Well, good monday morning. We begin with the chaos at airports sparked by a major computer glitch at Southwest Airlines. Yeah, Southwest Airlines was forced to revert to the old way of doing things, issuing handwritten tickets to thousands of passengers. That meant long lines and short tempers. A live look at l. A. X. Now, where theres a full schedule of Southwest Airlines flights today. Its one of the many airports bracing for more delays. Checkin chaos for travellers. Our aunt was on an earlier flight. She went inside. It took her and hour and 15 minutes to get through the line. Reporter overnight, a warning from Southwest Airlines. Plan ahead. Arrive two hours early. And print your boarding passes. Im still not 100 confident that im going to get on the flight. Reporter the airline left scrambling yesterday after a Technology Issue sent gremlins everywhere along its computer network. Mobile apps, reservation centers. Airport terminals. You get here an hour before, its usually good. S
Big story this morning is the torrential rain in texas. So this is causing some flooding with massive amounts of rain. In fact, we are look at nearly 7 inches around austin, texas since midnight. And more on the way. The potential for four inches an hour. So look at some bigtime flooding problems here. This is not even the source of rain from patricia yesterday. Patricia was downgraded from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm. Went from 200 Miles Per Hour winds to 80 Miles Per Hour winds in 24 hours. Now its at 50 miles an hour. It will continue to move up through mexico and bring more rain into texas. So they are just getting slammed in the Lone Star State. And more rain headed into louisiana, up to the ohio river valley. And falllike rain head today the northeast, as well. We will talk about our local weather coming up. Tiffany. Lisa, thank you. Houses of people were evacuated along the southwestern coast of mexico. Residents and tourists alike. Those who couldnt get out tried to take co
Hospitalized. And the Kansas City Royals are the new World Series Champions after defeating the new york mets in extra innings in game five. All four of their world series victories were comefrombehind victories. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, november 2nd. From abc news, this is world news now. Were going to get this halfhour with the air disaster in egypt. A russian plane breaking apart and falling from the sky. As investigators comb through a large field of wreckage, several Major Airlines say they will not fly over the Sinai Peninsula till we know exactly what caused the crash. Heres abcs alex marquardt. Reporter the debris field stretches over five square miles. From huge chunks of the plane to tiny pieces of metal. Stray clothing strewn in between. Why an airplane would come apart in perfectly good weather thats a sobering question. Reporter all 224 people on board killed, including 17 russian children. Russian investigators have arrived in egypt saying its to
By tomorrow. Heavy rain around austin texas and much of texas, just inundated with a swath of moisture, and what was Hurricane Patricia. Now at winds of 50 miles an hour, it is quickly weakening and spreading lots of rain. In fact, anywhere from to 12 inches of rain. So right now it is a Tropical Storm. We could see upwards of another 15 inches of rain here, and flash flooding certainly is possible. Some isolated spots, up to 20 inches of rain on the coast of mexico. In texas an entirely different story. We are looking at anywhere electric 7 from 7 to 10 inches of rain in parts of south of dallas. This will continue up to the ohio river valley and we will look for the flash flood warnings the next several days for texas. We will talk about our weather and whether or not we will get rain in here coming up. Thank you. You heard lisa mention Hurricane Patricia weakened from a category 5 to a Tropical Storm this morning. There have been reports of flood asking rainfall but no ward of fatal
Classic against the new york mets. And all that matters. Californias congressman who was a true dodgers fan had to swallow his pride after losing a bet. On cbs this Morning Saturday. The mets win the pennant good to s s the mets, the World Series Game here in new york, the average price for a scalped ticket to the mets game is 1,700. Terrible. The only people who can afford to go to the mets game are derek jeter and arod right now. And welcome to the weekend. We have some great guests for you this morning including dikembe tombo, onetiue star of the geico ad. Hes the global bassador. Well talk to him and lk back on his unlikely rise to global fame. Plus, washing dishes changed mike prices life. Now hes one of the most acclaimed figures in new york city cuisine. He will join us in the dish. And australian Courtney Barnetts debut album is on this yearar best of list for rollllg stone, spinnd pitchfork. Wewel speak with her about how she went from down under to atop one of the most famous