area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
bill: all that happening during a campaign event days before a national election. shocking a nation with some of the world s tightest gun regulations. violent crime in japan is rare. he was airlifted to a hospital with two gunshot wounds but they were fatal as doctors tried to revive him. the begunman was tackled at the scene. 41 years old. he is alive and an investigation underway how he got so close. alex hogan begins our coverage live in london with the late breaking details as we get more now. alex, hello. hi, bill. the former prime minister of japan has been assassinated. shinzo abe was at a campaign event when he was shot this taking place today in the western part of the country. minutes into his speech for a parliamentary election the 67-year-old conservative politician fell to the ground shot from behind. medics airlifted him to the hospital and doctors attempting to save him with blood transfusions before they officially declared him dead. the gunman is in c
julie: shocking footage capturing a deadly 200 car pile-up on a bridge in china. it happened on wednesday as a heavy fog set in. as you can see the crash involved cars, big wheels and s.u.v. s stacked up and flipped around and sadly at least one person was killed in the wreck. rich: a virginia high school is facing a major backlash after parents claim the school system did not notify their students of an important merit award. why? david spunt is live in washington getting answers. david. some parents have different theories becoming a national merit scholar in the first place is quite an accomplishment. 1 1/2 million students enter the competition around the country, 50,000 qualify, thomas jefferson high school in alexandria,
he has repeatedly said he will not step down. if all goes according to schedule he will be sworn in next week as a member of the 118th u.s. congress. julie. julie: david lee miller, thank you. rich: let s bring in john levine who has been covering this. you have reporting that some republicans were aware a little bit of some of the lies here. how do republicans in a very what ultimately turned out to be a winnable seat, not go forward, vet this candidate better and where was democratic vetting on this? it really sort of when he was wrapping up the nomination i am told a lot of senior republicans were looking at him and say there is stuff that don t add up. see or hear no evil. nothing we can do about it. he is the nominee. they assumed democrats would figure it out. it never did clearly. and now we re sort of dealing
canceled. buffalo also lifted its driving ban this morning. julie: a republican new york prosecutor opening an investigation into congressman elect george santos after the republican admitted to lying about his work experience and education. david lee miller has more from our newsroom in new york city. good morning, david. good morning. despite a media tour earlier this week to explain lying about his past, congressman elect george santos is under greater scrutiny especially for his finances. new york republican faces growing criticism from both sides of the aisle. republican district attorney has opened an investigation into his many claims. in a statement the d.a. said in part. the numerous fabrications and inconsistencies are nothing short of stunning. the statement goes on to say no one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this country, we will prosecute it.