compare to a week ago, and about only 900 delays now, and the day is young, and the faa is warning that as the day goes on, there could be ground stops in place likes new york, philadelphia, d.c., and charlotte with a big hub, and atlanta with big hub for delta all of the way down to miami. we saw the cancellations really rise yesterday as the bad weather started to hit the east coast, and 600 nationwide yesterday. so the good news right now, things are relatively quiet, and we have turned page from the big cancellations of last week, and transportation secretary pete buttigieg on cnn says that things are starting to get back on track. listen. we are watching the more severe potential for weather which touched off the problems a week ago, but looking a year ago on the blue sky day with no severe weather, there were unacceptable levels of
big hub. kirby says simply the faa frankly failed us. united at one point yesterday requested a ground stop in newark for flights going into there to try to catch its breath. although we ve heard there were internal problems as well at united. they had issues with flight attendants simply getting on the phone to crew scheduling to try to get back to the places where they needed to be. we are looking at a holiday weekend in the face and we re only days away from the start of july 4th, 2.8 million people scheduled to go through here at check points at reagan national airport and at airports across the country. it s a big one and we re already seeing airlines melting down a bit. i don t want to be the bearer of bad news for folks, we are days away from like people are probably traveling right now for the fourth of july holiday and this is what we re seeing as we lead into it. we need more than fingers crossed. so pete is going to work on that and we re going to get over to jason carro
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let s go first to our team covering this ongoing holiday travel chaos after the weekend s deadly snowstorm. we are going to begin with cnn s gabe cohen live at baltimore washington international airport. gabe, good morning to you. we know southwest airlines has canceled thousands of flights across the u.s., especially where you are, bwi of course a big hub for them. help us understand why this is happening, the bad weather has already passed. this is specific to southwest. reporter: yeah, jessica, that s right, and that is the million dollar question is why is it happening to them. largely the airline has blamed that winter storm and yet they are the only major u.s. airline that s dealing with this fallout at this point. take a look behind me, you can see just how many cancellations we are talking about. southwest canceling more than 60% of their flights today and they ve already canceled more than 60% for tomorrow. the company telling me they will likely only be running just over a
everyone has to get back to work. what prompted this move? do we think others will follow suit? well, let me give you some insight into what this memo said. a memo from goldman sachs that was obtained by cnbc. goldman s will lift all its covid-19 requirements in most offices from september 6th. now what does this sneen the bank will no longer require workers to be vaccinated to enter its offices or to test or wear face coverings except for those in lima and new york city. so new york, of course, a big hub for the investment bank. unvaccinated employees in new york city still need an approved exception. the bank wasn t explicit in its return to office policies, simply encouraging employees who have not come into the office in a regular basis to touch base with their managers. coming at a moment where cases started to decline in the u.s. but health officials