They will keep going up. Alex hogan on the Price Hike the keep coming and Mark Meredith in Delaware On why he says they will soon be ending, we are not quite at that point. Lets get right to it with Alex Hogan on all these flights. Reporter everyday items cost a lot more with prices jumping, the issue is really at the forefront of consumers minds. 83 of people are concerned about inflation, gases up 40 . Getting back in a plane will cost 20 , furniture up 10 and Grocery Store items like bacon up 8 . Bigname companies admit they are passing these higher prices to consumers to deal with higher cost and higher wages during the Labor Shortage acknowledging these spikes will likely continue to rise. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell explaining help the Inflation Rate falls below 2 noting that june was 5. 4, the increase is drastically higher than expected and there is no precedent for these numbers. The Lumber Industry saw prices soar during the pandemic which dropped for the first tim
supply chains. the port of los angeles is working 24/7 to get the containers off those ships and goods into market. the fact that the pandemic turned things upside-down for biden, he was getting vaccinations out. the light has been obscured lately and it is important for joe biden and aides to get that back while getting their program through the congress. they re very worried. they re watching congress. this administration is concerned about a potential collapse of the president s agenda there. they re not taking for granted that this is going to get through. no. time is not their friend here. a new president has the first year to get big items on their agenda through. they got the american rescue plan done very quickly in march by holding democrats together. the president got through negotiation, got the bipartisan infrastructure bill through the senate. now he has the hard part of climate change and social spending bill he is trying to advance. it s not easy to do big
limbo. hear why. plus, george clooney says america is like a battered child after four years of donald trump. we ll discuss. why there might be a last-minute snag to william shatner s trip to outer space. oh, no! he speaks with us moments from now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is monday, october 11th. and this is a special holiday edition of new day . the chaos, unfortunately, is continuing at the nation s airports. hundreds more southwest airlines flights already canceled for today. over the weekend, southwest canceled more than 1,000 flights citing air traffic control issues and weather. video from across the country show long lines, lots of frustrated travelers here. it sparked online speculation about worker protests over southwest s new employee vaccine requirements. the pilot s union insists that is not the case. pete muntean live at reagan national airport. it s interesting. this is what people are speculating. th
now, the company is blaming air traffic control problems, staffing and weather. let s get straight to cnn aviation correspondent pete monteen, he s been following all of this. he s at reagan national airport today. what more are you learning about these cancellations and what s really behind them, pete? erica, this is a huge operational mess for southwest airlines and it s not like they can get back to normal with the flip of a switch. this is really more akin to unplugging something and plugging it back in again. these problems that southwest says started back on friday because of air traffic control and weather issues prompted a rare statement from the federal aviation administration saying there were no such issues on saturday and sunday when southwest experienced the lion s shares of its cancellations, 1,100 flights on sunday, about 30% of its total schedule. so far we ve seen about 348 cancellations today. that s about one in every ten flights. this is really caused by
developments at reagan national outside of d.c. what is the story behind these cance cancellations? reporter: it s a big operational mess for southwest airlines, erica. it s not like flipping on a switch to get it back to normal. this is more like the airline needs to unplug it and plug it back in again because it says these problems all started back on friday when there were weather and air traffic control issues. the federal aviation administration put out a statement saying there were no weather or agency issues on saturday and sunday when southwest experienced the lion s share of cancellations and delays. it canceled 800 flights on saturday, 1,100 nights on sunday, about a third of its overall schedule for the day. it s canceled about 350 flights today, about 1 in every 10 flights. there is a ripple effect southwest says it put planes and people in the wrong spots. some flight crews didn t even have hotels and that left tens of thousands of passengers in the lurch in th