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>> thanks for joining. >> us on cnn newsroom. i'm isabel rosales. 4 a.m. here in atlanta, 8 a.m. in london, where we're following breaking news. a major power outage has forced london's heathrow airport, one of the world's busiest, to completely shut down. and that is leading to severe disruptions to global travel. officials say the airport went dark after a transformer at an electrical substation caught on fire, sending the smoke billowing through the area. britain's national grid says crews are working at speed to restore power. ten fire engines and dozens of firefighters have been working on the scene there in west london. so far, no word on the cause of that blaze. heathrow's closure is affecting more than 1300 flights and upwards of 145,000 passengers in the hours ahead. that's according to monitoring sites flightradar24 and cirium. let's bring in cnn's nada bashir in london. not a what can you tell us?

>> well, isabel, as you can see behind me, london's heathrow airport has been brought to a standstill and that is expected to last at least for the duration of the rest of today, but could continue in the coming days as a result of the severe disruption that has been caused by this fire at the north hyde electrical substation, just about four miles from heathrow airport in west london. and it is a fire that has caused a complete power outage at heathrow airport, as well as local residents and businesses have also been impacted. we've heard just in the last hour or so from britain's energy secretary, who has indicated that the backup systems, energy systems for the airport were also impacted by the fire. given the sheer scale of the fire, and we've seen that dramatic footage overnight coming in, shared with us by residents living nearby the electrical substation. really dramatic

footage of those flames engulfing the substation overnight. london fire brigade officials say they were called to the incident at around 11:20 p.m. on thursday evening and firefighters, dozens of them, had been working overnight into the morning to try to contain and tackle that fire. now, just a few hours ago, we did speak to a london fire brigade official at the scene who told cnn that the fire had been contained, that there wasn't a concern that it could spread, and that there was no imminent risk to nearby residents. but they had said that it could take hours to fully tackle the fire, that they were focusing first on isolating the electricity and then allowing firefighters to tackle the fire safely. that's something that could take a matter of hours, but the disruption that has caused, of course, is going to last for some time. as you mentioned, hundreds of flights have been impacted in heathrow airport, tens of thousands of passengers, and there is no clear indication of when exactly power will be

back up and running at london's heathrow airport. we know that britain's national grid has said that it is working at speed to restore power to those impacted. at this stage, they say more than 62,000 households have already had power restored. there are still nearly 5000 households, though without power. and of course, heathrow airport. the most significant impacted by this fire at the substation, europe's busiest airport. so that will be a critical focus now for the national grid and for all those involved in trying to restore power as soon as possible. for passengers, though, it is a moment of chaos and uncertainty, they've been told not to head to the airport. >> yeah, working at speed, but no word on how long that power restoration could take. must be incredibly frustrating for passengers. nada bashir in london. thank you. joining me now, also from london, is aviation analyst alex macheras. alex, thank you so much for being on the show. so listen, we're talking about one of the

busiest airports here in the world, a quarter million passengers passing through the airport every single day. what are the ripple effects we're anticipating here? >> good morning. it's going to be incredibly significant. in fact, i actually think that so far the understanding, at least across much of the uk is, is that, yes, there's been this, you know, terrible fire at the substation that has brought heathrow to a standstill. but i don't think that the true scale of the impact is being properly understood yet by the public. we are talking about the busiest two runway airport in the world. this is one of europe's most prominent, busiest hubs. today. the airport should have been handling around 200,000 passengers. it was scheduled to have around 680 flight departures, and a further 680 flight arrivals, and, of course, is home to british airways, british airways and airlines so big that it would simply be

impossible to park all of its own fleet on the ground at heathrow at any given time. we are talking about something that i think we're going to see the impacts of, not only over the coming hours, and it's very unclear as to when heathrow will reopen or be able to reopen. but over the coming days, and this is going to have ramifications in the global aviation sector as well as aircraft are out of place, crew are out of place and out of hours. and of course, all of the passengers around the world that are caught up in in this monumental shutdown. >> yeah. and you're saying for those of us that are not aviation experts like yourself, we could be underestimating the impacts of all of this. let's dig into that a little bit deeper. you were mentioning the strict crew flight crew hour regulations. so even when the power comes back on, that's going to be a major problem. talk about those domino effects. >> sure. so we know what the domino effects are, and we know how the words travel chaos are bounced around when the uk has,

you know, a couple centimeters of snow, for example, and that lasts a couple of hours for heathrow to have been left with no choice but to declare itself absolutely closed to all operations for the entire day. as i said, there should have been around 1300 and above flight arrivals and departures. that's typically around 200,000 passengers. they recognize themselves that obviously the challenge and the situation that they found themselves in with this fire at the at the substation was significant enough. and we've heard from the energy secretary, we've heard from various uk government ministers that apparently backups had also been affected and failed as part of the incident that unfolded. we're going to have ramifications that reach well beyond whether or not you are in the uk and, for example, going on a holiday or a vacation today, aircraft that had left places like the united states, including gateways such

as los angeles and new york, were turning back halfway over the atlantic or halfway over north america and returning back to the point of origin in l.a., new york, and everywhere in between, because they recognize that all of the european airports will start to fill up by the time they reach the other side of the atlantic. and right now, amsterdam, frankfurt, paris, manchester, they are taking the bulk of the diversions with the rest of the aircraft that were much further away told go back to your points of origin and wait for the next update. an update, of course, that hasn't yet arrived. so that's why, as i say, this is going to have that impact. not simply if you're flying to or from london, but actually to airlines who operate to britain's hub airport. and boy, are there many. >> and alex, you're talking about global ramifications here from from this issue. clearly heathrow is critical infrastructure. so one has to ask how did we get here in the first place. how is there not adequate backup power to prevent something like this from happening in the first place?

>> you're right. this this certainly does seem quite extraordinary that we have britain's hub airport seemingly reliant on a single power station. and those questions are understandably being asked. it's still very early in everything that's unfolding here in the uk. it's a little after 8 a.m., so we're expecting a slightly clearer picture on what unfolded. and then, of course, that reliance, the only development we've had in that area and on that subject is that apparently the backups that were involved in the contingency planning of if a power station were to go down, would heathrow enter a blackout? apparently those backups were part of the failure to. that's something that i'll leave the other sector to, to investigate. but for air travel, that provides very little certainty as to a when things will be able to get back up and running, and then b how and i think if we do see heathrow, for example, open tomorrow, it's going to be in a gradual way. we're not going to have bounce back operations

because if they have had to take this decision now, the priority will be ensuring that the aircraft that are stuck abroad are able to get back. as i said, all those crew that will be out of hours, out of sync, out of schedule, re accommodating the hundreds of thousands of passengers that should have been flying today that were already en route from last night onto additional services. it's it's perhaps going to be the most costly for the aviation sector and most significant airport shutdown in recent commercial aviation history. >> yeah, alex, clearly a lot of reflection needing to happen here. and so many passengers now stranded, including those heading to weddings, heading to accompany family members, going cancer treatments, going through those cancer treatments deeply impactful. alex macheras, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> well, u.s. president donald trump is starting to dismantle the education department with a new executive order signed thursday. it's something that

republicans have wanted for decades, but it's raising a lot of questions for students and parents. cnn's sunlen serfaty reports from washington. >> president trump on thursday signed an executive order to begin dismantling the u.s. department of education. now, this was a campaign promise of the president and is a rare move. no president in modern history has tried to close down a cabinet level agency. here's president trump at the white house on thursday, surrounded by schoolchildren in uniforms, sitting at classroom desks. >> we're going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs. and this is a very popular thing to do. but much more importantly, it's a common sense thing to do. and it's going to work. absolutely. it's going to work. >> shutting down the department would require an act of congress. notably. now trump officials, they have acknowledged that they do not have the necessary votes to dissolve the department that way. instead, the order that

trump signed thursday instructed the of education secretary linda mcmahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the department and return education authority to the states. now, how precisely the components of the education department will be dismantled is not yet clear. the white house press secretary said the order would move to greatly minimize the agency, but that she said certain critical functions like student loans, administrative grants for at risk students would remain under the agency's umbrella, even as trump said these functions would be preserved but redistributed to various other agencies and other departments that will take care of them. sunlen serfaty, cnn. washington. >> the american federation of teachers is speaking out against president trump's move to shut down the education department. the union's president tells cnn she is concerned that this will funnel money away from students in need to those in private

schools. >> the real issue. >> is how do we make. sure that kids have the funding that they need? and, and, and we make sure that every single kid has a safe and welcoming environment and is one that is engaging and relevant. but i think we could all do a better job in terms of education. i'm just surprised that the president is not working with the teachers in classrooms throughout the country, as represented by their union, to make things better. >> and another executive order signed by president trump on thursday increases u.s. mineral production by invoking a wartime power that dates back to the korean war. the order is aimed at boosting u.s. production of critical minerals, things like uranium, copper, potash and gold, and will expand leasing and development on federal lands. trump invoked the defense production act, which was first passed in 1950. he had

previously signaled his desire to increase u.s. mineral production. in his joint address to congress a couple of weeks ago. president trump has dismissed a report from the new york times that elon musk is set to be briefed on the united states plans for a potential war with china. trump confirmed on social media that musk will visit the pentagon, but denied that it had anything to do with china. the times said it was unclear why musk would receive a top secret briefing on military plans. musk's car company, tesla, has multiple dealerships across china and a large factory in shanghai. musk has been closely involved with president trump as part of doge, a controversial effort to slash costs in government. well, just ahead, we'll have the latest on the fire that forced the closure of london's heathrow airport as smoke. you can see right here still billows from the site. plus, hamas strikes back what israel is saying about the first rocket attacks from gaza since the collapse of the cease fire

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rescheduling their flights. aviation analyst geoffrey thomas says heathrow handles about a quarter of a million passengers every day. incoming flights have now been turned back or diverted to other airports. kim mitchell was on his way from minneapolis to london. he is among the thousands of travelers who have been turned back because of the closure of heathrow airport. he joins me now on the line. kim, really appreciate you coming on the show. can you first of all, where are you currently? and walk me through what happened? >> yes. >> good evening. i made my way back home and so we got off the plane and i think everybody. feels happy to be off that flight. now. but, you know, we were up in the air and as we just left the continent, we started noticing the plane turning around. and the captain hadn't announced anything at that point. so we were looking

around at each other and kind of puzzled about why the plane was turning around. shortly afterwards, the captain announced that the plane was now heading back to, to minneapolis, that we had been diverted due to a fire at the london heathrow airport. so at that point, you know, a lot of kind of talking started happening around in the cabin, people standing up confused. and the captain several times came back and tried to assure everybody that the reason the plane was turning around had nothing to do with the plane, that it was indeed ground related issues at at london. and then the plane did calm down after a little bit. once people felt reassured that there was nothing wrong with the plane, and that was not the reason we were being diverted. >> right. and so you're back home in minneapolis. but you were, i understand it, headed to to oslo. tell me about what you were there for.

>> so, the reason i was heading to oslo is i have a dad who is sick, and i wanted to make sure that i could spend some quality time with him. you know, while he's still feeling pretty well. and this is a, you know, for me, you know, a lost opportunity. i just came off the phone with delta to rebook my flight, and, of course, due to this situation in europe right now, there is no flights available for today at all. so they were not able to rebook me until saturday. so that that means i'm losing two, two valuable days with my family where i could have spent that time, you know with my family rather than apart during a relatively difficult time for for the family. >> and, kim, i'm curious to know from the perspective of a passenger, the aviation industry has really been going through it, from close calls to mishaps

to unruly customers to meltdowns. and now something like this. does this change how you see choosing a flight? obviously you have no choice going to oslo. you must take to the skies. but does this change how you approach air travel? >> so personally, i don't think so. i'm a fairly experienced traveler. i travel a lot. but situations like this, you know, being sent back to minneapolis, it definitely, you know, makes you think twice about the safety. and, you know, especially with you know, changes in the with air traffic controllers, that is something you definitely think, think about. and you when you fly, you are at the mercy of the of the airline and the captain and the decisions they're making. and so you're putting a lot of trust in the, in the system. and so, so for me personally right now, i still feel comfortable flying.

and i will continue flying. but obviously that is something that that you're aware of and you think about when you, when you do choose to book a flight. >> kim, i really appreciate your time. and i'm i'm hopeful that you're able to see your father soon here. and as i understand it, a father who's going through cancer. so such a sensitive time. and as you mentioned, every day, so important to spend that time with him. really appreciate it. >> absolutely. thank you so much. >> well, for the first time. for the first time since israel renewed its strikes on hamas targets in gaza, hamas is fighting back. the israeli military says it intercepted one rocket fired toward tel aviv, while two others fell into an open area. no casualties have been reported in gaza. the palestinian health ministry reports more than 500 people have been killed this week alone. the overall death toll since the war began in october of 2023 is nearing 50,000

people. also thursday, prime minister netanyahu's government voted to dismiss ronen bar, the chief of israel's shin bet internal security service. on sunday, netanyahu said he distrusted barr and his removal was necessary for achieving israel's war goals in gaza. a ukrainian official says the country's third largest city was, quote, on fire after thursday's massive russian drone strike on odesa. videos appear to show civilian infrastructure engulfed in flames, with plumes of smoke billowing above the city. officials say three people were injured but ukraine fought back, hitting an air base deep inside russia. the base has reportedly been used to launch attacks on ukraine. and in washington, u.s. president donald trump says he'll sign a deal to on critical minerals with kyiv. quote, very shortly. talks on a partial cease fire in ukraine

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>> yesterday i. >> had. >> a productive conversation with president trump. >> from. >> the very, very beginning, ukraine has been advocating for what we. >> are discussing. >> now, an end to attack on energy and infrastructure and ceasefire at sea. and we continue to support these efforts. putin must stop making unnecessary demands that only prolong the war and must not fulfilling what he promises. the world. >> those unnecessary demands referred to by president zelenskyy seem to be a direct reference to comments. and that phone call with donald trump that vladimir putin had this week, where he said a 30 day ceasefire, he would be willing to agree to as long as a series of demands were met by ukraine. some of them which it seems very difficult for kyiv to agree to at all, which include the halting of military support for kyiv, as well as the halting of intelligence sharing between

western partners and ukraine as well. president zelenskyy did also say in oslo that ukrainian negotiators would be in the saudi arabian capital this weekend for talks, which we know are due to be held between the u.s. and russia. what zelenskyy said, though, is that the negotiators will not be in the room or part of the discussions with russia and ukraine, but a form of shuttle diplomacy will take place where the u.s. will act as the middleman, conveying messages from russia to ukraine and vice versa. the talks taking place in saudi arabia. the u.s. said, are going to be at a working level, so not involving presidential or even foreign ministry level. but they do show that the united states has not yet given up on trying to push russia and ukraine to come to a ceasefire agreement. sebastian shukla cnn berlin. >> a fire in london has closed one of the busiest airports in the world. more than 1000 flights are affected. we'll update you on the closure of heathrow airport. plus, a judge

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tracking firms. this is affecting over 145,000 passengers. among the travelers affected was cnn's richard quest. he was on a jet that was set to take off from brazil to london. but then the news broke out of the fire. here's what he went through. >> okay, this is the reality. we've all got our bags, but now we have to wait for the voucher to get the taxi to get to the hotel, which they say they've organized. but so far it's just a long, long, long line. where i'm at the back. okay. >> just a nightmare. that was cnn's richard quest in sao paulo, brazil. earlier, cnn spoke with the director of communications at flightradar24 about the scope of this shutdown's impact. >> for the. >> total day. >> we're going. >> to have about. >> 1350 flights affected

directly. >> to and from heathrow, but that doesn't include the flights that will be impacted because those aircraft are not out of position and can't operate the flights that they were supposed to operate after they went to or from heathrow. airlines that operate 1 or 2 flights to heathrow per day are going to be relatively unscathed in total, but airlines like ba are going to take probably a few days, maybe even a week to recover, depending on how long the problems at heathrow last and how quickly they can get aircraft and crews and passengers back into position. it seems like right now anything that hasn't already crossed an ocean or multiple continents is heading back towards where it came from, or diverting closer to home flights that are already near london are diverting to to first airports near london. so gatwick is picking up some of the slack from the first arrivals. paris, amsterdam. we're going to start to see some some secondary and tertiary airports start to pick up diversions like birmingham, manchester and and further

afield within europe. eurocontrol is working on a diversion plan to accommodate all of those flights. i mean, 120 flights doesn't seem like a lot, but the majority of those flights are wide body aircraft with with lots of people on board. and so you're going to need large parking spaces for those aircraft as well. and so that's going to be a logistical nightmare. airports will publish how many flights they can accept. and once an aircraft lands there, they'll basically check the box and say, okay, we can only accept x number, more flights, and then they'll do that through the diversion process until they're full. and then they'll say, we're full, no more flights diverting here. and airlines will have to go to a secondary airport. london, aside from being one of the busiest airports in the world, it's also one of the airports that collects the largest number of airlines. so an impact to, you know, a daily closure in, say, dallas would affect

american airlines, but pretty much only american airlines. a closure of london heathrow really affects multiple airlines and many airlines around the world. >> again, just a nightmare on that. and another blow to president donald trump's crackdown on immigration. a judge is blocking his administration from deporting a georgetown university researcher who has been accused of spreading hamas propaganda. cnn's tom foreman has the story. >> reporter a flurry of men in black masks brandishing weapons, grabbing a georgetown university fellow as he returned home at night. that is how a lawyer describes the arrest of doctor badar khan suri by ice agents. never mind that a letter from a school official says we are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity. the trump administration insists surrey now being held more than 1000 miles away in louisiana, was actively spreading hamas propaganda and promoting anti-semitism, with close

connections to a known or suspected terrorist. it fits neatly into claims by secretary of state marco rubio that academics legally in the country can be legally booted out. >> this is not about free speech. this is about people that don't have a right to be in the united states to begin with. no one has a right to a student visa. no one has a right to a green card, by the way. >> those comments came amid questions about mahmoud khalil, a columbia university graduate, palestinian rights activist and permanent u.s. resident. khalil says immigration agents locked him up for exercising free speech in protest about the israel-hamas war. cnn has now obtained images of the fliers that a white house official says is the hamas propaganda distributed by the group organized by khalil, a claim khalil's lawyer denies. >> we have a zero. tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period. >> and there is the case at brown university of doctor rasha alawieh, deported to her native lebanon after the white house

learned she attended the funeral of a slain leader of another u.s. declared terrorist group, hezbollah. >> we're going to. >> keep this press conference on topic. >> administration officials are answering few questions about this case or the others. no matter how hard reporters press but online. the white house mocked the doctor from brown in keeping with the stance the president long had during his campaign. >> we will revoke the student visas of radical, anti-american and anti-semitic foreigners at our colleges and universities, and we will send them straight back home. they go back home. enjoy your life. >> the white house is clearly trying to move fast and send a message with these actions. but now the courts are beginning to step in and suggest the actions of some of these people may be protected and no cause for them being pushed out of the country. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> yet another u.s. judge is slamming the justice department

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working at speed to restore power. the british energy minister says the fire also affected heathrow's backup power supply. the airport will stay closed at least until 11:59 p.m. on friday night, london time. thousands of flights are expected to be affected here in the coming days. british airways airways says heathrow's closure is having a significant impact on its operations and its customers. canada's new prime minister is now expected to call a snap election on sunday. sources say mark carney will soon tell the country's governor governor general to dissolve parliament. now, if this happens, cnn has told canadians will likely go to the polls in federal elections at the end of next month. this comes as the country grapples with the u.s. over trade and tariffs, and as many canadians are furious with president trump's repeated calls to make canada the 51st u.s. state. cnn's randi kaye shows us the impact president trump's

rhetoric is having on tourism in maine. >> reporter. >> this has been a family business for 50 years. >> you've got to take into the fact. how the. >> canadians perceive this and and they are. incredibly off. >> we met sterling morse in old orchard. >> beach, maine. >> he owns the point of view inn, which is only about 150 miles from the canadian border. >> we have been here. >> he says the majority of. >> his. >> regular customers are french canadians. >> very traditional. >> people. >> you know. >> families that. take the same room, the same, you know, the same dates every year. >> not this year. sterling says most of his canadian customers have canceled. fed up with president donald trump's antagonistic rhetoric toward canada. there's the threat of tariffs, too. and lately, trump has suggested redrawing the border between the two countries. >> it's affecting. >> at least 90% of my business. >> are you saying you've had 90% of your business canceled this year? >> it's easily, easily. >> point of view in.

>> during our visit, yet another canadian called to cancel. >> listen. >> monsieur. >> you don't. you don't need to explain anymore. >> this is. >> every registration card from last year. this is the canadian. that's my american. this just went away. >> that's all you got now? that doesn't pay the. >> bills. does not. >> the best of my ability. >> for sterling morse, it all snowballed shortly after donald trump's inauguration. >> all of a sudden, an email pops up. you know, it's almost like, you. >> know. >> your phone. ding ding, slow ding. people that have been here for 35, 40 years, you recognize that number. and it's like, i know why they're calling. and the anger is in my eyes, incredibly justified. >> here in old orchard beach, roughly 40% of the tourists come from canada, according to the chamber of commerce. the chamber's executive director told us that those tourists make up about 30 to 40% of the revenue. for many of the

businesses here. >> i think. >> we're still kind of seeing. >> how many. >> different industries this impacts. it doesn't just impact tourism, of course. >> over at the iqaluit beach resort, owner fred kennedy hasn't seen a cancellation yet, but he's heard an earful from his canadian customers. what are they telling you? >> well. >> their feelings. >> are basically hurt. they don't like to be referred to as. >> the 51st. >> state, and they feel that it just they just want to express themselves and in sort of a nationalistic way, as an innkeeper, a hotelier, i'm concerned with losing any guests. i'm sort of cautiously optimistic that things will resolve themselves as time goes on. >> old orchard beach is a seasonal town, so businesses have about 12 to 15 weeks to make their money for the entire year. back at the point of view in sterling, morse doesn't see any way he can make up that lost revenue this season. >> you got to start thinking about the end game, the end game

of 50 years of tradition, to be honest. yeah. >> like you would consider closing down selling. >> i think there may be no choice. >> sterling morse, the inn owner who says he lost 90% of his business, went to school in montreal and feels a kinship with canadians. he told me that their anger is justified and he appreciates their renewed sense of nationalism. he also told me that he has tried to convince some of them to change their minds and to come anyway, but he says they are standing firm with canada. randi kaye, cnn, portland, maine. >> for the eighth year in a row, finland is the world's happiest country. so says the world happiness report, which uses gallup polling data from more than 140 countries. denmark is in second place and iceland takes third. other nordic nations, which also have strong social welfare systems. the news is not so happy for the united states. it's at number 24, its lowest ranking yet, as its young people are said to be less

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