lift, not just to the families, but also for tourists, businesses who have customers near the border. and this is an announcement that is coming just weeks after the white house vowed to lift bans on overseas travelers and as coronavirus numbers continue to trend in a positive direction, which, of course, is down. 38 states declining or holding steady on hospitalizations. 44 states seeing cases flat line or decline. rafael romo is standing by in mexico. first to paula newton in ottawa, canada, with our top story. paula? brianna, you know, when the border closed between the u.s. and canada, people didn t think it would last 19 days. we re at 19 months. and this is really been taking its toll not just on businesses from washington state all the way to new york state, whether you re talking about british columbia, ontario. it is families. they have been waiting for this day and finally later today we should get some details from the biden administration, sometime in november
for the january 6th select committee. the first round of in-person depositions is scheduled to take place for some of former president trump s closest allies. more documents are due today. and committee members warn that those who do not comply may face criminal contempt charges. plus, captain kirk goes where no other star trek character has ever gone before. 90-year-old william shatner becomes the holdest person to travel beyond the earth s atmosphere and he returns with some emotional, profound si insights. what you have given me is the most profound experience i can imagine. i m so filled with emotion about what just happened. i just it s extraordinary. extraordinary. i hope i never recover from this. i hope that i can maintain what i feel now. i don t want to lose it. that s really moving. and we will talk more about that in a moment. it was really good to hear. but first, to another mission of global proportions, president biden will try today to fix the br
becomes the oldest person in space. he s telling us what it felt like. he s a rocket man. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our money lead. president biden just announced new measures to try to fix a global supply chain crisis. the moves are in partnership, he says, with companies such as walmart, target and home depot. it s an effort to relieve backlogs that are threatening holiday shopping season and the nation s economic recovery. gas, milk, rent, kids shoes have all seen prices soar over the past year. that s in large part due to the pandemic, as well as not enough workers, as well as a cargo ship bottleneck out in california. but it also has to do with america s high inflation rate right now. and now as cnn s phil mattingly reports, president biden is racing to try to address yet another crisis. today we have some good news. we ll help speed up the delivery of goods all across america. reporter: facing mounting disruptions and
first look at william shatner weightless during his historic and deeply emotional flight to the edge of space. tonight, the actor who inspired americans to explore the cosmos is talking to cnn about his real-life star trek. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get to the breaking news. we re beginning with the january 6th investigation and the select committee s new subpoena targeting a high level accomplice in donald trump s attempted coup. let s go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. ryan, truly a significant week in the investigation. what are you learning? yeah, that s right, wolf. jeffrey clark was one of the department of justice officials who was pushing the former president s big lie within the agency. attempting to use the department of justice to look into claims of fraud in the 2020 election, despite there being no evidence of such
of the most famous tears in music history. today, the crying was all for her. colin paterson, bbc news, bray, county wicklow. sinead o connor, laid to rest today. what s behind the big rise in shoplifting the state of the economy, effective decriminalisation of petty crime, or technological advancements? shoplifting s been described by some retailers as an epidemic. tonight we ll talk to the head of security atjohn lewis. china s economy is faltering, with exports falling at their fastest rate since the pandemic. what impact will a slowdown of the world s second largest economy have on our own and all of us? as the chair of parliament s standards committee reveals he s been subject to inappropriate touching from five other mps we ll speak to sir chris bryant about his ideas for reforming wesminster s culture. and twin russian strikes on a city in eastern ukraine kill civilians, and then hit rescuers. another war crime say ukrainian officials. we ll speak to a human ri