a massacre. that means funeral directors, morticians and volunteers from across texas are now there to help. among them are facial reconstructionists, because, yes, it was that bad. and making it even worse, just how long the cops waited to go in. they waited an hour outside that classroom before they finally confronted the gunman. more than an hour while some of those kids were still fighting for their lives. including the daughter of one family who spoke with state senator roland gutierrez. their little girl had been shot in the back with one bullet. through the kidney area, she likely bled out, according to the first responder. who should know what would have happened had officers showed up timely? had they gone
president biden: no. todd: griff jenkins is in washington with the latest from the president s trip. griff. griff: good morning, carley and todd. joe biden s first trip to asia ends just moments from now. you are looking live at air force one, waiting to get wheels up from tokyo, just after 6 p.m. there. caps swing through south korea and japan intended to highlight a new economic pact. as you saw, the president leaves major questions looming over the u.s. policy toward taiwan, which the white house was forced to walk back in a statement and defense secretary austin tried to clean up yesterday. our one china policy has not changed. he reiterated that policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. griff: not the first time the white house has had to clarify for the president, drawing harsh criticism from china s leaders and earlier this morning in one of the president s last public events, biden was hammered with questions over whether he
building. threats against the high court began to rise last month after a draft majority opinion overturning roe v. wade was leaked to the press. while that memo does cite possible violence from a pro right supporter, it is also going on to express concerns that some racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists embrace a pro-life narrative may be linked to the perception of wanting to save white children and fight white genocide. all this in one memo. the white house press secretary wouldn t get specific when asked about which groups the president was worried about? we also believe that violence, threats and intimidation have no place in political discourse anywhere. true in front of a courthouse or a healthcare clinic. that s the thing. it seems like to us it is very one-sided on what we call out as intimidation or as violence. we want to make sure we are calling out on both sides of what is happening and what we re seeing. harris: meanwhile attorney general garla
the british prime minister, on a visit to northern ireland, accepts that the political deadlock there is a result of his brexit deal. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start with news that s been developing over the last few hours from ukraine. it s being reported more than 200 wounded ukrainian soldiers from the besieged steelworks in mariupol have been evacuated. these are the latest pictures from a reuters journalist who watched as the buses reached novoazovsk, a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. ukraine says 260 people have been moved. more than 50 are reported to have been taken to a local hospital. well, i ve been speaking with vitaliy shevchenko from bbc monitoring who explained the significance of these evacutations. significant both to russia and ukraine. russia, it marks the completion of its huge project to seize the northern shore, the sea of azov, and thus build elaborate from russia to crimea, and also a symbolic vic