. delta 94, cancel takeoff times. tonight, close calls. it would have been catastrophic had a collision taken place. bird strikes. it s really hard to know how long we were going to survive trying to breathe in that. dangerous turbulence. this felt like a roller coaster. it is one of the days you count your blessings. unruly passengers. system meltdowns. we have been delayed three times. there are no more flights today that would get us there on time. america s aviation industry facing headwinds and life and death questions about the safety of passengers and the future of flying. cnn takes you into the air. on the runway and inside the tower to get the answers. flight risk, a cnn prime time special starts right now. good evening. i m kate baldwin. the faa is holding a safety summit to figure out what s happening in america s skies and tonight we re getting answers with a visual in depth look at some of the biggest concerns. we have simulations and fir
signals it may restore donald trump s gag order in the federal election subversion case but loosen some restrictions. we ll tell you why the former president took the green light for some public attacks on special counsel jack smith. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in israel. the families of hostages held by hamas just made an urgent appeal to the netanyahu government, pushing for action to bring their relatives homes. cnn s nic robertson is following all the new developments from his position overlooking gaza. nic, what is the latest? reporter: there does some to be some optimism around the hostages. the reality is in every sort of hostage family that i ve talked to here reminds me when i speak about the possibility of getting their loved ones home, they say you have to recognize and understand that hamas is not a state actor. it is not a ration
large flock of large birds, canada geese. you know, they have five or six feet wingspans, weigh 10 or 12 pounds and two of them went into the core of the engines, damaging them irreparably. what happened to us was an outlier. is there anything pilots can do other than the miracle that you pulled off when it comes to if they encounter more and more from here on out? not much. we could be vigilant, but it is difficult to see birds far enough away to fly them when you are flying a jet aircraft that s flying 318 feet per second. you might be able to see them a mile away, but that s not very long. what s more effective is the airport environment, how well it s managed and if they can make the airport environment something that s not conducive to having birds there. you know, no water, no marsh land. no marsh lands, no food
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it could handle a hurricane. if it makes it to category one, the marsh lands are sparsely populated but starting to see the flow from the southeast. that is the storm surge we ll talk about. it does change its trajectory yesterday making it up the ohio river and this time it makes its way towards st. louis. they had two major crests on the mississippi this year. so that s astonishing by itself and all that rain makes its way back towards louisiana again. so the biggest threats right now are what? heavy rainfall for the entire region, and the surge. even though we re looking at maybe three to five-foot surge this is not like hurricane isaac back in 20 what was it, 2012 where we had of course a nine to 12-foot storm surge. this three to five foot surge will be enough to impede the flow of the mississippi that s expected to hit 19 feet.