gary kelly. what's in it for the taxpayer to keep airline workers working when so many other industries don't get that kind of help? >> you will see massive lay office absent some kind of support. >> reporter: he's said passenger traffic needs to double to avoid them next year. additional government for would buy time while business remains off by 75 percent. 84% of leisure fliers haven't booked a trip this summer. people widely support masks on board and support did blocked middle seats. part of a new normal in very uncertain skies. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> juggling home and work. meet some moms on capitol hill doing it. that's next. a lotta folks are asking me lately how to get their dishes as clean as possible. i tell them, you should try cascade platinum plus the power of oxi. cascade platinum + oxi penetrates and breaks down food soils some detergents can leave behind, washing away even the smallest food residue, so it doesn't redeposit on your dishes. and oxi is cascade's m

gary kelly. what's in it for the taxpayer to keep airline workers working when so many other industries don't get that kind of help? >> you will s massive lay office absent some kind of support. >> reporter: he's said passenger traffic needs to double to avoid them next year. additional government for would buy time while business remains off by 75 percent. 84% of leisure fliers haven't booked a trip this summer. people widely support masks on board and support did blocked middle seats. part of a new normal in very uncertain skies. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> juggling home and work. meet some moms on capitol hill doing it. that's next. a lotta folks are asking me lately how to get their dishes as clean as possible. i tell them, you should try cascade platinum plus the power of oxi. cascade platinum + oxi penetrates and breaks down cascade platinum plus the power of oxi. food soils some detergents can leave behind, washing away even the smallest food residue,de onour dishes. and oxi

gary kelly: why is it so hard to get a mask policy that doesn't change every two weeks? >> that's a great question. i think there's an evolution in the learning about how effective the masks are. , you know, as we learn new information and get new information from the c.d.c., we're updating our policies. >>oi take y off tohoyou 95. it's a construction mask with a vent. when i blow do it, watch the filter? see how it moves? that's unfiltered air coming out of the mask which means while it may protect me, it may not be protecting those around me. marg get. >> brennan: important to see. thank you, kris. there is still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." we're tracking not one but two tropical storms tonight. and watch what happens when you don't practice safe social distancing around a protected bison. they can du more with less asthma. thanks to dupixent, the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. dupixent isn't for sudden breathing problems. it can improve lung function for better breathing in as little as 2 weeks and help prev

despite all this, southwest ceo gary kelly is saying no layoffs, no furloughs this year. now. good morning, gary. >> good morning, poppy. >> you wrote this memo to your entire team, and you say we're in the fight of our lives. you said there's a siege ahead. how can your financial position be so dire and not have any layoffs a head. i know you had 17,000 voluntary people taking an early leave, but how long can you make that promise of no layoffs for? >> well, i think the early retirement program and the leave program is key in answering your question. that's close to 30% of our total workforce. what we need here is to buy ourselves time. i firmly believe that things will get back to normal. it's just a question of when. if you go back to the spring, we hoped it would be by the fall. i don't think that's going to be the case. i think we'll have a vaccine hopefully around the end of the year, early next year and hopefully things will begin to improve so we've got a ways to go, but with a 27% reduction in our workforce, i'd like to see how things go here in the fourth quarter

cbs news transportation correspondent kris van cleave spoke with southwest airlines ceo gary kelly aboutong the more than 82,000 airline employees cbs news has learn have been told they could be furloughed as soon as october 1st when the government's payroll support program runs out. >> it's almost like watching something that you've been a part of that you've helped build kind of fall apart or crumble, and you don't have anything else to do other than just stand aside and feel helpless. >> reporter: but help could come from capitol hill. 223 members of the house and 16 senate republicans have now signed letters calling for an another $25 billion in payroll support for airlines to avoid job cuts until at least next march. >> we're very grateful for the support that we've had. >> reporter: southwest airlines ceo, gary kelly -- what's in it for the taxpayer to keep airline workers working when so many other industries don't get the help? >> it's very clear that absent some continued support, you will see massive layoffs in october. you'll see massive service cuts. and that simply means tha

i wish we had gary kelly on, i know he feels strongly that it is the safest place to be but those numbersndicate that it's just not coming back phil lebeau did great stuff, again, on that yesterday cars are coming back, but -- used cars, houses are back, uh-oh, and here we go. >> we got it we got it, jim all time high for the s&p, 3393, almost 3,394, the first fresh intraday high for the index since the middle of february, jim, when covid was simply something that was still going on in china. >> the average american is thinking that we are completely and utterly nuts they don't understand this at all. they don't understand it could happen but they also don't understand that the companies that are being traded are the winners and the companies that they may be used to away from them will be in oblivion and that's one of the things that is really going to be driving things as we see t of course, the banks -- look at amazon up 87 why? i mean, amazon obviously of all these other guys are doing well on e-commerce like all mart, then amazon is doing well. i think it's, tracted from the little g

gary kelly is extraordinary, he said there is really no place to go we're getting more and more placeso go and i think anyone who watches sports knows that there are some pockets of the economy that make it so that you want to get on a plane gary of course always been at the vanguard of saying airplane traffic is safe but let's wear masks. i booked an airplane -- airplane yesterday and it's -- geez, i find it's a safer place because people wear masks and the air circulates he has been at the vanguard of that, these numbers are good, this stock is ready to run >> we are betting on an improved, i guess, traffic season going into the fall >> i think the trajectory is getting very interesting i do think part of the problem, but gary doesn't face it, is we can't go to places italy won't take us, they will send us right back, they know that firsthand spain won't take us unless you have a visa which very hard to be able to get you have many countries that are saying off limits to us, but that doesn't matter so much for southwest because it's largely domestic i would not extrapolate this altho

southwest airlines ceo gary kelly does not expect the carrier to be profitable at all this year and that will be the first time in 47 years. he says look, traffic's down, revenue's down, both about 75% from last year which is making this idea of profitability, he says quote, unrealistic. they are also still burning through $20 million in cash a day. a lot of people, lot of analysts say southwest is the best positioned here because it's a domestic carrier. we are more inclined to take trips in the u.s. than overseas. even southwest struggling pretty badly. ashley: $20 million a day. lauren: a day. ashley: that is staggering. some of the other airlines are even worse. staying on the airlines, take a look at united. i guess they are betting big on one stake, adding dozens of daily flights. the question, of course, which state? lauren: florida. the bet is that when the weather turns colder, people will want to just do something, go to the beach, enjoy the warm weather. starting november 6, they are adding dozens of flights to florida. it's a big bet by united and it's actually, if you look a

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gary. >> joe fryer, nbc news >>> and that is nightly news, thank you for watching everyone, i'm lester holt please continue to take care of yourself and each other ♪ >> kellyhey, what's up, y'all, another gorgeous day in l.a., celebrating the summer staycation celebration with all y'all. we have made a change here at "the kelly clarkson show." we have the band back together in the same room with safe social distancing. set up at the same recording studio in los angeles. a historic space were over 100 musicians got together to perform "we are the world." i have perform there many times for records. cyndi lauper, mariah carey, so many people on that song. i recorded there a ton as well. i just want to say hey to my band, what's up, y'all, how are you doing? >> we are good, i miss you. >> kelly: we are getting there. we are getting to the point. i still have to isolate. it's fine. what is it like to play in such a significant city? we have never done our show there. >> if we can't be at universal this is next best thing. you kno