it has been 108 hours since the quake struck and hope is running out to find any more survivors in the rubble. but we just saw something remarkable just this morning. a family of six rescued in turkey after being buried alive for 102 hours. four children and two parents. they waved as they were brought out on stretchers. we are told they were in the first floor of a collapsed building. this is their son who wasn t inside the home when the quake struck, weeping with joy as he saw them emerge from the wreckage. the reality is that thousands are still missing and many could be dead or dying right now beneath piles of concrete. take a look at these before and after photos of the devastation. this is a mosque, a turkish mosque from the 19th century. it is in ruins. one of many historic sites destroyed by the earthquakes, some of which have stood for centuries. this is near the epicenter of the earthquake. apartment buildings and businesses completely flattened. this is a satel
that means traveling from coast to coast are stranded. some of them forced to drive thousands of miles. we were at the airport at noontime on sunday, finally made the call at 10:30 p.m., that we could not afford to lose any more time if we were going to drive. i can t rely on southwest to get the family home, so we maid need to leave a little early to drive ourselves home. the kreismt on the blaming the travel disaster on schedule and outdated infrastructure. the ruling that keeps on tens of thousands migrants now bait in limbo. we ll go to el paso, texas in just a moment. let s begin with an absolute nightmare for southwest airlines passengers. 0% of today s 2700 flight cancellations are from southwest. the company s ceo, bob jordan, said system upgrades are floes to avoid a repeat. the tools we use to recover from disruption service works well 90% of the time, but we need to double down on our existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances s
with qualifying internet. thank you so much for joining me again at top of the hour on cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with an air travel meltdown. it isn t all the weather s fault, let s be clear, more than 4,000 flights grounded today again, nearly 09% on southwest airlines. southwest patients from raleigh, denver, are all lining up at ticket counters looking for answers. many customers are completely fed up. i m traveling with my senior citizen parents for their christmas vacation. i have an autoimmune disorder. i don t have medications. we have nothing. we brought no carry-ons. we ve seen a lot of families who are sleeping on the floor and it just breaks my heart. if my boss is watching this yes it s true i just didn t just blow off the day i m actually standing in the airport doing nothing and i do have a ticket and i hope to come to work at some point in my life. i love that he had some levity there. with new year s eve with just days away nearly 2500 fligh
recent months, exposing 800 square miles of lake bed. unchecked water use and climate change aren t just threatening the birds and sailboaters. and here the western megadrought threatens more than snow sports, agriculture and industry because this lake bed holds centuries of toxic runoff. mercury, selenium, arsenic, some of it natural, some of it man made mining waste. if it turns to dust and adds to some of the worst air pollution in the country, this is a threat to the lungs of over 2.5 million people. we have done this experiment in history before. we know about dust storms. we know about particulate pollution. we know about heavy metals and how they are bad for humans. this is an ecological disaster that will become a human health disaster. reporter: bonnie baxter is among the scientists who recently warned that the great salt lake as we know it could be gone in five years.
valley, that set a record with one of driest spots on earth. 43 lives were lost in flash floods and mudslides across six kentucky counties. where are all these people going to go? where are they going to live? the combo of heavy rain and rapid snow melt forced thousands to evacuate yell ostone. four, the green and pleasant land turned brown, as thermometers in the uk had an unprecedented toll on fire fighters. temperatures hit 106 in spain as the european heat wave took hows of lives. in china, records were smashed at hundreds of weather station as stifling heat lingered for 70 days. number three, the western megadrought brought lake mead to its lower levels ever, triggers