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Airport and all kinds of other ways. i wouldn't want to get into the details again because there are people looking for us. >> bill: how can we help? >> we need to raise money. nobody pays for a seat, nobody at all. so if you are an evacuee, american, siv applicant, whatever you are, nobody pays for a seat period, the end. however, helicopters cost money, planes cost money and pilots cost money so we're fundraising. our website is project dynamo.org. we're 100% privately funded but we need fuel. we have maintenance problems and all kinds of issues. it is an austere and challenging environment ...

It is struggling to keep up with all of these people coming back to flying it has had maintenance problems, staffing issues. the weather has been bad during a lot of june. so it has had to cancel about 6% of its flights on sunday. 180 flights in total. now the airline says it is going to take a targeted approach alleviating its problems, cancel being 1% of all of its flights into the middle of july, 50 to 80 flights each day. the airline says it will be able to catch its breath because of this. you may be put on a different flight if your flight is canceled but it is more than four hours diffe...

People at asirports across the country sunday. that's the highest and the fifth time this month we've seen numbers higher than 2 million. that's significant because that 2 million number is about 75% of where we were in 2019 prepandemic. but american airlines is struggling to keep up with the surge in demand. maintenance problems, weather problems. they've been bad in june. also staffing issues. so it had to cancel about 6% of the flights on sunday. 188 flights in total. and now the airline is going one step further, taking a proactive measure by canceling some flights through the middle of ju...

Able to turn it off in time or ginn control, what happens? >> there are border issues at stake here. i mean, in the indonesian crash you clearly had maintenance problems with the angle of attack. you had the captain who was able to control the aircraft until he turned it over to the first officer and then it went out of control. in this accident it is completely inexplicable. as richard pointed out, we still don't know who was flying the airplane. we know that the captain was on the radio, but we don't know whether his hands were on the wheel. it's really troubling. >> so i asked you, i think ...

Tornadoes to the south, and the heavy rain spreading into the northeast by saturday night. david? >> all right, rob, thank you so much. next here, a southwest flight out of ft. lauderdale blowing a tire on takeoff, then once in the air, diverted to orlando to make an emergency landing. southwest declaring an operational emergency amid growing concerns. here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: emergency vehicles immediately approaching the southwest 737 in orlando, after that blown nose gear tire taking off from ft. lauderdale. the airline says the diversion was out of an abundance of caution....