i could have not said that better myself. i m alicia men menez, alex has the night off. here s a thing that has happened every day like clock work, as long as we can remember. every day the white house sends out from the white house the daily guidance. at the top, there s a few paragraphs describing what the president s day will entail. and below that, there s a schedule of the major events planned. with the daily intelligence briefing, any major meetings, the timing of any travel that the president is doing. the white house puts out the daily guidance that so the press can plan and that you can make out every day. it s something done every day every white house under every president. just a couple of weeks at the end of donald trump s presidency, something weird happened. the white house issued daily guidance that said president trump will work from early in the morning to late in the evening. he will make many calls and have many meetings and then mention about a campaign r
are and still booked a separate flight to kansas city to get home. airports all across the country are overflowing with unclaimed luggage tonight. prosecut passengers have reported spending multiple days sifting through seas of luggage with little to no help from staff. at denver international alone there are more than 10,000 pieces of unclaimed luggage. all of this chaos, would you think we re in the middle last week s blizzard but we re not. this is caused by one airline southwest. according to the flight tracker flight aware, southwest has chanced 2500 flights alone. today with cancellations of all airlines combined is just over 00 flights. passengers are claiming claims
at the very least, we re going to see that southwest is going to make changes to their technology to everything backing the system. but in terms of passenger rights, it s a big question. big question, indeed, david slotkin, senior aviation reporter for pointsguy.com. we have a lot to talk about including the most important elements of the january 6th attack on the capitol, the mere mention in the investigation in the blockbuster report. we ve got more on what is missing and why. but first, as the republican party wrestles with the midterm failure, they face a big choice, who is going to lead them into 2024? more on that, next. we planned well for retirement, but i wish we had more cash. you think those two have any idea? that they can sell their life insurance policy for cash? so they re basically sitting on a goldmine? i don t think they have a clue. that s crazy!
you a reason for being out. that s part of their union contract is what southwest tells me. they say it s unusual. southwest has maintained this whole time that they have not had any staffing shortages. and they were prepared for the storm. and, you know, it s difficult to say. because, clearly, with that area with the ground crew there in denver there was a shortage. there was enough of a short age for them to raise a state of emergency. just from what crew and other members are saying it does appear they had this staff and a problem of internal systems. you have pilots, passengers, customers everybody trying to call in, because the systems require a manual reporting and it just can t handle the amount of calls. justin george, investigation reporter from the washington post thank you for your time.
cannot handle it all. while the other airlines were able to get up and running, southwest wasn t. southwest had the most flights domestically. and they re sort of dealing with that. that huge weird storm and you have antiquated equipment that you re dealing with. then there s a third component, you reported on an internal memo that a vp of southwest sent a week ago, today, raising red flags about staffing shortages. why is that memo important here? how does that factor in? yeah. that occurred in denver with ground crew workers, apparently on december 21st. there was a big runup of people who are sick or calling out or taking personal days during the afternoon or evening. and that s about when the storm was hitting. so the vice president of southwest issued a state of emergency basically mandating that everybody has to go to work. if you re going to be sick, you needed a doctor s note. it wasn t good enough to have a telemedicine note. you needed to actually have a physical doctor t