u.s.-mexico border looking for asylum in the united states. breaking, the biden administration officially out with new rules for travelers from china. we re live at the white house with the details developing as we speak. i m hallie jackson in washington. joining me now is msnbc correspondent shomari stone at bwi airport, mike memoli is with the president in saint kroi in the virgin islands. some people have canceled vacation plans altogether. what are the airlines saying. talk us through that piece of it. reporter: right now people are trying to get answers. they re understandably frustrated and they re waiting in line here this line has grown over the last hour and they re trying to get more answers right over there. people can rebook their flights if it was within 30 days of the original travel date. people can also go on the southwest website and try and get a refund. i tell you, that s just not the problem with all the cancellations. look over here. look at all thi
you are live in the cnn qwest newsroom, i m paula reid in washington. a monster winter storm has claimed the lives of 16 people and has cut power and electricity. the u.s. department is declaring an emergency for the texas power grid to aid its capacity and this is due to a shortage of electricity. the emergency declaration allows the state s energy provider to exceed environmental emissions limits until usage drops. in new york, a dire situation. hundreds of people have likely been trapped inside their vehicles since yesterday. that includes an 85-year-old grandmother and her son. they ve been turning the car on and off for heat and to save gas. sub-zero temperatures are widespread across the country and more than 750,000 customers remain without power. the power grid operator for 13 states is now asking residents to reduce their power usage to avoid widespread outages. holiday travel by road and air has been disrupted, and today alone more than 2600 flightses have be
in several sectors of the frontline near the city of kherson which has been occupied by moscow since the early days of the invasion. it comes as ukrainian forces launch a long awaited counter offensive in the south of the country. now on bbc news, weather world. this time on weather world record heat, drought and the fire that ripped through people s homes at the end of the uk s hottest day. as temperatures hit a0 celsius for the first time, i ll hear about london fire brigade s busiest day since world war two. and why wildfires are a growing problem. and i m talking to the scientist whose near real time analysis has shown how climate change has supercharged this summer s weather extremes. they ll show me a0 degrees in the uk is virtually impossible without climate change and why hotter heatwaves matter. we have 40 degrees. many more people die than if we just have 36 degrees. and that is that is a huge difference. also on weather world devastating drought for east af
secretary and long term trump staffer and tom peck political sketch writer at the independent. hello welcome to the programme. the european commission will set out next week emergency measures to reform the structure of the european electricity market. the exact makeup of that intervention is still to be decided. but a growing number of eu member states are calling for electricity prices to be decoupled from the price of gas which has soared as a result of russia s war in ukraine. the commission president, ursula von der leyen, said prices which havejumped ten fold in the last year have exposed the limitations of how the market is currently managed. it is no more fit for purpose, and that is why we, the commission, are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market. it is the czech republic that has summoned eu s energy ministers to this meeting next week, they currently hold the rotating presidency of the eu council. and just befor