biden just responded. we re live at the border. plus, new revelations in just-released transcripts from the january 6th committee, including the committee s key witness who reveals how qanon conspiracies made their way into the west wing. and it s a full-blown travel fiasco for southwest airlines passengers going nowhere, after most of the airline s flights have been canceled. let s go outfront. good evening. i m sara sidner in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, a major blow at the border for president biden. the supreme court ruling that title 42, a controversial trump era border policy, will remain in place as legal challenges play out. it s a policy the biden administration said it was ready to see end. just minutes ago, president biden reacted to the ruling. but for now, the 5-4 ruling is a major victory for gop led states that asked the supreme court to step in, like arizona, whose attorney general said he was, quote, proud to lead the charge on this important
followening dangerous conditions in new york as night falls and the governor is appealing for federal help. miguel marquez is joining us not far from buffalo. miguel, what is happening on the ground? reporter: just a nightmare. buffalo is a city used to big storms. this is something they have never seen before. 27 people inn erie county new york dead from this storm and authorities are concerned going through homes and cars abandoned and start to clear the snow. massive amounts of snow they will find more people who are dead. the airport is shut down. they re not expected to open until wednesday. it is just an absolute disaster that officials there are only beginning to grapple with. the ability to clear the roads, this is a no drive zone in buffalo in many surrounding communities. thousands of people without power and the governors of new york say it is not over yet. the storm is coming back. we re expecting another six to 12 inches and in the south towns of southern par
just to get a glimpse of the queen s casket . republican governors of several u.s. states appear to believe that the way to deal with immigration is to send those migrants somewhere else far away. florida s governor is taking credit for sending two charter planes of venezuelan migrants to cape cod. they are scrambling to get the migrants sheltered and fed. they are denouncing the move as a cruel political stunt. it s near identical stunt in washington, d.c. they dropped them off outside vice president kamala harris s official residents. here s what the mayor had to say. we re not a border town. we don t have an infrastructure to handle this type of level of immigration to our city. since the start of the year texas has sent more than 8,000 people to washington. 2500 to new york and about 600 to chicago. arizona s governor has bussed some 1800 migrants to washington. federal, state, and local authorities are coordinating to arrange longer term support and resources for t
say it s the weather, when it s not the weather. reporter: and what a difference a day makes. you remember yesterday we were talking the southwest line snaking around the corner. very few people behind me now. but it doesn t mean that the southwest flight delays and cance cancelations are over. the plans for the next few days is to fly a reduced schedule, adding that the company is optimistic it will be back on track before next week. we ll have to see about that. thank you so much, lucy kafanov, and your crew out there. outfront now, the vice president of southwest airlines pilot association. you just heard southwest s cnn statement. he s basically saying he s truly sorry. that is coming out on video in a bit. he also warned that the schedule will be decreased dramatically to get things back on track. for the travelers, how long could that take? they were doing things like changing where the crews are by
412 of those cancelled flights are from southwest and i want to show you, you can see the massive line of people behind me. that line snaking around the corner, all of these are folks who have been here for hours trying to get their money back from southwest trying to reschedule the flights. the problems here reverberating across the nation. i wasn t anticipating a nightmare but it became a nightmare, it did. reporter: christmas may over but the nightmare goes on. they said they can t help us. reporter: southwest airlines at the top of the list for cancellations. the airlines ticketing counter at baltimore s bwi airport a zoo. denver s lines for the southwest ticket counter worse. we re in a line that s four hours and still in line and nobody is giving us direction on what line to get in. it a total you know what show here. reporter: for those trying to call to rebook, good luck getting through. calling southwest, calling