flight cancellations for the airline. as of today, more than 600 flights have been canceled or delayed. that s on top of 2300 southwest flights that happened on sunday. look at these lines in denver. thousands of people waiting for hours to rebook their flights. that s them on the second floor. that s how long the line stretched. sam brock is following all the latest from miami international airport. reporter: hallie, good afternoon. good to be with you. we came in with some optimism that things may turn around. they thought it would get close to normal today, completely normal tomorrow. we have more than a thousand flights for southwest across the country that have been canceled or delayed so far today. that is 30% and more for all the flights. that was compounded by an air
initiative in that way. i also remember a moment you probably remember too, in the east room in washington weeks ago when he brought members of congress up with him to sign essentially a pledge. it was a set of initiatives when it came to infrastructure. this was the air traffic control issue that had come up. that, to our knowledge, at least before senators went on before the house members went on recess, basically stalled out in the house. there wasn t a ton of movement on that. this is something that, even though the president has been talking about this for a long time, this hasn t been a ton of action behind it. i think today you re seeing him come out in the middle of what his administration has called the working vacation to try to push policy, particularly when there is been a lot of discussion about, for example, his tweets, for example, his remarks when it came to how he responded to charlottesville. somebody is talking next to me. i am being told one minute until the presi
weather and go through these electric storms, we are always reassured that everything will be okay. what do you say to us? al of rest of us who don t have i m not sure it will make people feel better, but it s surprising how well it works given the difficulties. it s incredibly safe. it will not bring down the aircraft. it s a reaction to the weather that would cause the problem. there is another set of issues in southeast asia that we need to look at. they are selling billions of dollars of planes into authorities and airlines that are ill-equipped from the pilot and the air traffic controller standpoint to handle that explosive growth. the european union banned them for safety reasons. they have huge safety reasons. that s not an air traffic control issue.
that is the best. and of course talking about the air traffic control issue, the safety issue, here is the response. here is what they will do. this guy has been suspended. he has been suspended. anyone else, there is criticism great that, anyone else who fell asleep on the job when hundreds are likes are at risk would not be suspended but because this is the air traffic control s union he is not getting fired. add one more person. so now they want two people in the booth in the middle of the neat instead of one. is that the right solution? we asked the president of the institute for liberty and he says that is not exact the right solution for this problem. when you talk about national airport which get a handful of flights between midnight and 6:00 a.m. it does not make science to spend the money to put someone up this but from a safety more expectative you want