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
first, breaking tonight, a controversial emergency immigration policy remains in place. if the southern border crisis shows no signs of slowing down and a plan on how to manage the post title 42 border is nowhere to be found. we have fox team coverage, matt fin is on the ground in eagle pass, texas. we begin with correspondent isisha isisisha hasnie. democrats did not do enough to secure the border when they had the chance. they are struggling of the white house staffers and i hope homeland wins this fight. reporter: congressman cuellar voicing his frustration after one day president biden did not do anything differently. the administration is still relying on a year old homeland security plan while blaming republicans for not passing immigration reform. it is not immigration reform. it is border security. that s where the focus has to be right now. reporter: conservatives are blasting democrats like cuellar alo aloalon alon along along 27 party and the spending p
company it used to be. reporter: southwest exe execexecutives reluctant to ba park the financial impact big melt down. it will hurt earnings and it will be weeks before they can track down all of the customers in line for compensation. bret. mike tobin live at midway, thank you. more than 600,000 migrant encounters in the first three months of the fiscal year. correspondent matt fin is reporting live tonight at the tax border. good evening, matt. reporter: on the ground here at texas, the state is noticeably bolstering its border. the shipping containers were brought in after christmas and today we watched as the national guard finished installing razor wires on top of these containers that sits along
officers. we actually had the audacity to put into help people at the border. i would emphasize there is more money there that we had under president trump. and on that point, bret, cuellar acknowledged the crisis was worse today than under president trump. the white house received that $1.7 trillion government funding bill this afternoon. we are still waiting to find out how they plan on getting the president s signature on it before the friday s deadline. we ll see. >aisha, thank you. >r>p > the southern border problems that come with it. correspondent matt fin has that side of the story from eagle
hills a spokesman for the d.a. says we will, quote, hold responsible those accountable. bret? bret: jonathan hunt in beverly hills. jonathan, thank you. testimony has concluded in the trial of the actor accused of staging a racist attack against himself. closing arguments are expected tomorrow in the trial of zowlt. correspondent matt fin live in chicago has been following this from the beginning. good evening, matt. good evening, bret. jowlgt spent two days on the stand and i asked how he felt he simply put his fist up in the air. on the stand today smollett testified he still has a scar under his eyes and a permanent bruise under the other eye from the alleged attack. prosecutor dan webben pushed back and asked smollett if he was able to watch back his interview on good morning america a short while after the incident implies smollett s face looked fine. he shot back he had good holiday