far short of demand as the covid-19 death toll in the country approaches half a million. good to have you with us. grounded planes and stepped up inspections coming just days after the terrifying mid-air engine failure over colorado on a united airlines 777 jet. a passenger captured this dramatic and disturbing video on saturday shortly before the pilots returned safely to denver. now boeing is recommending all 777s that use the same engine, the pratt and when itney 4000 series ground the planes. united is removing 24 planes from service and the faa will step up the inspections. we are learning new details about what happened in the air. our peat muntean has the latest on the investigation. reporter: we are getting our first window into what may have played a major role in that dramatic in flight failure of united airlines flight 328. the ntsb says one of the fan blades of the right hand engine of that boeing 777 broke off, damaged another one, and other fan blades. in fa
catastrophe. pratt and whitney is the one who builds the engine. all of a sudden there was a loud sound and it got really bad. i thought lightning struck the plane at first. we looked at each other, my wife and i, held hands and just wished our kids we would see them again. reporter: concerns heightened by a second incident. another boeing jet caught fire. they ordered all domestic flights grounded. questions have already been raised how jets will be returned aviation correspondent pete muntean has the latest on the investigation. reporter: christine, laura, we re getting the biggest window into what may have caused the dramatic in flight failure. mayday, mayday, united air 28. united 328 heavy mayday, mayday. aircraft 328. yeah. denver departure 328 heavy mayday. aircraft just experienced engine failure. need to return immediately. reporter: a fan blade inside the right hand engine broke off, took out another fan blade and investigators were able to find
roads. leaving about 5 million people without power. texas in a deep freeze. 4 million people in houston warned to stay indoors and off those roads. cell service in some areas breaking down because backup generators and towers are freezing or running out of fuel. i m not going to sugar coat it. the next few days are going to be very tough. to those who have lost power, i know you are frustrated. i know you are miserable. i know you re uncomfortable. i know it is very miserable in this cold route heat. utility companies across 14 states from texas to minnesota resorting to rolling outages to save energy. it s shutting down coronavirus vaccination distribution across the country. harris county in texas had to quickly redistribute 8400 doses at risk of spoiling because of a power outage at the public health department. almost 1,000 went to college students at rice university. i literally dropped everything, got everything on and sprinted here. apparently everyone else had
under some sort of winter storm warning as much of the u.s. braces for another round of brutal temperatures, snow and ice. good to have you with us. well, the fallout from donald trump s second impeachment trial is only beginning, and its impact on u.s. politics will likely be felt for some time. democrats control the presidency and congress, but the acquittal, despite an abundance of video evidence, shows the republican party remains largely the party of trump. still, for some there is bipartisan agreement, specifically on the need to know more about the deadly january 6th riot. but there s still more evidence that the american people need and deserve to hear and a 9/11 commission is a way to make sure that we secure the capitol going forward and that we lay bear the record of just how responsible and how abjectly violative of his constitutional oath president trump really was. i think, you know, there was yesterday s vote, but there s definitely a number of court po
trillion covid relief package. jasmine wright is at the white house. lay it out. what do the next few days look like for the president? reporter: president biden wakes up today, his first president s day, as he looks to turn the page and push forward on his agenda. first up, we expect him to push hard on that $1.9 trillion covid relief bill now that the senate is free to fully focus on it. now as impeachment went on last week, the house made substantial effort and progress on that house bill having it go through markup in various committees. now on friday president biden did his own part hosting bipartisan governors and mayors who sat and talked about it including republican governor of maryland, larry hogan, who talked about the advice he gave to president biden on with jake tapper yesterday on cnn. take a listen. we had an hour and a half meeting in the oval office and i said to him, just because you can do something doesn t mean you should. i said that i thought it w