todd: this is truly a sight to behold. i m todd, with kevin. carley shimkus did every show for the last two weeks, it seems, good she s relaxing and all that good stuff. kevin: she deserves it. i appreciate a good director and producer, they come together in the control room and come up with great music. thank you, todd. get rolling. one minutar the hour 5:00. alexandria ocasio-cortez caught partying unmasked in that fla as cases skyrocket and new yorkers face strict vaccine mandates and strict mask mandates. todd: mark meridith never confused, always on it, live in washington. happy monday, happy new year. health officials may be making changes after recently updated covid guidelines recommending americans who test positive isolate for five days instead of 10 after no longer showing symptoms and recommending people wear masks for a week. it wasn t recommending people test negative. now dr. dr. fauci says the cdc may be making changes after wondering why testing has b
and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. trace: pete buttigieg tweeting that the chaos is unacceptable . the department of transportation is investigating. mike tobin is live from chicago midway international airport with more on this. mike, good afternoon. good afternoon, trace. southwest executives are promising an end to this ugly chapter in aviation and a return to normal tomorrow with minimal disruptions. almost 2,500 cancellations today across the board of american aviation. but 2,300 plus of those belong to southwest airlines. they still feel the impact of the meltdown from this winter storm. jump ahead to tomorrow. that number drops to 39 projected cancellations again as the executives are promising a return to normal operations. southwest customers have had enough. i need my medicine, my charger. everything, my perfume, all my personal stuff is in the suitcase. some presents for christmas. so my concern is really one of my bags is all christmas
canceled today. passengers left at a lost how to afford the sky high prices for tickets and how to reunite with their luggage. southwest has been responsible for more than 15,000 flight cancellations according to data from flight aware. let s bring in blayne alexander at the jackson international airport in atlanta. what details can you tell us about this? reporter: it s stretching well into the week. we know even for the many people who have made it home, the frustration is following them home. it s beyond the airport because they have racked up hundreds and thousands of dollars in unplanned expenses. southwest has opened a portal on their website where people can submit receipts to try to get reimbursed. all of this comes as another executive from the airline is speaking out. this morning it s the familiar picture of an unparalleled holiday travel meltdown. waited in line two hours for the gate agent to get rebooked on another flight. reporter: southwest continues to
congressman george santos as his apology tour fails to alleviate concern over his false statements to voters putting pressure on the incoming house majority to act. we re following new concerning development from vatican city. pope francis met with retired pope benedict after his health took a turn for the worse. begin with ongoing anger and frustration at airports across this countries as today there are already thousands more flight cancellations by southwest airlines adding to the public relations nightmare for an airline struggling to explain why they can t keep overcoming the same holiday obstacles as their competitors are managing to, and nbc shamar stone is at the baltimore airport for us. what a mess. i can t believe all the luggage behind you. what about the extended lines of frustrated customers? just give us a sense what it s like there at dwi. reporter: all right. first of all, we ve been here since 6:00 this morning. seems as though things are getting progres
president and falsely proves 51% of democrats. the spokesman, bernie sanders with frustrations with the white house saying seems to be running out of control and fundamental rights being stripped away. the white house is not coming. carley: alexandria hoff live in washington, alex, good morning. good morning, carley and todd, the clue as to whether the federal reserve has gone far enough in battling inflation or demands low to the point of seeking the economy into a recession. the polling economists addicts today s report shows 268,000 nonfork jobs added in june for slowest and down 390,000 in may. that is not something the federal reserve will mind on and employment pressure but that has raised to demand but that is pressure elsewhere in june. the employers announced 32,000 layoffs of 58.8% increase, cuts from 20,000 announced in the same month last year. the question is are companies bracing for a recession? it boils down to trouble for the president according to this r