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morning following a major computer outage at the faa. >> john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to today's confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they don't know if hackers were to blame. >> sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? it's scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. when that begins, we'll get to it. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two. hectic morning for a lot of travelers. sandra smith in new york. >> john: some were out on the tarmac and the flight was called back. i'm john roberts in washington, what we will be watching for, including the first response from 1600 pennsylvania to those classified documents that turned up at president biden's former office. we'll dip into the briefing for any news. >> sandra: we'll watch for that. but first the early morning glitch that is causing a day of delays for airline passengers as

airlines struggle to get back on track after the nationwide ground stop earlier today, and even though planes are now taking off, passengers' headaches are nowhere close to over at this hour. >> john: check out the time lapse of the nation's air space as flights were allowed to take off again, right around 9:00 this morning in the east. hundreds of flights suddenly crowding the skies as the nation's airports tried desperately to get back to normal. now even hours later the log jam of jets means a lot of fliers are going to be late. >> sandra: the meltdown not even a month after the holiday chaos that left tens of thousands stranded and without luggage. what is the problem plaguing the nation's airways. even of this took billions in handout. peter doocy as we wait for that briefing to begin. it's going to be a newsy one,

peter. >> it will be. so far what we have learned about the faa outage, they know what happened but don't know why it happened. and at the highest levels of government we are being told that they don't have any evidence right now this was because of a cyber attack. >> somewhere overnight there was an issue with irregularities in the messages going out, that reflected a bigger systems issue. and this morning as of about 7:00 there were still problems validating that the messages were going out. so for safety reasons, to make sure that every aircraft that took off was doing so safely, faa implemented a ground stop lasting about an hour and a half. >> more on this at this hour's briefing, and then the classified material found in an old biden office, some democrats are expressing concern about the timing. >> does it concern you that this happened, though, the day before the midterm elections, when the

documents were found and we are just now finding out about it? >> it does. i would have to look as to, you know, when they were discovered and why we are just finding out now. that does concern me. >> another big issue, this is going to be the first briefing since the president got back from the border. before he left it sounded like there might be some movement, at least from the white house to try to get congress back involved and in discussion about immigration, but republicans have been just essentially protesting every single thing that happened on that trip and so that all seems like it stalled but hope to find out some more when karine jean-pierre steps up we hope any minute. >> sandra: i probably speak for a few stranded travelers when i say they would probably like to see our transportation secretary in front of a microphone giving updates. i mean -- this affected so many people and their travels and their work. we will be listening for that briefing, peter. keep us posted. >> john: back to the chaos at

the airports, grady trimble picks up team coverage at o'hare international airport, and grady, 6 or 7 hours into the day, how are things looking? >> john, it is getting better. planes have been taking off now about five hours here at o'hare and across the country. the problem is not so much the system outage from this morning, that's not what is causing the delays and cancellations at this point. it's the ripple effect. so if you look at the departures board here at o'hare, all of the orange you see on the board indicates a delay, and what we are seeing on the board is the explanation has shifted from blaming the faa to late aircraft and crews that have not been able to get in place for their flights. at o'hare airport alone today, close to 600 flights have been delayed across the country almost 8,000 delays, nearly 1200 cancellations. we should point out, this is the first time the faa has put in

place a nationwide ground stop since 9/11. the passengers i'm talking to today, in addition to being frustrated and stressed, also wondering why wasn't there a back-up to the back-up if this system is so critical. >> what do you think of the fact that one software system going down can ground flights across the country? >> i mean, that's unbelievable. it's mind blowing. yeah, quite stressful, and i just -- i don't know what to make of it. >> nationwide thing? >> uh-huh. >> that's crazy. that's scary. that's even scarier, bro. >> and even though it is the faa's fault, it was their system that went out, it's now up to the airlines to try to catch up to all these delays and cancellations and also to try to make things right by their customers. we can confirm, john, all the major airlines, american, united, southwest and delta, they are all waiving change fees

as well as fare differences for people who need to rebook on new flights because of this travel mess. john. >> john: see how long it takes to get things straightened out. grady, thank you. >> sandra: sean duffy is here, former wisconsin congressman and elizabeth mcdonald paying a visit. wait a second, the new fbn evening line-up. begins january 23rd. >> i can't wait. it's awesome. >> sandra: you and i -- we all just had this conversation -- first of all, pete buttigieg, am i wrong to say he should be in front of a microphone giving updates on this situation? he has patrolized travelers coast to coast. >> go back on paternity vacation, it seems when pete shows up things go wrong. you would think a secretary would have crisis. i go to the microphone and fix the crisis.

i should be commander in chief. >> you lead people through crisis. he cannot lead us through anything, he doesn't know what the problem is. >> feels like a wake-up call, a hinge point, maybe a game changer moment. americans across the nation are saying the first nationwide outage since 9/11? this is pretty shocking and you hear from the people in the airports, they are scared. and when you look at what critics are calling a very unserious transportation secretary who has been -- >> buttigieg is speaking right now. >> this was a failure on your watch of your systems. >> when there's a problem with a government system we will own it, find it and fix it. in this case we had to make sure that there was complete confidence about the safety of flight operations which is why there was the conservative but important step to have that pause and make sure everything was back up and running. as you can imagine, my top priority right now, now that the

system is working again, as of about 9:00 this morning, is to understand the root cause, understand how it could have led to this level of disruption and understand how to make sure it does not happen again. >> how do you know it's not going to happen again at this point? do people need to worry about another failure like this tomorrow? >> what people need to know, we will not allow anything to take place that is not safe. but this is precisely why our focus is on understanding, identifying how it happened in the first place. >> you know about a potential system vulnerability before this morning and if so, why does the faa rely on such antiquated system. >> the faa system so far has made it possible for an extraordinary safety record to be built up in the united states. millions of passengers travelling near the speed of sound, miles above the earth and returning every time safely to the ground. but that system also constantly needs to be tended to, upgraded

and refreshed, and there are a number of processes underway in the faa to make sure those systems stay up to date. this has been a big topic, certainly before and since i've arrived in this role. it's also a right time for us to take a new look at that. we are coming up on the faa reauthorization where we'll be approaching congress indicating the resources and strategy they think we need for the next five years to make sure faa has everything they need in terms of systems, resources and staff. i think this gives us a really important data point and a really important moment to understand what we are going to need moving forward but obviously our more immediate focus is technical, understanding exactly how this happened, why the redundancies and the back-ups built into the system were not able to prevent the level of disruption we saw today and make sure we have 100% clarity and any and all steps needed so it cannot happen again. >> thanks again.

>> thank you, sir. >> sandra: there was your transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, referencing this as a data point from which we can learn in washington, he's at the department of transportation, i'm told. he said we are going to own it, we are going to find what caused it, we are going to fix it. which indicates they do not have the root cause of this. he said his top priority is to understand the root cause of this outage. liz, you mentioned how he called it a glitch this morning. this is a nationwide outtag. >> he downplayed it as a computer glitch this morning and six hours later still does not know what caused the outage that shook the nation. so what's happening is we have -- apparently a transportation secretary who seems to have lost focus. he's being treated as very unserious. you look at the transportation budget and the faa budget, it has lines in it about social justice and the like, and what is more injustice than a family member who needs to fly home as fast as they can because somebody is in the hospital or a

funeral or first responder on the job around the country and to see the nation's air system blanked out like this when we have a transportation secretary busy checking all the identity boxes, it just feels like they are off base here and not in focus. >> sandra: we are waiting on white house response as peter doocy just told us, karine jean-pierre is expected to lead a white house briefing, set for 2:00 eastern time, running a little late. sean, your reaction to this. liz mentioned one passenger we heard from saying we are scared. you hear about the pilot shortages, the staffing shortages and people fear things will not function as they should and then you see the faa statement. a new statement from sam graves on this meltdown saying it appears at this time the notice to air missions or notam, system malfunction was not a security breach, i highlights what he's labelling as a huge vulnerability in the air transportation system saying

this incident also underscores the number of empty desk and vacant offices at the faa. centuries of combined experience have gone out the door in the past several years and far too few of the positions have been filled. >> outrageous. >> sam graves, fantastic, he knows the issues front and back. people cannot sit at home and work for the faa. we talked off camera. they have to get in the seats, in the workplace and do the job to make sure the systems function and fly aircraft. but another point, talking about faa reauthorization. they got billions of dollars, faa did over covid and now they are going to say we want more money to fix the crisis we cannot handle, three hours in the morning aircraft could not fly. i don't know if it's more money but having competent people in leadership and throughout the building to make the organization function and they don't have it right now. >> exactly, it's about

leadership. you want to galvanize behind a leader who cares about the system and on the stick, not using the faa jet to fly to new york city to sit down with the aclu when he could skype. that's what's going on with this transportation secretary and it's coming a generation after 9/11, right. all of this is happening. americans don't want to feel like the system is broken, now they do. >> sandra: and they see it happening. thanks to both of you. there it is, the evening edit. elizabeth macdonald, 6 to 5, so note that on the calendars and the bottom line with sean duffy and dagen. john, by the way, you know, you can make the case i'm sure somewhere that there's partisan politics at play here with the criticism of the faa and criticism of how buttigieg handled it. but look at the airline delays. real stats. the past six months, number of delayed flights, this is july 1, 2022, to january 4, 2023,

includes the holiday travel period. 871,309 delayed flights. almost 21% of all flights were delayed, ok. average delay time was 50 minutes. that's not a good track record. >> john: time before the last time i flew we were delayed four hours leaving kennedy airport, and this time flying from san diego back here to washington we had to first fly to lax to fill up the plane with fuel because they didn't have enough in san diego. >> sandra: i remember that. and you noted with all your global travels that was a first. >> john: apparently it has happened before but a first for me, yep. we all get to experience new stuff. isn't it grand. fox weather alert out west, keeping tabs on the historic storm system slamming the golden state. the snow becoming a major fact in addition to the rain. one ski mountain had to close yesterday because they had too much snow and they say they have

enough snow folks could still be skiing in july. >> sandra: that's happening in a few places around the country. and president biden is back from his visit to the southern border. it was a quick one, how effective was it after he saw a sanitized version of the crisis playing out down there. veronica escobar represents el paso and went on the trip with the president. she's here, join us live next. >> he finally came, credit where credit is due. but honestly, a three-hour scripted sanitized visits, that's not a solution, that's a photo op. : plan ahead by getting a va cash out home loan from newday. pay off your high-rate credit cards. pay yourself cash.

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key deliverables in the summit between the president and the leaders of mexico and canada but no significant breakthroughs. the border visit did not include a stop at a hot spot at crossings in the rio grande and did not meet with migrants. our next guest has called on the president to lean into the president, and you went with the president down there and saw what was going on. critics have been hammering what they say was a potemkin village, the president did not see the areas in the rio grande where the migrants wade across, he went to a port of entry, the streets were cleaned up of the migrant shanty towns and did not get a real picture. >> i want to debunk that, and

thank you for the opportunity for having me on. first and foremost, john, no one who is more interested in a secure dignified border than those of us who actually live there. so this trip was important to me, it was important to my community, the federal workforce, ngos, local governments, etc. we never would conspire to paint a different picture. it's not in our best interest. so from the beginning we, when i spoke with the white house we planned a trip to the migrant processing facility. as anyone who has worked on the border for any time knows, flows change. so just the week before when the president's advanced team was there, the processing facility had a lot of people. the flows changed, they moved from el paso to eagle pass, in fact yesterday the bipartisan senate co-del that visited el

paso went to another empty migrant facility because the flows had changed. the president had every intention and as someone who provided infut to meet migrants. number two, the idea that we would sanitize the community to prevent the president from seeing what we have been trying to address at the local level is absurd. >> john: the camps were cleared out. >> no, you go there today, sacred heart church, the church downtown has at least a couple hundred venezuelan migrants around it. here is what's going going on. >> john: there is a side-by-side of wednesday and then thursday. >> so interesting -- yes, i want to tell you why that has happened. but if you go there today you will still see at least 100 migrants around sacred heart. but in the weeks preceding the president's visit, border patrol made it clear long before any of us knew he would visit, they made it clear they were going to begin enforcement activities not at the church, but in the blocks

leading up to the church. so they started doing that. number 2, ngos started going in and working with those families, trying to convince them to get off the street and into safe havens. the night before the president's visit i had an update from one of the ngos who said they had been extremely successful in the days leading up. and where the families have been moved to shelter the city has gone in picked up after them. >> john: the people on the front lines of this, and the president of the border patrol union brandon judd said. >> we are not seeing all the chaos at the port of entry. we are seeing it between the port of entry. he didn't even bother spending time with the third opponent of law enforcement, he spent the time at the port of entry, that's not where the cartels control stretches of our border. >> john: do you dispute what he said? >> the president was at the border with border patrol but

also one of the things we have been worried about has been fentanyl. 98% comes in through the ports of entry, so of course he's going to go to the ports, talk about the need for better technology, more personnel. >> john: why not just go to the river and see the situation there. >> so he went right up to the wall which is nearly adjacent to the river. i will tell you this, john. no matter what the president did his critics would be screaming from their rooftops. i would love to see those same critics asking every republican member of every co-dell that has gone to the border if they met with migrants. >> john: you say the president needs to lean into the problem, he went to the three amigos summit with amlo, mexico will take 33,000 a month back, 13%. does the president need to put more pressure on mexico to deal with the situation. >> the president is rebuilding a

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>> john: it's multi-factoral, no question. but you agree something needs to be done? >> i'm all for congress to take action. >> sandra: very interesting discussion there. to have waited this long to then go visit the border, sanitized version of that border as short as he did, you have to start to ask yourself, does he need to go again. >> john: congresswoman escobar disputes the fact saying it was sanitized. >> sandra: i heard that. calls for new york congressman george santos to step down, now coming from inside the tent. gop demanding his immediate resignation saying he disgraced congress with his dishonesty. santos responding, we'll tell you what he had to say. >> john: the gop coming together to secure the speaker's gavel for kevin mccarthy. still, nobody singing kum ba yah behind the scenes. how deep are the divisions as

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we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive. >> john: updating "america reports" top story, computer problems might be fixed but the air system is anything but. >> sandra: a similar site to anyone flying over the holidays or today, red and orange across the border. these photos were taken at some of the nation's busiest airports by our reporters a couple moments ago. this is the my flight board app, hartsfield jackson, dallas dfw, people are looking at the boards in airports across the country and almost every single flight is either delayed or canceled and appears in dallas, three

flights may be scheduled on time. what does this say about the industry and where things are going from here? a lot of headaches, can the meltdowns be prevented? john scott, fox report anchor who is also a pilot. john, you might have a lot of thoughts what we have seen play out today. >> the faa needs to update the computer system. they are antiquated and it's not even clear that they have a back-up system for this particular operation that handles what they call notam. that's the system that went out. any time a pilot flies from, say, laguardia to lax, mowing the grass along runway 2-4 left at los angeles, they might have to shut the runway down for a little while. so the airport is responsible for putting that in the notam, and the system that keeps track of all the notams, at airports across the country, went down. so pilots, you know, are not

supposed -- the airline basically told them don't take off and the faa grounded everything. it's because of a computer glitch they started -- that they saw yesterday but then it cascaded overnight. >> john: john, do we know if it was a computer glitch or could have been a cyber attack? pete buttigieg said they have no clue why it went down. >> i suppose it to be a cyber attack. i spoke to a source at the faa saying if it is a cyber attack, don't look for the government to admit it because why would you want to, you know, draw attention to that kind of thing. his belief is that the system is simply overloaded. they recently -- the faa in the last couple of years reduced the separation requirement for aircraft flying above 29,000 feet. that lets you put twice as many

planes in the sky as covid wound down, people got back in the air and more airplanes means more traffic, more number crunching for the computer systems and the computer systems are quite simply old. >> sandra: we hear you, john scott, it's -- it's tough to see these numbers. it's just brutal. and it has a lot of people sort of stepping back. we were having a conversation with our team this morning, people are going to have second thoughts about taking flight destinations for their future trips, perhaps planning some trips closer to home, some folks. >> yep, yep. >> john: drive if you can. fly at your own peril. thanks, john. >> sandra: thank you, john. >> thank you. >> disgraced the house of representatives and we do not consider him one of our congress people. >> he has betrayed the public's trust. and given insincere glib and insulting answers when asked legitimate questions about his

finances and his background. >> john: some of the strongest condemnation yet against new york congressman george santos. members of his local republican party in long island telling the newly sworn in congressman to step down and step down now. this after santos was caught in multiple lies about his background and experience and raised questions over his campaign finances. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. santos is defiant. >> he is, john. he is not stepping down, at least today. in fact, he told reporters this morning i will not when asked if he would be stepping down. take a look at this video, he didn't even look upset as he got into an elevator leaving his office without taking any more questions and then he followed it up with a tweet where he said i was elected to serve the people of new york 3, not the party and politicians. i remain committed to doing that.

i will not resign. now, nassau county republicans say he is a stain on the third congressional district and they will no longer interact with him until he steps down. two democrats filed a complaint with the ethics committee about questions over his finances, resume', and federal prosecutors in new york and now a complaint filed with the federal election commission for possible misuse of campaign donations, john. and finally, speaker kevin mccarthy speaking out about santos telling fox it is up to the voters to decide what happens with him and until they decide he will "continue to serve." he did add that santos will not be sitting on any top committees. >> do you think george santos

will be on the key committees? >> no. >> democrats don't think it's enough, because mccarthy accepted santos' vote to get the gavel, they say there should be consequences. >> he owns george santos, the only reason why he was seeded is to give george santos that ability to vote for kevin mccarthy. so, let's call this exactly what it is, there should be repercussions. >> we are expecting him to return for votes later this afternoon, perhaps he'll take some questions. he has not so far. >> john: mccarthy was definitive whether he would get assignments, we'll see where it goes. >> sandra: exposed the deep rift in the republican party, looking for the house speaker, and inside look at the warnings mccarthy holdouts received at the time of the marathon

speakership vote. olivia is a congressional reporter from politico and joins us now with that insight. hi, olivia, welcome. >> hi, thank you. thanks for having me. >> sandra: tell us what you saw, what you heard. >> i've been hearing throughout the week that some of the republicans who are holding out their vote, hearing from donors but i was not getting a clear look how and then a republican source of mine sent me basically what they were texted by a powerful republican donor, i believe he's been giving money to a super pact very closely aligned with kevin mccarthy and basically saying if you are not supporting mccarthy we are not going to give you money. and so that's what some of the republicans were hearing and clearly i was told it was sent around wednesday afternoon, that didn't work, they kept holding out until the early hours of saturday morning. but it was just sort of the pressure that republicans were hearing and separately andy ogles said he received a text

threat and went to mccarthy and said i don't appreciate this. >> sandra: olivia, let me ask you something. would you, based on what you are reporting right now, would that lead you to believe that this, you know, exposing this happening, exposing this rift will deepen it or mend some of those relationships? >> it's tough to tell. i mean, there have been words sort of thrown around after there was a meeting yesterday saying they were all in better spirits, but i've also been hearing like republicans at the rank and file have and will remember sort of what the 20 republican holdouts did to the conference. i think there is going to be sort of long standing frustrations down the line, so even you are happy the majority in the 118th congress, i don't think you will forget what they get. >> sandra: jim jordan, here he is on the unifying and taking on

democrats. >> sometimes democracy is messy, i would argue that's how the founders intended it. they wanted real debate, real input from all people. we will come together to deal with how radical the left now has made the democrat party. >> sandra: ultimately that is the question, will this party come together now with control in the house after the speakership battle, and be able to put in place their republican agenda in the new congress. >> the new republicans i talked to largely seemed on the same page in terms of what they are going to put forward. they had the commitment to america, which mccarthy and other republicans worked on closely during the campaign, but the big hurdle for them, the senate that's called by democrats and president joe biden with veto power, they are going to put out bills, about the irs, about abortion, about a series of other topics that they have vowed to address. but whether that really makes it

forward is a whole different question. >> sandra: ok, appreciate you joining us, thanks very much. all right. john. >> john: sandra, wait until you see this. we have been talking about the weather in california. golfers at one of america's most iconic golf courses were sent scrambling for safety as the powerful storm overtaking the golden state made landfall. take a look at this video from pebble beach as a massive wave halfway submerged several golf carts and pulled golf equipment out to sea. nobody was hurt here as they scrambled to higher ground. wow, that rivals even scotland. you got to be tough to play that. my gosh. >> sandra: holy cow, amazing images, wow. as the golden state's famously sunny coastline has been dark and stormy in the recent weeks, we have been covering it, storm after storm has battled california with the torrential downpours forcing thousands to

evacuate their homes, some neighborhoods unrecognizable. >> john: fox team coverage now where they can expect to get some relief. first to robert ray, live on the pacific coast in central california. how are things looking there now? >> yeah, good afternoon, john. this beach in california just south of santa cruz, and you see the homes. look at this, john. all the homes have huge waves popping up and down banging up against, you see the boards, you see the sandbags all the way there, and john and sandra, look at the ocean right now. the pacific ocean roaring once again with 10, 15 foot swells out there that come in as the beach is continuing to erode. i want to show you something, too, guys. as more of these systems are coming in. and look at this. we don't have video of this, but i did just recently moments ago see video from a homeowner.

he showed me video from his nest camera. 20, 25 foot waves that came in here about 3 or 4 days ago, ripping apart the side of his home. they are trying to do repairs in the front. we would show you that but the signal keeps breaking up and then down below, guys, look at this. all of the sand that got washed in underneath the peers, unbelievable destruction up and down the coast. and again, john, this is just not ending. we are going to have 2, 3 more of these atmospheric rivers coming in as people are banging away trying to get things out of their homes right now and awaiting the next round. john. >> john: robert ray for us in the thick of things, which is where we always find them, thank you. >> sandra: remarkable look there. and california may not be out of the way, storms heading their way. adam, what are you seeing? >> round after round of this and the set-up is right here, this

is -- moisture and everything you are seeing back in the purple color, 1,000 miles back. that's the atmospheric river, so funneling towards the west coast will continue to do so, not just today but several rounds. currently last night and early this morning, more heavy rain, we are going to see it across the entire region. over the next days, stretching up the pacific northwest and then by the weekend another large round moves in across the state of california, rain, snow, sleet and all the wind once again and early next week, a third round heading for the entire state so we are just talking about all of that moisture continuing to run on shore. rain still to come over the next seven days with the heaviest in northern california. you'll see some of the oranges, you are getting up to about another six inches of rain. the ground already saturated, nowhere for new rain to go, that means you are talking about flooding. and further inland, more elevation and then think about the snowpack. so far on the year, some areas

as much as 250% of where we typically be this time of year, so we are way ahead on how much snow california would see and of course with this new round, every time you get to higher elevation you talk about a bunch more snow. it continues to be in the sierra nevadas. this is snow yet to come and see the pinks and purples, easily another 50 inches of snow in the week ahead. so, a ton of moisture is going to continue to head that way and just kind of give round after round after round so it's not over yet, sandra. >> sandra: wow. people are dealing with a lot there. adam, thank you. for continuing coverage, tune into fox weather by downloading the app for free at foxweather.com, scan the qr code on the screen. thank you very much. >> john: and while the severe storm wrecks the california coast with rain the mountain area in the northeastern part of the state has received a staggering amount of snow. how much snow? so much the mammoth mountain ski

area had to temporarily shut down yesterday and they are trying to get back up and going today whether conditions are safe. temporary nuisance likely greatly beneficial for the bottom line, officials say they will likely be able to keep the ski resort open into july due to the record amount of snowfall. lauren burke, communications director for the mammoth mountain ski resort. you would not be in the mountains you would have too much of it, where the snow belongs, lauren. >> yeah, it has been an absolutely wild couple of days here at mammoth. snow started coming down about two days ago and as of this morning on the mountain we got 6 to 7 and a half feet of snow in 48 hours. that's on top of the 15 or so feet that we have seen since the first of the year and right now we are seeing maybe 38 feet that we have gotten since the beginning of the season over the top of the mountain. so it's been an incredible start to the season and we are happy

to be back open with chair lifts spinning again today. >> john: wow, 28 feet of snow, difficult to comprehend, obviously some settles into a base, but you have fresh powder. tough all the lifts open today, yesterday the main lodge was closed, the half pipe was closed and most of the lifts on the upper part of the mountain were not working yesterday either. >> yeah, due to the intense snowfall and rapid accumulation we saw yesterday we did close the lifts yesterday for the safety of our skiers and our employees, but as of right now we have nine lifts spinning. our crew has been working around the clock with snow removal around all of our lodges, as well as doing avalanche control work on the upper mountain and we hope to have all lifts spinning by tomorrow. once we get through this big old dig-out up here. >> john: it's a big difference today, checking out the mountain cams for the last couple days and literally could not see anything because the snow was

coming down too hard. folks who were there trying to get some skiing in at mammoth mountain said, and i guess they were probably locals, a lot of locals do go there, they say they have not seen anything like this in a half century. >> no, you know. i've been living here over a decade and i don't remember the last time we saw this much snowfall in such a short period of time. we literally were snowed in yesterday with the highway closed in both directions, the roads were snow covered, but the crews here from the mountain to the town, they are incredible. they have all the roads open now, the highways have reopened and i've talked to some of the skiers this morning and say the conditions were so good. 18 inches of lighter, colder snow that came in last yesterday and that means the powder is really good out there. >> john: first time i ever went skiing out west was at snowbird in utah and i made it into the resort just before they closed the road in and out for avalanche control, so myself and ten other people had the mountain to ourselves about five

hours, it was just glorious. the amount of snow you have there now, you were telling our folks that you could keep the top of the mountain open through july? >> yeah, we are lucky to be at a really high elevation. our summit is over 11,000 feet, and that allows our snowpack to hold up really, really well. we are a lot higher than most of the tahoe resorts, so we have had seasons we have stayed open into august for skiing and riding. and with the start to the season like this, i think we'll be skiing into the summer months for sure. >> john: a lot of misery on the coast as the pineapple expresses come through. but up there in the mountains, it's good to have snow. a banner year going. lauren burke, thanks for joining us. good to see you. >> thank you so much. >> sandra: the briefing is taking place at the white house with karine jean-pierre. there was a pretty tense exchange that just happened involving questions from multiple reporters about the classified documents found in the president's possession between 2013 and 2016.

multiple reporters have been pressing her on this and reached a level of frustration they were not getting any answers. here was the exchange a moment ago. >> so you are the one here talking us about this, that's why we are asking you. just remember that. >> ed, ed, ed, we don't need to have this -- we work very well together. >> we do. >> we don't need to have this kind of confrontation. ask your question and i will answer them the best that i can. >> part of the reason we are laying that out is because you are laying out your part of the job. >> i know, i'm saying we don't need to have contention, contentious with me, ed. >> sandra: as i mentioned, that came after a series of questions from other reporters where they did not seem to be getting any further information from the white house. >> john: i don't remember kayleigh or sarah sanders saying you don't have to be contentious with me, it's what they expected. the fundamental relationship between the white house and the

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and help communities thrive. >> john: so much know in california. the heat at the white house briefing can melt the snow. >> sandra: i wondering where you were going with that. >> john: i'm not hearing you for some reason. >> sandra: okay. is control hearing me? are viewers hearing me? >> john: i have to read your lips. >> sandra: we're going back to the briefing. she's getting a lot of questions on why the president didn't reveal more earlier and

questions about transparency that was promised by candidate joe biden. listen. >> we talked about the cbs story, talked about the revelation of the documents. the documents itself in them, that's something that the president doesn't know. >> has he conveyed to you when he was briefed and can you get that answer? >> i have not talked to the president about that. what i can tell you is i know you have a lot of questions. there's an ongoing process here. i'm going to let the process finish before -- >> i want to let you respond to former vice president mike pence. talked about what he and other republicans are calling a double standard with the department of justice. mr. pence says the double standard by the biden administration in the wake of this incident is exactly what undermines public confidence in our justice system. >> again, as soon as his lawyers realized the documents were there, they did the right thing and they turned over