how there are backups? neil: you know what? the problems are not over yet. you re looking live at atlanta airport. airlines are struggling to get back on track after all flights were grounded because of a nationwide computer glitch. we don t flow what caused the glitch. close to 8,000 domestic flights delayed, more than 1,200 cancelled altogether and wore all over it with steve harrigan in atlanta and how folks are dealing with it there and how transportation committee members nancy mace on calls for investigations to what happened here. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it in atlanta with steve harrigan. steve, how are things looking there now? neil, planes are taking off and landing again. you can tell from the numbers here, this airport, the busiest in the world is empty today. no lines, no people. a long way from back to normal here. of course, what happened in the early hours this morning, almost unprecedented. you have to go back to 9-11. a complete
Reporter again, School Officials closing out of an abundance of caution getting what just occurred in neighboring San Bernardino where a mass shooting left 14 dead and wounded 22. The superintendent of schools in Los Angeles Ramone also former nyc schools chancellor under mayor giuliani said hes not going to take a chance with the life of a student, david. Thank you. As weve said, the nypd has handled this vague threat in a completely different way. In fact, commissioner bratton, who used to runt lapd and put in place many of its Counterterrorism Measures says, his former city overreacted. Lets go now to Michael George whos live in flushing, michael. Reporter yeah david, a very different reaction to this threat here in new york, just minutes ago, commissioner bratton and the mayor confirmed the same email threat was made to schools here in new york, but they are being very, very confident in seeing that schools are safe, in fact the mayor saying kids should absolutely be we know about
Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Gutierrez id like to congratulate the speaker and the republican majority for coming to their senses and allowing the house of representatives to pass a bill funding the department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year. Seems odd i would have to come to this well to congratulate the majority for funding one of the largest and most important departments in the u. S. Governme
Significant event in philadelphia with amtrak. I want to make sure i pass along our sincere thoughts and prayers. Hopefully have a speedy recovery. The other thing important for us to recognize, 1st responders were on. Immediately. Our deepest thanks. The other thing this is really bad always silver lining. We have the significant events in the United States. Up. You see people helping each other trying to recover can help people get out of the wreckage. That is inspirational. Talking about her experience she looks at her shoe and said, these are my shoes. That is what we need to be doing its. I just wanted to recognize that. Infrastructure week us dot we would hope that infrastructure week was a really. Linda solomon a lot of things. In todays world the whole package is important for us to recognize longterm importance of investing. Investing. We have been working hard for part three or four years now trying to get the country to push it up to look at Infrastructure Investment. Recent