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alone welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i am rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, a tanking swiss bank gets a lifeline, but nervous markets are taking a beating as fears of a broader financial crisis whom. is it safe to fly right now? after a series of near runway misses and no clear answers on why this keeps happening, u.s. aviation authorities host a rare safety summit. plus, georgia investigators have another reporting of donald trump pressuring a state official to overturn the 2020 election. >> live from cnn center, this...

Are so alarming. surely they could put in motion these solutions now and get something done quickly because it is not only equipment, it is also more staff. >> equipment, more staff, and really at some airports, particular in the united states, some of them are very old and they have a configuration where runways and taxiways intersect and they have intersected. in fact there are many airports in the u.s., there is an old configuration where the runways cross, and that was a configuration, literally before the second world war. and there is not much that can be done about that, because the air...

>> do you generally -- >> if you want to destroy an air base. >> if you want to stop them from launching strikes. >> if you want to destroy an air base, absolutely, you destroy the runway. let's say you have a place where runways cross, that's the point you hit. any place that is an aircraft hangar, any place where there are something like fuel storage areas, weapons facilities, all of that stuff. >> but they didn't do that here. >> that's right. what that tells me is the goal was really not to do that. they didn't want to destroy the syrian air force or that base but what they wanted to do wa...