2.5 million passengers today alone, amid questions of whether the system can handle it after last year s summer travel meltdown, and the roads are just as packed. plus, imagine if this was your pilot locked out of the cockpit climbing in through the window. also tonight, we ll show you the terrifying new video. a passenger apparently opens an airplane door midair. the wind whipping through the cabin. how it was able to happen. the new deadline just announced when the u.s. will default on its bills if there is no debt ceiling agreement. are we any closer to a deal? new concerns about the health of pope francis. a fever forcing him to cancel events. new insight from the reporter who intervieiewed him face-to-face just yesterday. the u.s. coast guard joining an urgent search in the bahamas for an american teen, who went overboard while celebrating his high school graduation. the critical shortage of more than a dozen cancer drugs. patients being turned away from their
thank you for staying with us. i m alex within new york. this hour we ll have an update on the cancellation crisis that s frustrating customers and flight crews trying to get passengers back home. the pilots did show up. we were there to work and willing and able. southwest just can t match us to the aircraft. that s the problem. also this hour, a closer look at the political strategy for both president biden and former president trump as both men the plot their approaches to 2024. and hopes for a peace agreement in the war in ukraine are weakening as russian officials dismiss president zelenskyy s latest plan after major disagreements over who controls four key regions. we begin this hour with two big stories, weather and trvl. it s the same story for southwest airlines customers today as they see another wave of cancellation ace cross deparn buffalo where the weather is preventing residents from leaving their homes. joining me is blayne alexander at jackson airport in
and cancellations at airports across the country just as folks are trying to get home from the holidays. charles watson is live at the airport in atlanta. charles, you know, i don t know, was it one hour or two hours ago you were giving an offering the workers there a round of applause. did you go and shake their hands? i hope so. i haven t gotten around to that just yet. i will in just a short time. it is absolutely packed here at the atlanta airport. this is a taste of what we re seeing, long lines like this. folks have been lined up at these delta counters trying to check in and drop their bags off so they can make it onto their flights. with the massive crowds and the weather delays not only are these folks in for a busy day but they could be in for a miserable day. that is possibly the outlook at airports across the country. thousands are still facing flight delays and cancellations as airline disruptions continue to build in large part due to the deadly arctic blas
the way through january 6th, 2021, they have hit that milestone, in terms of where they have finished leaving us off in the time line and now my information is that they will go further after that, potentially telling viewers about what was happening in the white house, after january 6th we know that they have been doing depositions in this downtime period, with people like mike pompeo, and others, who were serving at the highest echelons of power in t that is one of the things they might be keeping out. but committee member after committee bumember, even as the have been mum on the details has made clear that there will be new things revealed in these hearing the at the same time, though,th halle, there is still lot of questions looming over this committee, that they still have to figure out. theth first of them that you re seeing there, ginni thomas interview, they keep saying this will be in therv coming weeks, r expectation is that is not going to happen between today an
Advancing their efforts and military cooperation. Coming up, the warning details about what kind of weaponry and intelligence theyre talking about and what it could mean for the rest of the world. But we start in washington, d. C. , where as we speak, two of Donald Trumps allies in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election are facing justice. Not just on the same day, but in the very same courthouse. In just one hour, Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced, the former proud boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors want the judge to give him 33 years behind bars, which would be the longest sentence yet for anyone linked to january 6th. At the same time, Jury Selection is under way in the trial of former trump adviser peter nava navarro, charged with refusing a congressional subpoena from the January 6th Committee. But speaking outside the federal courthouse a few hours ago, navarro insists there is an overriding question that still needs to be answered. I believe and as ive