topping our political radar today, the president and first lady still at the hospital. doctors removing a skin lesion found during a routine screening. a new ad highlighting a republican feud. republican senator rick scott running a tv spot touting his failed challenge to the senate leader mitch mcconnell. >> people told me not to run against mitch mcconnell. they said i wouldn't win. i knew it was going to be hard. we've got to start somewhere it's time for republicans to be bold, speak the truth and stop caving in. >> the illinois democratic governor pritzker signing a new law banning the sale of high-capacity magazines after a gunman killed seven eem with a legally purchased assault weapon at a fourth of july parade. thanks for your time on "inside politics".

bianna golodryga picks up our coverage now. hello everyone. i'm bianna golodryga. airports are scrambling to get back on schedule after an early morning glitch throws the nation's air travel into chaos. a key safety system for the faa went down forcing a nationwide ground stoup on all domestic departing flights. that's left travelers stranded in airports or trapped on board parked airliners. the ground stop is now lifted, but the backlog of flights is still jamming airports across the country. cnn correspondents and analysts have been following these developments. let's begin with adrienne broaddus. adrienne, are things get back to normal there this morning? >> reporter: hello, bianna. things are getting back to normal. travelers passing through chicago o'hare will experience delays and cancellations.

if they stop at the information board, they will see boarding. that's a nice sign for folks leaving the airport. there's also other indications that there have been technology issues. here in chicago there are about 500 delayed flights and cancellations standing at 109. that is according to the chicago department of aviation, and this is a reflection of the big picture. if you take a look at what airports are experiencing across the country, according to flightaware, more than 7,300 delays and 1,100 cancellations. we spoke with a father and daughter earlier this morning. they told us their flight from nashville to chicago was delayed by 2 1/2 hours. he says they're traveling to brussels. he said intentionally he built a ten-hour layover in case something were to happen. this is based on things we have seen happening with air travel he says in the past. things are returning to normal here. in chicago travelers need to

pack a little patience. bianna. >> it is indicative, when you have passengers booking a ten-hour layover, assuming there's going to be a delay. obviously no one knew this was going to be the cause of the delay. given the disruptions we've seen because of weather, that was probably a smart thing to do. i want to bring in david soucie and richard quest. richard, let me start with you. explain to us what this safety system, the notam is. >> it stands for notice to airman. it's a system whereby all the air traffic control information, the airport information is put together by the faa and then distributed in a variety of bulletins. so, if you are flying to los angeles from newark, you may be told that runway x is having repairs between 2:00 and 4:00 in the morning. you'll be told this air traffic control system is not working. the ils at this airport isn't

working. it's the raw information that is given to pilots who will check the notams before every fight. it is not as crucial in a sense as the on route stuff, permission to take off, permission to land. it's not at that level. but the notams are the basics of what tells pilots what airports and what conditions there are in avi aviation. >> pilots aren't flying blindly. >> no. you can fly without notams but you might get a nasty surprise at the other end. it talks about the aviation system specific to your route. this is the cinderella aspect, the library of what's in aviation at the moment. >> still, david soucie, this is the cinderella aspect of aviation. thankfully so far at least, what we heard from transportation

secretary pete buttigieg is there's no indication of foul play. it can't be ruled out at this point. he did say this is because of irregularities and the messages going out. we haven't seen this system go down before, bringing and raising the question of how did we get here and what are investigators going to be looking at as they piece all this together? >> that's a good point. in 40 years of aviation i've never seen the notam system go down. we've seen these large, very complex systems. you have to think about the amount of information, all the interdependencies, we talk about the flight standards division, talk about having to have air traffic control and every airport -- every airport even 25 miles to each side of the route report to this notam system. anything the pilot wouldn't have expected. you don't know until you don't know.

>> what is the fear, richard, about what they can possibly find as they investigate what led to this? are there any other bugs in the system? >> number one, cyber. the secretary said on cnn there was no direct evidence. they're going to want to loose closely to make sure there's no indirect evidence. number two, things are always going to fail. as the secretary said, why did the redundancy not kick in? why did the thing fall over? related to that, even though billions o of dollars have been spent on next wren ration and all of the requests, is it enough? >> david, something i heard from john king in the last hour that i think is a poignant question to ask. democrats and republicans both fly. this is not a political issue. yet we don't have an effective, a permanent director in at the faa at this point. one was nominated by the president in july, and apparently he has to be renominated with the new congress.

does that worry you at all in terms of how congress is prioritizing travel? >> while i was with the faa for the 16 years that i was there, this was a big problem because the budgeting for these types of systems, it takes five to six years to develop a system, implement a system and then sunset it at the end. that's a long period of time. if all you have is a temporary administrator in there, like administrator nolan right now is temporary, they don't have the ownership, a way to see this all the way through. that budget requires them to go in year after year after year to congress and report on the budget and let us know what they need and what they don't need. if that doesn't happen, the systems will continue to fail. >> seems like it should be a priority number one to get a permanent faa director in. richard quest and david soucie, thank you so much. we turn to california now

where today the risk for mof life-threatening flooding is growing by the hour as a new round of powerful storms moves in. at least 17 people have died. the concern is more rain could trigger catastrophic mudslides because of how saturated the ground already is there. meteorologist tom sater is standing by. first let's go to camila bernal. what are you seeing today? >> reporter: we've had light steady rain all morning long. more water on top of this standing water that is still here. today is a day for cleanup for a lot of the people in in thood. i want to show you this house in particular. they're taking out the floor at the moment. they started today. they have to take all of it out. the neighbor here has a sign that says welcome, flooded. so a little humor in all of this. it's very difficult for people dealing with this. they all put sandbags out. so many are telling me the sandbags did nothing because there was so much water.

normally in this neighborhood, when it floods, the water recedes very quickly. that's not the case this time around. that's why you're having to deal with all the water in this neighborhood, in other neighborhoods, dealing with the mud and the debris, trying to get all of that out of the home. look, they're trying to dry it out. it is raining. again, you see all the sandbags trying to stop that water. it is still so deep. authorities are telling people to continue to be extremely careful with all of this because it could lead to a very dangerous situation. in san louis observe business bow, the 5-year-old swept away by the waters, he is still missing. authorities are still searching. it's a life and death situation in some of these cases. >> for that poor boy's family, to be going through this right now, and the images are horrific. let's bring in tom sater.

tom, this has been weeks of storms right now. what's your biggest concern with this latest round? >> reporter: bianna, it's staggering to know at christmas when we knew this atmospheric river would begin, that it would last a few weeks. think about how far we've con in just weather forecasting. we've had six events, today is number seven. we're going to have eight, nine and ten. i'll let you know when those are going to come look at southern california numbers. ventura, over 18.75 inches. san marcos pass, we were almost freaking out in the weather center when they hit a foot. but 17 inches. santa barbara breaking an all-time record. san luis obispo as well. the ventura river rose 17 feet in just 12 hours, reaching an all-time crest of 25 feet, all-time highest. it's now down to eight.

as fast as the waters were rising, they're receipting. there's a lot of cleanup. storm six was yesterday. here is storm seven. this is going to be mainly in central california north. southern california gets a break but they're not going to remain dry for a several-day period. southern california, you get yours on saturday. what was 90% of california looking at a flash flood watch, it's down to about 30%. number seven moving in today. maybe a break for all of california as we get in toward thursday, but it really picks up on the coastal areas of oregon and washington with very high winds. the area of low pressure is closer to this area of the country in the pacific northwest. that's where we'll see power outages. most of california in this latest round, 400 to 600% of the average rainfall, above average. the sierra mountains, bianna, two times higher in their snowfall year-to-date than we've ever had in history.

southern california, you get it saturday. sunday that moves in and it will blanket the four corners with heavy amounts of snow. that's good for the colorado river. monday we'll have storm number nine. by the middle of next week, we have storm number ten. just amazing. we've been through six, today is seven. we've got a few more rounds to go. >> unbelievable. i wish we had a better forecast for viewers out there on the west coast. rest assured we'll be covering this for you as much as we possibly can. tom sater, thank you. more defiance and apparently no shame from republican congressman elected on a mountain of lies. george santos says he won't step down and is even gunning for a key house committee assignment. so what does house speaker kevin mccarthy have to say about this? president biden breaking silence on his classified documents problem claiming he was surprised to learn they were in his private office and he doesn't even know what's in them. meanwhile, the doj and republicans dig deeper.

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make more of what's yours. the pressure is growing for the house gop to deal with a problem that seems to get more controversial by the day. nassau county new york republicans just called on newly elected congressman george santos to resign over his lies to voters and fabrications about his personal life. it's a move that would seriously impact the gop's razor-thin majority. manu, what are we hearing from santos and more importantly from house leadership? >> house republican leaders aren't saying much so far. kevin mccarthy for weeks has refused to talk about george santos. he said earlier he wants to deal with this issue internally. today he said he won't serve on any of the key committees in congress, but unclear whether

he'd serve on some of the lower profile committees in congress. that's something he has not said one way or the other. i am told that santos actually made a request to serve on the house financial services committee. one of the key committees in congress. that won't happen despite santos' request. in the aftermath of the call from new york party leaders for santos to resign, a number of top republicans have not yet answered the question, saying they wanted more information. >> do you expect george santos to be on any of these key committees, eight committees? >> no. >> nassau county republicans called on george santos to resign. do you have any reaction? do you think santos should resign? >> -- >> do you think mr. santos should resign, mr. emmer? santos has been defiant in face of the calls for resignation for some of his leaders back home. he said in a tweet just moments ago, i was elected to serve the people of the new york third congressional district, not the

party and politicians. i remain committed to doing that and regret to hear local officials refuse to work with my office to deliver results to keep our communities safe and lower the cost of living, i will not resign. bianna, the real challenge for house republicans leaders if they resign, it could be a huge problem for kevin mccarthy, this narrow republican majority, if they were to see another seat flip to the democrats, it would make his margin even tighter which is one big reason why republican leaders have said little about this so far. >> they clearly were trying to avoid you at all costs. keep asking it manu. thank you. president biden for the first time is reacting to the classified documents found in his private office. they include u.s. intelligence memos and briefing materials related to ukraine, iran and the uk. cnn's phil mattingly is

following all of this. phil, what is the president saying about it and do we know anything new about the next steps in this investigation? >> reporter: bianna, white house officials since monday night and the release of a white house counsel statement laying out the details of what they know up to this point, they have made clear, there are limitations to what they believe they can say going forward, which means there's not going to be a whole lot they'll say going forward. last night in mexico city before coming back to washington, the president did address the issue for the first time. this is what he said. >> people know i take classified documents, classified information seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. >> reporter: the president making clear he was not aware that those records had been there, and he also made clear last night that he still does not know what is actually in those records, what those records contained. that is a deliberate effort by

his lawyers to ensure he doesn't get any more deeply involved in this. when you talk to white house officials, bianna, they are cognizant of the fact that people want answers, answers as to why it took two months for this information to come out, how the documents actually got there in the first place. they also acknowledge there's currently review under way by the u.s. attorney in chicago, that u.s. attorney giving information to the attorney general. there's a very real possibility that the attorney general could decide to appoint a special counsel. that's something white house officials do not want, do not believe is merited based on what they know up to this point. that's in part why they've been so quiet ability additional details. the president and his team have pledged there will be more details once the review is complete and we hear from the attorney general. when that will be is an open question. the first white house press br briefing is in about 30 minutes. at the moment white house officials keeping a close eye on

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failures began to be exposed. our shimon prokupecz obtained a video of the interview. we want to warn you, this report is troubling. >> i know there was probably victims in there. with the shots i heard, i knew somebody was probably going to be deceased. >> reporter: former chief pete arredondo heard for the first time the day after the may 24th shooting attempting to explain his actions. >> a new video obtained by cnn, arredondo telling investigators he assumed students in the room with the shooter were also dead. so he chose to clear children from surrounding classrooms. >> there's nobody in there. >> reporter: we now know he was wrong. at least three victims were pulled out of the room alive who later died from their injuries. >> my first thought is we need to vacate. we haven't contained and i know this is horrible, what our training tells us to do, but we haven't containsed.

there's probably diseased in there, but we don't need more out here. i called, get the kids out, bust the windows, get them out. >> stunning admissions while being questioned by the fbi and texas rangers. >> throughout this deal, i was trying to make communication with him. >> can you hear me, sir? >> reporter: arredondo explains he kept trying to talk to the shooter, and for the first time we learned he heard the gunman alone in a room full of children reloading his weapon. and still he took no action that stopped the gunman. >> i'm certain i heard him reload. i heard the pin. we know what that sounds like -- not with the pin, with a clip. i'm not sure he reloaded. he did something with it. i don't know if there was a second. he never responded at all. >> reporter: now considered one of the worst law enforcement failures in recent memory,

arredondo knew that criticism would come. >> we're going to get scrutinized. >> reporter: days later arredondo would be labeled incident commander by the texas state police. they say he was the officer in charge and the man to blame for the deadly delay. >> who was the incident commander, sir? >> the chief of police of the school district it's his school. he's the chief of police. >> reporter: arredondo who presided over a six-person police force before he was terminated in august declined to comment. through his lawyer he's previously denied he was ever in charge and said he never issued any orders. a cnn analysis of never-before-made-public body camera footage and phone calls reveal arredondo repeatedly directed officers around him not to enter the room with the gunman. this sat 11:40 a.m. seven minutes after the shooting began.

>> arredondo. this is an emergency right now. i'm inside the building. i'm inside the building with this man. he has an ar-15. he shot a whole bunch of times. he's in bun room. i need a lot of fire power. i need this building surrounded. i need it surrounded with as many as possible. >> as more officers and body cameras responded to the scene, we can hear arredondo start to talk to the shooter. >> sir, this is chief arredondo with the police. can you please put your firearm down? we don't want anyone else hurt, sir. >> reporter: arredondo can be seen trying to open the door to an adjacent classroom while giving command to other officers. >> make sure this room is vacate ed. time is on our side right now. >> reporter: time was not on his side. it reflects a mindset that goes directly against active shooter

training. the policy emphasizes speed for any officer to go immediately towards the sound of gunfire and stop the shooter. arredondo last completed the training in december 2021, five months before the uvalde massacre. at about 12:12 p.m., a crucial transmission from the uvalde dispatcher comes over the radios in the hallway informing the officers that a child in the room with the gunman called 911 and said she was surrounded by victims. the dispatch within earshot of arredondo. he doesn't seem to hear it because he's talking, repeating instructions for officers not to enter. >> guys, hold on. we're going to clear the building first. >> all these are empty, pete. >> that's what we're verifying right now. >> reporter: officers turned down their radios so they could hear arredondo give the order.

>> turn the radios down, please. >> reporter: it seems clear to the men on this side of the hallway that arredondo is in charge. when a nearby officer suggests a border patrol agent looks like they are about to go in -- >> nobody enter. >> reporter: arredondo said he assumed border patrol agents at the other end of the hallway would be the ones to make the breach since they had rifles and he and his men only have pistols. >> a smart thing for us to do with a handgun, we need to let these guys make entry when it's that time. >> reporter: but it wasn't just handguns. as body camera footage clearly shows, there were plenty of heavily armed officers on scene. some in the very first moments after the shooting began. arredondo for the first time also explaining why he thought the door was locked, admitting he never tried to open it.

>> i have a picture in my mind that i saw that, that i saw that hammer in there. usually when that's there, that's locked 90% of the time. >> one of these i think. >> we now know investigators believe it was unlocked and there was no need to wait for a key. at the end of the interview arredondo says rather than breaching the door, he even considered trying to shoot through the walls to kill the gunman. >> the thought crossed my mind to start shooting through that wall which would have been stupid, but you start thinking, there's already somebody deceased in there. obviously we don't ever train to shoot through walls. it's not something -- not probably the smartest idea. but, you know, you always question yourself. >> shimon joins us now. shimon, here we are, nearly eight months later. every single time we learn a new piece of information, it's just

another gut punch. what stood out to you in terms of what you heard from the chief there and the fact that he was in charge for most of the time and ordering commands. >> especially in that one area. there were many areas where there were police officers on other sides. closest to where the gunman was, he was the one calling the shots. that's clear. what struck me most is his demeanor throughout this interview. this is the next morning, not even 24 hours after the shooting. you know, he was making jokes at one point while they were interviewing him. his demeanor, the way he was talking about what happened, this was such a huge tragedy and everyone realized very quickly there was some serious questions that needed to be asked. certainly i realize that, of the police. but he sort of had an answer for everything. yet still to this day, he's defensive. he still feels he didn't do anything wrong and he was never -- >> no accountability. >> no accountability. the other thing that i think throughout all of the eight months that we've been looking

at this and getting all this information, what i have found seriously problematic for all the law enforcement that was there is that no one was communicating with each other. you see him, he's in that hallway for all that time. no one goes in there. no other boss, no other law enforcement official, senior law enforcement official goes into that hallway to ask him what the hell is going on, what are you doing here? at one point they thought he was in the room being held hostage. so much of the information that was being put out that was wrong. but he was at the center of that. he wasn't communicating with anyone. the on thing is, a lot is made about whether there was a key needed for the door. investigators i've talked to believe no key was needed. they seemed to need to get the team together and open the door. a lot has been made about how radios weren't working. you can clearly hear in this video officers standing feet from that door where the kids

were, they could hear the radio transmissions, that call that comes over that says a kid is calling from inside the room. >> a lot of excuses. he's made a a llot of excuses. other law enforcement officials have made a lot of excuses. all this is out here we've spent eight months getting information, digging into this. that's in terms of his nearly one-hour interview is on our website. we put it out there because we wanted people to see for themselves, to hear him, to see his explanation. part of it is because he hasn't really talked. he did a new hampshire interview through his lawyer, he's dodged reporters at the center of this. we felt it was necessary to put it all out there. >> failure after failure after failure. the image of the heavily armed men standing there knowing there were children totally defenseless on the other side of that wall. shimon prokupecz, thank you so much. we'll be right back.

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that burning an open flame of methane in your house creates kind of the same exhaust that comes out of your car. there's need general dee oxide, carbon dioxide and particulate matter. if you're in a small apartment, special small children with developing lungs and brains, that can affect cognition. 35% of american homes have gas stoves. childhood asthma contributed to gas stoves, 12%. cory booker and other senators wrote a letter to the president -- to the consumer protection folks and said let's think about making mandatory hoods, vent hoods on gas stoves, cut-off valves so they don't leak. maybe more warnings and education about the hidden dangers of that kind of stove. this is an emotional thing. a lot of people love cooking with gas. >> maybe it's healthier. >> it's been sold to us from the gas companies literally since the '30s because they were competing with coal and wood back in the day.

now electric has taken leaps. it's like electric cars. the latest induction electric stoves are amazing. they heat up three times faster, they don't get hot on the surface. that's only heat what's inside the pan, it's cool to the touch afterwards because they use magnets. a lot of people can't afford that yet. this is part of the conversation, if we want to decarbonize the economy, we have to do everything. states have preemptively banned any gas bans. 0 of them led by texas trying to stop the californias and new yorks of the work from stopping new construction that includes natural gas. >> a state-by-state rollout if we see them at all. >> exactly. >> in the meantime, use your vents, keep small children away. make more of the cold turkey and cheese sandwiches that i turn to when i'm not cooking all the time. >> i'll have a bianna with mayo. >> bill weir, thank you. you can come over any time for a sandwich. today doctors are removing a

small lesion above first lady jill biden's eye. doctors recommended it be removed out of an abundance of caution. let's bring in cnn medical correspondent dr. tara narula. biden is having something known as a mother's surgery. tell us what that is. >> in americans may not be familiar with this, iet ace common procedure and way to treat skin cancels, particularly basil cell and squamous cell which are the most common. what happens is dermatologists do advanced training to become mo surgeons, they take the patient to their office. in the office setting they'll remove the cancer with a special technique where they then take the tissue, freeze it, put it under a microscope in the office while the patient is waiting and examine it section by section until they have taken enough of the tissue that they're sure that the margins are clear. the reason this is such a nice procedure is because really

everything happens in this one instance. the patient has the cancer removed, the tissue is examined to make sure margins are clear and then the excision is closed at the same time by the dermatologist in most instances. the success rate for this is really 99% for first-time cancers in terms of getting all the cancers and 94% for recurrent cancers it's kind of a one-stop procedure. usually takes a couple hours. risks are minimal. we're talking bleed, infection. but very well tolerated. typically used in areas like the eyes, the face, the hands or even the genitals where there's not a lot of skin to make a closure, so you want a very fine technique where you're taking section by section and not a big wide excision, and also areas where you want minimal scarring. that's where the mohs comes in handy. >> we should remind you that dr. biden's prognosis is a good one. a question for viewers. how often should we be getting

checked for skin cancer? >> that's a really interesting question. what's interesting about that is the fact that the u.s. preventive services task force and the american cancer society have not come down in terms of saying people should get screened. they say there's inefficient evidence to promote that. that being said, home skin care checks are good, certainly if you're higher risk, someone with family history or high sun exposure, you should check with your doctor about being checked more frequently. >> dr. tara narula, thank you. now to a wonderful update on buffalo bills safety damar hamlin. the team revealing a short time ago that he is now out of the hospital. hamlin suffered cardiac arrest on the field just last week against the cincinnati bengals. a bills trainer performed cpr on him moments later. hamlin recovered much faster than doctors had expected. he was transferred from cincinnati to a hospital in buffalo monday. doctors now say it's safe for him to continue his recovery from home. the bills head coach says the

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we're hanging in there. we're on the frontlines. >> reporter: soledar is just behind us, where this battle is raging. you can hear artillery, most of it outgoing. that town has been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks. it appears that the situation for ukrainian forces is increasingly difficult. now russian sources, particular the private military company, says they've taken control of the city, but the ukrainians insist they still have control of parts of it at least. it's questionable how much longer the ukrainians can hold out as this goes on. i'm reporting from outside soledar. >> thank you for that report. i want to go straight to the

pentagon and to orin lieberman. ukrainians are going to start patriot missile training in the u.s. soon. i would think russia isn't happy about that. what are they saying? >> reporter: they're saying this is de facto u.s. involved in the conflict. they're saying it's involvement of the u.s. proxy in ukraine with the decision of the u.s. to start training ukraine on the patriot missiles in the united states where the u.s. conducts its own training on patriot missile batteries. that training is now set to begin as soon as next week. the training will take, according to the pentagon,

several months. they're not being specific on how long it will take. it's unclear. training on patriots can take up to a year. the military will work to accelerate that timeline as much as possible. they're not sure how short they can make it given that the patriot is an advanced, complex system. they also don't want russia to know when the patriot, a long-range air defense system, will arrive on the frontline. it's a crucial point to make. it's not an air defense system necessary if there weren't russian barrages attacking ukraine. that's one of the reasons the u.s. approved this. it's a defensive system, one the u.s. insists is not a sign of u.s. involvement in the conflict. for ukraine this is a system that will provide a long-range option above the medium and short-range systems they already have.

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