good morning, everyone. it is friday! friday! i m so happy to have my long time erica hill with me today. and next week. thank you for getting up super early. great to be with you. a lot going on this friday. let s get started with five things to know for friday, may 26th. the house negotiators are moving closer to avoid a default. it would lift the debt ceiling and cap spending for two years. memorial day weekend kicking off to be a very busy travel summer. aaa expects air travel to be higher than pre-covid levels. airlines face staffing shortages and air traffic control problems. two workers in mar-a-lago moved boxes of papers one day before the fbi visited the former president s home to pick up classified documents last year. the post also reporting that he had classified documents in his office at times and showed them to others. also in texas, lawmakers recommending articles of impeachment against the state s attorney general. they re accusing ken paxon o
now, i will say, this is a great day to be a mouse. this is a wonderful day to be an infected mouse. this is not going to be on the market for humans any time soon. you have to make sure it is safe. okay. but this morning we ll celebrate for for mice everywhere. elizabeth, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. not trying to scare you there. tell what you that was in a moment. in case you re traveling for the holiday weekend. so glad to have my friend erica hill with me today and next week. but that video was a flight in south korea, today someone parentally opened the emergency exit door while the plane was coming in for landing. no one was seriously hurt. this, here in the united states, summer travel season is kicking off and promising to be the busiest memorial day weekend since 2005. air travel roaring back after the pandemic. we ll take you live to reagan national as they face a critical stress test.
Difficult, especially against this bacteria. it is smart. it is super smart. it got straight a pluses in school, i m sure. it is learned to outwitt nearly all of the antibiotics that we throw at it. the traditional way of trying to come up with newant qui buy ottics is you test. let s trithis and that. and so you get in the lab and try all the things. maybe in a good system can you do test a million different properties to see if they work. the computer learns, it learns what is working and what s not. and so you can test many, many more properties or many more potential drugs at once. can you do hundreds of millions. can you do a billion until you land on the right one. so, these researchers, they came up with one. they put it on a mouse who was wounded and had an infection with that bacteria. and they found that not only did it work, but i didn t harm the good bacteria.
Super bugs. so what happened is through overuse of antibiotics over the last 30 years or so is that most bacteria that we encounter in the hospitals, for instance, have become resistant to antibiotics. that means what were once common treatments are no longer treatable using standard and yi buy ottics. it s not cost effective for them to search for new bacteria. it costs themmed 2dz billion to bring a new drug to the market. and the case of antibiotics, the drug is taken for a short time and can develop resistance. that s request large scale moek us moved away from antibiotics research over the past 30 years. even if big companies are looking this he keep returning to the same sources or trying to synthesize chemicals in a lab. but jasper had a different idea. in 2012, he set up a project called pharmacy funded by the european union. it brings 24 teams together with