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airlines 777 jet crossed a runway as a smaller cargo plane was landing. and then days before that, an american airlines flight at jfk crossed in front of a delta plane trying to take off. and then there is the near miss in austin, where a fedex plane almost landed on top of a southwest flight. i want to bring in our aviation expert david soucie, who has tried to make me feel better about these things. but david, i'm starting to think these are not all anomalies. it's going to feel like there's one of these a week that we report on. >> it seems like they are a lot more often. and that...

What happened? >> it's a stunning rebuke to her leadership. she seems to have come in third in this sort of nonpartisan open primary they have. but look, i think crime has not gotten better on her watch. that was a big part of her selling point. she was coming in as a prosecutor. there is covid, obviously. there's a lot of controversies, inevitably, for big city mayors. but also, a persistent perception of weakness that alienated a lot of key constituencies, from progressives -- was endorsed by the police union, the other interest by the teachers union, which is particularly powerful in chicag...

For mayor but none won more than 50% of the vote, so ballast and johnson will now face off. lightfoot found herself with few hours allies in her bid for a second term. -- the police and teachers union backed other candidates. mayor lightfoot conceding tonight -- >> as we all know, in life, in the end, you don't always win every battle. but you never regret taking on the powerful and bringing in the light. >> [applause] >> to my friends across the country, and my fellow mayors, never fear being brave and bolt. >> okay. so, how did the issues of crime, education and covid play out in this electi...

It may be where you can't get the flights you want to have at this point. but they have to do something about trying to slow the system down. >> but david, one last question before a bring in the panel. is this -- our way back at the same amount of flights we were pre-covid? or is it even more than that? >> it's actually exceeding what we were plea covid. i know that was an issue for the airlines for a long time. but boston is specifically, if we look at peak of it, they were up around 24,000. but now they're up around 29, 000, just for boston specifically. so we have succeeded what we had bef...

>> i think they were hopefully getting away from a kind of politicking by virtue signaling to actually using politics for substantive results for the people. i think in chicago it is a state of emergency. it should be declared as much by the president, by the governor of that state. we have got more children shot by criminals and then we have people who have died nationwide, children, from covid. you look at the reading rates -- they are abysmal. 14% of black children are reading at proficient levels in 11th grade. 14% -- translation, over 80% of the children that are black that live in the ci...