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The closed airspace was the result of a miscommunication between the FAA and the Pentagon.
And a grand jury has refused to sign off on criminal charges for several Democratic lawmakers who told people in the military that they could disobey illegal orders.
The lawmakers who prosecutors tried to indict include Arizona Senator Mark Kelly and Michigan Senator Alyssa Slotkin.
It's the latest setback for the Trump-era Justice Department in its attempts to prosecute the president's perceived enemies.
Coming up, the fallout from the Epstein files reaches the L.A.
Olympics Committee.
That's after the break.
The organizers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics said today that Casey Wasserman will remain the committee's chairman.
Several members of the city's leadership called for the L.A.
businessman to step down from the Olympics committee after his name surfaced in the most recent batch of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
After a review with outside counsel, the Olympics board found that Wasserman's relationship with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, quote, did not go beyond what has already been publicly documented.
There's also been fallout in his business.
Singer Chapel Roan and retired U.S.
women's soccer star Abby Wambach have left Wasserman's talent agency.
Wasserman issued an apology after the emails were disclosed.
In South Texas, half-built homes are sitting empty.
Federal immigration agents have hit building sites, in some case picking up entire work crews.
That's putting projects months behind schedule and having a cascading effect on the industries that feed into it.
Elizabeth Vindel is a reporter based in Texas who joins us now.
Elizabeth, why is the housing industry in South Texas being hit particularly hard here?