hello, i m abby phillip in washington. thank you for joining us today. it is the nightmare that just won t end. southwest airlines canceling thousands more flights with airports coast to coast already packed. more than 4,800 flights today and tomorrow no longer on the books, nearly 16,000 canceled since thursday. all week we have been meeting miserable passengers and southwest says it ll be days before this all clears up. busloads of stranded customers arriving at houston hobby airport this morning, some on the road for more than 24 hours and at chicago midway, this is the sea of luggage that is finally moving. workers are now scrambling to reunite passengers with their bags. we ll begin with cnn s nick valencia at hartsfield jackson international airport in atlanta. another major connecting point for southwest nick, what is happening there behind you? reporter: yeah, hey there, abby. the line here behind me is noticeably shorter than it has been the last several days and t
the us federal reserve ona charge! uk sales of electric cars overtook diesels last year for the first time. but it s still a long road to recovery for the auto industry. a wave of strike action, a growing cost of living crisis and huge pressure on health services just some of the problems mounting up for the uk this winter. so on wednesday prime minister rishi sunak used his first major speech of the year to promise to fix the uk economy. alongside pledges to tackle long waiting lists for medical treatment and stop illegal immigration mr sunak said he d slash the rate of inflation, restore growth and cut government debt. first, government debt. we will halve inflation this first, we will halve inflation this year to ease the cost of living and give people financial security. second, we will grow the economy, creating better paid jobs an opportunity right across the country. third, we will make sure our national debt is falling, so that we can secure the future of public ser
circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
it s 6:00 a.m. on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. mike barnicle and jonathan lemire are still here. where did dr. oz come from? oprah. oprah literally brought him, you know, all of his fame. she lifted him up, she really, she really she s the one who brought dr. oz are you saying oprah winfrey. she s to blame for that? she created him. she s been very quiet during this campaign. i haven t heard from her during the campaign. didn t she get dr. phil, too? yeah. dr. phil and dr. oz. all the doctors. dr. oz should, you know, he owes everything to her. yeah, wow. quite a way to we ve got a lot to get to this morning, including the latest and didn t he get called in front of congress for all of his phony yes, actually claire mccaskill actually grilled him during that time he was being remember the weight loss pill. the weight loss pill that didn t work, to say the least. and a lot of other and then you would gro
this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour straight after this programme. a very warm welcome to a special edition of talking business weekly with me. let s go take a look at what is on the show. the airline industry is roaring back to life after covid and thinking about how to get us back on board so here we are at the airline passenger experience summit in long beach, california. this is where you can find everything from the next generation of in flight tvs to the seats in the fit. it is where the airlines work out what we want to make our journey is even better. investing in the future, it can be a pricey affair, especially when covid has cost you billions. the big boss of air new zealand will tell me how he is reshaping things after getting through some of the words toughest lockdown restrictions and once you ve got all those passengers on board, how do you feed and entertain them? well, i m going to taste so