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
miss kat who is on her honeymoon. [laughter] i think we know which one is which. all right, this labor day, the rest of us were barbecuing, picnicking or if you are like me, barbecuing the picnic or, what was our president up to? you remember the speech, right? here is the clip. 3 think that he might want to repair the damage he s done, but instead he said this over twitter instead he says the proposals of maga are a threat to the country. i would say that he is tone deaf, but he can t hear me. so maga proposals, i mean, what does that mean? when we had one of the most successful presidents in history, including an economy that was the envy of the world. do you want to get married? oh, do i. we are gathered here to join this couple in holy matrimony. do you join in spite of the losers in the haters? even though your doctor said that you re the healthy of healthiness and i now pronounce you man and wife and a threat to democracy and members of mar-a-lago. hey guy
people, re-directed to fund speeches by a former football star. those speeches never even happened. plus, an emotional day in uvalde, texas, as students return to school for the first time since the massacre, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin with major breaking news in the justice departments investigation into those documents seized at former presidents florida club. the washington post reports, they included highly classified information about a foreign government s nuclear program. quote, a document described a foreign governments military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was fined by fbi agents who searched the former presidents private club last month. according to people familiar with the matter. they detailed top secret we operation, so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. earlier, one of the officials who broke the story
this morning. i m boris sanchez. merry christmas. i hope it s been a magical christmas morning so far, i m amara walker. just ahead this hour, it started as one family s idea and it grew into a global brand. the inside story behind elf on a shelf and what s next for one of the world s biggest christmas traditions? and the holidays are a big source of joy for so many but they can also bring up sad feels are or painful memories. we have tips to help you deal with the holidays blues coming up. first let s get you caught up on the morning s headlines with whit n whitney wilde. good morning. we begin with the brutal weather storm keeping its grip on most of the country. at least 22 deaths are blamed on the storm. the weather is causing severe travel headaches. more than 3,400 flights were cancelled yesterday and another 1,200 cancelled so far today. governor hochul says she will declare of the federal government a declaration of emergency. paolo has more. reporter: here a
bret: breaking to make him gt a former president trump will get arba third-party arbiter to review documents taken from his home in florida by federal agents last month. a judge came down in favor of the trump team s request today, rejecting arguments fromcial prosecutors that the special master was both unnecessary and unwisedavi. correspondent david spunt has tonight s top story. good evening. good evening tood eveni you.u this judge s order out just hours ago as a temporary legal victory for the former president and gives him more political opportunities to attack an ongoing grand jury investigation his handling of sensitive documents. days after asking what is the harm with naming an outside neutral party to review thousands of documents seized by the fbi, judge eid a cited to review the seized property for personal items documents potentially privileged materials to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege. the order still allows intelligence communit