the race for president. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. good to be with you. aishah: good to be with you, too. karl rove joining us later this hour with his political advice for both parties heading into the new year, and vivek also coming up in a couple moments here. he s fired up on a new recommendation that marines drop the sir, the ma am. is our military taking wokeness too far? begin with a fox weather alert. john: desperate and disappointed, travelers are feeling as the once in a generation storm puts a damper on thousands of flights across america. the dangerous blizzard has intensified into a bomb cyclone as it takes aim at the great lakes and parts of the northeast. erie, pennsylvania and cleveland, ohio, taking the brunt of the heavy snow this hour. john: meanwhile, rain and gusty winds knocking out power to more than 80,000 people in connecticut. new england residents bracing for freezing temperatures this evening. temper
a lack of leadership from government. a sentiment that is shared by republicans, democrats, and everyone in between who say they are fed up with the instability in washington and it s effects on the future of this country. john: is this a wake-up call for the president and leaders in congress? steve moore and doug holtz eakin, and florida michael waltz. conditions are at bad or worse than the randall s island refugee camp, and the men came back and warned the residents of the hotel and told them not to get on the busses. how are you going to dump people in such bad conditions? sandra: this is the scene outside a three star hotel here in new york city where dozens of migrants are now refusing to leave. president biden, by the way, is just 30 blocks away, but instead of taking a look at how his immigration crisis is turning every state into a border state, he s spending the day touting his big infrastructure plans. hello, well come, everyone. i m sandra smith in new yor
and tom homan are here to weigh in. but first. our luggage is missing, mia. canceled southwest, hopefully will get a refund. i have three kids. gillian: stranded travelers are begging southwest air to get its act together as the holiday travel meltdown is stretching on yet another day, flights going nowhere. welcome to america reports. gillian turner in washington. great to be with you. anita: always great to spend two hours with you, gillian. john and sandra have the day off. southwest customers are not only struggling, but a good chunk of the hundreds of thousands delayed passengers have no idea where their luggage is. they are desperate to find bags with crucial medicine and baby gear. gillian: those hopes hoping to be rebooked today, not having much luck. more than 2300 southwest flights so far have been canceled already. the airline says the trouble is not going to end most likely until early next week. anita: and the big wigs blame the blizzard for the t
spokesman chris oliveras will be here to weigh in. once again rebooking customers, at this time, the 31st and beyond. my phone is dead, i m hungry, i m tired, i m ready to go home. hectic, all in all, exhausting. what are we supposed to do, it s ridiculous. it s lives, they cannot give us a direct answer. gillian: welcome to america reports, i m gillian turner in washington. anita, wonderful to be with you this afternoon. anita: you, too, gillian. a holiday tradition to host together. gillian:. let s keep it, a good one. anita: john and sandra have the day. southwest meltdown, the worst airline disruption in decades and based on the latest numbers, far from over. more than 2500 southwest flights have been canceled, the company claims is necessary in order to reposition flight crews and the planes themselves. gillian: the chaos began over christmas weekend as the blizzardpted southwest s operations, but then the outdated communication system then reported
dagen mcdowell, amy and hegseth is here. forecasters say tropical storm ian will likely regain hurricane strength. it will pick up more power. hour by hour you have been showing so many different things as the sun has been able to come out and give a good visual on this, where are you now? i m at a marina just outside of downtown fort myers, i m standing on top of so much debris, the water is keeping me afloat. there is wood, stirofoam, boats thrown around like toys, you see here, there are life jackets and you name it, it is peer, powerful wind and storm surge that push around incredible vessels like they are nothing, they are twisted and snapped? are upside down, many have rammed into each other, just noise people described from last night. saying when this occurred, this looked like dominos, concrete piers were ripped apart and two or three blocks from here, the storm surge coming in on historic downtown fort myers making roads and beautiful quaint streets who rivers