welcome, everybody. we begin on the unofficial first day of the summer travel season. and you better pack your patience. 42 million americans will take to the skies this memorial day weekend. experts think it could be one of the busiest on record. now, the white house is pushing to avoid another flight mare like last year. president biden is touting his effort to compensation travelers for flight delays, quote, ledezma up for travelers this memorial day weekend. we launched flight rights.gov. if the flight was cancelled or delayed, check the dashboard to see how you could be compensated. transportation secretary pete buttigieg thinks it will serve as a big test for the airline system. this weekend will be a test of the system and i think all of us have airline stories from last summer and the disruptions that took place then, cancellation and delay rates were at unacceptable proportions last year, and it s important that that not happen again. all right. so pete buttigieg
the average american feeling the pain on groceries to gas but president biden is blaming covid vladimir putin and oil companies. will voters hold democrats accountable at the ballot box? congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers and cara hay are joining us coming up. we begin with the senate debate. i m sandra smith. john great to kick off another show with you. great to be on wednesday hump day. dr. oz and fetterman despite early voting well underway in the keystone state. democratic senate candidate struggled at times with his answers. in new york state, the crime crisis taking center stage. looking to oust kathy hochul. brian is live in harrisburg pa, what has been the reaction to fetterman s performance? lots of speculation what it could mean for john fetterman the fact there are renew questions about his fitness to serve when you look at exchange like this one about his evolving stance on fraccing. he said in 2018 he didn t and never has. i absolutely support
state police says these new surveillance photos show danelo calf conte slipping past producers after they had him surrounded. these are from a botanical garden about five miles south of the prison. you can see he is seen two times about an hour apart sporting a i knew sweatshirt, backpack and duffel back. they found a point that he could squeeze through that perimeter and he traveled south. we ll now expand that perimeter and move it so that we can try and incapsulate it again. he ll slip up. we re making him move and that s a good thing. reporter: as you can imagine localities in the area are very startled. the alarm to the prison that my backyard basically backs up to, the alarm didn t sound for several hours after he escaped. for example, i would go to bed. night leave my garage door open, stuff like that. i now close it. i just put a couple new bolts on two doors. reporter: just days before his escape, calf can ta received a life sentence for murdering his girl
everybody, i m martha mccollum and this is your story. the spread of anti-semitism and aunt as many look for leadership, the president chooses what is sometimes referred to as both sides is him and his first on the record comments on these hot tension mark watch spewed do you condemn the anti-semitic protest on college campuses? president biden: i condemned the anti-semitic protest that s why i m set up a program to do that there might also condemn those who don t understand what s going on with the palestinians. martha: more on that from the president in this moment but first let s get straight to senior correspondent steve harrigan who is reporting live at nyu on the action there this afternoon. hi, steve. martha, of the crowd here has been going at it for about two ours. it s getting bigger and leg getting loaded as well. we re hearing chance of free, free palestine. this is called a nationwide strike and already a more than 1000 people involved in here, it s
out here in new york city. joining millions of americans witnessing this extraordinary sight. if you were not excited about this this morning when you watch this actually happening it is a phenomenal site and one that we will not say and might not see to this extent because all the conditions are exactly right for some super super viewing of this today in the next one is not for another 20 years so a short time from now we will be under maximum coverage here in new york city. we are going to get around 90% of the sun blocked by the moon and it is a beautiful spring day. we haven t had too many like this but we ve got great visibility here in new york. so when it comes over new york we re going to get 90% as i said. so the total eclipse past that we are watching sweep across the country is about 115 miles wide and 4000 miles long and it has more than 33 million people who are under that. the last one was about something like two minutes. this one is twice as long it will get