it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m pamela brown, and we begin the hour with a travel nightmare. thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed across the country today. the hardest hit, southwest airlines, which has scrapped more than 60% of its flights. take a look here. these are some of the long lines of southwest passengers in raleigh, atlanta, and denver airports. in a statement to cnn, southwest airlines said it is, quote, experiencing disruptions across our network as a result of the winter storm s lingering effects on the totality of our operations. carlos suarez is on the southwest side of the terminal. what are you seeing? what are you hearing from passengers? reporter: well, pamela, i m hearing a great deal of frustration from a good number of passengers who are stranded, and are flying southwest airlines or at least they were hoping to today. the airport here in atlanta has seen well over 200 canceled flights and a majority of those flights have
Christian frasers in london. The us Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, and the Homeland Security secretary, john kelly, have begun a day of meetings with their mexican counterparts. Their mission is to improve the badly damaged relations between the two nations. The trip comes after repeated public criticism of mexico by President Trump and a controversial plan that could mean the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to mexico, regardless of where they came from. This is what the president said about the visit this morning. That is going to be a tough trip because we have to be treated fairly by mexico, that is going to be a tough trip. But he is over there with general kellie who has been unbelievable at the border, you see what is happening at the border, for the first time, we are getting gang members and drug lords out, really bad dudes out of this country. And ata bad dudes out of this country. And at a rate that nobody has ever seen before. And they are
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for 14,000 customers in tacoma, washington on christmas day after attacks on local energy subst substations. officials say the suspects vandalized power equipment at three stations and caused a fire at the fourth location. cnn s josh campbell joins us now. so josh, these attacks follow other incidents of vandalism at power hubs in southern washington and oregon last month. what more do we know about this? reporter: that s right, pamela. this is serious. we have been talking about these widespread power outages across the country due to inclement weather, but authorities here in washington state belief that this massive power outage in tacoma, just south of seattle on christmas day was intentional, believing that these four power substations were vandalized. as you mentioned, that leading to 14,000 people without power. now at this hour, police continued to investigate. they have not made any arrests. they have not indicated what the potential motive is, but they did speak to give us