grateful to see at the same time of our hearing yesterday the senate rules committee met and heard from a bipartisan presentation from senator collins and manchin in support of the electoral reform act. so if he witcan see some agreem, hopefully that can yield more. that is my hope going into the future. the problems aren t going away. and so we need our federal leaders to step up and help us and recognize that we can t do it alone. but ptogether we can. jocelyn benson, appreciate you being with us. thanks for having me. covid cases spiking as the cdc prepares to ease some guid guidelines. plus ukrainian forces working to repel russian advances in the east. we have the latest for you live from ukraine next. $30. (daughter) i ve already told everyone! (cool guy) $30.that s awesome. (mom) it s their best unlimited price ever.
the flight crew is coming in. they re squeezed. those problems aren t going to be solved in the next weeks so do we expect a similar scene on the july 4th weekend? reporter: the issues are not going away, jim. the pressure is on airlines to perform, not only from the federal government. transportation secretary pete buttigieg told airlines they must have their act together over the july 4th weekend. also there s this pressure from passengers after these two consecutive weekends of massive cancellations. look at the latest numbers from flightaware. more than 600 flights canceled on saturday nationwide. more than 800 on sunday. we just hit 700 cancellations nationwide today. we know that bad weather is coming from the east coast and airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic, so when those two things mix, it makes a bad cocktail and cancellations go up and up. delta air lines has been leading the cancellations. it accounted for a third of all cancellations nationwide yesterday. there
these privateers are doing things which aren t in the long term interest of us human beings? yes, i mean, that is certainly the case. there is a very strong development in space. elon musk, what you the quote you make comes from the financial times, where i made an interview a couple of months ago. yes, absolutely. today, we have about 11,500 active satellites in space, in low earth orbit. half of them belong to elon musk. yeah, and he s got plans for thousands more. but i m not saying that s bad. i m saying he has an interest and all of us have an interest to regulate and make sure that this is not becoming a problem. and, yes, there is an urgency to deal with it. this is a regulatory issue as much as one of practical arrangements between the key partners. and, yes, when it comes to space debris and orbit manoeuvres, as we call it, because a collision might
by the fact the european space agency is a group i believe i m right in saying of 22 nations. 22 nations, yeah. ..dominated by the european union nations i think 19 of your members are eu nations and i think your biggest funder is the european commission. so, one of your big problems is that another key player in the agency is the united kingdom. well, it s brexited. it s no longer in the eu. that means it s semi detached from some of the programmes that are part of your remit. you ve got this massive bureaucratic problem. nasa and the us doesn t have to deal with that, china certainly doesn t have to deal with that, and you re never going to overcome that, are you? if you think that everything is gold that glitters on the other side of the ocean, then you re wrong, i m sorry to say, because nasa also has its own bureaucracy and timing. it s not so much that the us has no problems, it sjust that their problems aren t on the scale of yours when it comes to bureaucracy. china has
do you believe that there s now a lack of control and regulation, which means these privateers are doing things which aren t in the long term interest of us human beings? yes, i mean, that is certainly the case. there is a very strong development in space. elon musk, what you the quote you make comes from the financial times where i made an interview a couple of months ago. yes, absolutely. today, we have about 11,500 active satellites in space, in low earth orbit. half of them belong to elon musk. yeah, and he s got plans for thousands more. but i m not saying that s bad. i m saying he has an interest and all of us have an interest to regulate and make sure that this is not becoming a problem. and, yes, there is an urgency to deal with it. this is a regulatory issue as much as one of practical arrangements between the key partners. and, yes, when it comes to space debris and orbit manoeuvres, as we call it, because a collision might occur, yes, we work very well