the immense reputation damage boeing has continued to suffer. with the boeing 737 max has been an incredibly costly programme for them. all eyes will be on the markets on monday because this incident with alaska airlines happening on friday evening, it has been the talk of the industry but also of the world because the 737 max became a household name when it was grounded for almost two years and here we are again with the grounding of 171 max 9 aircraft notjust in the us but countries including panama, turkey and mexico. there is reputational damage. what are the financial implications or impact for boeing having its planes grounded? for boeing, the 737 max, two things are true at the same time at one time, it is the bestselling shorthaul aircraft for boeing, it is a bestseller and airlines are placing orders for the jet and secure some great deals, especially in the aftermath of all of that suffering when aircraft was grounded for two years. on the other side it s incredibly
truth be told, he doesn t have the to do much selling. there s strong support, bipartisan support for the bill. 61% in favor. cnn s lauren fox live on capitol hill. lauren, what is the timing of the historic vote today? in just a little over an hour, we expect the final debate to be begin in the house of representatives over this $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. after about two hours of debate they ll hold that final vote or that is our expectation this morning. democratic leaders confident that they have the democratic votes they will need to pass this piece of legislation. they don t expect a single republican vote, despite the fact it has more than 60% approval in the latest cnn poll of the american people. now this bill includes a lot of things that are going to make life easier for americans. $1400 direct checks for people making $75,000 or less. more money for vaccine distribution. more money for small businesses. more money to get kids back in the classrooms after th
it remains a bit of a controversial subject. but why we are at this controversial stages, the prime minister recently visited, it is a small cluster of island off the southwest coast of india and the prime minister visited there recently putting up some posts promoting tourism there. some quarters and the maldives felt this was being done the cost of indian tourism to maldives which was why there was a few tweets that came up from certain ministers and influences from the maldives which many in india saw as objectionable and many of them called racist. and an insult to indian identity and culture. the maltese government had to go into containment mode. why was it important? tourism is the
what martin was saying, the primary problem, to simply state it, is still unvaccinated people transmitting the virus to other unvaccinated people. that s still the primary problem. i think that continues to be reinforced. this isn t about a problem with the vaccines, that the vaccines aren t working. that s not what this is. this is still only really happening because of the unvaccinated. when people inevitably ask, why do people need to wear masks again in school this year, this is all because people refused to get vaccinated. i really think that s the case. it s heartbreaking, kate. we were so tantalizingly close to actually bringing this pandemic in the united states into containment mode, as they ve done in countries around the world, but we couldn t get there, because there s still so many people who are unvaccinated. the virus continues to spread. you showed that map earlier.
importance of vaccines or even worse, they re receiving a far more insidious message that it s the vaccines themselves that are the problem. dr. sanjay gupta is with us now. it came out this morning. people can read the essay on cnn.com. i haven t had a chance to read all of it yet. i assume you came at this both as a doctor but also as a parent. yeah, absolutely. i think that having covered this now for a year and a half, we ve always framed this as a race. the vaccines, they would come one day. it would be the race between the vaccines and the virus, now the vaccines and the variants. they had a finish line number, if we drop below 10,000 cases per day, we could say as a country we could go into containment mode, finally get our arms and hands around this virus. we didn t get there. we got tantalizingly close,