hello, i m abby philip in washington. thank you for being here today. the holiday travel nightmare is inflicting more misery across the country. more than 2900 flights in or out of the u.s. have been canceled today already. and just one airline is responsible for 90% of them and that is southwest. passengers stuck in one city, their baggage somewhere else. i am traveling with my son trying to go to a family wedding in miami. the next flight offered was in january, and they couldn t even get us home, back to pittsburgh. financially this is going to take a toll. how much could you guys potentially miss out on if you don t get on your flight to colorado? probably 30 plus thousand dollars for a group of ten. we come here. they tell us our luggage is here but they can t give it to us. i said we have medication, we need it. we can t pull it. we don t have the manpower. to add to all of that long ticket lines, hours and hours on hold with the airline company and the growin
executives say they ll need to cancel many more tomorrow. then, breaking his silence did i embellish my resume, yes, i did. and i m sorry. but i m still the same guy, i m not a fraud. republican congressman-elect george santos admits he lied about major parts of his resume, but wait until he explains his jewish heritage claims. and miami dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa has been placed in concussion protocol, hours after playing an entire game. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly, in for jake tapper. and we begin this hour with the winter travel meltdown plaguing a major u.s. airline. thousands of southwest airlines passengers are still stranded, unable to get to their destinations. some of those passengers is been trying to travel for five days or more, after a massive winter storm battered parts of the u.s. southwest canceled nearly 2,600 flights today, accounting for more than 85% of all flights canceled in the u.s. and the company s telling passengers
migrants are camping out in freezing temperatures as the white house asked the supreme court to live title 42 today. nearly 60 across 12 states with a massive storm over the holiday weekend. ranging from the great lakes all the way down to rio grande. the death toll 28 in western new york where blizzard conditions left parts of the state buried under 4 feet of snow backing up in the thousands. 500,000 are waking up in the dark this morning. carley: cleanup efforts in buffalo as president biden approves emergency declaration for the storm. even more snow could be in the forecast period and the mayor of buffalo is slamming looters who destroy stores during the blizzard. people who were out looting and people are losing their lives in this harsh, winter storm is just absolutely reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror here they are the lowest of the low. ashley: looters did not appear to be an
western new york, blizzard conditions are leaving parts of the state buried under four feet of snow, knocking out power. 5000 are waking up in the dark right now. carley: cleanup efforts are underway in buffalo. more snow could be in the forecast, that is where we find adam klotz here with the fox weather forecast, what is going to happen? it has been a slow improvement, still dealing with cold temperatures. the forecast is light and along the coast, we have wind moving across the great lakes and dropping light snow on east side of lake erie and l ontario and to the east side. more snow on the way, even ifum are not in this area, more cold winter-like temperatures for one more morning where you are dealing with cold air. feels-like temperature, negative one, below zero, negative eight, a couple days ago it was negative 30 and 40, but it is an improvement. frigid in dallas, it feels like 18 degrees. this cold is affecting millions of folks early this morning, as far down s
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m pamela brown, and we begin the hour with a travel nightmare. thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed across the country today. the hardest hit, southwest airlines, which has scrapped more than 60% of its flights. take a look here. these are some of the long lines of southwest passengers in raleigh, atlanta, and denver airports. in a statement to cnn, southwest airlines said it is, quote, experiencing disruptions across our network as a result of the winter storm s lingering effects on the totality of our operations. carlos suarez is on the southwest side of the terminal. what are you seeing? what are you hearing from passengers? reporter: well, pamela, i m hearing a great deal of frustration from a good number of passengers who are stranded, and are flying southwest airlines or at least they were hoping to today. the airport here in atlanta has seen well over 200 canceled flights and a majority of those flights have