stability for the loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. staggering numbers of cancellations and delays and finger pointing to employees now of who to blame. mike tobin is at the chicago airport, good evening, mike. reporter: good evening, southwest executives promised to return to normal operation. secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airline of problems that were quote, within controls of the airlines, the secretary monitors the airlines making good on everything on reimbursements and returning home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled and bulk of them is southwest. the boss issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you and you will hear more about that soon. but for now, we are focused on reliability and level of customer experience of what we expect o
loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. but amid the staggering number of flight cancellations and delays, finger pointing from employees now over who is to blame for this mess is beginning. senior correspondent mike to. mike: good evening, bret. and as southwest executives are promising return to normal operations, transportation secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airlines for problems that were, quote: within the control of the airlines. as he writes that, he also wrote these frontline employees are not to blame for mistakes at the leadership level. the secretary add mop be issue inned the airline to make good on everything from reimbursement to returns home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled across the nation today. the bulk of them southwest. the bosses at the airline issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right. after many plans changed, and experiences fell short of your ex
awkward right now for house republicans. and very quickly, we can only do you think mccarthy has the votes come january ? it s going to be really, really close. and here s an interesting aspect of this. you know, a lot of congress has been voting by proxy all the last two years. so the big unknown about tuesday s speaker vote is who actually shows up and what do those numbers look like as you re counting heads? yeah, it will be fascinating. we ll have a covered panel. thank you. finally tonight, a special report salute. police officers in south bend, indiana, were able to rescue the christmas spirit for an unlucky family after responding to a breaking and entering call . the homeowner informed them that their children s presents were stolen, flying like a flash. the officers reacted to help out an ally who had extra gifts from a recent toy drive . south bend police shared the video on facebook showing two kiddos very happy with new
republicans. bret: very quickly, kimberley, do you think mccarthy has the votes come january 3rd? it s going to be really really close. here is an interesting aspect of this. a lot of congress has been voting by proxy all the last two years. so, the big unknown about tuesday s speaker vote is who actually shows up and what do those numbers look likes a you are counting heads? bret: yeah. it will be fascinating. we will have it covered. panel, thank you. christmas spirit for unlucky family after responding to breaking call. the homeowner informed them that their children s presents were stolen. flying like a flash the officers reacted to help out ally had had extra gifts from a recent toy drive. south bend police shared the video on facebook showing two kiddos very happy with two presents and they wrote that the