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house. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is your world. we have fox news team coverage with steve harrigan in atlanta on how flyers are holding up. peter doocy on the white house lawn and how they re clamping down. we begin with steve. edward, the frustration here is turning to anger. you can see this mountain of luggage here. most of this is three days old. when they sort this out, there s piles more downstairs that they expect to bring up. a lot of people have been stuck here. i spoke to a woman that had been here 24 hours stuck. she said she felt like she was one of the lucky ones. almost 5,000 flights, domestic and international cancelled today because of the winter weather. as many as 2,500 of those all from southwest airlines. when you talk to people, you get a sense of a rising anger and how they re being treated. my first flight was supposed to be at 7:00 a.m. my second flight was at 9:50 a.m. it sold out for tomorrow. maybe the day after tomorr ....
Peter? president biden is not set to jet to st. croix for vacation until later on this evening. we re told the staff had been briefing him about the winter weather and he s keeping an eye on this meltdown with southwest airlines. the potus twitter account tweeted thousands of flights have been cancelled. our administration is making sure that they re held accountable. if you ve been affected, go to the usdot s dashboard. before the situation is resolved, which may be a few more days, members of congress are already promising oversight hearings about this, which means southwest is going to have to answer to the cabinet and to congress and soon. we re going to investigate this. i want to see these people come up with a plan. that s the secretary s job. comes up with nothing. just don t blame the weather. the transportation secretary ....