bitterness and fury. the extreme maga republicans in congress have chosen to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division. it s a bill that will cut your cost of living and reduce inflation. take time to get inflation back to normal levels. i will accomplish what i said i would do, a more humane policy based on family yoonfication. don t come don t leave your town or city or community. rich: border encounters up 33% from a year ago. inflation up more than 7%, stock market down nearly $7 trillion. julie: that s as americans are reeling and the president is taking a break vacationing in the caribbean. the white house isn t completely vacant. we have peter doocy there. 2/3 majority of americans in a recent fox news poll say 2022 was a bad year. and that just does not compute with the folks at the white house. we have this photo that the white house posted that shows a huge stack of bills president biden signed to close out the year. the text accompanying those
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
today. that s more than half its scheduled flights. the travel disruptions leave thousands of bags piled up at airports, unclaimed by travelers caught up in the chaos. southwest issued a second apology late last night as it faces growing scrutiny from its customers and officials in washington. fox business s lydia hu is live in new york city with more on this. lydia. those 2300 flights you mentioned is more than 95% of all flights that are canceled for today. as you mentioned, a second video apology issued by southwest last night this coming from the chief commercial officer ryan green all the flexibility and planning we put in place to deal with the storm just wasn t enough. so we ve extended flexibility for self-service travel changes through january 2nd. the core use of voices saying this wasn t a surprise is
over 100 inches of snow has fallen in the city of buffalo since the middle of november. just an amazing scenario to the cap off 2022. i can tell you, people here in buffalo are hoping the new year brings in warmer temps and a lot less of this white powder going on here in buffalo. back to you. julie: thank you very much. rich: pope francis is asking for prayers for his predecessor, former pope benedict xvi because he is sick. the 95 year old s health is declining because of his age. he retired in february of 2013 and has lived in the monastery on vatican grounds since. julie: asylum seekers at the border are vowing to cross illegally despite the supreme court upholding title 42. what we hear from communities on the front lines of the crisis. southwest airlines doing major
in hollywood, it s fox news. julie: the nightmare continues for thousands of stranded air travelers. they say southwest airlines is not doing much of anything to get them home. meanwhile the company says a fully resumed schedule to still be days away. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m julie banderas in for dana perino. rich: i m in for bill hemmer. a tumultuous few days for southwest passengers, cancellations for nearly 2/3 of the airline flights. julie: weather caused problems for all major airlines but had a knock-out blow to southwest. he says computers are to blame. scheduling software crashed. it couldn t keep up with the number of changes. we get flight cancellations over a 300 mark somewhere in that