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Hundreds of Flights Cancelled as FAA Makes Major Cuts Amid Shutdown; ICE Agents Arrest Teacher at Chicago Daycare; U.S. Carries Out New Strike On Alleged Drug Vessel. Aired 8:30-9 am ET

Aired November 07, 2025 - 08:30   ET

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HAYLEY BERG, LEAD ECONOMIST, HOPPER: -- feeling apprehensive about disruptions. Even before this announcement from the FAA, we have a product disruption assistance that helps travelers rebook on any airline if they're canceled or delayed. We've seen a 60 percent increase in customers adding that before the shutdown was announced. And we've seen a 40 percent surge in customers adding that product just in the last 48 hours since this reduction was announced.

So, travelers are apprehensive. It's already impacting where they're putting their money and how they're thinking about their trips.

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Yeah, I want to play for you what one person just told my colleague Jason Carroll this morning about how this has been playing out for her. She had a flight. It was canceled, moved to one airport, moved to another airport. And now she's almost out of luck. Listen to this.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm renting a car. I have to be back in Utah by Tuesday. And from what I hear with the counters, the airline counters and TSA, they literally said to me, if I were you, I wouldn't travel over the next three days. So --

JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And who said that to you?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People at the TSA --

CARROLL: I see.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- clear and the counters, the airline counters, because I think it's going to get worse.

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BOLDUAN: I mean, they're hearing that from folks working at the airport. So, what is a flyer to do if they can't control takeoff and landing?

BERG: For travelers who are hitting the skies this weekend, we do expect there's going to be a lot of disruption, probably more than just the 800 or so flights that have been canceled so far today. And the many more we expect this weekend. I really recommend if you have to fly, do what you can to prepare.

Download your airlines app, sign up for text messages, use the where's my plane function on your airlines app and make sure that you've double checked. Are there other flights to your destination? If you need to make a schedule change, which flight should you advocate to get on when you do reach that customer service agent?

There are going to be longer lines at TSA, at customer service. Imagine this weekend, similar to when an unexpected blizzard hits and shuts down multiple large airports. People are going to face cancellations and many significant delays.

So, being prepared, if you have to travel, the number one tip. If you don't have to travel, Airlines are being very flexible with refunds and rescheduling of flights. So, definitely check your airlines website to see what offers are available if you do want to change or cancel your trip.

BOLDUAN: One thing that kind of got our attention yesterday was that the CEO of Frontier Airlines had suggested to customers in a message that with this being out of their control, that he was suggesting the passengers that have a ticket on Frontier book a backup ticket on another airline. But not everyone has that kind of cash to book a backup ticket. I mean, is that a good idea?

BERG: I would recommend rather than booking multiple tickets and actually filling seats that others could be booking if they're trying to reschedule. If you haven't booked, I would book with a disruption assistance product. It's different than travel insurance. If your flight's delayed, canceled or you miss a connection, you can rebook immediately on any flight, regardless of the carrier. If you're not satisfied with the flight options, you can opt for a refund and keep that disrupted flight.

Product like disruption assistance is going to be way more useful to you than having two tickets and potentially both of those being disrupted and occupying a seat that you're not going to use that someone else could be rebooking on.

BOLDUAN: There is so much uncertainty all the time when we fly these days and now this added to it with no end in sight. I think everyone can take any good advice right now. Thank you, Haley, for that.

Sara?

SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: All right. New details this morning. On the arrest of a Chicago daycare teacher, Chicago's mayor says armed ICE agents, quote, acted with impunity. This image shows two officers forcing the woman outside the preschool with her arms behind her back. DHS says she is undocumented and was in a car that didn't stop when they first tried to pull it over before it got to the daycare. That arrest happening just days after another ICE confrontation in Chicago went viral and caused outrage.

Video showing masked federal agents making an arrest in a residential neighborhood. That's when an unmarked car driven by ICE agents collided with the woman's car. You'll see it happening there, right there. The woman is in that smaller, dark colored car. That video shows agents forcibly pulling that driver, a female, out of the car and detaining her.

But "Chicago Tribune" reports that the woman, who is a U.S. citizen, was later released without charges. The woman told the "Chicago Tribune" she was just grabbing coffee on her way to work and was not involved in any protests. DHS disputes her claim, telling the "Chicago Tribune" the woman, quote, "used her vehicle to block in agents."

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But you can see the video there and, quote, they said, "crashing into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisting arrest, injuring two officers." But remember, she was not charged in this incident.

Joining me now from Chicago is Maria Guzman. She's a parent at Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center and Matt Martin, who serves as Alderman of Chicago's 47th Ward.

First to you, Maria, your child goes to this particular school, this daycare, where you saw this video or the kids, you know, were there when all of this went down with ICE. Can you give me some sense of when you heard about it and what your biggest concerns are?

MARIA GUZMAN, PARENT AT DAYCARE WHERE TEACHER WAS ARRESTED: Yes. Good morning, Sara. I heard about it immediately after it happened. I received a call to let me know that a teacher had been arrested by ICE. I'm also very involved in rapid response teams and just making sure that our communities are safe. And so they knew that. And I came and provided support to the team as soon as I could.

SIDNER: We're hearing from parents that, you know, the reaction of children seeing this happen right outside of where they go to -- to feel safe and to learn.

GUZMAN: I mean, it's absurd. It's horrific. It's a nightmare that these children have lived through this, that these teachers have lived through this, that we have lived through this. We're angry. We -- we cannot honestly fathom that this is now our reality, that we have to be afraid that the federal government is attacking our community such that they're coming into our daycares and our schools and attacking those who are taking care of our babies.

SIDNER: Alderman, I'm curious what your response is to hearing what ICE has said about this in contrast to what the courts have said. In other words, in this -- in this other incident where you -- you see a woman driving her car, you see a vehicle that is unmarked hitting her car and then her being pulled out of the car. Turns out she was a U.S. citizen. She was not charged. But ICE is saying all manner of things about her. What -- what do you think happened here? And what are you learning this morning?

MATT MARTIN, ALDERMAN, CHICAGO'S 47TH WARD: We know that ICE has lied repeatedly. A federal judge just yesterday admonished Greg Bovino, saying that he repeatedly lied before around using tear gas on Chicago residents. We also know a separate federal judge talked about the Broadview facility where so many people who have been taken off the streets are being detained, saying that this is unconstitutional, that people can't be sleeping on the floors next to overflowing toilets. So, it's incredibly concerning that our federal government is doing this and it needs to stop immediately.

SIDNER: Alderman, what are you telling your constituents to do when ICE comes into the neighborhoods? And we're seeing some video here of that incident where they're pulling this citizen out of a car. But when ICE comes into the -- into the neighborhoods and starts, you know, detaining people.

MARTIN: We need people to make sure they know their rights and that they're looking out for each other. We've done business canvases. We've talked with schools to make sure that they have programs in place, policies in place so that immediately people are coming inside.

When Operation Midway was announced by the Trump administration, the first places that were targeted, the first places where we saw ICE agents in my community were outside of elementary schools and food pantries where seniors go. I never thought in my job that this is what we would be focused on. We know that for decades there was a sensitive locations policy in place, Republican and Democratic administrations alike.

They said, we're not going to schools, we're not going to hospitals, we are not going to churches. Those are not places where immigration enforcement should happen. The Trump administration reversed that policy the first day in office earlier this year. And we see what happened just the other day as a result of that.

SIDNER: Maria, I do want to ask you about what the daycare is doing now, considering what happened and how you want ICE to operate. Obviously, they have their jobs. They are saying they are going after people who are here in the country undocumented, undocumented. Just want to get some sense of what the daycare is doing now in light of what happened.

GUZMAN: Well, we have organized as parents to support the teacher. We demand her release. We demand accountability from the federal government. And we want our schools, our churches, our libraries to be left alone.

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Our community is under attack. And we should not be expecting people to be getting picked up for speaking Spanish and for being brown. If you are watching this, that is not the world and the country that we want to leave for our children. Our children deserve better.

SIDNER: Maria Guzman and Alderman Matt Martin, thank you both for getting up early for us and talking to us about this issue that is pressing in your community. Appreciate it.

Kate? BOLDUAN: Turning back to politics and the fallout from Tuesday's big election, Republicans are brushing off the losses in Tuesday's election, saying that the results don't signal a real shift in how voters are feeling. House leaders insisting that Dems only won in Dem territory.

Watch this.

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REP. STEVE SCALISE, (R) HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP: If Alabama held an election also Tuesday and, gee whiz, a Republican governor was elected governor of Alabama, would anybody be writing a story about it? Of course not. So, let them go celebrate New Jersey electing a Democrat governor, New York City electing a Democrat.

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BOLDUAN: CNN's Harry Enten looking into this and running the numbers. That's Steve Scalise's take here. What are you seeing?

HARRY ENTEN, CNN CHIEF DATA REPORTER: Yeah, I disagree entirely. I think that the House is on fire and he's like the dog saying, this is fine. Take a look at this. It's all about the margins, baby. Look, Democratic candidates' margins. In 2024 press in New Jersey, Kamala Harris won by six.

What happened on Tuesday? Well, right now, Mikie Sherrill's ahead by 13. That might be 14 very quickly. We're talking about a shift of at least seven points upwards of eight. How about in Virginia? We had Kamala Harris winning by six. What do we have Abigail Spanberger winning by? Winning by 15. We're talking about a shift of about nine points.

If we had, let's say, an average eight-point shift across the board in all the different House seats from the 2024 press result to then what happened in the 2026 House elections, you would be talking about a Democratic gain of about 20 seats, depending on redistricting. So when I see those results on Tuesday night, I see these giant, these huge shifts in the direction, I say, Republican leaders, wake the heck up and have some of what I'm having, because this is a major warning sign.

BOLDUAN: Is this track with other elections we've already had this year?

ENTEN: Yes, that's exactly right. So, you see New Jersey, you see Virginia, but those are not the only signs. When voters vote, Democrats do well. I mean, just take a look at the House special elections. Take a look here, the 2025 House special elections. Look at those in which Democrats outran Kamala Harris.

There have been five House special elections so far this year in every single one of them across the board. Virginia, Texas 18, that was on Tuesday night. Florida 6, Florida 1, Arizona 7. From blue districts like Arizona 7 to red districts like Florida 1 and 6, what we are seeing are clear shifts towards the Democratic candidates in all five of them. And we're talking about shifts on average, Kate Baldwin, of about or north of 15 percentage points from the 2024 presidential baseline, which is even larger than the shifts that we saw in both Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday night.

BOLDUAN: I mean, and a million things can happen in the year until the midterms. With that caveat, what are you seeing?

ENTEN: A year is a very long period of time, but you know we've spoken about this. I like going through history. What do these off-year elections usually forecast for the year ahead for the midterm elections?

Well, I mean, we take a look at the House special elections, right? If a party outperforms in House special elections five out of five times, what do we see? They've gone on to win the U.S. House the following midterm every single time since the 2005-2006 cycle.

So, when you see, of course, that the Democrats are outperforming in all of them, historically speaking, that means they go on to win the U.S. House of Representatives in the following midterm. And then, yes, New York, New Jersey, Virginia. Yes, there's a blue city in New York City. Yes, the blue states in Virginia and New Jersey. But historically speaking, when you sweep all three, you go back since the FDR administration. Guess what? The Democrats, when they sweep all three, go on to win the House five out of five times. So, it's the special elections. It's New Jersey, New York City, Virginia, all those put together.

Yes, it is a year from now, but all those put together usually forecast pain for the Republican Party come the midterm elections. If I'm Steve Scalise, I am not dismissing these results. I'm going to try and get myself some fire insurance.

BOLDUAN: Might also have something to do with what Steve Scalise, what leaders, Republican leaders say in public versus the conversations that we're having.

ENTEN: They might be trying to quell the troops, but know very well that this is not good news.

BOLDUAN: It's good to see you.

ENTEN: Nice to see you.

BOLDUAN: Sara,

SIDNER: All right. Thank you to you both. The new this morning, the Supreme Court siding with the Trump administration, allowing it to require that U.S. passports show a person's biological sex, not their gender identity. However, this order, not a final ruling as litigation over this continues in lower courts, but it is a gut punch for transgender and non-binary Americans who have fought hard for the right to be recognized as themselves. [09:45:09]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a scathing dissent, called the order senseless and accused the high court's conservative majority of discarding basic principles and paving the way for harm.

The ACLU is warning this could expose trans travelers to harassment and violence while abroad.

All right, Kate, I didn't see you there behind me. Hi. I'm scared.

BOLDUAN: I'm like the Sidler.

Still ahead for us, the get out of jail free card works great in monopoly, just ask my daughter. But what about in real life when you're trying to get out of a ticket? California driver tested the proposition.

Also ahead, delicious carbs. Oh, delicious carbs. We make a sweet potato bao bun with Tony Shalhoub. Just wait. That's not it, but you have to see what we make.

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SIDNER: New this morning, the U.S. military has carried out a new strike against an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, killing three people. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is claiming that the military attacked a vessel operated but which he says was a designated terrorist organization but provided no proof. 70 people have now been killed in 17 boat strikes.

The Trump administration has told Congress the U.S. is now in an armed conflict against drug cartels and labeling those killed, quote, "unlawful combatants."

Joining me now is retired General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. I do want to ask you about these strikes. Yet another one. The public has not been given any details about who these people are, how they determined that they were involved in the cartels, how they determined whether or not there are drugs on the boat. What are your thoughts from your perspective as you see these bombings happening now regularly?

GEN. WESLEY CLARK (Ret.), FORMER NATO SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER: Well, I see this as part of a prolonged campaign of buildup of forces, pressure on Maduro, possible indications of a snatch job inside Venezuela against Maduro, possible actions in Central America, maybe Mexico. This is a long running campaign. It may have been authorized secretly under the security forces, under special provisions with Congress.

Apparently some members of Congress have been authorized to learn about it. I just -- I think the legal issue is important. I think the American people need a little more information about it. But on the other hand, the administration is going to be hard pressed to fully lay out all of this because I think it's an unfolding campaign with flexible and maybe unannounced and undetermined final objectives on this.

SIDNER: When it comes to --

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CLARK: So, I think we're looking at something that's going to unfold over a period of weeks and maybe months.

SIDNER: General, when it comes to that sort of final objective, what -- what do you see building here? I mean, are we talking about what could potentially be an armed conflict with, for example, Venezuela?

CLARK: I'm not sure that it would be an armed conflict with Venezuela. I think it'll be -- it'll try to be defined by the administration as against non-state actors. In other words, against narco-traffickers, which they will insist are the same as terrorists.

Now, you can make a legal definition of this and try to say they're not terrorists because they're not trying to kill Americans. They're trying to profit off Americans. But they are bringing harm into the United States. I think that's clear.

It's something that's got to be resolved in courts of law and by legal authorities. So, I think we're going to see this. But I think it's important for the viewers to understand this is part of the changed priorities of the administration. Because at the same time we're doing this and building up forces and sending an aircraft carrier task force, Ukraine is in the fight for its life in Pokrovsk. And the administration has really said from the beginning that it wanted to turn away from Ukraine.

So, this is a matter of some dispute between members of Congress, Senate leaders, and the administration as to pulling forces out of Europe and so forth. So, what you're seeing unfolding in the Caribbean and later in Central America is just a change in administration. It's going to be disputed. It's going to be argued. But if it continues, it is a fundamental change in U.S. national security strategy.

SIDNER: General Wesley Clark, I do appreciate your time. Coming on to us with your cell phone, you're doing all the work for us today. We really appreciate you.

Kate?

BOLDUAN: Man can do anything.

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This morning, former NFL star Antonio Brown is back in the United States. Just extradited from Dubai, actually, to face an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting back in May outside a celebrity boxing event in Miami.

Listen to this.

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MICHAEL VEGA, MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT: Working with U.S. marshals, working with Miami-Dade's state attorney's office, got together, built an arrest warrant, and located that he was at Dubai. We knew this because of his videos. He was posting videos, riding a bike, kind of like laughing at the city of Miami, saying, hey, I'm in Dubai. Maybe he thought that we couldn't extradite from there. But we worked along with Dubai police, and he was taken into custody.

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BOLDUAN: And he was flown to Essex County, New Jersey, where he is now pending extradition to Miami to face charges.

Sheriff's deputies in Colorado got a call about a car break-in, but the suspect was a little hairier, no offense, I'm not trying to offend anyone's personal grooming, a little hairier than expected. It was a bear.

Climbed into a parked car, got stuck behind the wheel. Deputies carefully opened the door, and as you see, let the furry bandit free. No one was hurt, thankfully, except the car's interior apparently took a bit of a beating.

Officials say it's a very good reminder to lock your doors to keep out thieves and bears. I'd be like, let's draw straws, who's opening that car door? Because that would not be me.

In California we go, a driver tried to pull off a classic Monopoly move. But in real life, handing an officer a get-out-of-jail-free card to try to avoid a traffic ticket. Police say that they appreciated the laugh, but it did not work, in case you're curious. The driver still received a very real, very non-Monopoly citation.

Now to bread. The scene in the original series, Tony Shalhoub breaking bread, is taking viewers around the world with the award-winning actor and truly all-around wonderfully nice man, Tony Shalhoub.

Tony's on a journey to discover how bread connects people. Berman and I had the opportunity to bake with the man and chef Camari Mick. Sara, don't complain, you were unavailable.

And Camari Mick at the Food Network Test Kitchen.

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BOLDUAN: We are here at the Food Network Test Kitchen for Tony Shalhoub's breaking bread. And we are going to be making today a sweet potato bao bun with chef Camari Mick.

Let's break some bread.

CAMARI MICK, CHEF: We're going to make our dough. We have milk, water, the yeast, and the sugar. JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: When you say sweet potato bao bun, right, this is, in theory, like an Asian dish. But it's heavily influenced by other cultures too, which is, Tony, like I think a big part of what this show is all about. Why is that important to you?

TONY SHALHOUB, ACTOR: Yeah, there's so much kind of divisiveness and separation. And it's -- this is kind of a way to illustrate the notion that we have a lot in common. Each group has a lot to bring to the table. And the result is greater than the individual parts.

MICK: So, I added the flour, the salt, and the butter. And as it's mixing right now, it's going to become this nice, smooth, shiny dough. All right, we're going to turn it off.

SHALHOUB: Oh, my God.

BOLDUAN: I love the smell of this moment with, like, a bread dough.

MICK: So, we're going to let this proof for 30 minutes and come back and shape it.

BERMAN: So, we were talking about the Tokyo episode. Tokyo, you're kind of known for surprises. What surprised you the most?

SHALHOUB: You know, the level of innovation and the respect for tradition and the idea of taking traditional things and sort of advancing them and moving them forward was beautiful to see.

MICK: I know you know how to flour a table.

SHALHOUB: Yes.

MICK: Please, do the honors. Everybody stand up.

SHALHOUB: Well, they're wearing aprons.

MICK: We've been warned.

SHALHOUB: It's fine.

BERMAN: Nicely done.

MICK: What you're going to do, you're going to take the palm of your hand, and you're going to roll on the table to create your perfect dough ball.

SHALHOUB: OK, that's not the worst.

BOLDUAN: No.

BERMAN: No, no, no. You could have done a lot worse.

SHALHOUB: You're obviously familiar with my work.

BERMAN: Yeah, exactly.

MICK: OK, we're going to take our sweet potato filling, and this is my mother's recipe. I'm just going to pipe a little bit in the center.

SHALHOUB: Oh, my.

MICK: Pinch around it.

SHALHOUB: I love how you do this.

MICK: It's a little bit mesmerizing. And then we're going to let them proof after.

BOLDUAN: Oh, wow.

SHALHOUB: Oh.

MICK: And we're going to bake them at 325 for 15 to 20 minutes. So, we have our buns out of the oven, and we're going to brush some clarified butter on it and sprinkle it with malt and salt. What is better than that?

BERMAN: Right.

SHALHOUB: Take a bow.

BERMAN: Take a bow.

SHALHOUB: I think we should all take a bow. Should we?

MICK: We all worked hard for this one.

SHALHOUB: Who knew clarified butter was so good?

BOLDUAN: Something.

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BOLDUAN: No, like, legit so good, I actually took Berman's and ate it.

Join Tony for the two-episode finale of the CNN Original Series, Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread, Sunday at 9 p.m. on CNN, and the next day on the CNN app. So much fun. He is such a wonderful man.

A new hour of CNN NEWS CENTRAL starts now.