spokesman chris oliveras will be here to weigh in. once again rebooking customers, at this time, the 31st and beyond. my phone is dead, i m hungry, i m tired, i m ready to go home. hectic, all in all, exhausting. what are we supposed to do, it s ridiculous. it s lives, they cannot give us a direct answer. gillian: welcome to america reports, i m gillian turner in washington. anita, wonderful to be with you this afternoon. anita: you, too, gillian. a holiday tradition to host together. gillian:. let s keep it, a good one. anita: john and sandra have the day. southwest meltdown, the worst airline disruption in decades and based on the latest numbers, far from over. more than 2500 southwest flights have been canceled, the company claims is necessary in order to reposition flight crews and the planes themselves. gillian: the chaos began over christmas weekend as the blizzardpted southwest s operations, but then the outdated communication system then reported
i hate that term. chemical restraints mean anti-anxiety medications, anti-psychotic medications, so caretakers feel it s spinning out of control, bring them back, it isn t what i was expecting. and 308,000 kids and teens, 308,000. i was expecting to find it was all due to suicidal behavior, copy cat from social media, it s not. more to do with anxiety, attention deficit disorder, impulsive, and it s getting worse because of the pandemic. studies out of harvard and the u.k. show four out of five teens are in trouble because of the isolation from the pandemic. anita: no doubt that was going to happen, you mentioned the studies, the most common diagnosis was suicides, or
anita: yeah, seems their laws are a little more strict than ours. we see the pictures every day, the live video from the crews out there. people are just crossing the border. they are just walking over in droves, and one other thing i thought was interesting, gillian, aishah also mentioned in this omnibus bill, $60 billion for homeland security. there is $45 billion set aside for ukraine. everybody wants to be supportive of ukraine, but you know, critics say take care of our problems in our country first. moving on now, weeks, more than six weeks since four idaho college students were murdered, and still no suspect. but is there someone tied to the case who knows more than they are letting on? the police seem to think so. gillian: despite the end of most restrictions, covid restrictions nationwide, americans are continuing the covid-era trend of relocating to red states like texas and florida.
self-harm, 28%. mood disorders, 23%. anxiety disorders, 10.4%, and disruptive or impulse control disorders, 9.7%. so you mentioned social media as a factor, but again, because this was pre-pandemic, quickly i want to hear what you think is behind all of this and then move on to another question. i think i think what s behind it is the idea that we don t have enough caretakers around. you go to the emergency room, you are not doing that well. someone in the emergency room gives you a medication or a shot of something. you go home. well, when you are not doing well again, do you have follow-up, is there a doctor you are seeing, a therapist. it s about kids and teens bouncing from e.r. to home to e.r. it s an absolute indictment on the lack of mental health providers in this country. anita: so sad, and quickly, about 30 seconds. looking at these numbers from
looking for lower taxes, lower regulations, so you know, a better job environment, and then they are looking for basic safety and to get away from crime, and not to mention, you know, and you know what this it s like walking down the street in california or in new york city, the stench of weed, of noxious weed everywhere you go in new york city, for example, and people do whatever they want to do. but man, it s overbearing. anita: you can smell it here in california, let me tell you. let s look at where this is happening, some of the numbers. california lost more than 340,000 people, new york almost 300,000 people. florida, texas, they are gaining hundreds of thousands of people. look at that. the you mentioned it s about taxes, cost of living. what are some other factors? what s what are some other things that people are finding