the massive weather system rolling up the east coast has travelers on alert and holiday flights in jeopardy. chief political correspondent carl cameron, who is no stranger to airline travel, and that is an understatement, is doing double duty tonight at reagan national airport. good evening, carl. reporter: big surprise. another thanksgiving eve in an airport. thanks, doug. it s pretty quiet here in d.c. there have been some delays, but not particularly bad ones. up north it is a thanksgiving nightmare for an awful lot of travelers. the airports up there have been pounded by a storm that has been moving from the southwest up to the northeast this evening. by morning today, there were some 1600 flights that had already been canceled. and this has been a three-day storm that has been rolling cancellations and dropping a foot of snow all across the country. the airlines expected 2.8 million passengers across the country today. that s about a half million more than normal. so far 548 fli
the massive weather system rolling up the east coast has travelers on alert and holiday flights in jeopardy. chief political correspondent carl cameron, who is no stranger to airline travel, and that is an understatement, is doing double duty tonight at reagan national airport. good evening, carl. reporter: big surprise. another thanksgiving eve in an airport. thanks, doug. it s pretty quiet here in d.c. there have been some delays, but not particularly bad ones. up north it is a thanksgiving nightmare for an awful lot of travelers. the airports up there have been pounded by a storm that has been moving from the southwest up to the northeast this evening. by morning today, there were some 1600 flights that had already been canceled. and this has been a three-day storm that has been rolling cancellations and dropping a foot of snow all across the country. the airlines expected 2.8 million passengers across the country today. that s about a half million more than normal. so far 548 fli
reporter: quite a few head start centers around the state had letter end dates for their federal dollars or other revenue sources. they are still open, for now. our thanks to john zarrella for that. those are the kids that need the most and studies show that early head start is so important for those children. morning today. the members of a church group and two others killed in a horrific crash. this was on a tennessee highway. a bus carrying mostly seniors were returning from a conference in gatlenburg, tennessee. it blew a tire and it crossed the media and slammed no a tractor-trailer and suv. the tractor-trailer burst into flames. investigators say they are not jumping to any conclusions. make sure the brake mechanisms if at all possible if this crash will permit that investigation to take place we will take a look at the braking system and make sure that the bus was functioning properly.
greta: sew so how does chairman issa think the hearing went? we spoke with him earlier? you have had quite a morning today. did you get what you wanted from the attorney general? i think we got the impression that we needed to know will he cooperate with the request of the speaker? it was very clear he wanted to talk about cooperation while in fact, clearly he did not answer any questions about new discovery, it s been since may 18, obviously, the speaker has to judge now whether or not no answer in this long a period of time means he s not going to answer questions that the speaker of the house believes are legitimate. greta: all right. you are pending a threat to threat. we do. greta: the speak of the house, john boehner got involved in it to persuade the justice department to comply. he asked for a very reduced, very limited, very targeted portion of the subpoenas, in hopes that that would be sufficient. certainly, he cut it down to the
process. how does chairman issa think the hearing went? we spoke with him earlier tonight? you have had quite a morning today. did you get what you want from the attorney general? i think we got the impression that we needed to know will he cooperate with the request of the speaker? it was very clear he wanted to talk about cooperation, while in fact, clearly, he didn t answer any questions about new discovery, it s been since may 18, obviously the speaker has to judge now whether or not no answer in this long a period of time means he s not going to answer questions that the speaker of the house believes are legitimate. all right. you are pending a draft to hold him in contempt to congress for fail tower respond to the subpoena? we do. mid-may, the speaker of the house, john boehner got involved in an effort to sort of persuade the justice department to comply? he asked for a very reduced, very limited, very targeted portion of all of our subpoenas, in hopes that that wo