Busiest day of the long Holiday Weekend, while dealing with a nationwide air Traffic Controller shortage. Plus, what are some of the most turbulent routes in the country . As we get new details from an American Family on the frightening Singapore Airlines flight. Plus the best and worst times to hit the road, and the warning from amtrak before rush hour. George tornado season strikes texas overnight. This morning ginger tracking a new threat and record heat and the Holiday Travel trouble spots. Michael overnight, deadly stage collapse. At least nine People Killed and dozens sent to the hospital. The audience in mexico scrambling to get out of the way. George new questions for Justice Alito. A flag tied to the insurrection spotted outside his beach home. Michael Idaho College murder suspect due in court. Who will take the stand that could change the whole case . Robin new trouble for sean diddy combs, facing new allegations in a sixth civil lawsuit. 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George also ahead sticker shock at the grocery store. Customers are demanding cuts. Ceo of aldi will join us with where he sees prices going as we head into the memorial day weekend. Michael Holiday Travel is already under way, with today expected to be the busiest day to fly. Look at some of the busiest airports in america. Travellers getting an early start in my home town of houston. Its already looking busy in chicago. Trevor ault starts us off at La Guardia Airport for us. Good morning, trevor. Reporter good morning, michael. So it is a beautiful but a very busy morning on the tarmac at la guardia. This American Airlines flight to charlotte takes off in about an hour. No surprise, it is completely full. American has the busiest schedule through memorial day weekend. Nearly 4 million customers, 36,000 flights. Thats just one airline. In fact, the tsa said already this month they have had four of their ten busiest days ever. We are just getting started. This morning the travel rush is officially under way. The faa expecting more than 53,000 planes in the sky today alone, the launch point for what the tsa says will likely be the busiest summer on record. Well see several, over 3 million passenger days across the entire 430 airports that are in the United States. Thats a pretty big increase from last year. And last year was a big increase from the year before. So record volumes without question. Reporter while the agency and the airlines say theyre ready for the crush of travellers, there is a nationwide shortage of air Traffic Controllers, about 3,000 fewer than theyd like. Thats just not sustainable. Its not good for the traveling public. Its not good for the aviation system. Weve certainly done our part. We want to help the faa to make sure that theyre able to provide staff at the levels we need. Reporter Airline TradeAssociation Airlines for america now launching a campaign urging the department of transportation and the faa to bring in more air Traffic Controllers. The shortage at times blamed for cancelled and delayed flights, exhaustion among the working air Traffic Controllers, even forcing airlines to cut 10 of their flights in the new york area. The faa also dealing with at least 23 serious close calls between planes at airports nationwide last year. We really need the situation to be solved. Reporter and to try to meet this crazy demand, a lot of airlines have been flying bigger planes. Get more seats, more people on board. Lot of airlines, including american, have been flying more flights outside the new york area. Make sure they can get everybody where they need to go. George . George trevor, thanks. Lets bring in the faa administrator, michael whitaker. Thank you for joining us. We just heard how busy a travel weekend this is going to be. Youve been facing staffing shortages. Can you handle it . Well, were ready for this. Weve planned for this. We know its going to be a busy weekend. Were glad to see the traffic come back. Our first job is safety at the faa, 45,000 employees, all hands on deck 24 7 to make sure this runs smoothly and we get everyone where theyre going safely. Were watching the weather very closely. Its thunderstorm season. Weve got storms from tennessee from texas up to maine. Were going to be working with the airlines to get them through the storms safely. George i know your first concern is safety. Should people be expecting delays and cancellations this weekend . Only if it is coming from the weather. Thats one thing we cant control. About 65 of cancellations come from weather. Less than 1 come from staffing issues. Were not anticipating delays from staffing, but the weather is out of our control and were just gonna try to work and navigate safely through that. George lets go back to safety. What do you say to americans who are concerned what about appears to be a recent spike in incidents with the airlines . Well, we look at each incident closely. Were working closely with airlines and with manufacturers to make sure all the Safety Standards are met. Safetys a team sport. Everybody has to do their part. Our job is to make sure thats being done. George so much focus has been on boeing. The deadline for them to submit their plan to turn things around is next week. What are you expecting from them . Weve been working closely with them the last 90 days on what that plan is going to look like. Its to bring the quality back to their factor reus. To bring the Safety System where it needs to be. And bring the culture where it needs to be, so employees can speak up when they see something thats concerning. What we are seeing next week is the plan going forward, its not the end of the process, its the beginning. Its going to be a long road to get back to where they need to be making safe air planes. George the airlines are sounding the alarm about staffing shortages. The air Traffic Control shortages. How do you respond to that campaign . What exactly are you doing now to address these shortages . Well, since i was sworn in in october, this has been a top priority. Weve actually done quite a bit. We have worked to make sure we can hire directly from the military more efficiently. We are working with universities to allow direct hiring through there. Were keeping our own academy at capacity. So we are hiring at capacity. It takes a long time to make an air Traffic Controller. Takes a lot of training. Could be 18 to 24 months. We are not going to rush that. Weve got the pipeline we need. Now its time to train those employees and get them in the towers. George mr. Whitaker, thanks for your time. Robin . Robin all right, george. Thanks very much. Now to the best and worst times to hit the road and the best time to go. Morgan norwood is tracking the latest. Reporter the holiday rush already beginning to get under way. While we expect millions to take to the skies, far more will be driving. Aaa predicts 38. 4 Million People will travel by car on memorial day. That is the highest number since they started tracking back in 2000. Were looking at a 4 jump from last year. We can see the traffic already starting to build up on the highways there. I will tell you the worst time to leave will be from noon to 6 p. M. , tomorrow from noon to 7 00 p. M. Then the bulk of the afternoon saturday, sunday, monday, you wont be able to catch a break. Lets talk the best time to avoid a slowdown. Before 11 00 a. M. Or late in the evening. Be sure you plan ahead if youll be hitting the roads this weekend. Robin . George new questions and criticism for Supreme CourtJustice Samuel alito as the New York Times posted pictures of a flying outside his summer home. This comes after the revelation last week that another Flag Associated with january 6 had been flying at his primary home. Chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has details. Good morning, pierre. Reporter george, good morning. Everyone knows Justice Alito is a staunch conservative, but this morning more questions are being raised about whether he has political bias with two critical january 6 cases now before the u. S. Supreme court. This morning only days after it was revealed that Supreme CourtJustice Samuel alito flew a Flag Associated with january 6th rioters at his virginia home, hes facing new questions about another flag tied to supporters of President Trump. The New York Times publishing images of a pine try flag outside his new jersey beach home last summer with the words appeal to heaven. Like the upside down flag which had become synonymous with the stop the steal movement and flown in alitos home t pine tree flag was carried by some pro Trump Supporters on january 6th as the capitol was attacked. Take a look at these images and you will see both flags clearly on display on january 6th as the mayhem unfolded. Its unclear who posted the pine tree flag and what kind, if any, statement, was being made. The pine tree flag dates back to the revolutionary war and was flown on war ships commissioned under george washington. But in recent years the symbol has been associated with christian nationalism. Supreme Court Justices are supposed to avoid the appearance of political bias and democrats have already argued alito should recuse himself from the january 6th cases now before the high court, including one which will resolve whether President Trump has immunity from prosecution. This week democrats pounced on alitos upside down flag controversy, raising questions about political bias. Look, i think what he did was really the wrong thing to do, and it cast some doubt on impartiality and im discussing with senator durbin where we should go from here. Reporter alito said the flag was placed at his home by his wife, who was in a dispute with a neighbor. Justice alito has yet to comment on the latest flag questions, though Supreme Court decisions on january 6th are expected in the coming days and weeks, michael. Michael thank you very much. Were going to turn to another round of Severe Weather. Tornados striking texas overnight as parts of iowa that were hard hit this week clean up the wreckage. Victor oquendo is on the scene in greenfield, iowa. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, michael. This is what an ef3 tornado can do. These were homes and businesses levelled, ripped to shreds. While the residents pick up the pieces, overnight another round of Severe Weather. Overnight, three possible tornados touch down in texas leaving over 100,000 customers without power. In bell county all the power lines are down. Reporter a possible tornado tore through, levelling homes and businesses. In neighboring arkansas, debris flying through the air as powerful storms pounced. Meanwhile, in iowa, greenfield banding together after much of the town was reduced to rubble, following a deadly ef3 tornado tuesday. Overnight, authorities confirming at least four people were killed, 35 injured, with a fifth person killed about 25 miles from greenfield. The hospital so badly damaged its expected to be closed for months. Do you recognize any of this stuff you see here . Absolutely not. Reporter jay harder and dwon cam raised their two daughters in their house of 26 years. I just couldnt believe something could do this. Reporter joe newell lived in this home for 50 years and thought she lost everything. You have found a few things. Yes. Reporter show us. My wedding band. Reporter a small fraction of her life still here. Can you believe you were able to find all this . No, nope. Glad to have it back. Reporter joan also found her wedding album. It was about 300 yards away from her home. Fema will be on the ground here today in greenfield. The white house says that they are ready, willing to support this community as needed. Robin . Robin and they do have great need there. All right, victor. Thank you. Ginger, back in the studio. Shes tracking where the Severe Weather is headed next. Such an active tornado season. Ginger it is. We had some slow years. Whats really remarkable is we were below average going into may. Then the last month we have seen more than half of the tornado count of the 705 weve seen. Its been very busy just the last few weeks. Average 578 through the end of may. Unfortunately, were gonna keep pumping this number up. Going through this weekend we have day after day after day of not just severe storms but a tornado threat. Lets talk about it. Fargo down to waco and dallas, today damaging wind, lincoln, omaha, kansas. But remember, this is the weekend where everybody makes plans to go outside, to have barbecues. Most of the days start with sunshine. Thats the fuel for a tornado or severe thunderstorm that has winds at 70 plus. Weve got friday storms that include chicago for travel. Note that, down to dallas. But then, this is the part. Saturday and sunday. I want everybody here from eastern kansas right through oklahoma, missouri, arkansas and into that paducah, kentucky, area. Thats what im concerned with. Sunday looking really big and all the days leading up to it. Well have more numbers adding to that count. Robin all right, ginger. Thank you. High winds leading to a deadly stage collapse in mexico leaving at least nine dead, sending dozens to the hospital. Matt rivers is following the latest on this for us. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, robin. Mexicos elections will take place june 2nd. Political rallies in full swing across the country. Unfortunately, overnight one of those rallies did turn deadly. We have some video to show you. It happened in northern mexico at a rally for a long shot president ial candidate. In the video posted on x, you can see the moment a strong wind gust topples the stage. People scrambling to get out of the way of the collapsing canopy, while others screaming and running for cover. At least nine People Killed and dozens sent to the hospital. Among the dead, one minor. Rescue teams working throughout the night pulling people from under the stage which had been erected on a baseball field. Winds up to 35 miles an hour were expected. As rescue efforts continue, and because there are still dozens of people in the hospital, unfortunately, that death toll could very well rise. Guys . Michael unexpected tragedy there. Thank you so much for that, matt. Now to the college team watching their golf clubs get tossed on the tarmac with a National Championship on the line. Im not playing for a National Championship, neither is george, but we would be angry at what happened here, will. Yeah, michael. Good morning, everybody. With the Memorial Day Travel rush really heating up right now, luggage handling is top of mind for a lot of travellers. For golfers, if youre a golfer, as many of us here are, this makes your stomach drop and blood boil. Same goes if youre just a person who values your stuff. This video from the east Tennessee State golf team has been making the rounds with many millions of views. Those are delta baggage handlers just tossing those teams clubs off the plane. They were frustrated. Swinging them all over the tarmac as the players watched in horror. The team was on their way to the Ncaa Division i Golf Tournament. Reportedly some clubs were damaged. Delta posting an apology on social media saying, quote, were so sorry. Its not who we are and that theyre working to make it right. In a statement the airline also asking for a mulligan. The ncaa Golf Tournament begins tomorrow. [ laughter ] robin explain for those who dont know a mulligan is a doover. If i were a golfer whose 6 iron got snapped, i would ask them to play it as it lies. George well done, will. [ laughter ] michael i was going to Say Something to do with fore. Id ask for four new clubs. [ laughter ] i dont know. George coming up the new trouble for sean diddy com