oh, no. neil: all right. we had hurricane force winds, try 90 miles an hour in some places. roads turning in to rivers and worries there could be flash flooding as a ferocious winter storm rips across the northeast. it s not winter yet. more than 700,000 are without power as we speak. flight cancellations piling up on what could be a record-breaking travel week. we re going to talk to pete buttigieg in how he s dealing with that and that $140 million fine slapped on southwest to make sure what happened last holiday sen never happens in any holiday season. world wore starts now. welcome. i m neil cavuto. the transportation secretary coming up in a minute. right know bryan llenas in the thick of it in la guardia airport. how are things looking there, my friend? neil, good afternoon. that powerful storm hitting the northeast and causing about 160 flight cancellations at la guardia. that s about 15% of the flights coming and going from la guardia. this is terminal a. it serve
it is 2:00 in the afternoon, the southwestern tip of iceland. that volcano we ve been watching for weeks has finally erupted. look at that. there is a lot of concern for those in the area. we re on the story as it develops. i want to share that with you as we begin. first, however, got to get to our own border. it is at a breaking point. agents say the crisis is worse than ever and now the state of texas is going to try something it has never done before as we say good morning. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. it s tuesday. hello to my partner here. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. sit a little chilly in here. i m holding onto my hot cup. everything is fine. fine. we want to get you to these numbers. this happened yesterday. a staggering 4500 people crossed in the del rio sector alone. the southern border saw a total of over 12,000 people yesterday. bill: this is part of what greg abbott calls a tidal wave of illegal entry. he has been saying
dangerous winds and life-threatening temperatures to dozens of states heading into the holiday weekend. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. dana perino and bill hemmer have the day off. we re filling in. rich: i m rich edson. record low temperatures appeared hazardous weather. right now more than 240 million americans are under winter weather warnings, alerts or advisories from the canadian border to the south and rio grande along the gulf coast to florida and pacific northwest to the eastern seaboard. julie: madison is standing by with flight delays and cancellations. the reason i said wow. i was watching max gordon and his video shot while rich was talking starting us off outside buffalo. i watched a wave, oh my goodness. you have to be cold where the national weather service is predicting up to three feet of snow. max, your camera just blew me away. you are too close to that water, i m not going to lie. we ll try to stay as safe as possible today. a frigid
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
nearly 200 oversight requests already submitted. the white house counsel telling republicans they need to resend all of those requests once they take over next week. the white house plans to work in good faith with the opposing party. those on the right skeptical to say the least. a few of the tweets. does leaking a story and sending a letter at 4:30 a.m. show good faith? the white house and media are already playing games. get ready, the oversight chair also digging in. joe biden promised the americans that he would be the most transparent president in history and i could make a strong case he is the least transparent president in history. we re supposed to provide oversight and root out waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in the federal government. joe biden has blocked us at every turn and surely everyone has seen by now over the past years the democrats haven t provided any oversight. we re trying to do our jobs. molly: first we go to jacque heinrich traveling with