area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
julie: shocking footage capturing a deadly 200 car pile-up on a bridge in china. it happened on wednesday as a heavy fog set in. as you can see the crash involved cars, big wheels and s.u.v. s stacked up and flipped around and sadly at least one person was killed in the wreck. rich: a virginia high school is facing a major backlash after parents claim the school system did not notify their students of an important merit award. why? david spunt is live in washington getting answers. david. some parents have different theories becoming a national merit scholar in the first place is quite an accomplishment. 1 1/2 million students enter the competition around the country, 50,000 qualify, thomas jefferson high school in alexandria,
flight into i am resting, i am digesting, i am detoxing, i am repairing. i came with a really bad headache, pretty achy and i was blown away by how i feel now. it s like night and day. the 40th annual albuquerque balloon fiesta is under way right now. thousands of people flock to see these hot air balloons, look at that. that is gorgeous. and i don t know why, somebody said there s a little disappointment in this yesterday. but apparently that was mother nature, low clouds, fog forced some of the balloons, in fact a lot of them apparently, to stay on the ground. several of the balloonist were able to launch before the fog set in. the favorite viewing time for the balloon launches and are at dawn and at night, because