gillian: most major u.s. airlines are rebounding from the holiday blizzard, southwest airlines continues spiralling downward. the company ceo says the communications network was thrown off by the historic storm. that was not the only challenge. southwest memo out of denver airport warned of a staffing crisis just days before christmas. gillian: according to bloomberg, the v.p. of ground operations declared a state of operational emergency at the airport after an unusually high number of employee absences. sending a message to workers december 21st. anita: fox team coverage, jacqui heinrich what the white house is saying this hour. gillian: first with fox weather, katie is at philadelphia international airport. what are passengers telling you today? gillian, anita, the situation is very real for people still dealing with stranded luggage or not able to rebook their flights. i just met a family that was trying to travel from california to here in philadelphia, and t
apology but that won t help the stranded. the stock driving 10% in the last two days. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto, this is your world. we re all over it with mike tobin in chicago s midway airport. jacqui heinrich with the president in st. croix where the administration is vowing to get to the bottom of this and nancy mace on the billions in aid airlines received and the southwest airlines union head fuming over what he calls a catastrophic failure despite all of it. he s here. fox to mike tobin in chicago where it s all going down. mike? well, going down certainly is one way to put it. going downhill. you have this mass of bags standing as a visual example of that. what you have here is a line of people around the whole baggage area. they re being allowed by a desk one by one to walk into this purgatory of bags to expect the bags and see if they have found their bag. every once in a while a big cheer will go up. it s a terrible miss. you have 2,800 domestic fl
minute. plus, migrants being used by republican governors to send a message to democrats and the president. but what about the men, women, and children caught in the middle? we ll talk about their plight coming up. in ukraine, president zelenskyy said his soldiers are poised to recapture more grouped in the south and east. but he also told reuters he doesn t see the war ending any time soon. former ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, will join us. and take a look out of puerto rico s southern coast. hurricane fiona pounded the island, leaving 1 million people without power. the governor says there is damage that is, quote, catastrophic. and we begin with hurricane fiona s impact. the category 1 storm is currently passing over the then can republic after ripping through puerto rico on saturday. today most of the 1.4 million residents remain without power. luma energy has so far restored power to 100,000 customers. officials say it could be days before power is fully re
to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. yeah. maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. i agree. this is unsustainable. yeah. this republican party is unsustainable. we re going to explain that more because there s different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing pressure on western europe to do more. with us, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius joining us this morning. national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. and white house bureau chief at politico and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire is with us. and the host of msnbc s politics nation, president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton is with us on this monday morning. we re going to begin, joe, with that poll that finds a
his planned trip to the middle east including saudi arabia. on capitol hill lawmakers are racing to put together a new bill that addresses rising gun violence and pass it all before the july 4th recess. we ll discuss with congressman salud car ba hall. we ll highlight the key races to watch with steve kornacki at the big board. we ll bring you an update on the fight for ukraine s donbas region which ukrainian president zelenskyy says will go down as one of the most brutal battles in and for europe. we begin with the growing unease over the state of the american economy. right now the dow jones industrial average is 141 points 140 points up. you see the index at 30,654. this is one day after it fell nearly 900 points yesterday on worries about inflation and what the federal reserve will do when it comes to interest rates at its next meeting which gets under way today. at the same time the s&p 500 which retirement funds are pegged to entered bear market territory, having