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?
president biden: i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don t know what s in the documents. i have turned over the boxes. they have turned over the boxes to the archive and we re cooperating fully with the review and which i hope will be finished soon. harris: a big decision now in the hands of the nation s attorney general merrick garland. he had already appointed a u.s. attorney to investigate. i would ask next then will he tap a special counsel like he did in the case of the raid on former president trump s mar-a-lago office? democrats say there is no comparison between the two presidents actions. they are defending biden. we are going to support the fact that the president is following this established protocol. that he did the right thing. the appropriate process was followed. this is not mar-a-lago or a president refusing a subpoena. i don t think it compares at all
very busy tuesday morning. right now president biden is facing questions over how he handled classified documents when he was vice president. his attorneys found those documents from his time as vp in a private office and we should note turned them over immediately to the national archives. attorney general merrick garland calling on a u.s. attorney to now investigate any potential damage. we will discuss the impact and also how this case differs from former president trump s handling of classified documents. all this as the president wakes up this morning in mexico. immigration of course a top priority as cnn learns new details about the president s plan now to curb the surge at the southern border. plus evacuations under way in several parts of california as deadly storms slam the state. intense flooding leading to mudslides, power outages. check out this scene. this is in santa clarita. first responders you see there rescuing people from submerged cars. as this have mo
buffalo bills star damar hamlin just one week ago collapsing on that field. tonight, he s now left a cincinnati hospital flown to a buffalo hospital and the scene inside his hospital room as the bills won. at least 1,500 under arrest tonight. the attack in brazil on the government, echoing the scenes from the u.s. capitol after their ex-president claimed a rigged election. ex-president bolsonaro here in the u.s., in florida. will be he extradited to brazil? marcus moore is there. president biden in mexico tonight after his visit to the u.s./mexico border amid this immigration and humanitarian crisis at the border. tonight, president biden s new crackdown. what are these new steps and will they work? how the numbers have already come down in recent weeks. what s driving this? mary bruce with the president. on the hill tonight house speaker kevin mccarthy s first big test. after 15 rounds of votes just to become speaker and a near fight in the house chamber, what did he a
diaz-balart. the latest of a string of powerful and deadly rainstorms reeking havoc on california forcing thousands of evacuations and leading to rescues. the storms killing as many as 15 people. a 5-year-old is still missing a the this hour. months after the fbi searched donald trump s mar-a-lago home for classified documents, lawyers for president biden say also found classified materials in biden s private office. we ll break down what we know about that. and next how the president will stand alongside justin trudeau along with their joint summit. where the crisis will take center stage. and any minute now on capitol hill, house republicans will hold a press conference ahead of what could be an exlowsive battle within the party over committee assignments over the new congress takes shape. we ll talk to the congressman about that. we begin this morning with the intense rain pounding california leaving more than 34 million people under a flood watch. a series of powerful