we ll analyze his budget and then we ll get to work on our budget. but unfortunately with the president being so far delayed, delays others in the process. speaker kevin mccarthy doesn t have a budget proposal ready, and according to him it s president biden s fault. this comes as the president is breaking with tradition and hitting the road to unveil his spending plan. also ahead, the ceo of norfolk southern will be on capitol hill today to testify before a senate panel. we ll have a preview of that hearing. plus we re going to get a live update from ukraine following a string of deadly missile strikes overnight. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 9th. thanks for starting your day with us. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has been hospitalized after falling at a washington, d.c. hotel last night. according fooa spokesperson mcconnell who is 81 years old tripped during a private dinner. he was admitted to the hospital where he s
brand-new at 2:00. hi, sandra. sandra: sandra smith in new york. right into a jam packed hour with this fox news alert. faa has been charged with modernizing notam for ten years. why has it taken ten years? we have been on a journey of modernization. let me ask again, why has it taken ten years and why is it still not done. it does take a while. these systems the complexity. everyone shut down the first time since 9/11. john: acting head of the faa getting grilled on capitol hill over the air travel debacle, the first nationwide ground stop since the september 11th attacks. sandra: faa says it is now taking steps to avoid a repeat of that massive system failure but already several incidents of near collisions have travelers rethinking their next trips. john: even some lawmakers questioning the agency s priorities, listen here. do you believe that that is your mission at the faa to mitigate climate change and increase equity, is that your job at the faa?
that seeks to deny the real fears in the communities. as a result of historic racism exacerbated by a former president and media allies who describe the coronavirus pandemic as the china virus or kung flu for more than a year up to and as recently as this week. the right is doubling down on the violence trutherism with this comment from congresswoman chip roy. we believe in justice. there is an old saying in texas find the rope and get a tall oak tree. you know, we take justice very seriously. we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. my concern about this hearinging is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we are talking about whether talking about china, the chi coms, whatever phrasing we want to use, if some people say we think those people are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party are the bad guys. and i think that they re harming people. those remarks prompted an immediate outcry, among these colleagues in
the ocean, so you know, you experience a lot of turbulence, turbulence that s one thing. this was obviously more severe than that, but without knowing your proximity, i think, you know, we also realized, too, going to hawaii is a bucket list item so to come home and scare people from going there, you know, we got home safely, kudos to the flight and the crew, you know, as far as keeping the cabin calm. they did everything they could to keep everybody at ease, and obviously we are going to figure out what the cause was, but regardless i m thankful that the pilot and the crew and everybody was able to rely on their expertise, their training to be able to get us out of that harrowing situation. john: hopefully they gave you a few free drinks too calm everybody down on the way back. pretzels, too. rod, we are glad you made it and see what the investigation yields. thank you.
does this open the door for this to be a terrorism-related charge in, in fact, the individual behind this is using, as you just mentioned, real explosives with real intent to harm? when you look at the legal definition of terrorism, this appears likely, because terrorism is defined and i m paraphrasing as acts that are intended to intimidate or change policy or intimidate large groups of people. so with that loose definition of terrorism, it s highly likely that somebody, depending on what the investigation yields and what the intent behind sending these devices was, this could be considered an act of terrorism. i just want to double check. so firearm, it has to have something that would have been flammable, something that would blow up, or not necessarily? it does. you need the component parts for it to be considered a destructive device which is part of the definition of firearm under federal law. but as long as those component parts are there, a fusing