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
to help the most vulnerable, but a global pledge to phase out fossil fuels were stonewalled by oil-producing nations. at number five, unpredictable water cycle brought the kind of floods seen once every thousand years. from dallas, where they got a summer s worth of rain in a day, to death valley, which set a record with two inches of rain in one of the driest spots on earth. 43 lives were lost in flash floods and mudslides across six kentucky counties. where are all these people going to go? where are they going to live? a and the combo of heavy rain and rapid snow melt caused thousands to evacuate yellowstone national park. at number four, england, that green and pleasant land, turned brown in 22, as thermometers in the uk hit 104 degrees fahrenheit and put an unprecedented toll on firefighters. temperatures hit 106 in spain,
citizens. outraging critics who say that will hurt participation and result in unfair redistricting benefiting republicans for years to come, despite alternative facts from the commerce secretary. justice department feels they need it so that they can enforce section 2 of the voting rights act which protects minority voters. and who run the world. the next generation of girls taking a stand against guns. and we remember another generation s protest with the passing of linda brown. seen here on the 40th anniversary of her family s landmark case, brown versus board of education. brown in 1954 i feel was a catalyst, was the change, that was the beginning of the entire civil rights movement. i think that everything that came along afterwards had its beginning with brown in 54.
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