sophie long with the latest on the strike action. the last time that both the actors and writers were on strike at the same time was in the 19605 when ronald reagan was president, not of america, but of the screen actors guild. they will go on strike tomorrow when the writers walked out nearly two months ago, they brought a halt too much of the production in hollywood. now the actors arejoining production in hollywood. now the actors are joining them, that would bring in almost complete halt to the whole industry. that will cost the california economy ten5 industry. that will cost the california economy tens of millions of dollars every day. it will mean financial hardship for many people working in industry 5till for many people working in industry still recovering from the pandemic and a major delay to shooting schedule5 the pandemic and a major delay to shooting schedules and the releases of films and television series. figs releases of films and television series. , te
that means traveling from coast to coast are stranded. some of them forced to drive thousands of miles. we were at the airport at noontime on sunday, finally made the call at 10:30 p.m., that we could not afford to lose any more time if we were going to drive. i can t rely on southwest to get the family home, so we maid need to leave a little early to drive ourselves home. the kreismt on the blaming the travel disaster on schedule and outdated infrastructure. the ruling that keeps on tens of thousands migrants now bait in limbo. we ll go to el paso, texas in just a moment. let s begin with an absolute nightmare for southwest airlines passengers. 0% of today s 2700 flight cancellations are from southwest. the company s ceo, bob jordan, said system upgrades are floes to avoid a repeat. the tools we use to recover from disruption service works well 90% of the time, but we need to double down on our existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances s
with qualifying internet. thank you so much for joining me again at top of the hour on cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with an air travel meltdown. it isn t all the weather s fault, let s be clear, more than 4,000 flights grounded today again, nearly 09% on southwest airlines. southwest patients from raleigh, denver, are all lining up at ticket counters looking for answers. many customers are completely fed up. i m traveling with my senior citizen parents for their christmas vacation. i have an autoimmune disorder. i don t have medications. we have nothing. we brought no carry-ons. we ve seen a lot of families who are sleeping on the floor and it just breaks my heart. if my boss is watching this yes it s true i just didn t just blow off the day i m actually standing in the airport doing nothing and i do have a ticket and i hope to come to work at some point in my life. i love that he had some levity there. with new year s eve with just days away nearly 2500 fligh
this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and one o clock in the morning in ukraine, where a court has sentenced a russian tank commander to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian. vadim shishimarin was the first person to stand trial for war crimes since russia s invasion three months ago. he had admitted shooting the 62 year old civilian, but said he d been acting on orders and he will appeal against his sentence. our correspondentjames waterhouse was in court. this wasn tjust a trial, it was ukraine s day in court, with all eyes and cameras on 21 year old vadim shishimarin. by legal standards, his journey to this dock has been quick. more than two weeks ago, the russian soldier was questioned over an alleged war crime. translation: we started moving. on the way, we saw a civilian talking on the phone. i was ordered to shoot and fired one round at him. he fell down. we moved on. today, the court heard how shishimarin shot a 62 year old
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