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
association of governors wrote him this letter pleading with him to clarify all these confusing vaccine guidelines and to increase supply as much as possible, and that speech is set for a couple of minutes from now and we ll bring it to you live, but, first, to texas where the electricity is back on for many in that snow-covered state, but the frozen temperatures and the ice have created a new crisis. nearly half the state is without clean drinking water. look at this. people lining up to fill buckets from a public park spigot. 13 million people are either without water or under boil water advisories. burst pipes and water mains are pushing the texas water supply to the brink. let s start with omar jimenez live in austin, and omar, i ve been watching you all morning. you know, these texans cannot catch a break. what is being done just to get these folks clean water? yeah. right now that is a priority right now. those that run the water system at least here in the austin are
court date? good morning. welcome to way too early. i am kasie hunt on this tuesday, march 23rd. we have a lot to get to this morning. let s start with this very difficult news. the united states is marking its second mass shooting in a week, this time in boulder, colorado, where police say a gunman opened fire inside a grocery store, killing ten people, including a police officer. video from the scene showed dozens of emergency vehicles and officers, many in tactical gear and camouflage around the store. one man spoke to nbc affiliate kusa about how his granddaughters had been inside. my two granddaughters, you know, 13 and 14, basically came in with their dad so he could get a covid shot. they came in through the east door where the pharmacy is. and that s where it all started. and there was shooting. and he saw it and got the girls down. they ran and hid upstairs in a coat closet. the cops came in through the roof, protecting them. they re out now, out the back. they
heating the stoves. people are running out of fod and water. heading to a shelter is a pretty frightening concept. millions of texans are still struggling without power after severe winter weather shut down the power grid. it s a disaster. as for ted cruz, fresh off his stint toying with insurrection. well, he just returned from his 24 hour south of the border with fam. who wouldn t want a get away to a beach resort to mexico when their state is in crisis. his story about why he was out of country has evolved. here is ted after getting busted for the trip. texas going through horrific storms and millions of texans lost power and lost heat an had been hurt. our family was among them. we had no heat and no power. yesterday my daughter s asked if they could take a trip with some friend. heidi and i agreed. i flew down with them last night. dropped them off here and i m headed back to texas and back to continuing to work to try to get the power on. what s happening in texas is
killing at least one person and injuring eight. what caused the blast? officers charged in the shooting death of an eight-year-old girl. how a high school football game turned deadly. record airport gun seizures. nearly 6,000 firearms found at t.s.a. checkpoints in 2021. and wait until you hear how many were loaded. voting rights showdown: we go to michigan to see how a republican voting law will play in the battleground state. and give with me: the nationwide call to arms after the red cross declared the first-ever blood crisis. your incredible response. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. it is a tale of two americas in the ongoing battle against the omicron variant. some parts of the country can see light at the end of the tunnel, while others are seeing the biggest surge in cases since the start of the pandemic. in the northeast, cases