if you are hitting the road or jumping on a plane today, you will have plenty of company. one of the busiest travel days of the year is in full swing right now. the nightmare keeps getting worse for families of hostages in gaza. word today a 73-year-old american citizen, father of four, grandfather of seven, died at the hands of hamas. what we know about him and his wife who is still a hostage. lots to get to. we start with the new and significant reporting out of michigan. the detroit news obtaining audio recordings from 2020 in whicthen president trump urges officials not to sign off on results that show boden won. he said, we ve to fight for our country. we can let these people take our country away from us. he also said,quote, everybody knows detroit is crooked as hell. on the call, rnc chair mcdaniel who told election workers, if you can go home tonight, do not sign the certification papers. we will get you attorneys, to which trump added, we will take care of that
After a straight week of Southwest Airlines canceling a majority of its flights amid an internal crisis, Democrats have turned not just on the low-cost carrier, but on the industry as a whole. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has used the Southwest catastrophe to renew her calls for the Transportation Department to block the merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) has proposed that Congress fine airlines 10 times the original ticket price for flight cancellations they fail to refund promptly.
winds are howling out there. 79 million people under wind advisories or high wind warnings. the highest wind gusts will be right along coast at sections of the northeast as we go throughout the morning today. could gust as high as 50 to 60 miles per hour. obviously major airplane delays and cancellations in the northeast early today and improving this afternoon as that storm exits. the rest of the country looks pretty quiet today, no problems in the southern half of the nation and just some snow squalls on saturday. so by far the worst weather in the country this morning in the northeast, it will be exiting early today, though, so everyone will get home in much quieter conditions. bill karins, thank you so much. have a great weekend, my friend. and still ahead, more on secretary antony blinken s message on the escalating situation on rugs. i will be joined by a reporter who sat down with ukraine s ambassador to the united states. before we go to break we want to know just why are
dealing with drought for the last 15 years. you need moisture in the west. sometimes you get it on a travel day. that s what is happening. people go west to ski and the conditions will be great if you can get there. the airplane delays right now. three airports across the country with delays. boston, and newark and san francisco dealing with delays with that storm coming to the west coast. two storms we are watching. one around the northern plains that brought snow from colorado up to minnesota. most of that snow is gone. but in the wake is the wind. the wind is what we are worried about tomorrow in the east. you see that storm. it s about to get out of here. we start to watch the next storm. it s across the west. this is the future radar. how this will play out. big rain in arizona. could be looking at flooding. that s rare.
93 million people, 1 in 3 americans, under some heat advisory. everywhere in the bright eye pink is excessive heat warning. and it gets into dangerous category for people being in apartments without air conditioning, especially the elderly. so, you get it. it s the peak heating of summer. it s almost like what you get at the end of january with big cold waves, well, this is the opposite. 108 it feels like in oklahoma city. 108 in arkansas. those are 100 to 110 across the board from the midwest through the plains. on thursday, we see the heat cranking. savannah will feel like 107. philadelphia today, very hot and humid. you ll get thunderstorms which actually help on thursday. same for new york city. maybe travel delays or airplane delays because of the storms but at least it won t be as hot. when those storms are gone, it will crank up. washington, d.c. will feel like