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Covering all the days top stories around the country and the globe, from politics to money, sports to popular culture.

Covering all the days top stories around the country and the globe, from politics to money, sports to popular culture.

>> oh, my goodness, i know theres a lot of frustration at so many airports from coast to coast right now. pete, thank you so much. stay with us. well take you back live to rome where at any moment now president biden is expected to speak to reporters. were back in a moment. [uplifting music playing] ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ ♪

Invitation in advance. >> well be there. weve got a good story to tell. >> take care, governor. >> thanks. >> want to toss it back to fred. >> chris, thank you so much. american airlines cancelling over 1,500 flights this weekend. executives are blaming severe weather at two major hubs and staffing shortages. pete muntene joins us from washington. what more is american saying about its cancellations and what can it do? >> mesh says this will start getting better and for a lot of folks stranded...

Isolated to florida which is a really central part of its operation. southwest says it is simply trying to get things back to normal right now but one other thing at play here, pamela, is that the airline is lots smaller than it was before the pandemic, about 7,000 fewer employees which is making it harder to get back to normal here. >> right, and its worth noting that what southwest is complaining about, other airlines presumably had to do with the same thing but they were not impacted in the s...

Cancelling hundreds more flights as it recovers from this weekends scheduling mess that grounded more than 2,000 flights. flyers stranded waiting in line for hours to try and rebook. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntene joins us now from reagan national airport and tell us what passengers are saying. >> this is not like southwest can flip a switch and get back to normal right away. its really akin to unplugging the operation and plugging it back in again because it says all of these problems ...

The martin luther king bridge there is closed. huge impact here in pennsylvania. as 76 is also a parking lot where it meets with 676. a main interchange in the ski. thats flood because the pump aring station there is also flooded under water. 3 this is going to be a massive cleanup that will cost mill works tens of billions if not billions, john. >> i cant believe how close that water is to the bridge there, pete. and the idea that youre at the wedding venue the bride and groom can say this is g...

More breaking news in the national lead. these are are live pictures from montgomery county pennsylvania. this is where the tornadoes touched down and tore through. again, this was the wind. the problem here was the wind from this storm that has really devastated huge swaths of the northeast. so you can see the damage there, and for much. other parts of the area the water has been the real issue. non-stop rescues can as floodwaters swamp the philadelphia area today. at least 100 people. 100 peop...

As well. awful situation in philadelphia as well. pete muntene, well get back to you. thanks very much. lets discuss with keith drewman, the manager. i ups what, at least 80 people have been in xhour xhufnltd are you still in the search and rescue phase, or are you moving on towards recovery efforts now? >> thank you for having me, wolf, first and foremost. >> yeah. yes. we rescued at least 80 people vie rarks water rescue. that ended somewhere in the vicinity of 1:00 this afternoon. waters have...