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it's the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." i'm pamela brown, and we begin the hour with a travel nightmare. thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed across the country today. the hardest hit, southwest airlines, which has scrapped more than 60% of its flights. take a look here. these are some of the long lines of southwest passengers in raleigh, atlanta, and denver airports. in a statement to cnn, southwest airlines said it is, quote, experiencing disruptions across our network as a result of the winter storm's lingering effects on the totality of our operations. carlos su...

Flights across the u.s., well, you can imagine that number at this hour is in the thousands, with thousands more flights being delayed. now we caught up with one passenger who made this line here for this southwest airlines flight. she had some pretty harsh words for that airline, and here's what she told us. >> i have lots of thoughts, maybe not camera-appropriate. we have been standing in line for hours. canceled flight yesterday. i feel like we have been led on, you know, so we know there's staffing issues from storm elliott. we get that, the ripple effect, but then when you are trying to r...

Least what we saw in north carolina. they're sort of like drivebyes or fly byes in the way these are happening quickly, and these places aren't protecte as we ma want it to be. there's a lot of noise about doing this. there's not one person saying, we're going to go after these facilities. this is now part of a concerted effort on, in particular, right wing extremist groups to look or go after critical infrastructure. i'm looking at the data from the tacoma area. you don't have four incidents like that happening randomly or coincidentally. this is clearly a concerted effort, and on christmas d...

>> no. that will whittle it down an awful lot, hopefully down to within -- usually right around that last known position. air france 447 was only about nine miles from the last known position. so that's probably where to focus the effort on. and i'll say one thing about the pingers. they need quiet when they're listening for that pinging. and one of my worries is there are so many ships out there. if you remember with the malaysian air situation, if in some cases, they thought they were hearing the ship they were on and it was nearby ships. >> david, let me stay with you for one second. how co...

Looking for something besides mitt romney. even here in new hampshire where perhaps he's strongest, where he vacations, where he's spent years and years building an organization, i think you can see a real jump from one of those guys. >> i wanted to put on you the stand here to talk about santorum, then, in terms of who's the one who may jump. he's getting the closer look after iowa. a lot has been written about his socially conservative views. but also a fair amount to unearth about his record in washington. you took a close look at santorum in an extensive article back in 2003. what do you t...