hello, everyone. at this hour southwest apologizes for a nationwide travel calamity warning passengers it pay take days to solve a giant puzzle of canceled flights. and silence from top republicans raises a big question, will incumbent new york congressman george santos get away with lying to voters about nearly every detail of his life? plus, a supreme court ruling keeps in place a trump era immigration measure and leaves thousands of migrants in limbo. that s what we re watching at this hour. good morning, everyone. i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. welcome to the seventh day of holiday travel chaos and it won t be the last. for southwest airlines passengers relief could still be days away. the airline canceled more than 2500 flights both today and yesterday accounting for more than 60% of its entire schedule. these issues began with the widespread deadly winter storm, but weather is not to blame for the lingering problems with southwest s system. the u.s. transportat
it s important for history to talk about who he is, but i commend you for doing that. my heart is hurting. everyone i spoke to today, their heart is hurting, and they feel helpless. i m going to talk to the audience about that in just a little bit. but we ve seen this all too often. yeah. you know, anybody at home can probably remember the names of the killers in columbine but not necessarily the people the names of people who lost their lives. i feel like that s the case for a lot of mass killings in this country. we all focus on the shooter, and people learn that person s name, and they want that. they want that kind of attention. i think it s important to report on them and their motivation and everything about them. but i just don t think we should give them that kind of extended coverage. and to call listen, we have to call it what it is. that s our job without fear or favor. but also i was sitting writing the opening to my show tonight, and you again inspired me
heroic months long fight for mariupol appears to be over and it s a major win for russia and major twists in races, as five states go to the polls. good to have you with us, u.s. president joe biden will travel to buffalo new york in the hours ahead, where he will meet with families of the victims of saturday s racially motivated shooting. a white house official tells cnn, mr. biden will make remarks in buffalo and condemn the shooting as terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology, this comes as we learn new details about the 18-year-old accused in the attack. the gunman opening fire in the supermarket, traveled 200 miles to the predominantly black neighborhood two months ago and he was there this past friday. authorities believe, carrying out reconnaissance a day before the massacre. they are investigating the shooting as a hate crimes and a case of racially motivated violent extremism. the latest now from omar jimenez. reporter: new details show the gunm
dumpster fire, hasn t it. these are two people that are troubled and the details that are disturbing, they both accuse each other of abuse. and a lot of people have looked at amber heard s testimony and found some of the things that she s claimed dubious. the same could be said also of johnny depp and i think you see a little bit of that play out. and in terms of victims of abuse coming forward, regardless of how this shakes out, there may be people who take away from this that their allegations of abuse may not be taken seriously. it certainly would be unfortunate if that were the case, joe. nbc s stephanie gosk, thank you very much. that is worth looking into more and talking about more. it is now the top of the fourth hour of morning joe. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west and we have a lot to get to this morning. we ll have the latest from ukraine where after months of holding out, ukraine has officially ceded the key port city of mariupol as russian miss
more about those lives that were taken so callously, solely out of hate. we re also learning more about the suspect. authorities identifying him as this 18-year-old white man who apparently traveled more than three hours from his home to target that community. a 180-page manifesto attributed to the suspect was posted online just before the attack. it shows the meticulous planning that apparently went into a racist attack in just chilling detail. we also learned the suspect was already on law enforcement s radar. he had made a generalized threat as a high school student last year. tomorrow president biden will travel to buffalo to meet with families of the victims. the terror in new york, sadly, just one of several mass shootings in recent days. let s begin with cnn s victor blackwell on the scene in buffalo. the suspect currently faces one count of first-degree murder. that really a starting point here. do we expect that federal hate crime charges will be added? reporter: y