reading faces, biological and environmental reasons why that could be, but that s what they found. poppy, kaitlan? elizabeth cohen, thank you. fascinating. cnn this morning continues right now. we didn t get any texts or any message telling us it canceled before we came. flight s canceled. hang out with pops a couple more days. call my boss and tell him, i m sorry. hope this wasn t a bad decision. good morning, everyone, who s not at the airport today. don is off this morning. as you can see there, it has just been chaos at the airports over the last several days and it s not changed as flights have been canceled, travelers have been stranded. southwest airlines forced to scrap more than 60% of its flights today. also, the death toll is rising amid a record-breaking blizzard in buffalo, new york. we re live on the ground there. also this morning, ukraine s foreign minister is aiming for a peace summit in the new year. could russia potentially be invited to the
hello, i am sara sidner in for mr. blackwell. we begin with the travel nightmare that won t seem to end. nearly 3,000 flights across the united states grounded again today, almost all of them, however, more than 90% of them are one airline, southwest airlines. you can see the lines for southwest passengers at ticket counters today in raleigh, denver, you name it. passengers, some of whom have spent hours or even days waiting in airports are fuming. i am beyond frustrated and hurt. i can t see my dad. my mom is in the hospital and i wanted to be there for her once she got discharged, and unfortunately because of the situation, they are saying the closest flight is the 29th. are you going to make it home today? no, likely not. i heard somebody say over the intercom not to expect to get a flight within the next four days, and that s not what i wanted to hear. within the next four days? goodness. with new year s eve days away, nearly 2,500 flights have already been canc
house. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is your world. we have fox news team coverage with steve harrigan in atlanta on how flyers are holding up. peter doocy on the white house lawn and how they re clamping down. we begin with steve. edward, the frustration here is turning to anger. you can see this mountain of luggage here. most of this is three days old. when they sort this out, there s piles more downstairs that they expect to bring up. a lot of people have been stuck here. i spoke to a woman that had been here 24 hours stuck. she said she felt like she was one of the lucky ones. almost 5,000 flights, domestic and international cancelled today because of the winter weather. as many as 2,500 of those all from southwest airlines. when you talk to people, you get a sense of a rising anger and how they re being treated. my first flight was supposed to be at 7:00 a.m. my second flight was at 9:50 a.m. it sold out for tomorrow. maybe the day after tomorrow the
6th insurrection. wolf blitzer is off today, i m p pamela brown and you re in the situation room. and let s begin our coverage this hour with tonight s top story. the justice department looking to file a response to donald trump s request for a third-party attorney to review materials seized from his florida home. cnn s sara murray has this report. reporter: the justice department set to weigh in today on former president donald trump s push for an independent special master to review the documents seized from mar-a-lago. there s still a need for a judge to get involved on every aspect of this, checking their assertions of privilege, and also giving us fair timely access, letting us build a case for why this search warrant was not only essentially morally wrong, but legally wrong. doj asking to file a brief in response to trump s request. the fbi has begun digging through documents and a filler team uncovered some material that may include attorney client privileged i
cnn s nadia romero is checking in on the situation from the world s busiest airport, atlanta s hartsfield jackson international. nadia, i was there yesterday with the canceled flight trying to fly standby. i know what that feels like for people out there. what are you hearing from passengers today? reporter: oh, i m sorry you were part of that big chunk of people we saw 1,400 flights canceled over the past couple of days. i spoke with one man who was supposed to get back to vegas, spent the night here. he had an 11-hour day after his flight was canceled three times. he finally ditched his first airline, got on a different airline flight to get back to vegas. i m glad you finally made it to your final destination. other people are happy to be at the airport because they re on their way to enjoy the holiday weekend. it s a mixed bag here. take a look at tsa, the main security checkpoint and it s moving pretty quickly. people are briskly going through, in and out of the differ