republicans override a governor's veto overnight in one state, in another a marathon debate so block a similar effort. there are some real moves today in the fight over abortion access in america. new security concerns in the capitol, how did someone get past multiple secret service agents and get inside the home of the president's national security adviser? a missing girl found after six years. the discovery thanks in part to a netflix series. those stories and more all coming in right here to cnn "news central." ♪ this morning abortion rights in america are back in the spotlight. on the federal level the fate of

a kia borings pill is now once again in court. oral arguments are set to begin soon before the fifth circuit court of appeals. a case brought by anti-abortion activist who is want to ban mifepristone nationwide. on the state level the focus is in the carolinas where two separate efforts to further restrict abortions in both states have hit a critical juncture. in north carolina nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy are now banned. as a republican super majority in the state legislature voted to override democratic governor roy cooper's veto of their bill. shouts of shame could be heard from the gallery after the gavel fell there. and in south carolina republican lawmakers are at it again after debating for more than 12 hours yesterday on a near total ban on abortion. they are heading back into session to continue the fight. let's start in north carolina, cnn's dianne gallagher is in raleigh, north carolina, for us. after having his veto overridden

what is the governor going to do? can he do anything? >> reporter: you know, kate, from a legislative point, no, he cannot, but the governor says that he does have a plan. i will get to that in just a moment. but, look, as of last night when the gop super majority in the north carolina house and senate overrode the governor's veto, this abortion bill is now law. most of it goes into effect on july 1st which will then take the current cutoff for abortions in north carolina from 20 weeks to 12 weeks with some exceptions, but, look, democrats are pointing to the host of other changes that this law will make to the landscape here in north carolina, including to medication abortion, requiring several in-person appointments and adding new regulations reporting and licensing requirements that democrats and medical associations say could make it harder for people to obtain abortions even before that cutoff date. now, look, the democrats last

night tried to speak out about this, they said that they felt like this was going to backfire on republicans, noting that north carolina has not just been a place where abortion is relatively popular for its citizens, but in the southeast in general it has been a haven of sorts as other states began drawing back and rolling back their abortion access after the dobbs decision. democrats told me that they feel like this is a winning campaign issue for them leading into 2024. something that governor roy cooper said in a statement shortly after that override saying north carolinians now understand that republicans are unified this their assault on women's reproductive freedom. we are energized to fight back. state senator sydney bash told me last night that she felt like when democrats are talking about abortion it is a winning issue, but when republicans are talking about it it is a losing issue. i will say that speaking to republicans last night, they are continuing to call this a mainstream bill, pointing mostly to that 12-week cutoff not to

the other changes in the bill, and they are calling it a compromise bill, but, again, it is a compromise within their own caucus. they did not confer with any democrats on this legislation. again, they passed it in 15 days from the point that it was actually introduced until the point that the veto was overridden last night. so we are looking at a warp speed massive change to the landscape here in north carolina that democrats plan to make a central issue in the 2024 elections here. >> you can be sure about that. thank you so much for the reporting. sara? kate, of course, that's what's going on in north carolina but this fight after the supreme court reversed the roe decision is spring up in states across the united states. there is a fierce fight going on over a proposed six-week abortion ban in south carolina. lawmakers will reconvene next hour. they debated until 2:00 in the morning after democrats filed more than 1,000 amendments to stall that bill. the statehouse only debated 144 of those amendments before a clerk's computer stopped working and the session had to end.

in montana the governor has signed a bill into law that will ban abortions after 15 weeks and it bans the abortion method that is most commonly used after 15 weeks of pregnancy unless the fetus would not survive outside the womb. planned parenthood is asking for a judge to block the law calling it unconstitutional. in nebraska lawmakers advanced a 12-week abortion ban after a more restrictive version failed last month. this bill is tacked on to a measure banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors. after five hours of debate yesterday there an 80-year-old republican state senator who had blocked a six-week abortion ban last month switched sides to support this one. the bill does include exceptions for rape, incest and to save the pregnant woman's life. a final vote set for friday. and as we mentioned earlier, the fate of one of the two pills required for a nonsurgical abortion, mifepristone, will be in front of one of the most

conservative appeals courts in the country today. a three-judge panel at the fifth circuit court in new orleans will hear oral arguments this afternoon on the fda's authority to regulate the drug. last month a judge in texas ruled the fda's approval should be suspended, but the supreme court put that ruling on hold. regardless of today's ruling, it will remain on hold until the case returns to the high court. john? sara, this morning we are learning the identity of an american killed in ukraine. retired army staff sergeant nicholas mamer died in a brash of russian artillery fire in the embattled city of bakhmut. he was working for the nonprofit afg free in ukraine. idaho senator jim rich said he met with mamer in kyiv last summer, saying, quote, it was clear nick was exceptionally well trained for and sober about the realities of the war in

ukraine. cnn's nic robertson joins us now from eastern ukraine. nic, the sergeant was in bakhmut when he died. we keep getting reports of fierce fighting there, including more movement that we've heard in months and months with ukrainians perhaps taking back territory. what are you learning? >> reporter: yeah, there's two fights going on in and around bakhmut at the moment, there's the one in the center, the fight for high-rise buildings where the russians continue to take territory where we understand that intense fight there was where sergeant maimer finally was killed in the fighting, and then there's the fight around the outside and the fields to try to sort of encircle the city. it's in the fields and around the city the nuke yan government officials are saying they're having the most success, but it's the center that is the most deadly area of the fight, the hardest part of the fight and the area, frankly, where it does

seem that the ukrainians still continue to lose ground. what's important in the ongoing battles there is for the ukrainians that they can draw in more russian fighters from other areas and there is evidence to say that they have drawn russian support, tara troopers from other areas which potentially weakens the front lines in those other areas. so the fight in bakhmut in itself is one of two parts, it's a difficult one, but it has a greater influence and impact more broadly across the whole front line. how the fight is going at the moment it's very hard to tell. details about the sort of day to day battles, if you will, don't come through very often at the moment, but we do know just from the movements around here and the artillery strikes that come in this direction over the front line from the russians that it is still incredibly active and incredibly pressured, but i would watch the center of the city to see how much more ground the russians take before and if

they're stopped there, john. >> our audience can see on this map here the areas in yellow on this map are areas of ukrainian counteroffensives just within the last few days and you can see they've taken back not a lot of ground, but significant ground as nic was saying around the center of the city. to you and your team, stay safe. thank you very much. kate? president biden is about to leave washington for a five-day trip to japan for the g7 summit but the trip was just cut short as the white house has canceled planned stops in australia and papua new guinea so biden can get back to washington for the continued talks over the debt ceiling. after the latest meeting with top congressional leaders biden called it productive. house speaker kevin mccarthy called it a step in the right direction and there are just 15 dis left until june 1st which is the date that the treasury secretary has warned the united states could default on its debt if a deal is not reached. arlette saenz is at the white house in the latest for us.

there was a meeting of a smaller group yesterday, more talks are planned today. where do things stand as biden is about to head out? >> reporter: kate, president biden's decision to curtail the last half of his foreign trip just highlights the urgency of this moment around the debt ceiling debate as the president has insisted that both sides have agreed that the u.s. cannot default on its debts. now, there are entering this new phase of negotiations as the president is getting ready to depart. after that meeting in the oval office between biden, house speaker kevin mccarthy and other leaders, both the president and mccarthy emerged calling it productive and offering some cautious signs of optimism. take a listen. >> there was an overwhelming consensus, i think, in today's meeting, the congressional leaders, that defaulting on the debt is simply not an option. >> it is possible to get a deal by the end of the week. it's not that difficult to get to an agreement.

>> reporter: but even as they emerged from that meeting with some optimistic tones they had no clear resolution on how exactly to raise the debt ceiling but they are set to begin this new round of negotiations. president biden has appointed some of his top aides from here at the white house to lead his side of negotiations, including steve ricchetti, omb director and also the director of legislative affairs. on the republican side for mccarthy he will be represented by congressman garret graves of louisiana. there are still a host of issues that they need to work through in these meetings including how long to raise the debt ceiling for, any length for future spending caps as well as this real sticking point that's emerged around work requirements for social safety net programs. mccarthy has insisted that including those work requirements will be a red line for him, while the white house and many progressive democrats have really balked at the idea of that. last night the white house releasing a new fresh statement

in which they said, quote, the policies house republicans are proposing would take away americans' health care and increase poverty. republicans couldn't pass them into law when they had unified control of government and the president is fighting to ensure they will not be in a bipartisan budget agreement. so that is one of the areas of negotiation that negotiators want to focus on in the coming days. for president biden's part in just a few hours he kparts for hiroshima, japan, will he will attend the g7 summit. he has said he will seek by phone with congressional leaders later in the week but will be returning later on sunday and set to meet in-person with those leaders upon his return. >> let's see what happens in the next couple hours. good to see you. thank you. in just minutes the man convicted in a 2017 halloween terror attack for driving a u-haul down a busy manhattan bike path faces sentencing. an incredible reunion as his

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it's currently held by republican anthony dee esposito. the corner of washington signed a bill into law raising the penalty for drug possession in that state. it increases the current penalties from 90 to 180 days in jail for the first two convictions, plus a possible $1,000 fine. the new law also gives anyone charged with possession the option to enter a treatment program in exchange for the state dismissing the charge. this was a long fought compromise after a court battle ruled the state's felony drug possession rules were unconstitutional, raising concerns that all drug possession would then be decriminalized and legal. the majority of this new law goes into effect july 1st. and speaking of a court battle, taco bell is taking the phrase taco tuesday to court. you may have not known this, but that term has been trademarked by a smaller chain named taco

john's for 34 years. now taco bell has filed a petition with the u.s. patent office to cancel that, saying the common phrase should be freely available to all who make, sell, eat and celebrate tacos. taco john's didn't respond on the merits but issued a statement saying taco john's would like to thank our worthy competitors for reminder everyone that taco tuesday is best celebrated at taco john's, the trademark owner of taco tuesday. >> just this disclaimer, taco john's, no relation. in minutes sentencing for the terrorist convicted of killing eight people in 2017 by ramming his truck into people on a manhattan bike path, cnn's kara scannell is outside the courthouse in new york. what do we expect today? >> reporter: john, in a few minutes sentencing will get under way for that man a terrorist who was convicted of killing eight people, injuring others by driving a rented

u-haul truck down a bike path not far from here on a halloween day in 2017. he was convicted of 28 counts in january including nine counts that are capital charges that means he was eligible for the death penalty. a jury who weighed that option couldn't reach a unanimous decision so he will be sentenced by law to life in prison. prosecutors are asking the judge to sentence him to multiple life sentences because they want to send a message to anyone who might consider an attack on u.s. soil to tell them they would face severe consequences. now, it's possible that the man, the convicted chris, sayfullo saipov will speak today, that is an option on the table for him. his lawyers asked for him to have the last word. he will speak after some survivors and some family members of some of the victims. we are expect to go hear from 25 people to address the judge about their loved ones who were killed that day or the individuals who themselves were injured. you know, this was the deadliest terror attack in new york city

since 9/11. john? >> it was an awful moment in this city. kara scannell, thank you so much for your reporting. kate? this morning a scary security breach is now under investigation. the secret service says that it is looking into how someone was able to get into the home of national security adviser jake sullivan in the middle of the night without his security detail even knowing. sullivan was 24/7 secret service protection yet that did nothing to stop the intruder from walking in late last month. cnn's jessica schneider is tracking the details on this. jess, what happened here? >> kate, this occurred at the end of april and that's when national security adviser jake sullivan encountered someone inside his home right here in washington in the overnight hours. now, a source is telling our evan perez that sullivan told investigators he did believe that the intruder was intoxicated, no threat was made and it does appear the intruder quickly left sullivan's home, but the concerning part about all of this is that the intruder left sullivan's home without the

secret service detail that's there to protect him 24/7, without them even noticing. so now the secret service is, in fact, investigating how that intruder entered the home undetected by the secret service agents guarding sullivan's home. the secret service spokesman says the secret service is taking this breach seriously, they have opened a comprehensive missions assurance investigation. they also released this statement in part saying any deviation from our protective protocols is unacceptable and if discovered personnel will be held accountable because, kate, this all does beg the question if this protective detail is in place 24/7 how exactly did an intruder get into jake sullivan's home in the overnight hours, again, there was no harm to him and it did seem like the intruder maybe he was mistaken about where he was, but nevertheless, this is an ongoing investigation for the secret service to really get to the bottom of how this breach occurred. kate?

>> absolutely. good to see you, jess, thanks for the reporting. sara? all right. he has 24-hour secret service protection, yet as you just heard, the national security adviser was face-to-face with an intruder in his own home. let's bring in cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. all right. what in the heck? i mean, this is someone who actually should be safer than the rest of us because he has that protection. how would they miss something like this? >> well, there's a couple of ways, but any way that you figure out how they missed this, there is a security gap there and that's going to be a people problem. normally if you are sitting on that house, you know, you are probably outside in a car with access to motion sensors and cameras around the house that you could see on your phones or a screen. that's the 360-degree envelope of protection that the secret service builds for a protectee. somewhere that gets breached. now, what i'm told by sources is jake sullivan believes he left a door unlocked, that someone came

in, not the front door of the house likely. this is shades of the nancy pelosi coming in through the backyard and, you know, it being on the screens, but in this case that was missed. he confronts the intruder, the intruder departs right upon being confronted by jake sullivan. here is what didn't happen, and this is another critical piece, there is a discussion that night about, well, you know, what do we want to do with this, and what could have happened is notify d.c. metro police. >> yes. >> right? this was april 29th. you were there, i was there, all of washington was at the white house correspondents dinner, likely was jake sullivan, too. so this is on the later side of the evening. they could have called the police, they could have done a saturation of the neighborhood with available units, looking for a male moving along on the streets. that doesn't happen. they could call the uniform

division of the secret service which is their police department which also patrols. that didn't happen, either. the consensus was nothing happened, the guy ran away, i don't think anything was taken. let's not make a big deal out this have and spill into the "washington post" and everything else. this was kept very close hold to a small number of secret service people, some people on the national security council who did a quick assessment, but it wasn't done the right way. >> yeah, when you think about how many people were in town that would have probably reported the story, it was a huge number. i do want to talk to you a bit about threats against lawmakers or people who are in official capacities because we've seen the man yielding a bat going into a congressperson's office and hurting one of his staffers and scary the pants off of the people there. capitol police have warned that these sort of threats against congress members are way up, like 400%. so what can be done? i mean, what has to happen to

try to keep them safe and their staff? >> well, this is a really difficult discussion because, you know, in the post january 6th world and the world where threats to members of congress are up 400% over the last six years, the capitol police is about -- now, the capitol police -- the secret service is responsible for people like jake sullivan, that investigation is going on, that could result in people being fired. they take that very seriously. the capitol police is in charge of protecting members of congress. there are 535 members of congress. there are 1,800 and change capitol police. >> do the math. >> to put together a security detail for the congress and the senate would be about 3,700, 3,200 depending on how you did it. you would have to triple the side of the capitol police essentially and that would be something congress would have to do.

the real question is what happened to us as a country? where our own elected representatives, the people that we put in place, aren't safe from our own people. >> yeah. that says a lot more. that's a whole another discussion. i appreciate you being here. big j., john miller, i'm trying to give you a nickname. kate? coming up next, new protests in new york, parents angry for a plan to house migrants in their schools. a closer look at the plans and out concern. plus the ceo of the company that created chatgpt makes a surprising statement about ai. what sam altman told lawmakers on capitol hill. that's straight ahead. like dynag and risk-reward analysis help make trading feel effortless. and its customizable scans with social sentiment help you find and unlock opportunitieies in the market. e*trade from morgan stanley. withth powerful, easy-to-use tools, power e*trade makes complex trading easier. react to fast-moving markets with dynamic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity.

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this morning nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy are banned in north carolina. this after republican state lawmakers voted to override democratic governor roy cooper's veto of their bill. exceptions can be made for rape, incest and life-threatening emergencies. the bill also bans medication abortions after ten weeks. in washington a security breach at the home of national security adviser jake sullivan is now under investigation. the secret service says an intruder was able to get into his home without them knowing last late month. kate? so with title 42 now gone a legal battle is brewing far away from the border with mexico. in florida governor ron desantis has announced that he's going to send 1,100 troops and law enforcement to texas to help at the southern border, also cnn has learned that florida has chosen three companies to execute the next phase of the

migrant relocation program created there by desantis according to a source familiar with the process. it sets in motion plans to transport migrants to other cities just as he did last year. and then in new york parents are protesting over the mayor's plans here to -- how he's planning to handle the migrants coming into new york city. polo sandoval is standing by, he's following all of this. what is going on here with the plans and the protests? >> reporter: so, kate, what this is, it's basically just another sign of that domino effect of that surge we experienced before last week's expiration of title 42. what we saw outside this have public school in brooklyn, new york this, morning was some anger, some frustration on behalf of not only parents but also students as they were led around the block a couple of times, signs in hand, taking a stand against this latest effort by eric adams, his decompression strategy, if you will, to try to deal with the growing number of asylum seekers. what that strategy includes is locate placing about 300 asylum

seekers, at least so far, at about 20 gyms in schools throughout the city here. now, in terms of what the mayor is saying is this is his effort to try to deal with this ongoing asylum seeker arrivals of anywhere from 200 to 300 and at some point even 500 a day. they need a place to put them. he believes that this is one option here, these gyms are separate, city officials saying that the asylum seekers would be temporarily offered respite at these gyms, would not have any sort of contact with students, but the parents they mostly are sympathetic with the plight of these asylum seekers but also recognize that a school gym is certainly not a place for them, not to mention potential school disruptions. there is the other argument i've heard from parents which is concerns about the safety of their children. the brook little borough president responding to those fears. >> crime is going down according to our mayor and our das, crime is continuously going down.

these folks have not caused in any way, shape or form an influx or increase in crime. so this narrative about safety is just one that is being made up right now. >> reporter: so those are at least three different sides of this issue that is certainly quite controversial. people are very passionate about this here. look, i think everybody has to face the fact we continue to see nearly 65,000 asylum seekers that have been processed by the city in the last year and two months. so there is certainly a struggle when it comes to the city's effort to place these individuals and it's something that we are likely going to continue to see not just here but in other cities. the question is will the -- sort of the drop in apprehensions that i witnessed along the border the last couple of days will that mean we will get a break up here? we will have to see. back to you, kate. >> we do know including the mayor of new york city and mayor of other big cities where migrants are heading too far away from the border, they are now looking for a meeting with the president to ask for additional help with this exact thing. good to see you, polo.

thank you. sara? six years after a young girl's abduction she is back home with her father again. it was a stranger in north carolina who recognized kayla unbehaun from a netflix show. this is every parents of a missing child's wish that the child is found and found alive and able to come home. how did this all begin? when did she go missing? >> there she is when she was abducted, 9 years old and it's been six years. they were in south elgin, illinois, a suburb of chicago, her father had been awarded full custody. her mother, heather, had gotten supervised visitation. july 2017 right after fourth of july her father ryan goes to pick her up, she's not there. the mother is gone. i looked at court records this morning and an amber alert was immediately issued, there was

nothing, they couldn't find her. at the end of july a felony warrant for arrest on can child abduction was issued out of the courts in illinois. still nothing. for six years he didn't know what had happened to his daughter, what did she know? we don't know. but last saturday in north carolina, we want to show you, that's 600 miles away, someone in a store recognized her from the netflix series "unsold mysteries." went to store personnel. i recognize her, she's someone that's been missing. police came, they found her, they arrested her mother. let's listen to police in asheville, north carolina. >> it is unusual, but it's good that when someone does suspect that they recognize someone, no matter how old the story might be, that they are not afraid to give us a call so we can come investigate. >> and there is a statement that has been released by her father this morning, he says that he is

overjoyed that kayla is at home. we ask for our privacy so we get to know each other again and navigate this very new beginning. so there is an extradition hearing july 11th is what i'm hearing, so i'm going to be calling the district attorney's office when we get off because it's quite an extended time for an extradition hearing, right? but $250,000 bail for her mother, heather, right there, that is what we believe might be a mugshot, and she made the bail. so she is free pending this court hearing on july 11th. >> abductions sometimes people in the family, sometimes a parent, sometimes a stranger. >> across straight lines. >> across straight lines. >> potential for federal charges. >> the important thing here is when some of these cases get publicity they tend to do well -- they tend to do better, people start really looking. >> and it was four seconds she was on that netflix show. four seconds. >> unbelievable. this is such an interesting story. thank you, jean casarez, always

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of more than $860 million. north korean leader kim jong-un claims that he is close to launching the country's first military reconnaissance satellite. state news agency released these images of him inspecting the satellite, and obviously along with some dogs as well if that's what we're showing, and says that he has approved, quote, future action plans. john? i think those may have been the cocaine bananas. >> i'm just going with it. let's keep moving along. >> which look a lot like a north korean satellite. a potential recession warning this morning from target. the company reporting slowing sales as shoppers pull back on certain purchases. i was just getting a briefing back stage on this, seriously, from cnn chief business correspondent christine romans. what's going on here? >> sales barely growing here. you can see at target people going to the essentials and beauty, by the way, but household goods, the essentials, food, you know, things like that, that's what they're buying mostly and they're shunning things they don't maybe need

right now. that's after a couple years of very brisk growth. that's a really interesting fact to hear especially after home depot yesterday warned on its guidance for the year saying people have been doing home improvements for a couple years, now they're buying less as they're going back to work. we're seeing the consumer change. >> whenever you get back to buying essentials that's like pulling back. >> exactly, it is. and another interesting thing that the company pointed out, the ceo is on a conference call with analysts right now talking about we call it shrinkage in the industry but saying that because of high inflation organized criminal gangs, very organized criminal gangs across the country have violently been stealing stuff from target stores and reselling them cheaper on the black market. that's going to clip their profits by about $500 million. it's one of the biggest drivers of their so-called shrinkage is this idea that organized crime is basically taking the stuff at the retail price off of their store shelves and selling it to consumers who really are looking for lower prices, even lower

than target prices, those are pretty low prices already because of the inflation story. inflation making the organized crime and retail crime situation worse. i think that's very telling about where we are right now. >> a lot of factors intertwined there, but product walking out of the store violently in some cases. >> absolutely. >> christine romans, thanks very much. sara? coming up on cnn "news central," a missouri teacher is out of a job after using a racial slur in class. the "n" word. and it was all caught on video, what the school is saying now just ahead. and a bit later, prepare for the crowds, new estimates this morning on just how many of us plan to fly this memorial day weekend. hint, it's a whole lot.

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last night i spoke with eric schmidt, former ceo for google who is now investing in an ai company about how that can all play out. >> when it comes to war, because we talked about the fact that it can be used in war, is it more dangerous than, for example, nuclear war, the way we think of conventional war, the worst-case scenario? >> nuclear war is horrific and any nuclear war would destri the world as we know it. you can take this technology and active cyber attacks a whole country, do it until everybody's dead and you can imagine that scenario. you can also imagine the scenario where i want to kill a million people, show me a biological path to do it. these are the dangers that we have to make sure are not happening. >> active cyber attacks that can keep going until everyone in the world is dead. >> really uplifting stuff for the morning, sara, thanks for that. >> i'm sorry. it totally freaks me out.

what are lawmakers trying to do here? >> i think yesterday's hearing is quite interesting in that we've seen tech executives come to capitol hill for years now, but there was a consensus vote among the experts on the panel among republicans and democrats that something has to be done. what exactly that is or how it will look remains to be seen and one of the experts on yesterday's panel was a former nyu professor and he was asked what can be done. here's what he said. >> number one, a safety review like we use like the fda prior to widespread deployment. number two, a nimble, monitoring agency to see what's going on. number three would be funding geared towards things like a icon stugz or ai that can reason about what it's doing. i would not leave things up to entirely to current technology which is poor in behaving in ethical fashion and behaving in

an honest fashion and i would try to focus on ai safety research. >> now, a hot yesterday's hearings they didn't want to make the sacme mistakes with ai that they made with social media and we didn't get on top of social media and the potential harms of that and the horse is emboldened. they are trying to get a handle on ai and this will touch every aspect of our lives and you spoke to eric schmidt. >> and health care and all sorts of advancements and the big part of this could end us. >> he was asked straight up, is this going to kill jobs? >> he said yes. gpt technology is going to kill jobs and we should view this as a technological revolution, just

like technological revolutions created new ones and that is how he's selling it. >> and created new headaches. sorry, i'm a bit negative this morning, john? >> before that calamity, how about some holiday travel? attention, all passengers. memorial day weekend will be a busy one for holiday travel. forecasters expect more than 42 million americans to get away which is higher than 2019 pre-pandemic levels and united and american airlines are staffed to serve more than 3 million pass empengers during memorial day weekend. cnn correspondent pete muntean is with us now. they have great expectations for this holiday weekend and probably great expectations for the summer. >> no doubt. >> this really spells a huge summer ahead and the 42 million number and the big driver is air travel which is up 11% compared

to 2019. that's the forecast from aaa. so we may see a pandemic-era air travel record only days away. what is so interesting about the 2.9 million passenger forecast from both united airlines and american airlines, that's a number they've not seen in a long, long time and united airlines says the busiest day is only nine days away on friday, may 26th. folks, make your plans now if you've not already. united anticipates surveying 500,000 people on friday alone. it really will be big at newark, denver and o'hare united airlines says, but what is really, really interesting here, john and typically not seen before especially in this post-pandemic era is that air travel internationally is forecasted to go up. usually, we don't see that over long weekends and that's more of a week-long summer type trip and international air travel for memorial day weekend is up 16%

compared to last year. up 11% compared to 2019 back before the pandemic. here is the rub, though. airlines really struggled over memorial day last year and that kicked off a summer of meltdowns. they had 2500 cancellations over memorial day industry wide. 55,000 summer wide. so really, we'll see if airlines and the faa are up to the challenge here. american airlines insist that it is. it is the largest airlines in terms of the number of employees that of 17,600 employees, it says, since 2021, but now it's operating fewer flights and using bigger airplanes with more seats. fewer flights and more employees. the airline says it is right sized and right staffed for what is ahead. i don't know, berman, maybe not going to get a canceled flight to miss out on time with the in-laws. >> just remind our bosses, pete,

what day we should all come back from memorial day weekend? >> the aaa forecast is that monday will be big. everybody coming home all at once, but if you can, the tip is especially if you're driving, extend your trip and try and work from home on tuesday, maybe even into wednesday. >> that's what i was waiting for. >> not everyone has that luxury. i'll be working and i'm sure you will be too. >> i just like that idea that i can say pete told me. >> pete muntean, thank you as always. >> now since everyone knows now we should probably move it to thursday because everyone will be coming back wednesday. it will be a tough week. ahead on cnn news central, a key vote for the abortion pill as the u.s. court of appeals is about to hear oral arguments and is it being banned nationwide? and later, a missouri teacher is out of a job, and a teacher was

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