there of airports across the u. s. is millions of americans are taking their spring breaks. this year s travel rush is expected to go over pre pandemic levels and topics. the surge in demand has raised concerns, though, because as this is going on the industry s continued to struggle with staffing shortages in a number of aviation incidents that we ve been tracking recently, cnn s pete mountain is live at reagan airport outside of washington, d. c pete, i think the big question that a lot of people who are preparing to go on these trips are wanting to know how the industry itself. has been preparing for this. katelyn polantz a says we re in the middle of the spring break travel peak right now. the faa anticipates handling 46,000 flights today, even more tomorrow, but travel groups say the numbers could be bigger and there is already concern beyond just this rush. spring break, travel is soaring back to normal and renewing worry that your flight could be canceled. meltdowns plagued the
they re up and running. we also got a response from governor reeves to president biden a proven that declaration and in it, he said that he was thankful and also that he hopes that this will help them recover. quickly fred. okay and then, um, you know, on a different topic. i mean, this is a real setback. what i m about to ask you for the biden ministrations. the president s pick to lead. the faa is now withdrawing his name from consideration, and it comes after criticism from republicans over his aviation credentials. and can you tell us more? and it is that criticism that a white house official pointed to when news broke that his nomination has been withdrawn. in fact, in a statement, they said, quote an onslaught of unfounded republican attacks led to this now. those criticisms were based on his aviation credentials as well as legal entanglements. now we re called. this is a nominee that has been waiting to be confirmed in a really critical post, especially amid the multitude of avi
landing which they did in those other cases. this is just adding to the list of alarming aviation incidents. it is something that lawmakers really pushed the acting head of the faa to answer for during that senate committee hearing yesterday. take a listen. overall, i have a good sense about where we are can i say to the american public that we re safe? the answer is we are. if is the question can we be better? absolutely. that s what we re working on. and that s why bill nolen announced a sweeping review of the faa and that includes a couple pieces. there the will be a summit with industry partners and they ll discuss ways to make the aviation industry a little safer. and they re going to look through flight data to see if there are trends here if, there are more incidents happening than we realize. something that i think everyone here is really concerned about. kaitlan? yeah.