attention and watch it because it s pretty important. hope is not a strategy. should get something done. this is true. i m gillian turner. we re on mccarthy watch. we ll bring you any news out of the speaker s office as it comes out at this hour. a presidential candidate is raising alarms, saying linkedin intentionally censored him. this was no accident. this was intentional viewpoint-based censorship. i fear it s just the beginning of what we ll see all over again this election cycle like we did in the last one. he s accusing microsoft-owned linkedin of shutting down his posts on climate and china. the company s response and mollie hemingway just head. passengers near pre-pandemic levels. as to has already screened over 2.6 million people, the highest number since 2019, pre-pandemic. spike and near misses on runways have hit the industry hard as it is trying to bounce back. president biden s transportation chief says things are getting better. listen. we re a l
negotiators locked in a stalemate with a little more breathing room. the treasury department estimating the u.s. will go into default on june 5th, giving both sides an extra four days to reach a deal. some republicans refusing to pass a deal unless their demands are met. what is at stake for millions of americans. 12 people taken to the hospital with respiratory issues. geo bonito standing by. the holiday travel rushes on. 42 million americans expected to drive or fly over the long memorial day weekend. more passengers expected to fly since before the pandemic. severe storms from texas to colorado could impact holiday plans. the warning about possible rip currents from florida to the northeast. rob marciano timing out. 24 hours after the founder of the oath keepers was sentenced to 18 years in prison, two members sentenced for their roles in the january 6th attack on the capital. martha raddatz here tonight. surveillance video showing an alarming school bus crash in south car
2.5 million passengers today alone, amid questions of whether the system can handle it after last year s summer travel meltdown, and the roads are just as packed. plus, imagine if this was your pilot locked out of the cockpit climbing in through the window. also tonight, we ll show you the terrifying new video. a passenger apparently opens an airplane door midair. the wind whipping through the cabin. how it was able to happen. the new deadline just announced when the u.s. will default on its bills if there is no debt ceiling agreement. are we any closer to a deal? new concerns about the health of pope francis. a fever forcing him to cancel events. new insight from the reporter who intervieiewed him face-to-face just yesterday. the u.s. coast guard joining an urgent search in the bahamas for an american teen, who went overboard while celebrating his high school graduation. the critical shortage of more than a dozen cancer drugs. patients being turned away from their
airports around the country are seeing the biggest memorial day in years. and also, a passenger opens up an exit door mid flight, and it is captured on camera, and we have video right here on cnn news central. kevin mccarthy speaks just moments ago, and we got new information about where the negotiations stand on avoiding a default, and maybe reaching a deal on raising the debt ceiling. now, hints of optimism overnight, but to state the obvious, until there is a deal, there is no deal. the stock market had been up on hin hints of signs of what is about to happen, and members were going home, but they need to be within hours of getting back. lauren fox, standing by on capitol hill, and you just heard from speaker kevin mccarthy, and what did he say? he is optimistic that a deal can come together very soon, but he noted there are still some outstanding sticking points. he said they made progress last night, and hoping to make more progress this morning. he met by bike w
day. his secret service code name is celtic. that s how irish he is. here he was today with the irish prime minister. every st. patrick s day, every irishman goes out to find another irishman to make a speech to. well, that s why i m here. i, like all after you, take pride in my irish ancestry. as long as i can remember, it s been a part of my soul how i ve been raised. he takes pride in his ancestry but he joked he s not really irish because he s sober and his family isn t in jail, at least not yet. get it, the irish drink and get arrested a lot. watch. i ve been to ireland many times but not to look up to find my actual family members. there s so member. they weren t in jail. all kidding aside, i met the finighans and all the folks we re related to. i m the only irishman that s never had a drink. that s okay. i m not irish. you have to wonder how his countrymen in the puerto rican community is. here he is giving credit to the irish. they might feel slighted in puert