some of the nation s busiest airports many americans try to head home for the holidays we will have the latest on the travel delays. also this morning with a war still raging on in ukraine, ukraine s foreign minister is hoping peace talks by the end of february we will get expert analysis from the president of the council on foreign relations richard haass later this hour. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, december 27th, i m cori coffin in for jonathan lemire countless towns have still in the process of dealing with this weekend s massive winter storm at least 57 people have died nationwide from weather related emergencies this weekend, that includes 27 in western new york s erie county snow continued to fall in that region on monday and officials are expecting an additional 8 to 12 inches into this afternoon. an emergency driving ban remains in place in the buffalo area as authorities plead with residents to stay home so they can continue to
thank you for staying with us this hour we ll check the national forecast as outreach continues to grow among southwest airlines customers with thousands of new cancellations. also a live report from the southern border as the future of tens of thousands of migrants remains in legal mim lim bow and we are discussing tripledemic fears as we approach the new year we begin this hour with the persistent problems that our nation s airports ask the spotlight focused on southwest airlines as tens of thousands of customers face another day of waiting to find when they can finally catch a flight home. joining me now is blayne alex alexander. the chaos continues for travelers. mostly for this attempt to reset schedules and staffing after the cancellations. what are you seeing today? reporter: we re certainly seeing a lot of people in line, a lot of people frustrated and trying to figure out when they can get to their destination i think that the numbers really tell the story you
how the social media company rigid the covid debate with elon musk teasing there are more files to come. correspondent aishah hasnie joins us tonight. good evening, aishah. rich, good evening to you. in a relatively brief thread writer says both the trump and biden white house is, quote: directly pressed twitter to moderate covid content. you, however they saw fit and that the platform oftentimes complied. today s newly released twitter files focus on the pandemic. how the government tried to control the narrative. writer da david says the trump white house came looking for help from the tech companies to combat misinformation about runs on grocery stores. but there were runs on grocery stores. he also reveals twitter monitored the trump white house sharing an email exchange where twitter s former deputy general counsel jim baker asked why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid misinformation policy. twitte
jeffries. my first vote for speaker of the house was for byron donalds. today i am rising to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house of representatives. now, here we are and for the first time in history there have been two black americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the house. [applause] john: standoff ratcheting up tensions and raising fears of a longer term rift among republicans as the gop leadership remains on hold. sandra: congressman elect donalds will be joining us in a moment, byron donalds is watching for the final vote cast on the float and then hop in front of the camera and join us live. john: first we go to chad pergram live on capitol hill. chad, looks like groundhog day today. well, right now the one thing we know is that they are not going to elect a speaker of the house on this roll call vote. the first vote of the day, the fourth overall in the past two days and kevin mccarthy has not been able to get an outright majority of
soldiers are deploying to help and officials in erie county are sharing this sad update moments ago. i have the very sad news to report that in addition to the 13 confirmed deaths yesterday, the erie county department of health medical examiner has confirmed an additional 12 deaths. bringing the total for the blizzard to 25 deaths countywide. heartbreaking new news out of buffalo. nationwide, more than 1600 flights have been cancelled this morning. more than 2,000 delayed. that is only adding to the backlog from the holiday weekend. but there is progress in terms of power. about 60,000 homes remain in the dark this morning. that is down from more than a million on friday. more than 12,000 of those power outages are in erie county, new york, where officials say the historic storm is responsible as you just heard for at least 25 deaths. most of those killed were in the buffalo area and were found outside or in their cars. and with another 14 inches in snow, a driving ban re