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disastrous holiday weekend continues to come at the expense of their customers. also this hour we ll check on the next storm system as buffalo residents begin to dig out and get back on the road and hopefully avoid tlooding in their communities. and an update from officials as doctors continue around the clock supervision of pope benedict from his bedside in a vatican city monastery. some new developments in the southwest airlines debacle just in the last few minutes. southwest is now announcing plans to, quote, return to normal operations with minimal disruptions by tomorrow. but still today thousands more flights have been cancelled. thousands of fliers still struggling to figure out how they are going to make it to their final destinations. other airlines like american, delta, united have offered to try to help putting a cap on flight prices between certain cities to give customers more options. it s unclear whether that s work ing. let s bring in nala charles. ....
Angeles? what you have been seeing there and fliers trying to dwet to their final destination, what s their strategy there from lax? reporter: usually lax during the holiday season is one of the most busiest airports in the country we re at the southwest terminal here. there s hardly anyone here. it s rapidly deserted. over the past couple days, southwest has cancelled a majority of its flights only operating a third of its scheduled flights. that s why there aren t that many people here in that new announcement now from southwest that they will be resuming normal operations tomorrow. there s a relief for people. however, there s many people in the meantime that are still dealing with what has been a chaotic travel holiday season because of the southwest fiasco. you can see a sea of baggage and although southwest has flown baggage to the final ....
Here in washington. the massive travel delays impacting thousands of americans are expected to continue for the next few days causing a ripple effect into the new year s weekend. southwest airlines has already canceled more than 4500 flights for today and tomorrow. the carrier s ceo apologizing for the meltdown. i want everyone who s dealing with the problem that we ve been facing, whether you haven t been able to get to where you need to go or you re one of our heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline to know that we re doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. and please also hear that i m truly sorry. with a large fleet of airplanes and flight crews out of position in dozens of locations and after days of trying to operate as much of our full schedule across the busy holiday weekend, we reached a decision point to significantly reduce our flying to catch up. the southwest fiasco has left ....
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