arthel: more than 5,000 flights have been cancelled across the region, since sunday and the problems were made worse by a series of logistical errors including planes being dispatched without clearance for gate space. bill: some airports are a mess and will be for another two days, before everybody gets where they need to go. california will get hit today, bracing for another round of punishing winter weather and folks piling up sandbags in areas saturated by the heavy rains and gale force wind warnings for much of california coast, places like napa valley are taking it in stride. we have lived here 17 years and have been flooded five times. so. it is just water over the banks and heads downtown senate my house is .03 of an inch in flood zone, i ll sandbag the doors and stay up late tonight. bill: heavy snow warnings are in effect for the sierras, good for
just absolutely incredible. what are the airlines telling the passengers? why do they actually pull a ladder or a bus or something to get them off of the plane even if they didn t have a terminal to go to. why didn t that happen? what are they saying? well, according to the passengers i spoke with, they were given many, many different reasons. some of what they were told is there was a lack of gate space as you heard. they were being told that the weather was preventing them to get to the gate. but they never got any definitive answer. and what s more frustrating for them now the majority of them left, they waited on the flight to wait around to find out something about their baggage. every person i talked to who has left did not leave with their bags. and it may be 48 hours before they see them. these folks are with their kids.
charlottesville later today. shepard: thank you we will back with you with the president s address in 23 minutes. these are like pictures of john f. kennedy, the big white thing with the black windows is a people mover. a lot of times when you are on a large flight, a 777, or 747, and there is no gate space they park in the middle of nowhere and shoot one of these down and put you on a white people mover. i know because i have been on the people movers and everyone has been in and out of john f. kennedy has been on them. so this is not completely unusual but they are keeping this away from the gate because they have a pack imagine package on there from yemen and they want to check it out. they will put the people into the term natural and no one is a suspect of anything. there is no cargo suspect.
aeromexico flight stuck. no one seems to know but everyone is pointing fingers. the port authority overseas kennedy which is a major hub for air travelers from around the country and around the world. the port authority claims the airlines are to blame, quote, the reason for the delay is because the airlines brought in the planes without checking with terminal operations to see if there was a place to put them. it is an airline s responsibility to contact the terminal before bringing in flights and they did not. but cafe pacific isn t buying it, its spokesperson says the airline s intention was to say, getting to new york as quickly as possible and we anticipated to have gate space available. so if it s not the airport s fault, who is it? try u.s. customs, noting each of the stranded planes was an international flight, the port authority suggests on the midnight shift there may have been too few officers on duty to clear the passengers through customs. of course a customs spokesperson
the port authority overseas kennedy which is a major hub for air travelers from around the country and around the world. the port authority claims the airlines are to blame, quote, the reason for the delay is because the airlines brought in the planes without checking with terminal operations to see if there was a place to put them. it is an airline s responsibility to contact the terminal before bringing in flights and they did not. but cathay pacific isn t buying it, its spokesperson says the airline s intention was to say, getting to new york as quickly as possible and we anticipated to have gate space available. so if it s not the airport s fault, who is it? try u.s. customs, noting each of the stranded planes was an international flight, the port authority suggests on the midnight shift there may have been too few officers on duty to clear the passengers through customs. of course a customs spokesperson insists that it wasn t them. a spokesperson saying at no point were customs of