Nation: Tourists are stuck at the Sharm el Sheikh airport in Egypt as flights are cancelled and delayed because of heightened security.

President Obama said he thinks there’s a possibility that the Russian airliner that crashed in the Sinai after taking off from Sharm el Sheikh was taken down by a bomb. Obama said during a Seattle radio interview, “We’re going to spend a lot of time just making sure our own investigators and own intelligence community find out what’s going on before we make any definitive pronouncements.”

So far there’s no officially-revealed evidence to indicate what took down the plane, whether mechanical failure or an act of terrorism.

A Russian newspaper is claiming there’s evidence of a bomb in pictures of the wreckage and British intelligence is reported to have intercepted ISIS messages talking about an attack in Egypt. If ISIS was involved it indicates an escalation from fighting for territory to general terrorism.

The Corporate Climate: The New York Times reports that the NY attorney general has opened a “sweeping” investigation into whether Exxon Mobil lied to the public and its investors about the potential dangers of climate change because it might hurt the oil business. The Times reports that the inquiry incudes a period of time when the company gave money to organizations denying global warming even while Exxon’s own scientists were warning the company of the dangers.

A company executive told the paper, “We unequivocally reject the allegations that Exxon Mobil has suppressed climate-change research.”

The Fallen: A sign in front of the Fox Lake, Ill. police department honoring Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was defaced with the words “Forgotten” at the top and “Lied, Stole, Disgraced,” at the bottom. First thought to have been murdered, Gliniewicz is now determined to have committed suicide, possibly to escape being identified as a crook. A police investigator now says Gliniewicz even tried to set up a meeting with a gang member to put a hit on the village manager, who was catching on to the cop’s theft of money from the police Explorer program.

The Obit Page: George Barris, the Los Angeles custom car maker who created the original Batmobile and the hearse car for “The Munsters,” has died at age 89. Barris was a true car nut who made hundreds of “kustom” vehicles for celebrities and Hollywood. When they wanted something unique, they went to Barris. His son Brett wrote on Facebook, “My father, legendary kustom car king George Barris, has moved to the bigger garage in the sky.”

The Dwindling Crowd: Presidential candidates Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee have failed to make the cut to appear with the pack in the next debate to be sponsored by Fox Business News and the Wall Street Journal. Failing to meet the 2.5 percent polling minimum, the two have been bumped to the cocktail hour debate at 6 pm alongside former Sen. Rick Santorum and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, former New York Gov. George Pataki, and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore failed to qualify to appear at all.

Red Planet: The atmosphere of Mars, once as thick as Earth’s, was stripped away by billions of years of solar storms, a group of scientists announced yesterday. Mars does not have a magnetic field, like Earth’s, which channels solar wind to the poles. The gradual disappearance of the Mars atmosphere may explain how the planet that once may have been habitable lost its air and liquid water.

CelebuNotes: Khloé Kardashian is debuting a talk show in an attempt to prove that she can talk — Justin Bieber admitted during an interview that he doesn’t know who Bette Midler is — Daily show host Trevor Noah returned to work just one day after an emergency appendectomy — Actress Halle Berry has split from her third husband and some of her exes have gotten together on social media to agree that she’s a nightmare — Eddie Murphy and his girlfriend Paige Butcher are expecting the comedian’s 9^th child. It would be interesting to know whether Justin Bieber knows who Eddie Murphy is.

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