to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but we ll start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. here s an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? we ll make a decision as a committee about it. there is possible there will be a criminal referral. yes. which would be effectively the committee saying he should be prosecuted, and this is the evidence we ve the justice department doesn t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral. there could be more than one criminal referral. i have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren t held accountable for what s happened here. i think it s a much graver constitutional threat if a president c
around the world, i m john berman in highland, park, illinois, about 25 miles north of chicago. brianna keilar in new york this morning. behind me is the scene where now 24 hours ago six people were killed in a fourth of july parade. another 25 injured. and you can see the street behind me, it s a moment frozen in time. it was 10:15 a.m. where a shooter opened fire from a rooftop two blocks hence. but you can see the streets here littered with the beach chairs, towels, i see a frisbee, a beach ball, frozen in time, where people fled in every direction when they heard dozens of gunshots ring out from that roof. now, police say the shooter got to the roof from a back alley using a ladder, they called the shooting intentional, but random. now, eight hours after the shooting itself police did apprehend a person they re calling a person of interest. they also called this 22-year-old man a suspect. they got him after a short police chase. police got him on a road about five miles f
mandates from transportation secretary pete buttigieg to have their acts together by july 4th. it s a big win for passengers. more than 9 million people screened at nation airports from friday to sunday. 2.9 million people on friday. that s the highest number we ve seen since february 11th, 2020, a new pandemic-era travel record. it s also a huge win for workers. remember, they are often caught in the middle of these roving delays and cancellations. i want you to listen to sara nelson, the president of association of flight attendants who said this is good for agents, everybody at the airlines. oftentimes, crews are waiting for one, two, three, four hours to get in touch with a crew scheduler. that means if we re not getting our next assignment, we re timing out. we re very frustrated with the airlines coming back and operational support during this time too. reporter: brianna, remember, the root of all of this, airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic in terms of workers and p
international airport is nbc isa gutierrez. isa, i had to do some flying in recent days, airports packed. analysts predicted that air travel would return to pre-pandemic levels this weekend. is that what s happening? reporter: absolutely. aaa had predicted about 3.5 million people traveling by air this weekend. you heard george say over 4.6 million people since friday. yesterday alone, tsa screened over 2 million people. that number we hadn t hit since february 11th, 2020, before the pandemic. they had also predicted 42 million people hitting the roads. of course, we still have the whole day ahead. already, we re surpassing those predictions. as you can see behind me, this is not letting up any time soon. you know, cancellations, flight delays, over 17,000 delays since
each other. and no one had called the police. travis is outside in the pickup truck, finally calling the police. he stays on for about four minutes and then officer ash appears. that didn t teach anybody here a lesson at all. brooke perez was trying to tell them, no, my husband is over there with a gun. be careful. but greg mcmichael took off according to travis s statement, went down the street and down to that house. so we ve got july 2019, february 11th, 2020. not calling 9-1-1 first. not staying home, but wanting to seek out in a vigilante manner a confrontation with people that they suspect might be doing something that they, themselves,