with qualifying internet. thank you so much for joining me again at top of the hour on cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with an air travel meltdown. it isn t all the weather s fault, let s be clear, more than 4,000 flights grounded today again, nearly 09% on southwest airlines. southwest patients from raleigh, denver, are all lining up at ticket counters looking for answers. many customers are completely fed up. i m traveling with my senior citizen parents for their christmas vacation. i have an autoimmune disorder. i don t have medications. we have nothing. we brought no carry-ons. we ve seen a lot of families who are sleeping on the floor and it just breaks my heart. if my boss is watching this yes it s true i just didn t just blow off the day i m actually standing in the airport doing nothing and i do have a ticket and i hope to come to work at some point in my life. i love that he had some levity there. with new year s eve with just days away nearly 2500 fligh
we begin this hour with celebration turning into tragedy at the university of georgia. just hours after the football team was honored for winning a national championship one of their key players, 20-year-old, was killed in a car crash along with a member of the football staff, 24-year-old chandler lacroix. cnn is live in athens, georgia. what do we know about what happened? reporter: we just got a statement indicating this happened at 2:45 early this morning. that car was traveling southbound on this road behind me just past this curve right here and then, fred, for some reason that car left the roadway, struck this power pole right here. we saw utility crews in the last hour or so replacing and fixing this power pole, and then the car continued, fred. you can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this location r
i should pay them a visit. we re hanging out on the couch with griff and rachel talking about all kinds of stuff. talking about if we should have christmas trees up, apparently there s some buses that people have been thrown under. i don t know. what do you think about it, griff? griff: well, i m not even going to go into what i was accused of this idea of throwing anybody under the bus about you we ve had this important debate whether you keep your tree up and of course we re getting feedback from our viewers at fox and friends@foxnews.com but we are getting schooled by rachel saying listen if you re catholic which i am so now i m fully in line in making sure mine doesn t come down, you keep it up for 12 days after. rachel: the 12 days of christmas which end on the sixth of jan which is the epiphany. joey: i like it. rachel: let christmas linger on i love it. griff: i have a problem, though, which is, and this is disclosing information. my wife wasn t happy with th
court will take on the case or pass and let this trump era public health policy expire. if that is the question at the heart of this and there are big implications depending on which way the supreme court goes i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent, julie. it s become an immigration policy, but the question is if the supreme court decides to pass and title 42 is lifted, the concern is this surge of migrants at the border there s a political context and backdrop to this as well talk us through it i ve been tracking bipartisan negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform on capitol hill for the better part of last year, but even with democrats in control of the house and senate, obviously not those 60 votes they need, they were not able to get that done. so what will make the next congress different with republicans in control of the house? that s where the fear comes down to here. and not only do you have this surge on the border potentially going forwa
a live reporting on fighting in ukraine, new developments in the biden documents case and the a bizarre twist in the saga of george santos in connection to ponzi scheme. we start with father who is mourning the death of his daughter who was murdered in moscow, idaho. her name is madison mogen. she was one of four at university of idaho, the students stabbed to death that their house in november. as you know, a 28-year-old man, bryan kohberger, is charged with the murders. now the new york times has uncovered disturbing online postings from alleged killer when he was a teenager. he writes in one, quote, as i hug my family, i look into their faces, sigh nothing, it is like i am look ac the a video game but less. he went on to write that he could do, quote whatever i want with little remorse. kohberger is in custody and maintains his innocence. now, these murders of these four students have gotten widespread coverage, but often lost in all of that is the quiet and isolating an