Off the post. Sweden can win on this kick. Plus, oneonone with Donald Trumps lawyer who claims trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election were aspirational, not criminal. And lost at sea for two days in a boat only 12 feet long. Well show you the incredible rescue and youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. Former president Donald Trumps lawyer speaking out this morning doubling down on his argument that trump was within his First Amendment rights when he asked former Vice President mike pence to overturn the election results. And that it all boils down to the way he asked. And all of this played out in the open. Its all free speech. There was a Supreme Court decision, which is right on point, that says when youre exercising free speech, youre not engaging in a fraud on the government. And thats what unfortunately, most people dont understand in this context. Thats just one example of the actions. Thats just one e
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
the family members the heartbreaking hallway surveillance video of the school shooting, which this surveillance video was leaked to a texas newspaper and published earlier in the week last week. cnn s shimon propose pez and rosa flores joining us now from uvalde, texas. shimon, you have obtained a copy of this report. tell us what you can so far. reporter: well, right off the top it s very clear that this committee found and i think this is significant that the blame as to what happened here in terms of the lack of law enforcement response, disorganized response, at one point quoting it as chaotic, the blame rests on almost every law enforcement agency that responded to the scene. you know, we ve heard a lot from state officials essentially blaming everything on one person, saying that it was the school chief who was the incident commander and this was the individual making all the decisions. while this report does not find that to necessarily be the case, they say ther
shimon, you ve obtained the report and read it. tell us what you ve learned. reporter: the lackadaisical response, they talk about how there was no command, no control, no leadership essentially on the scene of the shooting. it was just truly chaos, every officer doing their own thing. we re also learning what the police chief, the school police chief, pete arredondo, told the committee. he appeared before the committee. he explained his thinking. he said at one point he didn t believe there were any kids inside the score because it was awards day. what he said was he looked at an adjacent room, room 110, and when he went in there, there was no one in there, and it made himly were no babies as he said inside the room. of course, we know that was not the case. he also describes how initially his thinking was that this was an active shooter situation, but then what happens is he starts to believe that the subject, the gunman, is barricaded, and that in order to rescue the oth
of louisiana are under some type of heat alert today. along the gulf coast, remember, it s not just the temperature itself but also the humidity mixed in. corpus christi topping out at 96 today, but it will feel like 116. new orleans, not much better, 97 with a feels-like temperature of 113. that is extreme. all right, thank you so inchara. and this incredible rescue at sea. a man missing since thursday off the coast of florida is pulled to safety by the u.s. coast guard. seen here drifting in a little 12-foot boat, which was starting to take on water, he was spotted by helicopter about 12 miles off shore. kamila bernal joining us with more on this. he is lucky but how did it unfold? he is lucky. it is a fascinating story here, fred, because this is a 25-year-old who is on a 12-foot john boat. i mean, it is just incredible. and i actually just spoke to the