there s an old interview question that the great barbara walters had teed up. what kind of tree would you be? for some reason, i asked martha this question. there is an old interview question. what kind of tree would you be. for some reason i asked this question. martha answered, i am the beechtree. the beach is the mother of all trees. the beechtree has a smooth skin but it s very hard and impenetrable. because i m a mother, all the other trees are underneath me. it is impenetrable. martha started planning the comeback the moment she was arrested. says she is ready for jail now. today in what was one of the more surreal conferences, she said she is ready for jail. thank you for coming here on such short notice. advertisers upset and attorneys telling her what her plans are. it is a long time to eat away at a company. the only way to reclaim my life and quality of life with certainty is to serve my sentence and surrender to authorities so i can return as soon as p
martha answered i am the beech tree. the beach is the mother of all trees. and the beech tree has a smooth skin, but it s very hard and impenetrable. and because i m the mother, then all the other trees are underneath me. it is the mother tree. and it is impenetrable. she has always believed that she can weather everything. martha started planning her comeback the moment she was arrested. [applause] today, in what was one of the more surreal news conferences we ve seen in quite some time, the homestyle maven says she is ready for jail now. - good morning, everybody. and thank you for coming here today on such short notice. for two years and seven months, she had no control. it was advertisers upset and attorneys telling her what her plans were. the government, both prosecutors and securities regulators, on her tail. that s quite a long time to really eat away at a company. - the only way to reclaim my life and the quality of life for all those related to me, with certainty n
had to retire by the age of sixty five , not sixty seven . some lawmakers were proposing after the age of sixty five , pete said you can3 4 f1 planes. but judge never explained how racial quotas, enforced retirements would improve the reliability of air travel ahead of the holiday travel rush. but he insisted it would definitely help. six months later, this is the state of air travel in the united states , in chicago, and around the country, mountains of luggage with no travelers to claim them might want to cry. i m tired, frustrated, tired, . baby emilia. her mom, marissa, and grandma rachel spent this little one s first christmas stuck in the dallas airport. it was hard. it was hard seeing all the families with other newborns and children just sleeping on the floor. the family from gallup, new mexico, says southwest rebooked, then canceled their flights five times. kimberly day is pregnant and traveling with her two children. they ve been trying to get from phoenix
wraps up ice cream from theft. aishah: shoplifters are committing crimes all over the country. you won t believe how much retail revenue has been lost to crime in 2022 alone. number will give you sticker shock. rich: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m rich edson. aishah: even historic winter blizzard cannot stop the smash and grabs. videos all over the place appearing to show stores ransacked in buffalo, new york. we are going to have that for you all new this hour, but first this fox weather alert. no flights until the third maybe the 31st. we kept calling, you can t get through to anybody. four, maybe five cancels for the same flight. 500 people, nowhere to go. i never want to fly commercially ever, ever, ever again. rich: thousands of passengers stranded at airports across the country following the historic winter blizzard. aishah: southwest airlines is still struggling to get back on schedule, more than 90% of their fligh
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 tomorrow the