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Airlines sent out a news statement apologizing to the customer promising a thorough review. 86 million passengers, united denied boarding to 3700 people because of overbooking. More than 60,000 voluntarily gave up their seats. Kenneth moat en, abc news new york. Today new Jersey Governor Chris Christie asked elaine chao to suspend regulation which allows airlines to overbook flights and to remove passengers. Christie specifically cited the incident involving david dao as the reason. The question from united is how do they recover from what is a huge Public Relations disaster . Kristen sze is here with more. The hashtag continues to go viral today. Take a look at some of the memes out there. Southwest, we beat our competitors, not you. How about this one. If we cannot beat our competitors, we beat our customers. Others are posting pictures of the cut up frequent flyer card. Take a look at this, because Even White House Secretary Sean Spicer is weighing in and criticizing united. Clearly
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Woodruff and, a forgotten generation. The challenges of educating syrian children in the middle of war. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff President Trumps top diplomat is now in russia, at a moment of high tension. It centers on last weeks u. S. Military strike on syria, after the regime launched a chemical weapons attack on its own people. Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on this days events. Reporter secretary of state Rex Tillerson arrived in moscow this evening on the heels of some tough talk about syria at the group of seven meeting in italy. Russia has really aligned itself with the assad regime, the iranians and hezbollah. Is that a longterm alliance that serves russ
The gate. Reporter the issue was handled before passengers boarded. They shouldnt have let him on if they were going to pull him off. We checked the rules and it is legal for airlines to overbook but if youre bumped ask for your rights in writing. Airlines are required to tell you how they decide who loses a seat and if your new flight gets you in more than an hour later theres a certain amount you should get paid. For this incident the ut natured airline ceo is apologizizing to customer and reviewing what happened. Im lauren mayk, nbc10 news. Turning to our weather. A warming trend is underway across our area. We could get close to some record temperatures. Youre taking a live look at broad street from our Kimmel Center campus camera. An unseasonably warm day. Those coats, they were left at home on main street. We go there. We spotted some people in shorts. Other people rolled up those sleeves and broke out the sunglasses today. What can you expect in your neighborhood for the rest of