His massive spending plan with the price tag remaining the huge Sticking Point at this point. John progressives calling for 3. 5 trillion in spending but moderate say they want to package that costs less than half of that and a key biden ally said it could fall somewhere in between. Around 2 trillion. Sandra Jacqui Heinrich is here with the latest from the white house to kick things off, hey. Good afternoon to both of you guys. Chris coons said publicly what we have known through our own stories same for a little over two weeks now at the white house to broker roughly 2 trillion Reconciliation Package reaching an agreement between House Progressives and the moderate senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. But since the last deadline came and went two weeks ago, there has really been no progress. Progressives are think that is their fault. One of them is very much fined with that tax pieces. So one of them does not really support that. One supports Prescription Drug pricing so that ame
That have put restrictions in place on medication, abortion itself. But if the Supreme Court rules with the appeals court, which essentially has rolled back some of the accessibility of mifepristone. All of those states would be subject to the restrictions on access says to this medication, some of the challenges here are around the safety of the medicine and whether the fda acted appropriately scholars and experts in the Pharmaceutical Industry Point out the safety of this medicine has been proven over the decades since its been on the market. They say the risk of serious complications is about 0. 3 using these medicines, sarah well, in just a few hours we are going to be paying attention to what the justices do as they consider whether to limit access to mifepristone. Thank you so much. Meg tirrell. Appreciate it. A new our Cnn News Central starts now these cnns breaking new. All right, the major Breaking News this morning the entire bridge is in the wall what are you were looking at
the travel nightmare that began before christmas is is still not over. pamela brown here in for anderson tonight. and when we left you last night, southwest airlines ceo was apologizing to all the passengers stranded by all the flights the company canceled due to the weather and its system meltdown. well, 24 hours later there are about another 2,500 reasons to apologize, as in about 2,500 more cancellations today and nearly as many tomorrow. and it s gotten to the point that southwest has been busing some people from airports as far away as new york s laguardia and denver to houston. details now from cnn s gabe cohen. reporter: tens of thousands of travelers still weathering southwest s meltdown without a clear end in sight. i m hungry and exhausted. i just want to go home. reporter: the airline canceling more than 2,500 flights wednesday. 62% of its schedule according to flight aware. with a similar wave of cancellations already shaping up for thursday. this has been
office in new york is now looking into lies told by republican congressman elect george santos. this as cnn is uncovering even more false claims that he s made. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. one of the biggest airline debacles in recent memory has stranded even more passengers this hour. we re following all the new cancellations and the delays by southwest airlines and efforts to get the airline back on track. cnn s reporter is over at bwi airport. this meltdown appears to be far from over, gabe. give us the latest, what are you learning? reporter: look, wolf, just another brutal day for these travelers. southwest canceling 2500 flights, more than 60% of its schedule. as you mentioned, it looks like tomorrow is just going to be more of the same. behind me, just a few of the passengers still searching for their lost luggage. some of them never got out for the holidays. others are
airlines meltdown that s leaving passengers stranded in terms analysis. we re going to talk to the president of the company s pilot association about what went and what is still going wrong. meanwhile, other airlines are struggling to get back to track after a monstrous winter storm pummelled the northern part of the country leaving more than 60 people dead. we re going to take you live to western new york. and this morning, another legal roadblock for migrants seeking asylum in the u.s. after the supreme court decided that title 42 will remain in place for now. we re going to be live in el paso. and as we speak, we re closely following news that s coming out of the vatican that s saying the 95-year-old former pontiff, pope benedict, has fallen very sick. pope francis now calling for prayers for from around the world. and later this hour, fresh fallout over that congressman-elect, george santos, facing new criticism after admitting to fabricating parts of his resume a