we begin this hour with breaking news. right now, thousands of flights in the u.s. are delayed or cancelled after a major outage overnight to an faa computer system that provides safety updates for pilots normal flight operations are slowly resuming after the faa lifted a ground stop about an hour ago. the domino effect of the pause is being felt throughout the country. according to flight aware, more than 4,000 flights are delayed. over 800 are cancelled. the white house directed the department of transportation to investigate. the president himself saying he has spoken with the transportation success tear pete buttigieg about getting to the bottom of it. joining us now is ann tone ya hilton. what s the latest after the outage? reporter: there s a lot of travelers who have been checking their phones for hours. this is due to everything you just described. this is a critical function that gives an important realtime safety information. it alerts them to abnormal, unusual
to determine who leaked the draft of the opinion and the ending 50 years of precedent. we ll break down where the fight on abortion rights is heading now. the treasury department now say it is has taken extraordinary measures to avoid default after the u.s. hit its debt limit. jared bernstine will join us with what happens now. and today the president will meet with mayors from across the country at the white house. i spoke with four of them about the top account issues facing their communities, including the migrant humanitarian crisis. we have an i want krblly complex and broken immigration system. and we need to demand from congress that they act and they act now. we begin this hour with president biden making his first public comments since the doj appointed a special counsel to investigate classified documents found at his delaware home and former office. the president spoke to reporters while touring storm ravaged california. we re fully cooperating and lookin
capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn t appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital now and the spokesperson for pelosi s office says that he is receiving excellent care and is expected to make a full recovery. the speaker herself, though, was not in san francisco at the time. and of course, jose, this comes against the backdrop of an increasing number of threats directed at members of congress and their families. capitol police put out a report over the summer that said there s bee
tomorrow morning. jose diaz-balart picks up live coverage right now. good morning. it s 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. 13 days before the midterms. candidates across the country face-off on the debate stage, including in pennsylvania where senate candidates john fetterman and mehmet oz sparred on a host of issues. in fetterman s first debate since suffering a stroke. on capitol hill, a key member of donald trump s inner circle testifies. plus, the president of the united states warning the leader of russia as the kremlin is insisting ukraine is planning to use a dirty bomb. and we re keeping an eye on the white house as the president is set to speak later this hour about what the white house calls new actions to provide families with more breathing room. and we begin with our top story. in 13 days voters will head to the polls for the pivotal midterm elections. candidates made high-stake pitches in four intense debates last night. pennsylva
i m jose diaz-balart we begin this busy hour with breaking news. the brand new jobs report shows the u.s. economy added 261,000 jobs in october. which is higher than expected, but the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% from last month s 3.5%. this as the hispanic unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. the black unemployment rate remains mostly unchanged and there you see the numbers at 5.9%. it s the last jobs report before election day on tuesday with the economy and the cost of living ranking as the top issue on voters minds headed to the polls. joining us with more is business and data reporter brian chung. whatever your takeaways. i want to rehighlight again the numbers we got about an hour and a half ago. in september we had 315,000 jobs added. the new jobs for october showing 261,000 jobs added in the month. but something that caught a lot of attention was the 3.7% unemployment rate that we clocked in as of october. that was a little bit higher than the 3.5% that we g