Saturday, it is a lot better. it is still going to be high. your parts per million will be 100 to 150. there still may be orange or yellow in some spots, but at least it gets better from here. and it is also an impact on air travel ahead of the july 4th holiday weekend. hundreds of thousands of customers were stranded due to canceled or delayed flights with more than 1100 cancellations, nearly 7,000 on wednesday, and already about 300 cancellations and more than 400 delays today. but storms were only one factor behind the travel nightmare. staffing shortages at both u.s. airlines and the federal aviation administration s air traffic control operations made a bad situation even worse. here is more from pete buttigieg speaking wednesday. tomorrow will be a big test. we think tomorrow will be the busiest day of this holiday travel weekend.
The smoke was very intense in the eastern part of the united states especially the northeast. and this is what it looks like. clouds to the east, clouds to the west, those are the white. and then the gray in the middle is where the smoke is. and this earlier today, this is cleveland, ohio. you should be able to see buildings because 2 1/2 days ago, the same time of day, it looked like that. you could actually see the city. but now visibility is well below 2 miles at times. breathing the air is dangerous for some people. and even can be in the 200 and 300 parts per mill uion categor alldots. and a lot is moving off into bigger cities. so here is what the smoke looks like from the computer model right now. mostly chicago and westward back towards st. louis and missouri and then off to the east a little bit less. i ll show you what happens. a couple thunderstorms pop up and mix some of that air up, wash some of that smoke away. and then by really by friday and
Message? were you involved? no, i wasn t. no. reporter: gary told house lawmakers that hunter biden tried to use his father as leverage to pressure a chinese company into paying him. i m sitting here with my father and we d like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. he testified that hunter s texts continued i will made certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person that he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. but the president insistent he knew nothing about these messages. u.s. attorney david weiss has overseen the investigation into hi hunter biden. and last week he agreed to plead guilty for failing to file 2017 and 2018 taxes and he also admitted to a firearm charge that he agreed not to prosecute
That he doesn t know carroll. u.s. president biden is placing health of the u.s. economy at the center of his re-election campaign. speaking wednesday in chicago, the president tried to draw a sharp contrast with the republican economic policies that he says have failed middle class americans for decades. he laid out the specific steps that he will pursue if reelected. first making smart investments in america. second, educating and empowering americans to grow the middle class, and third, lower costs to help small businesses. the biden administration believes inflation is finally easing and that the job market remains strong, but there are plenty of weak spots in the broader economy. about three quarters of americans believe that it is doing poorly. first netflix and now costco, the wholesale store is cracking down on sharing membership cards. the company says that it will now enforce i.d. checks at self
Welcome back. i m max foster. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up to at a time with the top stories. government of france dealing with increasingly violence protests.the top stories. government of france dealing with increasingly violence protests. this follows the shooting of a teen boy during a traffic stop. and wide waves of the u.s. are under a heat grip. and new orleans setting a new record number for excessive heat warnings. after ten days of searching the ocean floor near the wreckage of the titanic, crews have recovered what appear to be human remains and large parts of the submersible titan. the evidence was brought to a port in canada. paula newton has the details. reporter: the u.s. coast