plus, thousands of travelers stranded this afternoon with southwest airlines at the center of a hot mess. 70% of their scheduled flights canceled we ve got the nightmare situation for folks trying to get home after the holidays and what the biden administration is saying about it in just the last couple of hours. we ll also take you live to one of the hardest hit areas in the destructive holiday winter storm where they are just starting to dig out even with driving bans still in effect in some spots. and donald trump s tax returns could be made public at some point. i m hallie jackson in washington, d.c. with you on this tuesday afternoon and we re starting with the uncertainty over what could happen with title 42 as we await a decision from the supreme court we know the biden administration wants this to be lifted, but they don t want the rug pulled out from them overnight. josh is live at the white house with this story. the issue with this, right, is that many people thi
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attention of the president, the messy situation with southwest a reporter: i think messy is an appropriate word with southwest and i think the many people i ve spoken to throughout the day would agree. yeah, we just heard from the president within the past hour he tweeted about this. knowing that thousands of flights have been canceled around the holidays then said our administration is working to ensure airlines are held accountable. he then pointed to the statement from the d.o.t. that said they re going to be looking into whether or in the this unprecedented amount of cancellations was in the control of southwest airlines. that s notable because it tells what, if any, additional compensation these many, many stranded travelers could be entitled to. southwest was one of many major airlines that said if flight
long swim. now it s time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. it s a saturday afternoon of sunny spells and scattered showers driven along quite quickly by some blustery southwest winds. so most of the showers along south and west facing coasts, but some of them will start to filter a little further inland. but the best of any drier, brighter weather in more sheltered eastern areas. the winds a feature, widely gusting 30 to 40 miles an hour, perhaps even stronger gales along exposed west facing coasts. top temperatures as we go through the afternoon, 11 to 13 celsius in the north. we re looking at highest values of 17 degrees somewhere across south and east england. now through the evening and overnight, some of those showers across england and wales will fade away as the low pressure drifts its way steadily northwards. we ll still continue to see some showers across scotland and northern ireland, clearer skies, single figures elsewhere. and then as we move into sun