stability for the loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. staggering numbers of cancellations and delays and finger pointing to employees now of who to blame. mike tobin is at the chicago airport, good evening, mike. reporter: good evening, southwest executives promised to return to normal operation. secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airline of problems that were quote, within controls of the airlines, the secretary monitors the airlines making good on everything on reimbursements and returning home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled and bulk of them is southwest. the boss issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you and you will hear more about that soon. but for now, we are focused on reliability and level of customer experience of what we expect o
right now, the stage is set for what could be an historic election if democrats can defy trends. if you ignore the fear mongering, if you ignore the cynicism, if you vote, then we will keep this country moving forward. and you look at all the polling data. if y all show up and vote, democracy s sustained. not a joke. as donald trump uses his campaign rallies to road test a likely run in 2024 and ron desantis. let s see. there it is. trump at 71. ron disanctimonious at 10%. this hour, we ll have reports from five states. pennsylvania, georgia, wisconsin, nevada, and arizona. and check in on critical governors races across the country. we ll also take a closer look at fears over intimidation tactics at polling places and concerns over online misinformation already spiking after mass firings at twitter. good day. i m andrea mitchell at msnbc election headquarters in new york. president biden is spending his final days of the campaign defending normally safe democrati
respects but the king as well. you cap tur too captured it so perfectly. and it is a jovial moment, people making friends in the cue, but certainly, this is one of those poignant moments that shows you, this is what it is all about for people. we are still in this 10-day period of mourning. i was just near westminster palace, before the king and of course, his siblings stood vigil there, and the vin, vigil of princes, a stoic position, and you could hear a pin drop, and everybody waiting for a catch to catch a glimpse, and one of the places they re cueing now, there is a cue for the cue for the filing behind me in southern park this morning and at the time they weren t letting anybody in, because it was at capacity, and the sign actually said, from this point, you will be waiting at least 14 hours, be prepared. and despite that, there were throngs of people coming in droves with smiles on their faces, with backpacks, small bags ready to be in for the long haul and i spoke t
government archive who only in 2020 gave thesis really filmmakers access. heinous. hadas, thank you so much for sharing that with us. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, july 6th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. important new questions being raised this morning about the man accused of murdering seven people at the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois. why was he allowed to purchase guns, the weapons he used or is suspect of using despite specific interactions with police? some new information this morning. investigators say the suspect may have planned the attack for several weeks and that he dressed in women s clothing during the shooting to conceal his identity and facial tattoos. he had had two incidents with law enforcement in 2019, first when authorities were notified about a suicide attempt, and later after a family member reported he had threatened to, quote, kil
but let s begin in saudi arabia where the president is set to land. nic robertson is joining us there from jeddah. so they are waiting obviously highly an takes pay thing this arrival. what is the sense there ahead of this meeting, one that clearly the saudis wanted not only to have but to have images for the world to see, really legitimizing the regime? reporter: yeah, there is a real sense here that this is a moment for the saudis to have to get through because they know the focus and international attention that will be on president biden casting them as a pariah for the murder of jamal khashoggi. they recognize that. but they really feel that this is a moment to sort of punch through that situation. they are very keen to have face-to-face with president biden. they believe the very fact that president biden is coming here kind of resets the relationship so that they can get to the things that they want to get to which are all the sort of economic development investmen