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
retrieved from donald trump s florida home three weeks ago today. as sources say, trump s lawyers still want a neutral third party to go through those records, which included top secret files and information received from spies. today the justice department said its own filter team has done that job already. in a new filing, the justice department revealed its privilege review team as it s called, separate from investigators, identified a limited set of material that may be subject to attorney/client privilege. on thursday a judge will hold a hearing as to whether to assign the special master. the doj also confirmed that it and other intelligence officials are now conducting a damage assessment of those highly sensitive documents that were being improperly stored in mar-a-lago. the director of national intelligence avril haines told congress about this friday, writing in a letter to some house members that her office quote will also lead an intelligence community assessment
and japan declares war on retro technology after discovering almost 2,000 government processes are still carried out using mini disks, floppy disks and cds. hello and welcome to the programme. in the last couple of hours, police in argentina have arrested a man. the country s vice president, cristina fernandez de kirchner, was threatened with a gun outside her home in the capital, buenos aires. a gun was held just inches from her head, but no shots were fired and she was unharmed. argentina s economy minister has called the incident an attempted assassination. with me is our bbc reporter louisa pilbeam. tell us what happened. what we know is that video has emerged, and absolutely terrifying video if you are watching this, terrifying for anyone in public office for any politicians, and what happens in this video is that a gun is literally put to cristina fernandez de kirchner s face, her head, and it clicks as if somebody is pulling the trigger. so she then puts her hands to h
the world s fifth oldest zoo bristol zoo gardens is set to close its gates to the public for the final time, with the animals on the move to a new location. in tennis, for the first time in the open era, there are four british men in the third round of the us open. more on our sports bulletin at half past. hello and welcome to bbc news. after more than seven weeks of campaigning, the race to become leader of the conservative party and the new prime minister has entered its final hours. voting for party members to choose between rishi sunak and liz truss is due to close at five o clock this evening. the race started back on 7thjuly, when borisjohnson announced his resignation. byjuly 12th, the eight potential candidates for the top job were confirmed. conservative mps took part in five rounds of voting, to whittle the field down to the final two liz truss and rishi sunak. they then set off campaigning across the country, and taking part in tv debates and live hustings. t
also this lunchtime: president biden accuses donald trump and his supporters of threatening us democracy and the american way of life. the assassination attempt that failed a would be killer points a loaded gun at the head of argentina s vice president, but the weapon jams. and the animals moved out two by two after 186 years, bristol zoo is closing. and coming up in the sport later in the hour on the bbc news channel: england have named their squad for the t20 world cup. butjason roy has paid the price for a poor summer with the bat he won t be going to australia. good afternoon. it is very nearly over voting in the conservative party leadership contest ends this afternoon. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a historic setting for a speech that pulled no punches, a prime time address from philadelphia, the birthplace of american democracy. a way of life thatjoe biden says is under threat from donald trump and his supporters. we must be honest with e