King. Memorial day Holiday Weekend, the dos and donts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the Vaccine Rollout Heading into this Holiday Weekend. To the right of your screen thats the floor of the United States senate, a key vote under way right now, will the United States senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent Bipartisan Commission to investigate the capitol insurrection . We expect the answer to be no. But this key procedural vote is under way right now. It should wrap up any moment from now. Democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. Lets get straight up to capitol hill and our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju. As it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. Reporter the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead theres a possibility that an Outside Commission could be created to investigate the january 6th attack. I
King. Memorial day Holiday Weekend, the dos and donts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the Vaccine Rollout Heading into this Holiday Weekend. To the right of your screen thats the floor of the United States senate, a key vote under way right now, will the United States senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent Bipartisan Commission to investigate the capitol insurrection . We expect the answer to be no. But this key procedural vote is under way right now. It should wrap up any moment from now. Democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. Lets get straight up to capitol hill and our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju. As it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. Reporter the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead theres a possibility that an Outside Commission could be created to investigate the january 6th attack. I
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?
introduced something through either a vendor or something else? there s just a million questions when you are going frorensicall backwards through a complex system to find out what could have affected it beyond a glitch with the system. it sounds so complicated. you lost me at thumbdrive. it is, alisyn, but when you look at the level of sophistication here well, first of all, computers have problems. computers break. computers get, you know, when they have updates, things can happen. yeah. sure. but when you look back at the efforts of foreign adversaries, whether you take the russians and the solar winds attack, and the solar winds attack, what we learned was you don t have to attack the faa s system or the department of defense system or this system. you just attack the maintenance system that crawls through there and updates and fixes everything because it gives you access to everywhere, and there were multiple government agencies affected by the solar winds which was a
King. Memorial day Holiday Weekend, the dos and donts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the Vaccine Rollout Heading into this Holiday Weekend. To the right of your screen thats the floor of the United States senate, a key vote under way right now, will the United States senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent Bipartisan Commission to investigate the capitol insurrection . We expect the answer to be no. But this key procedural vote is under way right now. It should wrap up any moment from now. Democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. Lets get straight up to capitol hill and our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju. As it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. Reporter the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead theres a possibility that an Outside Commission could be created to investigate the january 6th attack. I