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. kevin mccarthy's marching orders, the house speaker directs his committees to open an impeachment inquiry of president biden and the white house is already pushing back. we're going to tell you what the administration is saying. also ahead, the manhunt in pennsylvania taking on a new sense of urgency with the fugitive now armed. police say a homeowner fired shots at the escaped killer as he was stealing a rifle with a scope on it. we're live in chester county. and fulton county's district attorney up against a deadline to explain how she plans to prosecute donald trump and his 18 codefendants all at the same time. we're following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy just raised the political stakes in washington this morning.
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he officially kicked off the process to begin an impeachment inquiry into president biden. >> today, i am directing our house committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. this logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. that's exactly what we want to know. >> the investigation is centered on the gop's allegations that biden engaged in corruption while vice president. some lawmakers to mccarthy's right are threatening to strip him of his speakership if he diz not make this move. the white house is calling this extreme politics. just about everyone in washington expected something like this to happen. melanie, tell us about mccarthy's timing here and also his decision to skip a vote. as i remember it, he pressured nancy pelosi to have a
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congress-wide vote in 2019. >> yeah, you're exactly right. the timing is notable. it comes as the house is returning after a six-week recess, and pressure has been growing on kevin mccarthy from his right plank to begin impeachment proceedings. there's also been renewed threats to his speakership, including from congressman matt gaetz. he's making clear he's not completely satisfied. in fact, he took to the house floor just an hour after mccarthy made the announcement and had this to say. >> moments ago, speaker mccarthy endorsed an impeachment inquiry. this is a baby step following weeks of pressure from house conservatives to do more. we must move faster. >> reporter: now, on the other end of the spectrum are a number of moderates in the party who are still not sold yet on the idea of impeachment. in fact, it's important to remind viewers that the house
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republican conference has not yet proved allegations that biden directly profited off his son's foreign business deals or that he made policy decisions because of them when he was vice president. and so that dynamic right there, jim, i think really explains the predicament kevin mccarthy is in and also why he is deciding to skip a floor vote on a formal inquiry. he's moving ahead without getting buy-in from his full conference, but he's not yet put a timeline on how the process is doing to play out. >> he's skipping a floor vote because he's not certain he has the votes to win that vote? >> exactly. exactly. the votes are just not there yet, jim. >> yeah, melanie zanona, thanks so much. let's get white house reaction to this. kayla tausche, the white house had some expectation it was coming, perhaps not today. so how are they responding and what's their plan to deal with this going forward? >> reporter: jim, the white house sees this as a stark about face by speaker mccarthy, whose
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own declaration just two weeks ago that he would seek that formal floor-wide vote to move forward with in impeachment inquiry piqued their interest into whether or not he could generate votes. now the change in position is seen by the administration as an admission by mccarthy that he doesn't have the votes or the evidence yet to get them. ian sams is the spokesman for the white house on oversight and investigations, and earlier today, he posted this on social media. writing, house republicans have been investigating the president for nine months and they have turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. his own republican members have said so, he vowed to hold a vote to open impeachment, now he flip-flopped because he doesn't have support. this is extreme politics at its worst. since republicans retook the house, the white house counsel's office has amassed a team of two dozen experts in legal communications and legislative fields in advance of this expectation that there would be this growing move toward
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oversight and even impeachment that they expected would reach a fever pitch going into the 2024 election. but they are now unbowed in their work, based on this evolution in the house. and officials are pointing to some of the statements by mccarthy's own conference, some members, moderate members from blue districts saying that house republicans simply aren't there yet. jim, we're just at this hour getting a new statement in from the biden re-election campaign tying mccarthy even more closely to former president donald trump and saying that this latest move by mccarthy just cements his status as a trump supersurrogate. jim. >> perhaps those republicans in blue districts fear the same fate of republicans in moderate districts who lost their seats after voting to impeach trump. thanks so much. on the run and now armed. the escaped murderer in pennsylvania who broke out of prison 13 days ago has a rifle with a scope and a flashlight on
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it, according to pennsylvania state police. they say that danelo cavalcante got away with this weapon after he stole it from an open garage last night. police say that the gun's owner was actually nearby, was in the garage, and fired several shots at cavalcante with a handgun. they do not, though, think cavalcante was hit by any of those bullets. we have danny freeman who has been tracking every turn of this manhunt. we're getting a new view into cavalcante's mind from his sister's testimony in his murder trial as we see the new developments that he's armed. >> reporter: that's right, brianna. let me just tell you about where i am right now and then i'll get to the new information that cnn is reporting about his sister. just to paint the scene here, we're just outside of the main perimeter right now, right outside of south coventry township. on route 123, and it's a show of force out here. nearly 500 law enforcement officers, we have seen many on
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horseback, others coming in armored vehicles. we see helicopters continuing to circle the sky. that's the show of force ever since the news we got confirmed that cavalcante has become armed and is considered armed and dangerous now. to your point, we got some new information about elena cavalcante, the sister of danelo. she became an interesting player because we learned a new days ago immigrations and customs enforcement has detained her because she overstayed her visa, according to state police. they said she was not helpful at all to their investigation of danelo cavalcante's escape, her brother. though they wouldn't say specifically if she was ever accused of helping him. however, she did testify as a witness for the prosecution in her brother's murder trial, which just happened about a month ago. cnn was able to obtain the transcript of her testimony. i want to highlight it because like you said, it sheds some light on the mindset during or in the process of cavalcante's
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prior attempt to evade law enforcement. so this is alena cavalcante speaking on the stand, and she just said danelo her brother had told her he had indeed stabbed debra brandau. she responds, yes, however he did not know if she, the victim here, was dead or alive. the prosecutors then press, was he calm, was he angry, was he sad? how would you describe his demeanor? his sister responds, i couldn't really identify because he's always had a calm demeanor. he seemed okay to me. the question continues, so his demeanor was the same during this phone call that it has always been with you? sister responds yes. did he slur his words? it was very quick, i didn't have a chance to notice much. to be clear, he sounded the same as he had the other day? yes, is the response that she gives. again, that's a moment where danelo cavalcante is calling his sister, telling her he has just killed his -- stabbed his
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ex-girlfriend, she testified under oath he was calm throughout that entire experience. now he's escaped from prison, 13 days we're in this manhunt. he's armed and dangerous. >> and we learned from that trial, he stabbed her dozens of times, and yet it sounds like he was pretty matter of fact about it. danny freeman with the very latest in the situation that has taken a more dangerous turn. thank you. boris. we're following breaking news just in to cnn. five former memphis police officers involved in the deadly beating of tyre nichols have just been indicted by a federal grand jury. let's bring in cnn's nick valencia following the story for us. these five officers are also facing state charges in tennessee. those were brought earlier this year. now they're indicted on federal charges as well. >> reporter: that's right. we just got our hands on this indictment, and it includes two charges, two counts of witness tampering and two counts of deprivation of civil rights, and excuse me while i go through this indictment which we just got printed out here.
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count one, deprivation of civil rights, the doj goes on to say these five former officers unlawfully assaulted tyre nichols and willfully failed to intervene in the unlawful assault which led ultimately to his death. it goes on to say in count two that they failed to render medical aid to nichols, failing to advise the npd dispatcher and emergency medical personnel of the circumstances surrounding nichols' serious medical need. in relation to those charges of witness tampering or obstructing justice, conspiracy to witness tamper from the department of justice, they allege that these five former officers deliberately and corruptly persuaded, their words, the intent to hinder or delay the truth by trying to corruptly persuade their supervisor as well as the individual who wrote the incident report and what happened with nichols. you remember, the police report was riddled with inconsistencies when we initially got it, after a fact, we saw a video of how it played out and it was riddled with inconsistencies.
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two other counts in relation to the witness tampering goes on to say they withheld information and also deliberately misled information. again, this is just coming out to thus, this indictment just released and we're standing by for a press conference from the department of justice as well as the u.s. attorney from the district of tennessee to formally announce these charges. as you mentioned, they're still in state court, expected to appear in state court some time later this month. all of this happening as patterns and practices investigation was announced in july by the doj into the memphis police department. they allege black motorists were disproportionately targeted there in memphis. boris. >> we should point out the officers in the state case have all pleaded not guilty. nick valencia, please stand by, you'll bring us the latest details as we get them. let's go to cnn's senior law enforcement analyst charles ramsey. thanks for being with us. your reaction now to these federal indictments of the five officers in memphis. >> well, i mean, i'm not
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surprised. the only thing surprising is it took this long for them to actually indict them on federal charges. what they did was absolutely wrong. whatever happens to them, believe me, they deserve it, both at the state and federal level. it is just tragic what they did to that individual, mr. nichols. but it's also tragic what they did to the entire profession of policing. it damaged all of us by just looking at that video. and they need to pay for it. i know you're innocent until proven guilty, but quite frankly, i'll be shocked if there's anything other than a guilty verdict when it comes to trial. >> incredibly difficult video to watch of tyre nichols' final moments. chief, let's take a step back and talk about the manhunt in pennsylvania. state police were answering questions from reporters today. there was one specific question that seemed to frustrate the lieutenant colonel that was speaking with reporters. let's listen.
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>> i don't know why you would think something has gone wrong. our law enforcement people have done an amazing job tracking him and locating him. that proverbial needle in the hay stack, and they have located that needle repeatedly. >> he was asked what has gone wrong in the search for that, again, proverbial needle. the problem is that needle keeps getting away. it's now armed with a rifle. so what's your assessment of how officials have handled the situation? >> well, first of all, i understand why he's frustrated. i have had similar frustration on occasion with big cases and press conferences and so forth. you do the best you can with these things. this isn't television where everything gets solved in an hour with commercial breaks. i mean, this is real. and it's very, very difficult to have a manhunt and actually search somewhere, especially search for someone, especially with the kind of terrain they have to deal with.
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now, obviously, they wish they had caught him earlier. they wish a lot of things. but it doesn't mean that something went wrong. they're doing everything that they possibly can. they'll debrief afterwards and take a look at the entire operation to see whether or not something could have been done differently, but i understand his trust frustration. he wants to catch this guy as much as anybody. all those officers that are out there combing the area now trying to find him, and i might add, do so at great personal risk. this guy now is armed, we know, with a rifle with a scope. he has absolutely nothing to lose. he's killed twice, and he will not hesitate to kill again. and so these officers knowing that are still going to go in after him. and that takes an awful lot of courage. >> no question about that. some 500 officers out there searching for someone who is armed and dangerous and who we should note has killed before. chief, you mentioned the terrain. and it's terrain you're somewhat familiar with. you were the commissioner of police in philadelphia not that
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far from where they're searching for danelo cavalcante. the terrain specifically, there's a network of underground tunnels, large drainage ditches, thick vegetation, a lot of places to hide. talk to us about those challenges. >> well, it's very challenging because he has got the upper hand in terms of, you know, where he goes. you're guessing whenever you're trying to find someone. i have been to longwood gardens on multiple occasions, certainly not in the tunnels and some of the areas he would be in, but it is very heavily wooded. in some areas. it's just very difficult to do a search. and then when you have that undergrowth of brush and so forth, real thick, he's a small guy. easy to hide. even if dogs weren't able to really pick him up. so it was very tedious, it was very difficult. he moves mostly at night. so he was able to slip through, and when people think about a perimeter, you're talking about
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an eight-square-mile area. that's a huge area to search. and even if you have 400 people, you're not standing shoulder to shoulder. he finds one weakness somewhere, one gap that's all it took for him to be able to get out. again, the public needs to be careful too. he's been able to steal a car because someone left the keys in it. he's able to go into a garage and now he's got his hands on a rifle. you know, people need to lock their stuff up. this guy is dangerous. and he is desperate right now, and he'll do anything to get away. he has absolutely nothing to lose. in fact, you know, now that he's got a firearm, i wouldn't be a bit surprised if he decided to try to take somebody with him. >> wow, an important warning from chief charles ramsey on day 13 of this manhunt. chief, always great to see you. thanks so much. brianna. >> it's deadline day for the fulton county d.a. fani willis has to tell the judge how she plans on trying all 19 defendants together.
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. big day in the fulton county election interference case, facing donald trump and 18 codefendants. district attorney fani willis is on deadline today. she must lay out a road map for the judge showing exactly how she plans to try all 19 defendants in one sweeping rico trial, as it's known, and why that should happen as the court is currently scheduled in just over a month. as she makes her case to the judge, forler president trump has asked the court to toss out all of his charges. very unlikely to happen. and mark meadows is asking the court to pause his case while an ongoing appeal of moving this case to federal court plays out. sara murray is tracking all this. lots going on, so just in terms of her plan, 19 codefendants including a former president,
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currently running for office. some demanding a speedy trial, some not demanding a speedy trial. sweeping charges here. how does she plan to lay that out in the timeframe she's asked for? >> reporter: they essentially have to made their best argument to the judge about why they think all 19 defendants should go together, and again, how you do that logistically on such a short timeframe in 40-something days. we know the judge had a number of concerns in hearing last week about how this would be handled logistically so he's asked her to lay it out in a filing that we're waiting for. one thing is clear. we know that ken chesebro and sidney powell, two attorneys who worked on donald trump's efforts to try to overturn the election, they're heard recalling ahead. they're going to trial in october of 2023. the question is are the other 17 going along with them or does the judge try to divvy up this block of 17 into smaller groups. as aio pointed out, there have also been motions from people like mark meadows and others to try to move the case to federal
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court. we still believe donald trump's team is likely to do that at some point, and the judge raised concerns specifically about how you deal with that group that's going to have these challenges going on in federal court at the same time as the state court proceedings are moving ahead. now, as you pointed out, trump's team is also trying to fight these charges in state court, making this initial effort out of the gate to have the charges against him tossed. like you said, that's a high bar, but it does sort of show you the two tracks that these defendants have to work on if they're planning on trying to fight these charges in state court while potentially trying to get this moved to federal court. the good news is we'll hopefully have some clarity on all this by later on this week. the state judge said he wants to issue some scheduling orders, get things organized by the end of the week. >> can i ask a basic question? if those two, powell and chesebro, they have asked for a speed a trial, but it's assumed they can get a fair and speedy trial. does that case affect the others claiming they need all this extra time for their own trial
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to be fair? >> no, not necessarily. look, you can make an argument if you're a lawyer for another defendant that i need more time. just because maybe ken chesebro and sidney powell feel like there's a narrower case, maybe their attorneys have clearer schedules. if they feel ready to go ahead, they can go ahead. if you're an attorney for another client, you can say look, we have been accused of participating in all these schemes that we want to do more research on, we need time to over the discovery. so there's any number of arguments you could make. >> sara murray, we know you'll follow them. thanks so much. president biden is facing criticism for falsely claiming that he was in new york city at ground zero the day after 9/11. these are comments he made yesterday during a speech to military and first responders as he was marking the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks. >> ground zero in new york, i
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remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. i felt like i was looking through the gates of hell. it looked so devastating. because of the way from where you could stand. >> but that's not actually true, and now the white house is weighing in. for more on this, let's turn to cnn's daniel dale, he's here with a fact check. when did biden actually visit ground zero? >> he went nine days after the attack, september 20th, 2021, when he went when a bipartisan group of senators. they provided a photo of him on september 20th. some people might say, he was there. >> just a matter of days. >> maybe he forgot, but look, it's 9/11. it's sensitive. he's speaking to military and first responders so the facts matter. >> he has done, i don't know if it's similar things, but he's sort of told some stories that don't line up quite like this before. >> yeah. this president has a pattern at this point of either inventing
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or embellishing stories about his own past. his biography. he did it three times in one speech last month alone. he claimed he had witnessed a bridge collapse in pittsburgh when he showed up about six hours later. he claimed his grandfather had died just days before he was born himself at the same hospital. in fact, his grandpa died more than a year before in a different state, not the same hospital. and he also repeated a favorite false story that i and others have debunked over and over again about a supposed conversation with an amtrak train conductor who was deceased at the time the conversation would have taken place. that's not all, there are more serious ones in my view. he claimed at one point he had been arrested in a civil rights protest, where in another version, he said an officer took him home from a protest. he said he visited the pittsburgh synagogue where worshiper were killed. he spoke to the rabbi but never
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went. he said at point, republicans like to bring this up, he used to drive a tractor trailer, an 18-wheeler. never happened. he used to drive a school bus as a job briefly. not an 18-wheeler. whatever his intensions, whether it's foggy memory about stuff going on decades ago or deliberate embellishment, this is an unfortunate pattern that keeps coming up again and again. >> thank you for taking us through this. we appreciate it. boris. still to come, in new england, a flash flood issued for parts of massachusetts after more than half a foot of rain came down. detail said from new england when we come back. bring it to safelite. we do more replacements and recalibrations than anyone else. >> customer: thank you so much. >> tech vo: schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ( ♪ ) ( ♪ )
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. we want to update you now on the devastating earthquake in morocco. the death toll from friday's earthquake has climbed past 2900. rescuers are still racing to find survivors in the rubble, but that job is getting even more challenging in hard hit mountainous areas where debris has destroyed or blocked some roads. sam kiley takes us there. >> reporter: this is what remains of the village. now, the municipality extends up into the hills, way up there, accessible only on foot. here, in the central area, there were 200 homes. now, across the area, some 88 people were killed. many more, of course, injured because at 11:00 on friday night, this is what happened. and it's similar scenes in every village on every hilltop in this
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region in the foothills of the atlas mountains. it's as if a giant running downhill has stamped, stamped out the life, crushed the futures of the inhabitants of these villages. now, there is a whiff in the air, mostly not of dead bodies but of dead animals. of course, it's the animals that represent for a farming community like this, the incomes for the present, the pensions for the future, and indeed, any kind of hope for a future education for the younger generations. we have been talking to people here, and they insist some of them that they want to be able to rebuild. but from the government's perspective, they're having to go right up into the mountains, into the further flung regions using helicopters to drop aid, going out with sniffer dogs to try to find out in these last few potential moments of finding survivors under this kind of rubble, trying to identify the
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greatest need. that is going to be an ongoing and fraught activity, and then of course, morocco somehow has got to recover. sam kiley, cnn. >> sam kiley, thank you so much for bringing us that report. there are a lot of people in morocco who are in need right now. if you're in a position to lend a helping hand, you can find out more about how to help folks in morocco at cnn.com/impact. jim. massachusetts home left standing alone on its foundation as you can see there, the rest of the property around it washed away in catastrophic flooding overnight. nearly a foot of rain fell overnight in the town just 40 miles north of boston. the town's mayor said there were so many rescues they have lost count of how many. right now, evacuations have been ordered for some people living in low-lying areas. emergency management officials say a dam that had been scheduled to be replaced is now prompting further concerns.
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cnn's meteorologist chad myers is tracking the story from the cnn weather center. chad, goodness, another day where we describe unusual amounts of rainfall leading to flooding. one 200-year event. we're seeing these every couple weeks. explain what happened and what's going to happen next? >> for this town, they had a -- this event should have happened once every 200 years and it happened yesterday. 2.77 inches of rain in one hour. hard to imagine where that rain has to go so quickly. and then even though it stopped raining there briefly, you talk about that, almost ten inches of rainfall came down. there was heavy rainfall there in parts of rhode island as well and on up towards the berkshires north of worcester. and still running off, still seeing flooding right now. now in the rivers. the rivers are swelling, not so much in the towns and streets, but some of the streets don't
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even exist anymore because they were washed away. no rainfall right now. nothing really for today, but i do think we will see more rainfall tomorrow. there are still watches up. obviously, now, there's no place for the rain to go. level two for flood risk for this area, and there's more rainfall to come, jim. and its name is lee. >> i want to talk about lee. we both learned something, chad. tell me about hurricane lee. >> it's still a category 3 hurricane. it is a big event. it will come in on the heels of the rain that goes by tomorrow. and it is still out there in very warm water. hasn't really got to the cold water yet, so the precursor to this event will be the rainfall that comes down two inches of rain, not according to lee, not associated with lee just yet. but 115 miles per hour. it will move to the north. and it will begin to slow down in intensity. that's the good news. there still will be widespread
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consequences with gigantic waves up and down the east coast and potential for more rainfall in those places in eastern new england that do not need any more rain whatsoever. we'll still watch the track. right now, trending to the east, but it's still something certainly worth watching. the good news is it likely will be a cat 1 when it gets close. >> like so many strands of spaghetti. thanks so much. brianna. still to come on cnn news central, as air travel surpasses prepand levels there's a troubling rise in injuries among airport workers. we'll have that story next.
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illinois, soybean processing plant are still in the hospital after a powerful explosion on sunday night. this took firefighters more than seven hours to get this blaze at the ten-story building under control. the cause of the explosion is still under investigation. and an american rescued from a turkish cave is undergoing tests in a hospital today. after his harrowing ordeal underground. 40-year-old mark dickey fell ill in the third deepest cave in turkey about a week ago. it took rescue crews several days of around the clock teamwork to get him out. >> it is amazing to be above ground again. i was underground for far longer than ever expected, with an unexpected medical issue. at one point in time while i was waiting for jessica to get back down with fluids, she made an insane climb of 1,000 meters out of the cave to come back down another 1,000 meters along with the support of hungarians and turkish cavers. saved my life, and it was the
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rapid response of the turkish government that got the resources to her. just what can you say? saved my life. and a popular ingredient in many over -the-counter algaerj and cold medicines does not work. an fda panel found that p.e., as it is known, is ineffective, especially in tablet form. p.e. is the main ingredient used in products like benadryl allergy plus congestion, nyquil severe, and vixxsinex. they generated more than $1 billion in sales alone last year. >> i hope that cough clears up soon. as air travel increases significantly following the pandemic, there's a new and troubling problem on the rise. airport workers responsible for loading bags and servicing planes on tarmacs are getting seriously injured at alarming rates. cnn aviation correspondent pete
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muntean is here, so pete, help us understand what's happening. >> reporter: working on the tarmac is really difficult. it's hot, it's loud. it is getting more and more dangerous according to these new numbers. worker injuries actually went down with the pandemic, but have rebounded with the rebound in air travel, and now the latest numbers show that worker injuries are now above what they were prepandemic, and some workers are paying with their lives. when courtney edwards went to work on new year's eve, she had no idea she would become part of an alarming statistic. the mother of three was helping marshal a flight to its gate at the montgomery, alabama, airport when she was pulled off her feet, according to an ntsb report, and into an operating jet engine. edwards was killed. >> it's a very tough job, and it's dangerous. >> reporter: employees working on airport tarmacs are now part of a troubling trend. injuries among them spiked last year, according to occupational
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safety and health administration data first reported by the "wall street journal." >> my leg went up to this lever. >> reporter: this is what's left an on the job injury that could have been much worse. tenga works as a ramp agent for contractor swissport. in february, he was taking bags by hand from a flight when he slipped. his left leg stuck between the body of the blade and a baggage loader. >> when i pulled my leg out, i sat on a box for four to five minutes and the whole leg was burning. >> reporter: in a comment to cnn, swissport says the health and safety of employees is the highest priority and it fully complies with regulations. the number of on the job injuries declined in twenty when travel cratered, but osha shows flights picked up, injuries quickly returned to and exceeded prepandemic levels. just last month, massachusetts state police say a forklift operator at boston logan was pinned by a metal beam and
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killed while he was servicing a jetblue flight. >> it's absolutely essential that as we move forward, that we bring these workers out from the shadows. >> reporter: u.s. senator ed markey says his legislation to improve airport service worker pay will lead to less turnover and safer conditions. >> the higher the morale, the more likely safety standards will be in fact maintained at the highest possible level. >> reporter: airlines have added employees since the pandemic downturn, but safety experts say there is intense pressure on contractors to quickly service aircraft with limited staffing. >> i think you need more oversight, you need heftier fines, and you need a recommitment on the part of the air carriers to treat these people fairly. >> do you think it's getting less safe? >> i would say yes. because people keep on doing one person will do a job of three people. >> earnest tenga is still working for swissport, but on
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light duty. he thinks new protections for workers like him will be a heavy lift, but it could save lives. >> if things were done the proper way, i think people wouldn't be injured. >> reporter: we're learning more about the conditions of these workers are facing. in arizona, about a dozen of them just filed a labor complabt. they say they're being forced to work on hot planes, sometimes without air conditioning, and often without water. the pressure is on them to work not only from airlines but also from the federal government, which is putting this bulletin out just new saying airlines are going to be extra vigilant after these recent incidents. >> it is a tough gig, no question about that. pete muntean, thanks so much. jim. for jets fans, our football season flashed before our eyes when aaron rodgers, the hope for this season, carted off the field in his debut. threw like one pass. details on his injury and
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so the new york jets, the heartbreaking new york jets and their fans, we should be celebrating the thrill of an opening night victory, but instead, we're feeling the agony of an injury to a superstar player we built super bowl hopes on him. the jets rallied to beat buffalo in joovertime. but they may have lost aaron rodgers for the season. corey wire was at the game. i have torn by achilles tendon.
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it's the worst injury, and i'm very far from an nfl player, you might have noticed. but that is the worst case scenario, is it not? >> reporter: absolutely. don't sell yourself short, jim. i know you have some baller in you. as you mentioned, the energy was palpable. it was like a rock concert. i felt like i was at a bruno mars jam, and then all of the air went out of the stadium when he fell down. everyone knew it was not right, because he went down immediately. he's a tough guy and he would have tried to limp off. but here he is, torn achilles, definitely done for the season. but is he done for his career? did we watch his last snap, his last game in the nfl? he's 39 years old. a player just got signed a couple hours ago, but he's now the second oldest player in the league at 39. as you mentioned, not an easy injury to come back from, but he does play the quarterback
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position, so we'll see. but four-time league mvp already has a super bowl ring, and this was the moment for jets fans. they were so hyped. but they still got the w in the end. >> the look on the owner's face, it was like he had seen the end of the world there. and yet, after all that, they won. how did they do it? >> reporter: i mean, when something like that happens, you want to play for something beyond yourself or someone, more than just yourself. that's what this team did. this is xavier gibson. an undrafted rookie, his first game in the nfl, and in overtime, jim, i know you were watching this. you were probably standing on your feet. touchdown, game over. and the crowd went wild. the defense stepped up, as well. this team can still win a lot of games even without aaron rodgers, but it will be a lot
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more difficult. >> we're seeing if they are looking at the trade market. boy, what a night. corey, good to have you. >> thanks, jim. >> boris? house speaker kevin mccarthy is directing committees to open an impeachment inquiry into joe biden. we'll take you live to capitol hill for the latest when we return. to jump into the fun and join in the celebration. to help get you ready, your aspen dental team is celebrating 25 years of affordable care with an epic anniversary savings event. right now, new patients without insurance get a free full exam and x-rays. plus, everyone can get 20% off their treatment plan. but hurry, because while the season won't last, the memories you make together will. aspen dental. book today. >> tech: need to get your windshield fixed? safelite makes it easy. >> tech vo: you can schedule in just a few clicks. and we'll come to you with a replacement you can trust. >> man: looks great. >> tech: that's service on your time. schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪
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