hear when you re an an airplane. we looked at each other, my wife and i held hands and just wished our kids, we would see them again. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are live in the cnn newsroom, and it is a busy sunday. breaking news on cnn. very dramatic steps being taken right now in the united states and around the world. the goal to keep commercial air travel safer both in the skies and on the ground. and this is the reason. that terrifying and fiery failure of a united airlines 777 engine this weekend. the pilot managed to land in colorado with everyone aboard safe, but the plane scattered huge metal parts all over a neighborhood below. and now u.s. federal air travel officials, the faa, ramping up inspection of all 777 aircraft in the u.s. fleet flying with a certain type of engine. also this evening the government of japan is grounding all boeing 777 p
hop back on that plane and get back here. i mean, chris, come on. hey, you want to hear a totally different take? yeah. why not in our current climate, you know the right is going to believe him. you know he s going to go on there and say, i was going to work from home. how dare they, they re the worst, the media is the worst. he s going to get a pass. i should show you my text messages. it was breaking, we were trying to get it confirmed for the 11:00 show last night. he s going to say, i escorted my family there, i made sure they were safe and came back. and then, boom, that s what happened. it didn t pan out. he s not telling the truth. but even if he were, see, this is the problem with where we are, is that you know he s not telling the truth. he knows he s not of course he knows he s not telling the truth. and as long as he does it with a straight face and he keeps telling the same story, i ll tell you what the headline was for me on that. you know how i
water crisis across texas after five straight days of record low temperatures. broken water pipes have left nearly half of the residents of the state without clean drinking water. power has been restored to all but 192,000 people but around 13 million texans are still under a boil water advisory. and take a look at this. this is video just into cnn. more than 80,000 bottles of water delivered from the travis air force base in california to the city of galveston, texas, trying to help those struggling. the winter blast is also causing serious delays in vaccine distribution and in several parts of the country. soon president biden will head to a pfizer manufacturing plant in michigan. this comes as his administration said the nation has major work to do to try to make up for this lost time because of the extreme weather. so let s begin this hour with our colleague natasha chen in houston with more on the ongoing crisis across the state. it is so far beyond a weather story. to n
overnight president biden calling governor abbott telling him he will in his words work relentlessly to get his state what they need. we re also learning from texas energy officials that the entire power grid was seconds and minutes away from a catastrophic failure that could have left the state in the dark for months. we re asking a texas congressman about that in a moment. plus, cruz damage control. the senator back in texas this morning with backlash building after he flew to cancun with his family while millions of his constituents shivered in the dark. we shouldn t have had to be without lights. i know it s freezing, but somebody is responsible for this. you ve got people dying out here. you ve got hypothermia, dying. you know? people s houses all busted up because of water and the pipes that busted. i m surprised mine didn t bust. lady behind me hers busted. and breaking this morning capitol police confirming dozens of officers are now under investigation, six sus
broke. it s freezing, it s a blackout, no electricity. blackouts, water shortages, freezing temperatures, and the hot debate over how everything went so wrong. the state didn t prepare for the worst-case scenario, now we re paying the price. plus, the republican civil war. days after mitch mcconnell s broadside against donald trump president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. the former president strikes back with a little help from his friends. president trump is the most consequential republican in the party. if mitch mcconnell doesn t understand that, he s missing a lot. i ll talk to former texas congressman will hurd about the rift in his party and on the catastrophe in texas. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief white house correspondent kristen welker, democratic polster cornell belcher, susan page, washington bureau chief of usa today, and former republican governor of north carolina,