the blast. listen. there is no indication that any other persons were involved. we reviewed hours of security video surrounding the recreational video, we said no the people involved. there is no indication that anyone else was involved. as said earlier before, nashville is considered safe. there are no known threats against the city. six national police officers are being hailed as heroes. they describe how they cleared out the downtown moments before the bomb went off. i turned around to see a very orange sky, a lot of smoke. at that point we just spent time keeping residents away from the area. i m walking back towards the rv, i hear guys tell you to turn around. i turned around and started walking in the opposite direction and then three seconds later, that saved my life. that s what got me to see my kids and wife on christmas. tennessee governor will join us in a few minutes to discuss the recovery efforts, we begin with charles watson. have police determined
await the hearing, what critics call catch and release. we have specifics tonight from los angeles. customs and border protection says because of that steady increase in apprehensions, mexico s reluctance to accept more deported families and covert restrictions here, some facilities are at maximum safe capacity. therefore, it says, per long-standing practice, the long term solutions are not possible. some migrants will be processed for removal, provided a notice to appear and released into the u.s. to await a future immigration hearing. this is needed to avoid keeping migrants beyond what court orders allow, right now the border patrol is stopping some 3,500 migrants per day trying to enter the u.s. a former dhs director chad wolf calls it a perfect storm likely to get worse as smugglers and families exploit the situation. it s a significant development they aren t taking certain family units back under title 42, that is very concerning because if you re just doing that i
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
The naming commission was created back in late 2020 and began its work shortly after that, but it first looked at different names for military bases. then it looked at the academies and that s what brought us here to a list of these 13 things that have to be changed or have recommendations to change at west point. in the letter, the superintendent of west point said they would begin work on these and there s a committee set up to find replacement names and do this. there s a port rate of robert e. lee that will be removed, a quote from him, again, building names as well as street names. all of that will be part of this process to remove anything that commemorates or memorializes the confederacy at west point. it s not just west point. we re seeing the military change the names of bases. fort bragg will become fort liberty. benning will become moore. they re working there you this to make sure it doesn t commemorate the confederacy in some way because of the
We don t know what the economic plan of the future is going to be. the three people on the screen, they re gone. they wrote the obama economic policy. they are gone. we don t know what the new policy may or may not be until we ve got replacement names. martha: that s a very good point, you know, and it remains to be seen whether or not president obama himself and his own philosophy about how to fix the economy could be altered by anybody he would bring in to advise him. that s the question, will he pivot to the center or will he maintain his current position of more government spending, higher taxes. will he do it. martha: all right stuart varney, good questions, a lot of what we re going to address today. thank you sir. thank you martha. martha: for all coverage of this doving story this morning, this is a very interesting piece of ideas that s being rolled out here. log on to foxnews.com, click on read the pledge, you can get a look at it yourself, it is about 21 pages, i believe