hello, i m sara sidner in for victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. the southwest airline meltdown is now in its seventh day of derailing people s travel plans. since last thursday, the company has cancelled more than 15,000 flights, including 2300 set for tomorrow. flight aware finds 89% of the nation s cancellations just today belong to southwest airlines. transportation secretary pete buttigieg promises to hold the nation s largest domestic carrier accountable. but for some passengers, southwest may never be able to make up for days of delay. misplaced luggage and ruined holidays. i hate southwest. southwest, i hate them. i hate them. how did you make out? i was there from 12:00 12:00, still stranded. i need to drive nine more hours. i m upset, i m stressed, i m tired and i hate them. okay. she did not pull any punches there. cnn correspondent nick valencia is outside of hartsfield-jackson airport, the busiest in the world. nick, what are you hearing
since that does seem to be a premier issue. jacqui heinrich on what the latest polls are saying. she s at the white house. hi, jacqui. hi, neil. the first glass, today s gdp report looks good. considerable gain from the first and second quarters of negative growth. that 2.6% is driven in large part by government spending and increased exports. experts believe that those could drop off in the fourth quarter. also, another warning sign. if you look at all three quarters together, the growth is only .4%. which is extremely slow. more over, consumer spending is slowing down. that makes up almost 70% of the u.s. economy. so maybe not on the whole as good as it looks at first glass. the president thinks things look fine. great economic report today. things are looking good. despite that optimism that the job market is strong and a recession is not inevitable, voters are pessimistic. a u.s. a today poll shows 2/3s say the nation is already in a recession or depression. 10% say
top of the hour here on cnn newsroom. the countdown continues to the midterms. 22 days left until election day determining who will control congress, and a new poll from the new york times shows that republicans have a slight edge here. 49% of likely voters say that they plan to back the republican candidate for their house district compared to 45% for democrats. now this poll also found it combined 44% of likely voters are most worried about the economy or inflation. now today, early voting begins in the battleground of georgia. and the race for senate there, one of the tightest in the nation, democratic incumbent raphael warnock casting his ballot you see there. there s also a new twist there in the drama engulfing his republican rival herschel walker who s been denying allegations he paid for an abortion for his ex-girlfriend years ago. well, today walker confirmed the check in question was, in fact, his, but then doubled down the denials in terms of what it was fo
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
gillian: most major u.s. airlines are rebounding from the holiday blizzard, southwest airlines continues spiralling downward. the company ceo says the communications network was thrown off by the historic storm. that was not the only challenge. southwest memo out of denver airport warned of a staffing crisis just days before christmas. gillian: according to bloomberg, the v.p. of ground operations declared a state of operational emergency at the airport after an unusually high number of employee absences. sending a message to workers december 21st. anita: fox team coverage, jacqui heinrich what the white house is saying this hour. gillian: first with fox weather, katie is at philadelphia international airport. what are passengers telling you today? gillian, anita, the situation is very real for people still dealing with stranded luggage or not able to rebook their flights. i just met a family that was trying to travel from california to here in philadelphia, and t