President Kamala Harris to speak together at a Labor Day Rally in the key Battleground State of Pennsylvania President stepping up his new role as a top Paris Campaign surrogate also this hour, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing hamas will pay a heavy we price after the bodies of six hostages were recovered In Gaza. And hes asking for forgiveness amid huge protests over his failure to secure a hostage release deal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt and youre in the Situation Room we begin with the race for the White House we begin with the race for the White House as Labor Day, marks, the unofficial kickoff to the final sprint to Election Day. Were standing by for Kamala Harris to make her pitch to Working Class Voters in pittsburgh with a high profile assist from president Joe Biden, cnns kayla tausche. She is on the ground for us and joins us now, kayla, pennsylvania is a mustwin for K
listen to the governor and buffalo native kathy hochul. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature. she has been hitting us with everything she has since the late hours of thursday into friday, saturday and now on christmas morning. i cannot overstate how dangerous the condition still are. we need people to stay off the roads. we will persevere. we will battle and we are not going anywhere. a war with mother nature. alexis mcadams live with the very latest on this. how s it looking out there now? here in new york, that death toll is expected to climb after that historic storm in buffalo, new york, just land the area with several feet of snow and they are still in that cleanup process. take a look here on your screen. the latest video coming out of buffalo new york just out of the past few hours. this is what the streets of buffalo are looking like again this afternoon. at least seven people have been killed during this massive winter blast. authorities found
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
Im rich edson. Im julie banderas. President biden and former President Trump are holding substantial leads over their challengers and new polling suggests a general election rematch, which would divide americans right down the middle. Griff the president is about to speak at a Labor Day Parade in philadelphia as there are growing concerns about his age and electability. Biden buy owing rafer is raising eyebrows saying a trump Biden Rematch is not a foregone conclusion. Let me ask you this way. At the end of this calendar year joe biden announces he wont seek a second term how much of a surprise would it be to you . A surprise to me but not a total shock. Julie peter doocy is live we white house this morning. President bidens top rival from the last primary cycle is pouring cold water today on the someone other than biden 2024 theory. I think President Biden is going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party and i think if he runs on a strong Progressive Agenda he is not only go to win