♪ ♪ ♪ cargurus. shop. buy. sell. online. ♪ good morning. it is the top of the hour. glad you are with us on "cnn this morning." we begin with breaking news. moments ago sources tell cnn rudy giuliani will plan to surrender today in georgia at the fulton county jail. several of donald trump's co-defendants also have been turning themselves in. the former president is preparing to be arrested and booked tomorrow for the alleged schemes to overturn his election loss in the state of georgia.

>> this is also casting a huge shadow over the gop's presidential debate. the first one happening tonight. trump is skipping it and eight of his rivals will be there trying to seize the spotlight. >> also to greece where deadly wildfires are raging. a cnn photojournalist capturing this intense video as firefighters are battling the inferno. they were blasted with these powerful winds. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ this is where we begin following the breaking news this morning. sources tell cnn rudy giuliani is planning to surrender today at the fulton county jail in georgia after he tries to work out a bond agreement with prosecutors. we are told he will leave his manhattan apartment at any moment and this all comes just one day before donald trump is set to turn himself in for alleged scheme to overturn his loss in georgia. four of trump's 18 co-defendants

already turned themselves in this morning and yesterday, and we are waiting to see how many may surrender today at the jail. trump's looming arrest in atlanta tomorrow is stealing the spotlight from the first republican presidential debate. that's tonight in milwaukee. the republican frontrunner says he is skipping it, eight of his rivals will take the stage without him. we begin with our colleague senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz. what more do we know about giuliani? last night we didn't even think he had a lawyer in georgia. >> reporter: yeah, it looks like he will have someone to help him through the steps of the process today coming into the fulton county courthouse to negotiate with the district attorney to make sure he has some sort of bond agreement and can be processed at the jail, arrested, potentially have his mugshot taken, likely fingerprinted, all of those things so it goes smoothly. he would be one of the additional people we are waiting on to have his bond agreement

reached and be arrested. but he clearly one of the most famous people aside from donald trump himself to be a defendant in this case, a highly recognize figure. what rudy giuliani wants to do, victor and poppy, that we have heard through our reporting from our colleagues paula reid and zach cohen is that he wants to get all of his business done in one day here in fulton county. so he wants to come in to the courthouse complex to negotiate his agreement for bond for release so he doesn't have to be held in jail, and then head over to the jail, be arrested, in and out and be done before donald trump comes to town. there is a lot of questions around their relationship. clearly, he had been the most prominent attorney after the election pushing these ideas of election fraud on trump's behalf. even appearing in federal court to make those claims to throw out votes. then there was a split between the two. trump didn't continue paying his

legal bills. giuliani has run into hard times with his legal bills, so he is trying to get a foothold there. there is a question of how much he is willing to split from donald trump in this or if they hold together from the same perspective going forward in this case, but there are so many different defendants here. we are not just tracking rudy and trump. we are tracking all 19. we have seen some of -- only four go into the jail so far. we have some mugshots that are starting to emerge. so there are still many things that have to happen not just with rudy giuliani and donald trump, but the others as well. >> so giuliani's trying to get everything done in one day. here are the four who surrendered. two mugshots on the left, john eastman and scott hall, david schaefer and kacathy latham turd themselves in overnight. mark meadows is trying to stop fani willis from arresting him at all by the deadline on

friday. what is he asking for from federal court? >> reporter: well, it's important to remember that each of these defendants is taking a different tact in how they approach this process to become criminal defendants and get their court cases on path towards a trial or potentially even guilty pleas if they choose to do that. what's happening with mark meadows and with another former trump administration official, jeffrey meadows, chief of staff to trump, clark was in the justice department, both men are right now not negotiating their bond terms and they are not ready to be arrested here by the deadline that the d.a., fani willis, set for noon on friday. what mark meadows is doing is he and clark both have separately gone to a federal judge in federal court. so a different system. they said we were federal officials at the time working on behalf of the president for everything we are accused of doing, thus, we have the right to put this case in federal court right now. that means we don't have to be

arrested in the way that the d.a. is saying we do in this state court case. what mark meadows said in his court filing was that fani willis, if mark meadows doesn't report to be arrested by friday, she is intending to arrest him before a hearing on monday that he has scheduled in this. watching what happens with the federal case dynamic is going to be a lot of -- something we should watch closely. there could be a lot of tension there that bubbles up and we could see more files on today. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. it's going to be a busy day there today and certainly tomorrow. >> to milwaukee, we're just hours away from the first gop primary debate. although former president trump will be a no-show, his legal troubles will no doubt steal some of the spotlight from the debate stage. joining us from wis our chief national you a fairs correspondent jeff zeleny and cnn political director david.

good morning. you spoke with vote tlers in wisconsin, what this is supposed to be about. what did you learn about their concerns? >> victor, it's clear on the minds of voters they are really focused on the issues, actually. they are not as focused on the indictments or what's happening with the former president. but the voters i talked to made clear i think a good reminder for all of us that this is the beginning of this process. the primary season is now just getting underway, and i talked with one voter in cederberg, wisconsin. it's a suburb that has long been conservative. actually went very narrowly for joe biden in 2020. caroline quinlan talked about her interest in the economy, education, and crime. she also said what's on her mind about the candidates. let's take a listen. >> i could go for a fresh start on both sides of the aisle. both for the republicans and the democrats.

is that going to happen? i don't know. >> reporter: anyone stands out to you at this point? >> i am learning about all of them. i have been really interested in desantis, haley. interested in her. >> reporter: so i think that shows the opportunity here for many of the candidates on stage. really who are introducing themselves to voters, who are making their case. of course, the balancing act here is how much the former president dominates the conversation from the questioners. but voters we talk to are interested in hearing from the candidates who are going to be here. >> david, are we going to get substantive questions and answers on issues tonight? or is it beigoing to be all tru in. >> reporter: oh, no. the fox moderators indicated they are certainly going to ask about donald trump. donald trump going to be a character on this stage despite his being absent from the stage. but no doubt we are going to

get -- i would imagine some substantive questions and answers. the fox news host didn't share with me their plan. but there are policy divides, poppy, among this field, among these republicans on abo abortion-related matters, social surt, forn policy, dealing with the war in ukraine. all of these things, in addition to donald trump divide up these republicans into different categories. i would imagine they will try to flesh all that out on the debate stage. >> we know that the desantis campaign and governor desantis as they describe it or expecting a dog pile because he is the highest polling on the stage, even if it's 16 or 17%, he is going to get a lot of incoming. what is potentially a successful night for governor desantis, david? i'll stick with you. >> reporter: well, i do think one of the things to watch for with governor desantis is how he handles that heat. i think you're right. they are setting up expectations, hey, he is going

to take all the incoming, he is in the second place spot. i think a measurement of his strength as a candidate is how does he handle that? does he crumble under it or is he prepared to dispatch with the attacks and pivot to his message? in a way to introduce himself -- we have been covering ron desantis now for quite some time. for the republican primary voters just tuning in to the race, this will be their first real big introduction to him in many ways. this is an opportunity for him to show why he is in the second-place position and try to grow from there. >> reporter: and i think there are opportunities for him, as david said, to sort of defy expectations. look also at former governors on stage. there are actually quite au few of them. mike pence a former governor. this is big opportunity for him. former south carolina governor nikki haley has been really reminding voters of her time as governor. of course, she served in the trump administration. wants to go back to her time as governor, talk about the

economy. look for her to draw some contrast with how the florida governor has governed on disney and other things. she has been previewing a lot of these lines. actually, a lot of these lines have been previewed on the campaign trail. that's one of the reasons they have been in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. so, yes, there may be some surprises but we have seen a lot of what they are doing. the governor dynamic is one i'm watching tonight. >> for sure. guys, thank you so for the pregame. we will be watching the postgame analysis as well. so rudy giuliani, we have learned in the last hour or so, is going to meet today with the fulton county d.a.'s office to try to discuss and set a bond agreement. he will be traveling with bangladesh any kerik, an unindicted coconspirator. hehe was at one point trump's lawyer. willll join us next with some answers. pretty s sad. and i posted it to show that kenny's not alwaways happ. within 24 hours people had donanated over $5,000.

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i'm feeling very, very good about it because i feel like i am defending the rights of all americans as i did so many times as a united states attorney. people like to say i'm different. i am the same rudy giuliani that took down the mafia, that made new york city the safest city in america. reduced crime more than any mayor in any city anywhere and i am fighting for justice. i have been from the first moment i represented donald trump and as a man who has now been proven several times. i don't know how many times he has to be proven innocent and they 14 have to be proven to be liars. actually, enemies of our republic. we are destroying rights, sacred rights. they are destroying my right to counsel, my trite to be a lawyer, his right to counsel. it's not accidental they indicted all the lawyers. never heard of that before in america. all the lawyers indicted. whether you dislike or like donald trump, let me give you a

warning. they are going to come for you. t when the political winds shift, as they always do, let us pray that republicans are more honest, more trustworthy, and more american than these people in charge of this government. our government is conducted this way, and the system of justice is politicized and criminalized for politics, your rights are in jeopardy and your children's. donald trump told you this. they weren't just coming for him. or me. now they have indicted people in this case -- i don't know who they are. these are just regular people making a normal living. they are going to bankrupt them. they won't convict them. you remember -- >> that is former new york city mayor-turned-trump attorney rudy giuliani who is expected to surrender today at the fulton county jail in georgia.

is speaking outside of his apartment in new york city. according to sources, he is going to negotiate a bond agreement. one source tells cnn giuliani will travel to georgia with bernie kerik. he is the former nypd commissioner. he worked closely with giuliani after the 2020 election chased down the unfounded claims of fraud. kerik is not charged why the indictment. his attorney confirmed to cnn he is the unnamed individual listed as co-conspirator five in the georgia indictment. let me bring in his attorney, timothy parlatore, who also represented trump in multiple probes. tim, thanks for your time this morning. appreciate it. >> good morning. >> last night we didn't know if giuliani had an attorney in the state of georgia. can you explain your client, bernie kerik's role, why is he going? is he still going with giuliani to georgia today, and if so, why? >> well, look, he worked with

rudy giuliani for a long time. he is helping out his friend. this is a new process to rudy giuliani. the georgia state system where they have to go to the sheriff's office and go through the system there. this is not the arraignment. this is not like in new york where you go straight from there to see the judge and d.a. so bernie kerik is helping out his friend with the logistics of how to navigate the sheriff's office. >> rudy giuliani is a former u.s. attorney. he knows how these work. does kerik have particular experience in georgia on this stuff? >> he has a lot of friends, you know, other former law enforcement officials who have been able to give him advice. so he is just helping the mayor through. >> okay. do you know -- >> just because he a former federal u.s. attorney doesn't mean he knows the georgia system. >> i was asking if kerik knew the georgia system. sounds like you are saying he has friends that know it. has giuliani found a georgia-based lawyer, i guess, to represent him today? he is going to have to have one?

go ahead. >> i am not sure. i know that as part of the bond, they usually do want you to have a georgia licensed attorney to sign it. i am not sure what the status of that is though. >> so let's move on to some other topics here. we just heard a vehement defense from rudy giuliani standing, you know, right in line with where -- with where trump is. he doesn't sound like someone who would flip on trump. is that still your read? >> i think so. that's absolutely true. >> yeah. so mark -- >> giuliani is happy to -- he is happy to talk about this case, clearly, but the problem that the prosecutors have is they can't really get him to flip because his truthful testimony is that they believe that there was fraud. you know, whether you can, you know, question that, you know, a couple of years later, at the time they believed there was fraud and that's not going to change just because they are threatening him.

>> you are not representing giuliani, so i don't want to go deep into what his defense is going to be. at the same time you cannot conspire to commit a crime. look -- which is the allegation here. mark meadows, i am interested in how mark meadows and jeffrey clark are trying to get this case out of state court, get it into federal court, and trump has not made that move yet. why do you think that is? is that because he believes and his team believes if meadows and clark can get this thing to federal court, it moves all 19 co-defendants there? >> you know, so i think that every defendant should be looking at this, and, you know, certainly some have more grounds to move it than others, such as meadows, clark, and trump, as well as the people who worked directly for them, such as giuliani. i question whether it makes sense for meadows to be running and doing this before the arraignment because he runs the risk of going and doing a

removal by himself as opposed to coordinating with his co-defendants. he gets a hearing by himself and then whatever the ruling there is going to be binding on everybody else. this is the kind of thing, when you have a multi defendant case, it's important for all of the defendants and the defense attorneys to work together and to make joint applications as opposed to everybody running off on their own. >> maybe, unless they think it will harm them to work together, which is apparently meadows' team seales a value in moving alone. you said you think giuliani has a real case to get this moved into federal court. i understand your argument for trump, for meadows, for clark, because their argument is under statute 1442 we were government officials. the question is whether they were acting under the color of their office. fani willis says, no, you weren't. why would giuliani, who is not a government official, be able to make that argument? what's your ground for that? >> sure.

under the statute, it's either a government official or someone working for a government official. does gradual have grounds? sure. is it as strong and meadows and trump directly? certainly not. when a case gets removed, it would be removed for all of the defendants, yeah. everybody involved in the rico case, they are not going to split it off and do half r.i.c.o. in federal court and half of r.i.c.o. in state court. that's why i think that they should all move together on this, because they all have an interest in being in federal court. but certainly the three people that are federal officials have the strongest case, and trump particularly, because he already has that decision out of new york that outlines that he was a federal official and what the scope would be. >> well, actually, in new york their argument to move this out of state court to federal court was denied by judge hellerstein. is that what you are referring to? >> right.

>> but that's not what helenstein said. that's the opposite. he said the hush money payments to an adult actress are not in the capacity of being president and they were made before he was in office. >> that's absolutely true. when i made hellerstein's decisions -- i thought moving the case to federal court would fail to begin with. >> and did. >> i read the decision, it didn't surprise me. it didn't surprise me at all. when he outlined what the standard was and he was able to draw the distinctions as to why the bragg case didn't comply with it, what he did was he described in many ways, he described the georgia case before the georgia case even existed. i knew reading the decision back then, you know, this is going to be very strong ammunition for him in georgia. >> that's an interesting take. i want your final thought on something that did cross overnight, tim, and that is the fact that you have two trump employees in the mar-a-lago documents case, which you used represent trump on, now being

accused by prosecutors of false testimony before the grand jury. and one of them is an i.t. specialist who is not indicted, by the way, hasn't been charged, he used to have a trump paid attorney. now he has a public defender and they are going to question him again. he denied -- or claimed not to recall any of the contacts and conversations about that security footage at mar-a-lago. do you think that is significant? do you think that is a risk to trump? he doesn't have a trump-paid attorney. he has a public defender. they are saying it looks like his story is changing. >> it's certainly a risk anytime that somebody goes to the grand jury and is going to change their testimony. there is going to be, you know, questions as to, you know, where the original story came from. i did find it interest that jack smith's filing, you know, did just say that he wanted to change his story where he didn't specifically accuse stan or anybody of any wrongdoing in trying to procure that

testimony. so i don't think that any of this, you know, falls on stan directly. but it is something that, you know, it is concerning whenever you have a witness who goes in and then wants to change their story. but it also makes for, you know, pretty significant, you know, cross-examination fodder of why did you change your story? what other precious were put on you? >> stan is the former attorney that represented him. tim parlatore, thank you for your time. >> thank you. the father of a tennessee titans player died after an explosion at his home in north carolina. officials are still trying to determine the cause.

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according to what you said on one of the talk shows, you get hillary clinton to go to your wedding because you gave her money. maybe it works for -- >> excuse me, jeff, jeff, i was a businessman. i got along with clinton. i got along with everybody. that was my job, to get along with people. excuse me -- >> no. >> yes. more energy tonight. i like that, look -- >> i was asked a question. >> no secret that every second

on that debate stage is crucial. all it takes is for one moment like that one to go viral and completely change the course of a candidate's campaign. cnn's hair is here to break it all down. he with saw a love those in 2016. >> yeah. won't be on the stage tonight to do that. >> no, he will not be on the stage. i love debates. one of my favorite things. >> that doesn't surprise me. >> i know, right? some things may surprise you about me. that's not one of the things that should surprise you about me. you know, i think back on big debate moments. the first i remember coming out of college was this moment in the 2012 campaign rick perry, i think we have the clip. let's play it and listen and talk on the other side. >> it's three agencies of government when you get there that are gone. commerce, education, and the -- what's the third one there? let's see. >> you can't name the third one? >> the third agency of government, i would do away with education, the, um, i --

commerce, and let's see. i can't. the third one, i can't. sorry. oops. >> yeah. >> oops. >> energy? energy, anybody? >> and then he would go run it. one of the interesting things people look back upon that moment and remember that rick perry was at one point the frontrunner for the republican nomination during the 2012 campaign. he had already lost that status in the polls by this particular point. he was already -- had dropped significantly from where he was two months before this moment occurred. this was seen as the last gasp sort of moment where maybe rick perry could turn his campaign around, and, obviously, it just didn't work out for him. he ended up winning no caucuses, no primaries and fell further in the polls after that moment. there is another moment to me that jumps out as the seminal moment where a campaign that looked like it was on the rise was coming to an end, from the 2016 campaign. it happened in new hampshire.

happened with marco rubio and chris christie. let's listen to that. >> you see everybody -- i want the people at home to think about it. that's what washington, d.c., does. the driver barbie shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisors gave him. there it is. there it is. the memorized 25-second speech. >> that's the -- >> there it is, everybody. >> i feel like there was a trap that was set up at that moment and marco rubio walked right into it. remember what -- >> people didn't see he kept repeating the same thing. >> exactly right. he said exactly what chris christie said he was going to do. exactly right. and if you are recall during the 2016 campaign, marco rubio had a three, two, one strategy. come in third this iowa, come in second in new hampshire, come in first in south carolina and your campaign will take off. and if you look at the polling in new hampshire, what you saw

was after he came in third in iowa, he completed the first successfully, polling was on the rise, and then what we saw, we saw that moment crushed his campaign into smithereens. he didn't even finish third in new hampshire. fourth, if i recall correctly. it basically ended his campaign. chris christie took marco rubio out and, therefore, gave trump the nomination. now i think it's so interesting that christie is the anti-trump, almost making up for this particular moment. these moments, these debate moments give you an idea of how important debates can be. those are two fine examples. two fine people. two fine examples. >> thank you for that. >> i wonder if he is going to do that tonight. i could see him doing that on desantis. >> i don't know. that's why we are going to watch. if you take out desantis, does that again hand -- he is so far ahead anyway. >> right. this a different campaign. trump is much further ahead. i will be interested to see if the great debaters of the past

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. india has done it. it has become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon after the u.s. and china and the former soviet union. moments ago, and we are talking a couple of minutes, the chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed on the lunar south pole. look the celebration here. indiana's space research organization is already sharing stunning photos from the mission. and look at these pictures of the approach. it's a rare close-up of the moon's kind of dusty gray terrain. >> this mission comes as space programs around the world are racing to get to the moon. this weekend russia failed to land a spacecraft on the moon. nasa announced multiple crude lunar missions, including plans to have the first woman and perp of color on the surface. indiana landed on the south pole. experts believe there could be ice, mineral deposits, valuable elements there. live in new delhi with more. i can only imagine how excited

people are. >> reporter: absolutely. the moment that soft landing happened, poppy, you should have seen these people behind me. not believing this. they were clapping, they were clearing, there were chants, there were cheering. the prime minister, he was addressing the nation. the indian prime minister narendra modi is at the brics summit in south africa currently, but tuned in virtually to watch that moment. what a moment it was. you see the moment inside the mission control center. if you go four years back approximately, those very hearts were broken not only inside the control room, but across india. millions of hearts broke when the chandrayaan-2 failed to make that soft landing on the moon. but that's the past. now look at what happened today. indiana is not only the fourth country in the world to make the

soft landing on the moon. it's also the first country in the world to make the soft landing in the south pole region. a big accomplishment for india. just the first in many in terms of the space missions. it wants to send a mission to space very soon. a manned mission t, and also a place in the international space center there. so a lot happening at the international space station, rather. right now we have the indian prime minister speaking live. this is, like people told us, scientists said a moment of intense national pride. back to you. >> exciting moment there. joining a very small fraternity. thank you so much. let's bring in mike, a former nasa astronaut and professor of mechanical engineering at columbia university also a new book coming out in december called moonshot, a nasa astronaut's guide to achieving the impossible. let's start with the

positioning. how important it is for india not just to join the fraternity p but to go to the south pole. >> yes. so the south pole is big, victor, because of ice. there is ice there. so the interest with ice is that it could be possibly made into drinking water to support crews that would go there, astronauts that go there, and also could be turned into rocket fuel to use the moon as a place to launch, to further locations out in the cosmos. so that is the great interest with the south pole. and no one's been able to land there yet. this is the first time a country pulled that off. this is big news. looking forward to what they will find out there. >> what are they trying to find out there? >> well, if they can find that ice and learn more about it, how it's composed of -- what form it's in, where it is exactly and how they can process into drinking water and maybe process it into fuel. also, just the mechanics, the physics of getting -- the reason it's so difficult is because --

it's a difficult place to get to based on the physics. it's harder to get there than towards the center of the moon where we landed previously. hope hopefully, they will share that information. what the terrain is like. if there is any atmosphere, any traces of any elements there. all of these things will help us understand the south pole, which is of great interest as a possible landing location not only for more spacecraft but also for people in the future. it's been a few days since the russians, their unmanned mission to the moon ended in fiailure, crashed into the surface of the moon. now india has landed this. are we in another moon race? i mean, what do you see with this, i guess, rush back? >> yeah. i hope it's not a race. i think it's good to have a little competition maybe, but, hopefully, we will be sharing information together. i think what we are seeing is that it's possible now to get back to the moon. not just 50 years ago like the united states did. incredible accomplishment.

it was just a visit. now we are looking to go back and set there will and explore there and go there for science and for prestige, for national prestige. this is a great accomplishment for indiana. strategically, economically, see what resources are there. can we use it to move to other places in the cosmos, to launch from there. so i think what we are seeing is that it's possible. when we can't get there the last 50 years, it's tough to get there, so on. now we see it's possible, more people think about what they can do there. that's why i think we are seeing this heightened interest, particularly in that location on the moon. i hope it's not a race. i hope it's cooperation. it's not easy. this is the first time a country has pulled it off. hopefully, they will share that information and, hopefully, we can go together. it's a huge undertaking and i hope it's done as a team between different countries around the world. >> yeah. good for indiana. >> great findia. we will see what happens. >> we will be watching it. >> hopefully, everything keeps

working. you got a rover. we will see what happens. >> thanks so much. look forward to the book. >> thank you. so after a number of close calls on runways across the country, the federal government is funding millions of dollars in new construction to help combat that. we have got that report ahead. breaking news on one of the eight presidential hopefuls planning to take the stage. the debate tonight. he was just injured and his debate attendance is in question. the latest right after this.

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hospital, emergency room. our colleague dana bash is reporting that the governor's attendance tonight at the debate is we have in question if he will be able to stand on the debate stage for that two-hour debate. we are going to see all of the candidates at a walk through this afternoon on stage, sort of seeing what this format is like, and it's unclear fell be able to go through that, but this is just coming into us this morning and dana will have more on this onnen side politics later. the governor 67 years old, one of the later joiners into this presidential campaign, but has been actively campaigning, is physically fit, i saw him at the iowa state fair a week or so ago. yesterday he was playing basketball and we are told that he was injured, the extent of the injuries are not quite clear, but the question is will he be able to stand for the duration of the debate. so this is certainly something that his staff is assessing

today as well as the impact it could have on the rest of the program. again, eight candidates will be on stage and he was, frankly, thrilled to be included in them. he made the threshold of those 40,000 donors through some unique processes, essentially enticed people to donate to his campaign. so he has been here in milwaukee preparing for the debate, but that basketball game yesterday landed him in the hospital and is putting his debate attendance in question. victor? >> took a lot of work to earn that podium. we are all hoping for his recovery. jeff zeleny for us there in milwaukee, thank you. also this morning, the faa announcing $121 million investment to fund upgrading airports and the runways specifically. the money is going to a construction projects at eight major airports. the ntsb is investigating seven runway incursions this year, pete muntean joins us, who is also a pilot. i want your take on how much the

changes will matter and make things better. >> reporter: we're talking changing the design of airports to make them less dangerous, poppy, these repeat near collisions are a big problem the faa is trying to get its arms around, a safety summit, memos to pilots, a controller, new review board, all of this is the kind of stuff that you will be able to see. shovels in the ground at airports. here are the airports where taxiways and runways are getting a facelift, boston logan, reagan national airport, richmond, jackson hole, naples and anchorage, in some cases tricky blind corners will be removed, in other places new taxi waist will be built so planes don't have to use the runway to taxi back to take off at the end. $44 million is going to boston logan to remove parts of problem front taxi waist and that's significant because boston was the scene of one of these incidents earlier this year, a jetblue flight had to abort a

landing when a learjet took off from an intersecting runway in front of it. a close call. this is an emergency taken by an offduty pilot. the streak is the learjet. we are talking only hundreds of feet from tragedy. this is the kind of thing this money is going to try to avoid. $121 million it all comes from faa grants and the bipartisan infrastructure law, poppy. >> pete, thank you very, very much. ahead, the harrowing rescue in pakistan, school children trapped in a cable car dangling 900 feet above the ground.

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well, now to our morning moment, this is a northwest pakistan where a daring rescue happened. this is more than 900 feet in the air. a cable snapped and six children, two teachers also, were left dangling by a single cable over the valley. high winds prevented helicopters from getting close enough, but rescuers were able to get some medical supplies to them after some of the children got sick. finally, a special forces officer was able to carry one of the students to safety while, look at this, dangling from the helicopter. the crews worked well into the night when the zip liners got two children down. finally after 14 hours this huge team of locales on the ground pulled together to bring the final passenger to safety. this was just children trying to

get to school and were there dangling in the air, all safe now. >> thank goodness for that. we are also keeping a very close eye on an intense firsthand look at these deadly wildfires ripping through greece right now. this is video, you see a cnn photojournalist caught right in the middle of a desperate battle to fight the flames near athens as the powerful wind from whipped them. >> reporter: authorities, on the other hand, face a task of trying to put out these raging fires that have caught with massive winds that you can see that i'm experiencing right now. this family here as you can see watering down their homes. all these homes are at risk, many homes have already been burned. the damage is extraordinary. >> that's our colleague with our reporter journalist covering this. seeing that engulfed in smoke. >> remarkable. "cnn news central" starts right