this morning russia is making a serious accusation that ukraine tried to assassination russian president vladimir putin with a drone attack on the kremlin. ukraine denies this and president zelenskyy s spokesperson is calling it a trick. the u.s. bracing for a huge surge of migrants as title 42 officially ends next week. how the biden administration is now preparing. a new alzheimer s drug shows promising results slowing cognitive decline. how soon might it become widely available in we are following these major developing stories and many more coming in to cnn news let s start with the very latest out of russia. russia now claims two ukrainian drones were flown over the kremlin overtime and claims the intended target was vladimir putin. new video circulating online is what the kremlin claims is the attempted attack. ukraine responded this morning saying it had nothing to do with any incident. a spokesperson for volodymyr zelenskyy saying russia s allegatio
am taking the train. kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. cnn newsroom starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key faa safety system went down earlier this morning, that led to some scrambling from coast to coast. here is where we stand at this hour, the faa says it is set to resume more flight departures this hour, but in terms of the backlog, the damage that we re seeing, the delays and cancellations, understandably rising by the minute. new york lines are growing, atlanta and chicago delay warnings taking over departure screens. they may be the lucky ones stuck in the airports that are already i
here so explain thoughts coming up, plus mark furman whether defense attorneys could use this to their advantage in a trial. it s a photo op, they cleaned up the streets, show them clean, not like they look normally. we were hoping he would get to see the chaos he has caused. this is a self-inflicted wound and he is the inflicter, it s ridiculous. one word for biden, enforce the laws. he does not have create new laws, just enforce them. john: president biden in mexico city after finally visiting the southern border for the first time ever since taking office. but critics say it was just a photo op for the president as he eyes a re-election bid in 2024. i m john roberts in washington. welcome to a new week, sandra. sandra: sandra smith in new york. this is america reports. a trip the president has avoided making for nearly two years now, residents and border officials say biden failed to get a full grasp of the crisis in the three hours he spent in el paso, he chos
life. evacuations ordered in california as the state faces destructive waves of massive storms. hundreds of thousands without power. and the terrifying lightning strike in houston. rob marciano standing by. for the first time since taking office, president biden at the u.s./mexico border where he faces fierce criticism. biden s new security plan, who gets to stay in the u.s. and who will be turned away. migrants tell us they feel like they re stuck in limbo. mireya is in el paso tonight. chilling video. a restaurant customer shoots and kills a robbery suspect. what we learned about the suspect s weapon. tonight, police are looking to speak with that shooter. he s now the speaker, but can kevin mccarthy keep house republicans in line after scenes like this? one member lunging at another, and that late-night phone call from former president trump. the investigations ahead from the biden family to the fbi. the urgent search for a mother of three in massachusetts. why
the white house is insisting that the president is cooperating with the doj probe and unclear whether they will do with congressional investigators also taking a look at security breach. lucas tomlinson joins us again from the north lawn of the white house. what are you learning this hour. some republicans are accusing the white house of a cover-up and sitting on classified material ahead of midterm elections and with your interview crawford, here is what he s accusing the president of. not bringing the information forward potentially affects the outcome of the election. we have seen this happen time and time again on different issues. this is one that certainly was rose to the level of being reported and so i think they deliberately quashed that to make sure that it wasn t out in the public s sphere before election day. lucas: two days ago our colleague peter doocy asked what he was thinking keeping classified documents next to stingray and the president fired back that