Assembly aS President of the united states. Itll be my last. Ive seen a remarkable sweep of history. I was first elected office of the united states of america as a u. S. Senator in 1972. Now, i know i look like im only 40. I know that. President Joe Biden Yesterday with a lighthearted start to his final United Nations address. Well bring you much more of the president s major speech to World Leaders straight ahead. Meanwhile, the former president , continues to take a much different tone on several Foreign Policy issues including Russias Invasion of ukraine. Well also play for you those comments. And well bring you the latest out of The Middle East as israel and the lebanonbased militant group, hezbollah, appear to be moving closer to an allout war. Good Morning And Welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 25th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, and well begin with president Joe Bidens speech at the United
have you spoken to him about the senate proposal, and are you simply trying to kill this to help me out in the campaign? that s absurd. we have a responsibility here to do our duty. our duty is to do right by the american people, to protect our duty. the first and important job is protect its citizen. i have talked to former president trump about this issue at length, and he understands that. he understands we have a responsibility to do here. of course president trump wants to secure the country. house speaker mike johnson with a pretty weak denial yesterday on donald trump s very clear desire to kill any border deal. we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill on the bipartisan senate measure and the future of the house. plus president biden said he decided how to retaliate for the droep strike that killed three u.s. soldiers and injured dozens of others. and we ll show you the new comments from prime minister benjamin netanyahu now bringing even more uncertain to a
battle ahead could take many more months. plus, just hours from now secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are set to meet with mexican president just as thousands of central american migrants make their way to the united states southern border. we ll break down what this means and the key issues up for discussion. and also ahead the detroit pistons made nba history but for all the wrong reasons. the record they just broke that has everyone talking. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we get right to the news and the israeli military has expanded its ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central gaza. the idf is also focusing on southern gaza s largest city as part of its stated mission to destroy hamas. officials say progress has been made in the north and that troops will continue to, quote, preserve and intensify t
ahead on cnn newsroom. hundreds if not thousands of americans who are stranded all across the nation are unable to get home. i have no clothes. i have nothing. i have no way to get home. i m beyond frustrated. it hurt because i can t see my dad. i ve lived here my entire life. i remember the blizzard of 77. it was worse. anyone who declares victory and says it s over, it s still a dangerous situation to be out. announcer: live there loren done, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, december 27th. 9 a.m. here in london. 4 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast where thousands of people are stranded at airports after months of arctic storms that pummelled much of the country over the holiday weekend. if you re planning to travel into the new year holiday you could be impacted. the flight tracking website flight aware shows more than 2700 total cancellations occurred in the u.s. today and of those 90% are southwest airlines flights.
southwest. of. 2800 u.s. flights already canceled today, 2500, about 90% are southwest. challenge for our flight crews being stuck in locations not where they need to be along with the aircraft. at this point we re working to accommodate our customers as best we can and offer the most options we can. cnn s lucy kafnov is in denver. i wasn t anticipating a nightmare but it is. reporter: christmas is over but for thousands of customers the travel nightmare goes on. they canceled our flight. they said they can t help us so we don t know what to do. reporter: southwest airlines at the top of the list for cancellations. the airlines ticketing counter at baltimore s bwi airport a zoo. denver s lines for the southwest ticket counter even longer. we had to wait in a line that was four hours and it was horrible. nobody is giving us a direction on what line to get in. it s a total you know what show here. reporter: for those tlieg to call to get through, good luck get