spokesman chris oliveras will be here to weigh in. once again rebooking customers, at this time, the 31st and beyond. my phone is dead, i m hungry, i m tired, i m ready to go home. hectic, all in all, exhausting. what are we supposed to do, it s ridiculous. it s lives, they cannot give us a direct answer. gillian: welcome to america reports, i m gillian turner in washington. anita, wonderful to be with you this afternoon. anita: you, too, gillian. a holiday tradition to host together. gillian:. let s keep it, a good one. anita: john and sandra have the day. southwest meltdown, the worst airline disruption in decades and based on the latest numbers, far from over. more than 2500 southwest flights have been canceled, the company claims is necessary in order to reposition flight crews and the planes themselves. gillian: the chaos began over christmas weekend as the blizzardpted southwest s operations, but then the outdated communication system then reported
gillian: most major u.s. airlines are rebounding from the holiday blizzard, southwest airlines continues spiralling downward. the company ceo says the communications network was thrown off by the historic storm. that was not the only challenge. southwest memo out of denver airport warned of a staffing crisis just days before christmas. gillian: according to bloomberg, the v.p. of ground operations declared a state of operational emergency at the airport after an unusually high number of employee absences. sending a message to workers december 21st. anita: fox team coverage, jacqui heinrich what the white house is saying this hour. gillian: first with fox weather, katie is at philadelphia international airport. what are passengers telling you today? gillian, anita, the situation is very real for people still dealing with stranded luggage or not able to rebook their flights. i just met a family that was trying to travel from california to here in philadelphia, and t
travelers stranded over the holidays nearly a week to get back home. lines at the airports growing, frustrated travelers losing their patients, desperate passengers forced to spend days sleeping on the floor at terminals while the airline cut 80% of its schedule at the height of the holiday travel season. and surrounding them, lost luggage. take a look at this, thousands of bags with personal belongings piled up at airports across the country. passengers got little satisfaction to contact the airlines because the phone lines were jammed up. even southwest flight crews had trouble getting through to find out about their own schedules. take a look at the screenshots, flight attendants on hold nearly five hours and nearly eight hours waiting to be cut through to scheduling. the scheduling department to receive their assignments. reports of pilots waiting on hold for 20 plus hours. lisa boothe, what a mess! lisa: first of all, i eat too much during the holiday like chris farley
remains defiant after admitting to several lies. cbs s caitlin huey-burns on how lawmakers could respond. health watch. cbs s dr. jon lapook explorers a medical breakthrough for young patients with heart defects. and, furnishing hope. how a washington, d.c. non- profit is providing those in need with furniture, and a brighter future. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. i m jericka duncan in for norah. we have breaking news tonight out of the supreme court. it ruled the covid-19 border restriction known as title 42 will remain in effect. plus, embattled congressman- elect george santos is facing calls to step aside after admitting he put a little bit of fluff on his resume. but first, we begin with the travel nightmares at the nation s airports. bad weather and staffing issues have left passengers stranded and luggage piling up. since
entry into the united states due to public health concerns. it was set to expire last week which the biden administration had supported but asked for a brief delay. 19 attorneys generals from gop-led states requested the policy remain in place for fear of adding to the influx at the southern border. in the 5-3 rule, neil gorsuch joins sotomayor and jackson. gorsuch suggested that the court decision to intervene was more related to the crisis at the border, rather than the legal issues in the case. those issues concern whether states can intervene in defense of a pandemic-era policy. gorsuch noted that the states, quote, do not seriously dispute that the public held justification undergirding the title 42 orders has lapsed. gorsuch also said while states may have valid concerns, quote, the current border crisis is not a covid crisis. the supreme court s order says that while it prevents title 42 from being set aside, it does not prevent the federal government from taking up,