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those are on southwest. the airline now apologizing, but as you can imagine that's little comfort for people who may miss out totally on seeing their loved ones this holiday season. >> i'm beyond frustrated. and hurt. because i can't see my dad. >> my mom is in the hospital and i wanted to be there for her once she like got discharged. unfortunately because of the situation they are saying that the closest flight is the 29th. >> are you going to make it home today? >> no, likely not. i mean, i heard someone say over the intercom not to expect to get a flight within the next four days...

For him. I think that is funny that is all anyone asked about. To talk about in the questions. Ton don riddell. Thank you so much. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. Senator bob menendez said there is a good reason he had nearly half a Million Dollars in cash stuffed in envelopes in jackets at his home. The lead starts right now. A defiant defense, senator bob menendez denying federal charges against him. How he justified all of that money stuffed in envelopes in jackets and close ties to the egyptian officials. But how about those gold bars and a mercedesbenz. Plus less than a week u...

Congress returns to capitol hill from its holiday recess this week. the u.s. senate will be back in session tomorrow and the u.s. house resumes its work on tuesday. cnn has learned that lawmakers have been working through the recess to reach a compromise on spending. for more, let's bring in cnn's alayna treene. what more do we know about these spending talks? >> reporter: well, good afternoon, fred. these spending talks are going to be the top priority for congress when they come back this week. and right now the house and the senate are careening toward a ma juror spending standoff that coul...

Now, but forever given the catastrophe that comes with it. in this meeting they're proposing to provide some type of better understanding of longer term fiscal negotiations, discussions related to spending talks, trying to formalize what the president has said he's open to, but republicans haven't been engaging on. with the letter and the proposal for a meeting it underscores this moment, it's time to take it seriously. this is very real and happening very soon. >> phil, thank you. i want to go to manu raju. manu coming into this announcement from yellen, you've been speaking to lawmakers. do ...

The legal immigration side, the illegal immigration side and they've done nothing. also remember the white house was also pushing heavily for congress to send them more funding to deal directly with this crisis and they didn't get all that money that they wanted in this latest round of spending talks. so that's making it even tougher tore them. >> even harder. yeah. not a lot of possibility there in the new year for congress to tackle that. seung min kim, thank you so much. we appreciate it. well, travel to and from china will become a lot easier in the new year as the chinese government rel...