politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. coast to coast chaos. nationwide system outage delays flights all across the country. right now planes are back in the air, but too little runway, too little airspace, means thousands of travelers are stuck. president biden says he doesn t know how classified documents found their way into his private office. and enough. influential new york republicans call for one of their own, george santos to resign, after a dismantling of his campaign lies and shady accounting. we begin with a morning of travel hell and demands that the government get its act together. the faa says right now its flight control system is back online and it is working. an early morning outage grounded all flights earlier today. in all that means more than 6,000 flights were delayed and as a result more than 1,000 were canceled. today s mess comes, of course, weeks after the southwest airlines holiday season meltdown that led
outfront next, breaking news. the house about to reconvene as mccarthy s bid for speaker looks shakier than ever. six humiliating rounds of votes and we could be looking at a seventh shortly. we have the very latest from capitol hill. plus, who are those 20 republicans waging this war against kevin mccarthy? we re going to give you a closer look. new details tonight on buffalo bills star damar hamlin s condition. for one former nfl player, hamlin s injury brought back members. he was hit in the chest with a puck, collapsed on the ice, carried out on a stretcher. and the former nhl star is it my guest tonight. let s go outfront. good evening. outfront tonight the breaking news. the house is about to gavel back in as open warfare breaks out in the gop. congressman matt gaetz tells cnn he s a, quote, desperate guys whose share is dropping with every subsequent vote. kevin mccarthy s allies are working furiously behind the scenes trying to search for any options as o
case. people who had their campaigns funded by david macintosh and club for growth are not listening to him. they re not listening to former president trump so do they really have the influence that they think they have? yeah, chaos feeds on chaos, happy birthday, congressman. we ll go up to the capitol to manu raju and, manu, tell us about the key meeting of these rebels, of these conservative holeouts happening right now. tell us more. reporter: this can be a pivotal meeting. several members we are looking closely to see how they will vote are holed up in emmer s office, a member of the republican leadership. it includes chip roy, scott perry, byron donalds, dan bishop, all people who have not three of the four haven t indicated how they may vote on this particular round. i asked byron donalds himself who first had been nominated here in this ballot whether he will vote for himself. he refused to say. he would not say whether he would vote for himself. you guys have a
control room to pull you have a live shot of the house floor. this is happening. we re about halfway through the alphabet. you see the shot of former house speaker, nancy pelosi. 14 members so far. 15 members so far have chosen somebody other than mccarthy. the vote is not final. the vote is not gavelled, however, if this holds, he will not be speaker for time number two. ali, what happens for time number three? what s the next card to play? that s the next question especially as you have members like chip roy of texas vowing he will still continue to hold mccarthy to a count on a whole list of concessions that he s been trying to get the leader to make over the course of the last few weeks and months. they have made inroads here. these members like roy. who chairs those committees and has prioritized for them, but especially to this idea of the motion to vacate. it s a move that would weaken the speaker and make it easier to oust members. mccarthy holding to a compromise i
story from washington. pete, can you give us the latest on what we know, how long this pilot has been in the air, and what the danger is to the public at this point? reporter: well, sara, we know that this plane took off from the tupelo regional airport around 5:00 a.m. central time, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. we re coming up on the plane being in the air for about five hours now. the plane is a king air c-90. you can see it there, that s a small twin-engine turboprop airplane. it seats between six and eight people. it can go about 250 miles an hour. the question now is how this will end, how this story will end. will the airplane run out of fuel? we ve been talking to sources who fly king airs and they tell me it can only fly for between four and six hours if the plane is fully loaded with fuel. that is the track from flighfl flightaware. you can see the plane took off from touupelo airport, circled e airport at a relatively low altitude, then continued northbound over t