price hike for the covid vaccine. senator bernie sanders calls it outrageous. he joins us live. this is what we re watching this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. two big stories we re tracking. first, a major outage is causing huge flight disruptions. thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. rue now the faa did lift the ground stop that par liesed domestic air travel. the cause still unclear right now, even as airlines are starting to get flights back up in the air. we re also keeping a very close eye on the deadly storms in california. at least 17 people have been killed from what is now weeks of rain, floods, mudslides, and was some pretty big winds. as bad as it is already, more rain is still on the way. let s start with pete muntean. he s at reagan national airport. pete, a computer outage that absolutely no one needed right now. what is happening? reporter: no doubt, kate. the cascading effect is only beginning. 6100 at last check a flight
Morning starts now. Good morning, good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im vc egg tore blackwell. Im amara walker. Thanks for being with us. Were going to begin this morning with dangerous Weather Conditions caused by now posttropical cyclone lee. The storm is packing hurricaneforce winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surges as it swipes the new england coast. Now, while lee is not expected to make landfall in the u. S. , the outer bands of the powerful storm are already hitting the east coast, packing winds of 60 miles an hour and bringing storm surges that could cause flooding along the new england coast. Tropical Storm Warnings through nantucket and maine, and authorities are telling people to prepare to stay where you are as the storm pushes north through the day. Lees also expected to cause dangerous rip currents along the Atlantic Coast with a lot of states warning people to stay out of the ocean this weekend because of the dangerous surge conditions. Of course, were cove
exactly what he s pleading to and what exactly are the terms of the deal. there could be change in the administration. and it s not really clear. this investigation was under both of trump administration and the biden administration. there s a lot of politicalization around it, so she s wanting to make sure that everything lines up and hunter biden knows exactly what he s pleading guilty to. i m also curious, there was speculation whether he would hear directly from hupper biden early in the day, when we thought it was going to a boilerplate agreement, essentially put a stamp on it and move forward. what was his disposition like in court? i mean, he kept very
written and didn t spell out what possibilities existed. so she was asking the prosecutor, is the investigation still ongoing? and she was pressing him, what are you agreeing do and what is hunter biden pleading to? he couldn t say what potential charges were on the table, about you what they would not prosecutor under this is drug, tax or gun offenses. and she said what was about the fara charges? the prosecution said that means the deal is off the table if they re not agreeing to this. hupper biden s team said, if that s the case, then it s null and void. but then hunter biden s attorney said, can we have ten minutes to try to work it out?
kate? sara, thanks so much for the detail. joining me for more on this, is cnn political correspondent co-host of state of the union , dana bash, and also former pros prosecutor shan wu. what do they make of this? it s very predictal. they made campaign promises over and over, that they were not only going to be more aggressive about general oversight of the executive branch, but more specifically about well, in addition to it, i should say, get into questions about hupper biden, about the president, and it s specifically what they ve been very excited about it, but very plea pared for. prepared for.