we re beginning with chaos in the skies during what may be the busiest weekend so far this year for air travel. according to the flight tracking website flight aware more than 900 flights were canceled on sunday alone across the u.s. since friday there have been more than 3,000 flight cancellations. so the airlines are blaming weather problems and ongoing staff shortages, in particular a shortage of pilots, so can travelers expect more of this as we enter the peak summer travel season? cnn s aviation correspondent pete muntean is live at reagan national airport. a lot of unhappy travelers this morning, pete. reporter: no doubt, john. in fact, a lot of people probably still trying to get home even today after traveling this weekend. these new numbers are huge, but the cause of this really is not. we were reporting over and over again that airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic and that has led to these massive flight crew shortages. the deck of cards really comes tum
to questions from journalists but he did answer them. he did talk about his empathy for the victims, the families of the victims of 9/11. right. well, what phil mickelson said according to reports about the new book coming out is that the saudis are scary mfors, impairing it down because this is a family show, but we re doing business because we re trying to get leverage over the pga. that s honest at least. at least he s being honest about his motivations, a lot more than for greg norman to say there s nothing to see here. this is going to be good for saudi arabia, knots the good for saudi arabia it s good for mohammed bin salman. for the rest of the saudi a variance it makes their situation worse. at least phil mickelson is being up front about the transactional nature of his sports watching for his own ends but that doesn t make it right. in the end it s not as if you can, you know, when you have a grievance with your boss you can just go to the most evil dictator to get him to ou