after u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to the self-governing island. details plus the warnings from china about how volatile the situation is. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. right now it s 10:00 saturday morning in gaza, where israeli warplanes continue to pound islamic jihad for a second day. israel s military says its air strikes on friday hit militants inside gaza who were allegedly about to launch a terror attack. 19 members of islamic jihad were reportedly arrested saturday in the west bank. islamic jihad says one of its senior commanders was killed in the strikes. a short while ago the israeli army said militants in gaza have fired nearly 200 rockets toward israel since friday evening. it claims almost all of those rockets were interseptembered, fell short or landed in open areas. no casualties have been reported. according to the palestinian health ministry, at least 11 people were killed since friday s air strike
cancellations. and if you add the cancelations from yesterday and today, we re at more than 1100. right now there are about 550 cancellations today alone. 2200 flights delayed. and as you know, when one flight is delayed or canceled, it has this ripple effect, this domino effect not just here in atlanta but across the world because of how important and how busy this parent is. but we spoke with one young travel who are was so wise. his parents told me you want to interview him because he knows exactly what to do to get through the airport safely and early. take a listin. we left at around 4:00 and got here at 5:00. and yeah, the lines are longer than they usually are. i think that is good to leave early and so you could make sure you have everything and be prepared. reporter: leave early and be prepared. words of wisdom coming from a 13-year-old kid who is on his way to a family vacation. i spoke with the woman on her way to belize to be with her in-laws for a tropical
the united states is not going anywhere. it s come mmitted to that regio the president spoke in the plus three summit, saudi arabia, kuwait,egypt, i iraq, jordan, the plus three there. near the top of the agenda for biden, the issue of energy production, also security in the region, the war in yemen countering iran and overall of this, also the murder of a washington post journalist. reporter: jamal khashoggi clearly very much high on the agenda for the president of the united states. he s trying, though, to turn the page on u.s. relations with saudi arabia right now, which are so important. he wants to strengthen ties with saudi arabia and other countries in the middle east. listen to how he summed up the u.s. role in the region just a little while ago going forward. listen to this. let me state clearly that the united states is going to remain an active engaged partner in the middle east. as the world grows more competitive and the challenges we face more complex,
plus president biden meets with the saudi crown prince and says he did raise the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. now the crown prince is firing back. plus more than half the country is seeing high community spread of coronavirus. and now some cities are reconsidering mask mandates. newsroom starts right now. good morning. it is saturday, july 16th. i m kristin fisher. i can t believe it s already july 16th. we re halfway through the month. it s flowna by. this whole year has flown by. i m boris sanchez. we start with new revelations, the january 6th committee digging into reports that the secret service deleted text messages sent the day before and during the insurrection. the committee issued a subpoena to the secret service yesterday after meeting with the inspector general of the department of homeland security. we should note this is the first time the committee has subpoenaed an agency in the executive branch. and earlier this week a gov
so let s walk through what happened. three days ago, july 13th, the dhs, the inspector general which was looking into the secret service handling of january 6, they notified capitol hill to say that there were text messages that were erased as part of a data migration process that dhs was doing and that present there were missing text messages from secret service phones on january 5th and 6th. the dhs inspector general was clearly very frustrated with this and felt like they weren t getting the information they wanted out of the secret service for their investigation. told capitol hill then that watch dog, the chief there, did brief all nine members of house select committee about this yesterday for several hours. the committee members emerged from that meeting very concerned. here is what congresswoman zoe lofgren said afterwards. here she is. i will say that the explanation that you have to factory re-set and eliminate your data without backing up your data just seems i