stability for the loads of passengers still stranded in airports throughout the country. staggering numbers of cancellations and delays and finger pointing to employees now of who to blame. mike tobin is at the chicago airport, good evening, mike. reporter: good evening, southwest executives promised to return to normal operation. secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airline of problems that were quote, within controls of the airlines, the secretary monitors the airlines making good on everything on reimbursements and returning home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled and bulk of them is southwest. the boss issuing another apology. my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you and you will hear more about that soon. but for now, we are focused on reliability and level of customer experience of what we expect o
they call themselves members of defend the forest which is designated a terrorist group by the department of homeland security. the organization says that terrorism charge is an attempt to silence legitimate protests. when the movement began, police tried to use intimidation to dissway activists trying to get them to go home and their movement. when that did not work, they began to make baseless arrests. reporter: police found members of the group in tree houses, wearing gas masks, and camouflage. police uncovered weaweapons and materials to ma explosives. the group attacked construction workers and set fires and slowing down construction. governor brian kemp says we ll not rest until these six are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and construction on the facility
not finished asking him a lot of questions. reporter: however, the house is paralyzed until it speaks a speaker. the house can t swear in members or pass bills, all promised by kevin mccarthy. we got important investigative work. reporter: the white house told gop investigators it must resubmit requests for information on a host of probe once republicans took control. that coupled with murkyness of who may be speaker could delayed until february or later. an anandrew anan biggs challenged mccarthy for speaker. he s got a body of work. reporter: mccarthy attempts to woo a group of five gop voters who supported him.
tonight, his administration promises a big year ahead. some americans are feeling less optimistic about 2023. the white house correspondent is traveling with the president in saint croix. he got over 250 bills passed, lower prescription costs and brought down your energy cost and reforming gun laws for the first time in 30 years. a record nu nunumber of manufacturing jo. reporter: officials have high hopes for 2022. the press secretary tweeting after building the most significant record, 2023 may be a big thing for the biden administration. spokesperson andrew baits not
american driver were arrested for human smuggling. it is becoming more common for everyday people from all over the country to come to the border to smuggle humans for some quick cash. and new video from shortly before christmas believed to show one of mexico s most powerful cartel handing out christmas gifts in guatemala, metr metr mexico. they should not let themselves manipulated and protect the gains. reporter: as you have been reporting, the state of arizona has agreed to remove shipping containers there after the biden administration sued here in texas. governor abbott tells us they are not aware of any potential lawsuits from the biden administration. we ll keep you updated, bret. matt fin live along the border. as president biden s caribbean vacation continues