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and a texas showdown, a judge hearing arguments right now in the high-stakes lawsuit over abortion pills. this is what were watching at this hour. ♪ ♪ thank you so much for being here. im kate bolduan. the u.s. state department does not call in the russian ambassador every day, but that is whats happened. this is after the pentagon says a russian fighter jets forced down a u.s. spy drone in international waters in the black sea. according to u.s. officials the russians first dump...

grounded right now. i want to take you to the scene, this is in las vegas. keep in mind, okay, this is a system that pilots use for any kind of notification. not clear how many flights are affected or which locations. we want to get straight to pete muntean but were told new information pete as we get to you perhaps you have information on this. united has delayed all flights temporarily as well. what is going on? >> reporter: so far weve heard from american and united airlines. united...

good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city. if youre watching this from an airplane gate, you already know the headline. more than 8500 flights delayed or cancelled after a key system went down. >> your flight was supposed to leave at 9:30 this morning? >> yeah. >> what time are you going to get to leave? >> 5:00 p.m. >> wow. so what are you going to do? >> just wait. >> how much more do passengers have to take before something is done to fix the airline sy...

Faa is holding a rare emergency safety summit, and so far we heard from the acting faa administrator as well as the transportation secretary pete buttigieg. this is happening as the agency at the faa is investigating yet another close call between two commercial jets. this time at reagan national airport. pete muntean has the latest. >> this latest incident underscores how serious this problem is. to put this into context, the last time the faa held a safety summit like this was in 2009. that wa...

According to the "new york times" boeing actually has been surveying thousands of passengers for an answer to that question. joining me now, cnns reporter with details on this. this is fascinating. what is the "new york times" finding out? >> reporter: theyve uncovered that boeing has been serving thousands of people from around the world, asking whether or not they would be comfortable getting back on this max jet. 40% of the people that they surveyed in december says, no. not comfortable flyin...

the folks at the brookings tax policy center helped us put this together. these different groups of popcorn represent your income level. the bigger the bag, the bigger the income level of the group were talking about. i want to use the popcorn to demonstrate how much of the total pie, how much of the total tax revenue is generated by each group. lets start over here with the little one. these are people who earn less than $30,000 a year. that, by the way, is about 44.8% of all househol...

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