it is 2:00 in the afternoon, the southwestern tip of iceland. that volcano we ve been watching for weeks has finally erupted. look at that. there is a lot of concern for those in the area. we re on the story as it develops. i want to share that with you as we begin. first, however, got to get to our own border. it is at a breaking point. agents say the crisis is worse than ever and now the state of texas is going to try something it has never done before as we say good morning. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. it s tuesday. hello to my partner here. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. sit a little chilly in here. i m holding onto my hot cup. everything is fine. fine. we want to get you to these numbers. this happened yesterday. a staggering 4500 people crossed in the del rio sector alone. the southern border saw a total of over 12,000 people yesterday. bill: this is part of what greg abbott calls a tidal wave of illegal entry. he has been saying
dangerous winds and life-threatening temperatures to dozens of states heading into the holiday weekend. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. dana perino and bill hemmer have the day off. we re filling in. rich: i m rich edson. record low temperatures appeared hazardous weather. right now more than 240 million americans are under winter weather warnings, alerts or advisories from the canadian border to the south and rio grande along the gulf coast to florida and pacific northwest to the eastern seaboard. julie: madison is standing by with flight delays and cancellations. the reason i said wow. i was watching max gordon and his video shot while rich was talking starting us off outside buffalo. i watched a wave, oh my goodness. you have to be cold where the national weather service is predicting up to three feet of snow. max, your camera just blew me away. you are too close to that water, i m not going to lie. we ll try to stay as safe as possible today. a frigid
stability for the loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. staggering numbers of cancellations and delays and finger pointing to employees now of who to blame. mike tobin is at the chicago airport, good evening, mike. reporter: good evening, southwest executives promised to return to normal operation. secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airline of problems that were quote, within controls of the airlines, the secretary monitors the airlines making good on everything on reimbursements and returning home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled and bulk of them is southwest. the boss issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you and you will hear more about that soon. but for now, we are focused on reliability and level of customer experience of what we expect o
nearly 200 oversight requests already submitted. the white house counsel telling republicans they need to resend all of those requests once they take over next week. the white house plans to work in good faith with the opposing party. those on the right skeptical to say the least. a few of the tweets. does leaking a story and sending a letter at 4:30 a.m. show good faith? the white house and media are already playing games. get ready, the oversight chair also digging in. joe biden promised the americans that he would be the most transparent president in history and i could make a strong case he is the least transparent president in history. we re supposed to provide oversight and root out waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in the federal government. joe biden has blocked us at every turn and surely everyone has seen by now over the past years the democrats haven t provided any oversight. we re trying to do our jobs. molly: first we go to jacque heinrich traveling with
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