can even rebook. but just looking at just look now at the never ending line of people on your screen right now, snaking through atlanta s airport at the southwest counter. passengers are being told to expect even more delays and cancellations. the travel nightmare has caught the attention of the transportation department and investigating if southwest could have better handled the cancellations. the president of southwest pilots association tells cnn that a meltdown like this has been brewing for some time. weather was just the tipping point. we have cnn correspondents nick valencia and gabe cohen standing by. and let s start with gabe at baltimore washington international which is one of the worst effected airports. gabe, describe for us how bad things are where you are and how many more flights are grounded today? reporter: well, the situation seems to get worse and worse for southwest passengers. the airline canceling roughly 62% of their flights today. close to 2500 o
new york city, or come here. reporter: so you see back here live, you see the jimenez family has made it to the front of the line. it looks like they re getting tickets not sure where, we ll talk to them after the report is done. we spoke to them well over an hour ago and it is two hours to get to the front. and minute-by-minute people show up with stories,er stranded here and flights canceled and they know they re in a long day, if not long days ahead. i just spoke to a family, their ending hose vacation and wanting to get back to up virginia and not the news that they expected. a long wait lines here in atlanta just like across the country. what a mess. thanks to you both for your reporting. let s talk more about this with david slot nick, a senior airline reporter for the points guy. thank you for joining us. before we get into your advice for people caught up if this crisis, let s call it.
in play as well. and north carolina. virginia, though, is particularly important to them because it s harder, much harder for romney to win if obama picks up virginia. when you look at the map and the different states that they re trying to pick up, they think they look strong in ohio. florida seems like much more of a reach and that will go to romney. that just elevates the importance of virginia which is why you see him there today and tomorrow and have seen him there more than anywhere else. big free pickups, north carolina, indiana and virginia in 08. they wouldn t play in indiana. no chance in indiana. uphill fight in north carolina. virginia is the best chance for a hold. mike, tell us a little about what the president is expected to discuss in his remarks. he s going to continue on the theme on the tax cut theme. 98% tax cut for 98%. he s going to be talking about the assault on the middle class or at least the idea is that he is putting forward that he considers mu
don t know the full story but i would think as the head of any organization you are responsible. that mentality has got to stop. everybody knew it existed there. this isn t just something that just happened. bill: the autopsy revealing that robert champion died of blunt force trauma to the head. he was found on the band s bus unresponsive. so far three fellow band members have been charged with hazing. florida a&m out of tallahassee. martha: lawmakers who think you have to raise taxes to balance budgets might want to take a look at the state of virginia. the commonwealth republican governor proposing a budget that beefs up virginia s pension system with no new taxes. there are fees that come into place but there will be a lot of money left over if all of this goes through the way governor bob macdonald like it to and he joins us now. good to see you today. hey, martha, merry
i have to pay more for all those things? they re small in light of a $84 billion budget. these are fairly small. our dmv funded by nongeneral fund. it is solely funned by fees. we ve been so successful last couple years incentivizing people to go online and discount and have a eight-year license instead after five-year licenses essentially the same price we decreased amount of money going into dmv. this gets us back to status quo. that s why we re doing it. martha: this has gotten you a lot of attention in the state of virginia and talking about a possible vice-presidential nomination for you. would you accept that? i got the job held by patrick henry and thomas jefferson, being governor of virginia. there is no better deal than that. we have a country that is broke, has no plans for jobs and energy. we re in a almost bit of trouble. as chairman of the rja right now i m going to do everything i can to get the more governors elected and