Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
and it was not til 10, 15 minutes before my flight was supposed to take off i finally found out this all happened and so it is very frustrating. the one day we leave early, we got a delay and everything. now it s all backed up. this is insane. i don t know what to make of it. trying to be like calm and relaxed at the same time, but everything is very intense. john: begin america reports with frustrated travelers sounding off after a systems outage at the federal aviation administration grounded domestic flights nationwide. flights are back up in the sky, but there could still be trouble ahead for travelers. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome to wednesday. sandra: flying is frustrating to begin with, put this in the mix, it s a major headache. faa system went off, preventing pilots from receiving preflight safety notices. the president weighed in saying the cause for the outage is not yet known. what is known is the system failure will cause a
to justify the search of donald trump s home in florida. coming up in this week s film review, idris elba fights a lion in beast. what does anna smith think of this adventure thriller? she ll tell us and review the rest of the week s film releases. millions of households in england, scotland and wales are likely to see their energy bills soar by more than 80% after the regulator ofgem raised its price cap. that s the maximum amount consumers on a standard variable tariff can be charged per unit. at the moment, the average household is paying an annual bill of £1971. in october, that willjump to £3549 a year, and almost £60 more if you re on a prepayment meter. and the price cap could go higher still. some analysts predict it will be more than £5300 a year injanuary, and then more than £6600 in april. today s price cap announcement adds to the burden of the current cost of living crisis, with prices for food and petrol already rising rapidly, and taxes and interest rates
horrific state of mass shootings including racist attack in buffalo, new york and massacre of 19 children and two teachers at grade school in uvalde, texas, any new legislation would need at least 60 votes to pass in the senate and simple majority in the house. associate editor of the wall street journal and fox news contributor john busse is standing for analysis but first we go to lucas tomlinson with breaking news. lucas: moments ago the white house putting out a statement from president biden saying that this is a proposal, i want to thank chris murphy especially cornyn synema, there s the word again. does not do everything that i think is needed but reflects important steps in the direction. every day passes more children are at risk to be killed from mass shootings or shootings across the country. in 2020 there were 21,000 murders and after spade of mass shootings, buffalo, uvalde, chattanooga and philadelphia. our colleague mike emanuel has put up news, gop republican