variant. also this morning the white house announcing that president biden is reversing course will be lifting covid travel restrictions on southern african countries. controversial implications and the number of cases is staggering in some places in the united states. infections from the new strain have quickly surpassed last summer s delta surge. the daily average of new cases is now surging over 182,000. health officials honestly unclear on where the peak is going to be. let s start with cnn s pete muntean live at reagan national airport for us. pete, what is happening with these flights? reporter: kate, 500 flight cancellations in the united states alone, and airlines say as these omicron cases start to surge, their staffing levels went down, which led to them cancelling these flights. from flight aware, about 170 cancellations at unaied alone, 140 at delta air lines. last night we obtained a memo from you nighted to its staff saying this was impacting flight crews and
plenty of rain, but some great success for a very familiar sporting face today. success for a very familiar sporting face toda . ., . , success for a very familiar sporting face today- face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have opened - face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have opened here - face today. exactly, sarah. the heavens have opened here at l heavens have opened here at cheltenham, but little down dampen the spirit of sir alex ferguson. he hasn t had a festival winner before today, and that he had one with him on morale at the start of the day, and that he had second in the ryanair chase. you could see the look on sir alex ferguson s face when he celebrated those two winners. it looked like the joy that we were used to seeing when he was a football manager. i asked dan skelton if he had ever spoken to sir alex about the impact of being a winning owner and what it means to him. of being a winning owner and what it
good morning. welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, march 9. i m victor blackwell. his horizontals in for amara walker. thanks for joining us. and you look refreshed, coming back from vacation. thank you very much. i m a couple of shades. darker. got a little red toner into there. what i want to beat, feel better all right. here s what we re watching. were you this weekend will get a preview of what to expect in a head-to-head rematch between president biden and former president trump as the to hold dueling rallies here in georgia today. plus, we ll discuss a biden campaign strategy to try to seize on momentum from the state of the union address tornado watches are in effect across parts of the southeast this morning with some major cities at risk for tornados and dangerous hail we re also tracking a significant flood threat. cnn got exclusive access to one of the first ship set to bring cool. so humanitarian supplies to gaza well, show you what s being del
entitled to a portion of that money all when 808 that s when 808, 5-9, 2,400 present biden and his cabinet members are hitting the campaign trail, taking his message to voters in battleground states after an unusually forceful we ll state of the union speech and former president trump is welcoming hungry strongman leader viktor orban to mar-a-lago. today, trump has repeatedly praised him for his hardline policies. we re live in palm beach, florida, plus the pentagon is developing a ufo detection kit to collect better data on possible the sightings even though they say they haven t found any evidence yet of alien technology which truth is out there. and we re going to get to it as we follow these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central president biden is about to arrive for a campaign event in pennsylvania, and he is hoping to bring some momentum to his reelection bid after last night s pretty passioned, impassioned state of the
with a big focus on the southern border and the broken immigration system i want to get straight to cnn s priscilla alvarez, who s been traveling today with the president priscilla. the georgia audience heard a lot of overlap at the rally tonight between the state of the union and his message there in atlanta. but the president also apologized for something that he said to the country on thursday night. what did he say? that s right, alex. and it was a bit of a pivot. he was referred he was asked, i should say, about his comments during the state of the union when referencing the alleged suspect in the laken riley killing here in georgia in the moment he called that person, any legal that s a term that has long been decried right. immigrant advocates. but when interviewed on msnbc today, the president said that he should have said the word on documented documented version. i shouldn t have usually gone as undocumented and look, when i spoke about the different future in