And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
were traveling in. bill: they pulled the u.s. citizens from the wreckage of the vehicle and toss them to a truck bed and haven t been seen since. dana: they were driving a white minivan with north carolina plates. you can see it is riddled with bullet holes. the group is said to be in mexico. one could have cosmetic surgery. they believe cartel members have mistaken them for drug smugglers. dana: the white house is working with mexico to bring them home. according to bill barr, it s the cartels that call the shots. mexican government is being held hostage by tens of thousands of parra military members of terrorist organizations that control mexico. it is close to a failed narco state at this stage. they are sitting next door producing mountains of poisonous drugs and killing over 100,000 americans a year. we are sustaining the same damage as we would in a major war from these groups operating right beyond our reach. bill: william la jeunesse from los angeles has t
u.s. unprecedentedly severe challenges to the country. he s a little frustrated because he realize we are getting to the bottom of the coronavirus. vice president kamala harris cracking herself up and insulting republicans in the process. why are conservatives bad, mommy? i thought we were supposed to conserve. joe biden can fall seven times on the way up the stairs and nobody will talk about replacing him. steve: good morning sarasota, florida. 8:01 wake-up call, absolutely, 68 degrees. and you are going for a daytime high of 86. and of course, for people who watch a lot of television, sarasota is just a little north of siesta key, which is a very popular place with a lot of people. it is quite salacious. brian: a lot of people will be going on spring break starting this week. and used to cover spring break. steve: she pretty much shut it down. speak to the panhandle, there were two bars that you could go out on the beach. the destin and panama city beach.
chaos and dysfunction within the white house during trump s time in office. plus, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is threatening major penalties for southwest airlines amid a massive number of cancellations and delays. we ll have the latest on the seemingly never-ending travel troubles. and president biden signs a massive $1.7 trillion government spending bill into law. capping off a year of big wins for the white house. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, december 30th. the penultimate day of 2022. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us with. we ll begin with a newly-released batch of deposition transcripts from the january 6th house committee from some key witnesses, including members of former president donald trump s inner circle. and that includes former white house communications director alyssa farah griffin, she spoke to the january 6th house panel back on april 15th, describing her tenure at the white house as quo
midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.