hello, i m sara sidner in for victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. the southwest airline meltdown is now in its seventh day of derailing people s travel plans. since last thursday, the company has cancelled more than 15,000 flights, including 2300 set for tomorrow. flight aware finds 89% of the nation s cancellations just today belong to southwest airlines. transportation secretary pete buttigieg promises to hold the nation s largest domestic carrier accountable. but for some passengers, southwest may never be able to make up for days of delay. misplaced luggage and ruined holidays. i hate southwest. southwest, i hate them. i hate them. how did you make out? i was there from 12:00 12:00, still stranded. i need to drive nine more hours. i m upset, i m stressed, i m tired and i hate them. okay. she did not pull any punches there. cnn correspondent nick valencia is outside of hartsfield-jackson airport, the busiest in the world. nick, what are you hearing
there was nbc news correspondent miguel almagor letting you know that actually that assault on paul pelosi in san francisco that you read about last week, that story was a whole lot stranger than you ever imagine. according to almagor, citing several law enforcement sources with direct knowledge, it was paul pelosi who opened the door for police when they arrived. now, you ll remember that authorities had previously told us that the intruder, david de pape, had broken into paul pelosi s bedroom on the third floor of the house and woke him up. yet somehow both pelosi and to paper on the ground floor. by the time police got there. moreover, according to almagor pelosi in the paper had been together in the house for at least half an hour. and yet, strangely, they both seemed fine with police present almagor reported paul pelosi, quote, did not immediately declare an emergency or leave his home. instead, he, quote, walked back several feet toward the assailant and away from p
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Sources tell cnn he is concerned that his son don junior may be caught up in the mueller investigation. The white house ready to put sanctions back on iran. That countrys leader is set to speak out as the deadline approaches. Breaking overnight. A second meeting between north korea us kim jongun and President Trump could take place some time later this year. We have reports from tehran and hong kong. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im Christine Romans. Nice to see you. Im phil mattingly. She is putting up with me all week. It is monday, august 6th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. President trump admitting during the 2016 president ial race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. On sunday, the president called the Trump Tower Meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. Adding i did not know about it. That tweet directly contradicting the earlier statements. The president acknowledging for
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and quite impressed that you were down there. it is a gift. you ve got a lot of work that you ve been doing, that you will be doing going forward. we know that you will keep us posted and you will be back here tomorrow from down there. that is correct. and we are watching of course hurricane idalia, it is now a category 1, but it is going to intensify correspond to every single scientist who has been watching this storm as it goes over the gulf. we are now looking at pictures there from our drone showing you clearwater, showing you how beautiful it is right now, but that water you are seeing in the ocean could be surging right over all of that beautiful sand. we re keeping an eye on it and we ll let you know the timing of all this. thank you so much for joining us. this has been cnn this morning. and you are looking at the storm track right now of the hurricane. back to you, phil. sara sidner will be back with us tomorrow. stay safe and great work throughout the course of the
so, we re praying that when the national guard goes and does welfare checks that we don t discover more fatalities. i just want to mention we re looking at scenes from above from our cnn air team, a drone showing just i mean, a mountain of snow that s been dumped from other places, just to give a scale of how big this is. now, i know and we all know that buffalo has dealt with a lot of snow in the past. just in the recent past, you had 5 feet or 6 feet of snow, just last month. but in this case, we hear it s the winds that were the problem that kept people from being out on the roads, as well as the snow. are there reports of people missing that the city is trying to figure out what happened to them as well? that s the unfortunate, you no, place that we re in right now. is we just don t know, because as we dig ourselves out, we re really trying to put those pieces together, to see if people are still missing. or recovered in vehicles or