his cards. we know what he doesn t want. what does he want? i ll speak with a veteran deal maker in the senate. and later, developments amid another developing crisis for joe biden as his administration faces growing back lash over the crisis at the southern border. welcome to meet the press daily. it s another busy hump day in washington for the president and his congressional party. here s what we do know. the president will be meeting with democratic leadership, progressives and moderates. not at the same time in separate meetings. they ll all be at the white house this afternoon to discuss a way forward on a bunch of stuff. specifically the bynum infrastructure deal and the go it alone legislative package. combined it makes up basically the entire legislative agenda for the rhett of the biden presidency. first up on this set of meetings an hour from now is the two leaders, speaker nancy pelosi, senate majority leader schumer schumer. after that, a meeting with the moder
it s not too bad having to stand outside lga but that s where the luck stops. people inside are having quite a lot of troubles today. reporter: a lot rougher day than i am, katy. we re talking about thousands of people in new york, 300 canceled flights across the new york city area. when you look at across the country, now more than 1,400 flights have been canceled today alone. this follows the trend that we have seen for more than a week now for the past week. each day there have been more than 1,000 canceled flights here in the united states. seattle, more than 300 flights. denver, more than 300 flights. and yet this is now creating a backlog. i want to let you listen to a little conversation i had with janice who drove down from albany to fly out of new york because she thought her chances of getting a flight were better. her flight last night was canceled. another was delayed. he was trying to transfer to a flight this afternoon. in her instance, it s chaos. i m grate
growing pressure to deliver with many people having to wait for hours to get tested during the holiday rush. now after promising to distribute tests the president wishes he had done it two months ago. rich edson starts our coverage live at the white house this morning. good morning, rich. good morning, julie. the white house is trying to get those tests out some 500 million of them where americans will ideally be able to go online early next month, order them, get them delivered to their homes. they still have to get the contracts signed and get all those tests out. this was the omicron variant arriving just in time for the holidays. americans have waited hours in line for covid tests, face shortages of at-home kits. president biden said last week his administration should have implemented a more aggressive testing strategy two months ago. the federal government needed to insure enough tests so anyone getting together for the holidays could have tested beforehand. unfortu
headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex reports. we have this breaking news in the war in ukraine. president zelenskyy is now confirming a un coordinated effort to evacuate civilians trapped in zelenskyy has tweeted that the first group of about 100 evacuees are now heading to a controlled area, and will eventually make their way to another city. he says that his teams are working with you and to evacuate more. russians military, meanwhile, show the president putin lied to a with ukrainians in the plant. these damages show about plant look like after weeks of bombardment from russian forces, and we are learning more about how speaker nancy pelosi s high profile visit to kyiv. she laid a congressional delegation to a meeting with president zelenskyy just moments ago. i asked congressman adam schiff what victory would look like for ukraine. i think forcing russia out, reclaiming territorial integrity. if ukraine wants to join the european union, it should be ab
areas that were hit by these five missiles. at least missile strikes according to the mayor here, what those targets were. we re also told by the city officials that emergency crews are responding to the areas that were targeted in this latest attack. they are now on the scene. we have no word at this point on casualties. we don t know what was hit. we do not know if anybody has been killed. those details, we ll get them to you as soon as we know them. at this point what we can confirm is that there were five loud explosions which were heard i heard them, i counted them. one after the other. within the last 40, 45 minutes. and now we have plumes of smoke rising over a number of locations from the city. this is an area which has been spared the worst of the russian military assault for the most part. the last attack as i said being march 26th. there was another missile strike, russian air strike on a military facility not far from here and close to the polish border you abou