gillian: most major u.s. airlines are rebounding from the holiday blizzard, southwest airlines continues spiralling downward. the company ceo says the communications network was thrown off by the historic storm. that was not the only challenge. southwest memo out of denver airport warned of a staffing crisis just days before christmas. gillian: according to bloomberg, the v.p. of ground operations declared a state of operational emergency at the airport after an unusually high number of employee absences. sending a message to workers december 21st. anita: fox team coverage, jacqui heinrich what the white house is saying this hour. gillian: first with fox weather, katie is at philadelphia international airport. what are passengers telling you today? gillian, anita, the situation is very real for people still dealing with stranded luggage or not able to rebook their flights. i just met a family that was trying to travel from california to here in philadelphia, and t
humans that we idolized had shortcomings and faults? a new biography with the potential of tainting the legacy of football great walter payton, and we talk to the author coming up right here on cnn. i m don lemon and you are in the cnn newsroom and we will start with a word that many of you may find uncomfortable, and it is a controversy putting a presidential hopeful in a compromising situation, because tonight, rick perry has to try to dissociate himself from the word in the diction their is the most tainted named niggerhead where his family went camping. his campaign says that he has not been there since 2006 and the name has been change and the rock painted over and obscured, but when it was painted over is a dispute between perry s people and the washington post which published the lengthy article today. the word sounds outrageously backwards in today s world, but in the past, it was used for hills and rocks and even thouobo products. and herman cane didn t care