now, i will say, this is a great day to be a mouse. this is a wonderful day to be an infected mouse. this is not going to be on the market for humans any time soon. you have to make sure it is safe. okay. but this morning we ll celebrate for for mice everywhere. elizabeth, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. not trying to scare you there. tell what you that was in a moment. in case you re traveling for the holiday weekend. so glad to have my friend erica hill with me today and next week. but that video was a flight in south korea, today someone parentally opened the emergency exit door while the plane was coming in for landing. no one was seriously hurt. this, here in the united states, summer travel season is kicking off and promising to be the busiest memorial day weekend since 2005. air travel roaring back after the pandemic. we ll take you live to reagan national as they face a critical stress test.
Good morning. It is a cold start in some parts of the north of the country, temperatures close to freezing. For many, it will cloud over with scattered showers developing and some of those will be heavy and thundery. I will have all the details later in the programme. Its tuesday 21st may. Rishi sunak says the government will pay whatever it takes to compensate the victims of the the Infected Blood Scandal. Details of the scheme are expected to be announced later today. Its been described as the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the nhs. Yesterday a Public Inquiry highlighted a catalogue of failures over many years, which it said had catastrophic consequences. Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes has more. Cheering and applause. A moment of relief and joy after years of grief, frustration and anger. Sir Brian Langstaff delivers his findings to just some of the thousands of people whose lives have been touched by the Infected Blood Scandal. Outside, some of them reflected
When we were making plans for this themed issue focused on the people of the craft beer business, we came to an interesting conclusion. It would be too easy turn this into a celebrity-watcher issue, especially given all the “rock stars” now in our craft brewing industry. Some are so popular they get mobbed at festivals.
People. airports insist they re ready. the tsa insists they re ready. and airlines insist they re ready after the big summer meltdowns of last year that really kicked off with memorial day. think back to then. the airlines canceled 55,000 flights over the totality of the summer. this time around, they insist they re right staffed. they added 48,000 people industry wide and right sized, operating fewer flights, using larger airplanes. they say that the meltdowns are a thing of the past. but passengers hope that that is actually the case. listen. if things run smoothly, people do their job sufficiently, then it s a great trip. pack your patience. come prepared. i keep my fingers crossed until i get home without a hitch. airlines say the delays now could be on the federal government. the faa is short about 3,000 air traffic controllers nationwide.
Let s listen to jeremy hunt. i m in edinburgh to launch one of- let s listen to jeremy hunt. i m in edinburgh to launch one of the i let s listen to jeremy hunt. i m in i edinburgh to launch one of the most ambitious packages of financial services reforms that we ve had for decades. i m doing it in edinburgh because the financial services industry employs over 160,000 people industry employs over 160,000 people in scotland, when you include all the related businesses. it is a huge employer across the uk. there are great companies right here in edinburgh. this is the place to make that launch. is it reckless to be relaxing financial measures at the minute. no we have learned the lessons of that crash, we put in place and very important guardrails which will remain. the banks have become much healthier financially since 2008. we have put in place a process so that financial issues can be resolved, which we didn t have before. 0n be resolved, which we didn t have before. on that basis, we