Antiracists protesting police violence. But fast forward to this week, to yesterday when the Senate Gop voted near unanimously to block the commission to investigate the insurrection that desecrated our capitol and brutalized its police force. Because it would anger Donald Trump and implicate too many of his allies, and yes, his voters. Its a lot to think about when many americans just want to tune out over the holiday. But the coming weeks will determine whether President Biden and congressional democrats can effectively push back with their agendas. For biden, its his Infrastructure Plan and his newly released budget, already declared doa by congressional republicans. For the democrats, its their stalled, if not sabotaged, legislation to reform our Law Enforcement and restore our border protections. For both, it starts with determining whether the filibuster that republicans invoked to kill the commission will continue imperil everything else, starting with infrastructure, the budget
On this Memorial Day weekend. Tonights lede, a monument to traitors. Right now, as we enjoy this unofficial beginning to summer, half the country is vaccinated and economists predict a boom coming for the nation. Its the inverse of our last Memorial Day when covid seemed uncontrollable. Our cities were shuttered and republican lawmakers were calling for every punishment for antiracists protesting police violence. But fast forward to this week, to yesterday when the Senate Gop voted near unanimously to block the commission to investigate the insurrection that desecrated our capitol and brutalized its police force. Because it would anger Donald Trump and implicate too many of his allies and, yes, his voters. Its a lot to think about when many americans just want to tune out over the holiday. But the coming weeks will determine whether President Biden and congressional democrats can effectively push back with their agendas. For biden, its his Infrastructure Plan and his newly released bud
that flight. cnn s dan simon live at denver international airport. dan, good morning. good morning, erica. in the wake of this uncontained engine failure, regulators really have two primary goals here. to figure out how this happened and to prevent something like this from occurring again. after united airlines flight 328 experienced engine failure shortly after takeoff saturday, the company is temporarily removing all 24 of its boeing 777 airlines with pratt & whitney p-24 engines from service out of an abundance of caution. 32 heavy mayday, just experienced engine failure, need to return immediately. a united pilot making a mayday call on the flight headed from denver to honolulu, as passengered watched the right engine fire off flames and pieces of the plane falling off. i could see some smoke coming. and you just know something s wrong, something s not right. all of a sudden, there s a big explosion out my window. my wife and i held hands and just wished our kid
christmas will be different than last. but i can t make that commitment to you. the vaccine rollout which was already lagging is now facing a new challenge. widespread severe winter weather that has shut down shipping hubs and canceled appointments as well as transportation. vaccinations in aln affected. the distribution in some places have been brought to a grinding halt as dr. fauci put it. officials say this means the u.s. will have to work double time to catch up. cnn s jeff zeleny is traveling with president biden in michigan. the u.s. is approaching any day now the 500,000 covid death. president biden under a lot of pressure to ramp up vaccinations. what is he saying today? reporter: he absolutely is under pressure and he knows that he own this is challenge and problem. it is why he wanted to come here to the pfizer plant behind me in portage, michigan, to see firsthand and make the case that, a., vaccines are safe. we have not heard this message in a while, because
the un secretary general antonio guterres rebukes wealthier countries for stockpiling vaccines and tells the bbc his view on vaccine passports. is it possible to have a vaccine passport that facilitates exchanges and movements, but at the same time, that creates a new level of inequality in the world. and at the age of 81 why sir ian mckellen has chosen to take on one of the toughest roles in theatre. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the girlfriend of george floyd whose death in minneapolis last year sparked protests across the world took the stand today in the trial of derek chauvin the police officer accused of murdering him. courtney ross cried as she talked about how she first met mr floyd and described their struggle with opioid addiction. derek chauvin has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one of manslaughter. our correspondent lebo diseko has been watching the evidence and a warning her report contains some dist