and tom homan are here to weigh in. but first. our luggage is missing, mia. canceled southwest, hopefully will get a refund. i have three kids. gillian: stranded travelers are begging southwest air to get its act together as the holiday travel meltdown is stretching on yet another day, flights going nowhere. welcome to america reports. gillian turner in washington. great to be with you. anita: always great to spend two hours with you, gillian. john and sandra have the day off. southwest customers are not only struggling, but a good chunk of the hundreds of thousands delayed passengers have no idea where their luggage is. they are desperate to find bags with crucial medicine and baby gear. gillian: those hopes hoping to be rebooked today, not having much luck. more than 2300 southwest flights so far have been canceled already. the airline says the trouble is not going to end most likely until early next week. anita: and the big wigs blame the blizzard for the t
cavuto. glad to have you on a busy weekend. let s go first right now to lucas tomlinson traveling with the president in delaware where the president s spending the weekend. what s the latest there? reporter: good morning from a breezy wilmington, delaware, neil. many pundits believe this is not a good week for the biden administration, mainly because of to peck if +announced cuts to oil production which is sending gas prices higher. first, let s look at the job numbers are released yesterday. about 23,000 jobs were added, but while unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%, neil, economists say that s due to a decrease in labor force participation. the news sending markets down, the dow dropping 2.3%, losing 600 points. president biden spoke yesterday in heavierstown, maryland haverstown, maryland. our economy created 263,000 jobs last month. that s 10 million jobs since i ve come into office. that s the fastest job growth at any point of any president in all of american histor
some dying in snow buried cars, others in homes with no power. conditions so bad rescuers needed rescuing. and the travel nightmare continues for thousands of americans, so far more than 3,000 flights have been canceled today, the majority are southwest flights. plus, how a toy and a car led police to find a kidnapped baby. welcome to the lead i m phil mattingly in today for jake tapper. we begin with the rising death toll from the vicious winter weather across the country. at least 49 people across nine states have died from storms, at least 27 of those deaths are centered in buffalo, new york, and surrounding erie county which were hit with a blizzard, winds so fierce they reached hurricane strength, rescuers had to be sent out to help stranded rescue crews facing, quote, some of the worst conditions that any of us have ever seen. many roads around buffalo remain impassable, driving bans still in place in some areas as crews try to clear the streets to restore power
archives. despite the vast differences between president biden s case and donald trump s, attorney merrick garland made this announcement earlier this week. i m here today to be announced the appointment of roberts her as a special counsel, pursuing department of justice regulations governing such matters. this appointment underscores the departments commitment to both independents and accountability, in particularly sensitive manners. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts in the law. joining me now is why our correspondent allie raffa. ali, will come in. thank you for starting us off this morning. what are you hearing from the white house this morning? cory, yeah. good morning. president biden is waking up in his bloomington home, where we now know that two of those three discoveries of classified materials were found just in the last month and this is, those discoveries and the timing of the white house acknowledgment of them now under intense
jersey as much room as that takes up. and the reservoirs out west are down to almost zero. we re in a situation where the colorado river looks more like a stream. there s a lot going on. and i think the one thing thas finally ended is discussion of whether or not there s climate change and we should do something about it. folks, i also want to jill and i have had you all in our prayers, and i mean that sincerely. and we re here today because we wanted to tell new person that we re thinking of you, and we re not leaving. we re not leaving until this get done. i promise you that. you know, you walk around here, what s left of fishermen s wharf, and you don t have to have much imagination to understand that everything is historic, titanic, and unimaginable storm just ripped it to pieces. you got to start from scratch. got to move again. it s going to take a lot, a lot of time. not weeks or months. it s going to take years for everything to get squared away in the state of fl