loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. but amid the staggering number of flight cancellations and delays, finger pointing from employees now over who is to blame for this mess is beginning. senior correspondent mike to. mike: good evening, bret. and as southwest executives are promising return to normal operations, transportation secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airlines for problems that were, quote: within the control of the airlines. as he writes that, he also wrote these frontline employees are not to blame for mistakes at the leadership level. the secretary add mop be issue inned the airline to make good on everything from reimbursement to returns home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled across the nation today. the bulk of them southwest. the bosses at the airline issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right. after many plans changed, and experiences fell short of your ex
area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
republicans to launch several investigations into the matter. among the burning questions, why did the president s lawyers conduct the search instead of the feds and why are there no visitor logs at the president s home in delaware? shouldn t the secret service keep track of who is coming and going? bill: all fair questions. the white house and secret service say there are no such records. republicans are not taking that for an answer. mr. comer s investigation will look at that and like to get the logs of who had access to the biden family residence. why did they keep this from us? maybe the most important question we ve asked for over a week is why did they keep it from the american people when they knew about it before the election? we wonder if the secret service had records. he still had secret service protection and you would assume that the secret service would vet people that would be allowed on the premises of the dwelling for the president of the united states
and even the border restrictions remain in place. one group even tried to break into a rancher s home in texas 50 miles from the border. the video shared with fox news shows the moment the suspected illegal immigrants to pry open the windows to use a two by four as a battering ram. this is not the first time this has happen on this owner s property. thankfully, upgrades made to the security after previous break-in attempts stop the suspects this time he was still, other migrants vowing we will get in. one telling the new york post we have hopes of crossing in the u.s. we want to cross legally but we will cross illegally if that is our only choice. with all the mayor and el paso has so many beds and medicine. we don t know if that applies to us but many people are growing desperate and crossing illegally. others say, we are here waiting, trying to do things legally but you see others sneak in illegally, and it makes you wonder if you are the dumb one for waiting. you know,
arlington, before attending today ceremony at the pentagon. where he served up a sobering truth about this day and about democracy. it s not enough to stand up for democracy once a year, and every now and then. it s something we have to do every single day. so, this is a day not only to remember but a day of renewal and resolve. the first lady, attending today s ceremony in shanksville, pennsylvania, where flight 93 was intentionally crashed by passengers to prevent the terrorists who overtook the cockpit, from stealing more american lives and they already had. we are going to have more on 9/11 over the next two hours, including how our country changed then and continues to evolve in the aftermath of those attacks. now, to scotland, where queen elizabeth embarked on the first leg of her final journey, on the third day of national mourning. there s also the fanfare of trumpets and celebrations today, as scotland, wales and northern ireland officially declared charles king.