here is nbc's blake mccoy. >> reporter: tonight, prosecutors announcing no criminal charges in music superstar prince's death after revealing he died from counterfeit vicodin, unknowingly laced with one of the most powerful pain killers, fentanyl. >> in all likelihood, prince had no idea he was taking a counterfeit pill that could kill him. >> reporter: after a two-year investigation, prosecutors unable to determine where it came from. >> we have no direct evidence that a specific person provided the fentanyl to prince. >> reporter: prince's doctor has denied any wrongdoing but today agreed to a $30,000 fine and two years of monitoring for prescribing percocet to prince's long-time friend and bodyguard allegedly for prince's use. the famously private "purple rain" singer had been battling a secret opioid addiction after being treated for back pain. newly released evidence today shows his lifeless body by an elevator in his paisley park home. prince's case is tragic but not unique. >> this is not unique whatsoever. we see this every day. >> reporter: hazel in betty ford says more and

blake mccoy, jefferson city, missouri. >>> let's turn now to an nbc news exclusive. we're hearing from the philadelphia rap superstar whose stiff sentence over probation violations garnered national attention and calls for criminal justice reform and even enlisted the support of jay-z. so compelling is meek mill's story his prison visitors went from sporting moguls to the mayor of philadelphia. >> how does it feel to be part of the system? >> reporter: he's become a symbol for criminal justice reform. >> free meek mills! >> louder! >> reporter: and a viral sensation on social media. meek mill, a jailed rap star who has attracted support of some of the biggest names in entertainment and sports just this week a prison visit from 76ers owner mike ruben and patriots owner robert kraft. >> he's an amazing young man. >> reporter: the 30-year-old has had a meteoric a rise from a tough philadelphia neighborhood. >> walking through the neighborhood, this is the bullet holes in the windows, bullet holes in the cars when you walking to school. ♪ >> reporter: his troubles began

nbc's blake mccoy has the developments. >> reporter: consumed by scandal. tonight, missouri governor eric greitens, is defiant, refusing to resign. >> let's call this what it is. a political witch hunt. >> reporter: that hastily arranged press conference came right before the missouri house released its report outlining an affair greitens had the year before he was governor, describing one of their encounters, the woman says, greitens smacked me and grabbed me and shoved me to the ground and i was like, what's wrong with you? greitens has denied violence. he's equated his troubles to those of the president. >> smearing people who want to get things done is wrong in washington and it's wrong in no. >> reporter: greitens says in 33 days at that trial, the public will learn the truth. blake mccoy, nbc news. >>> back in this country, the announcement from mariah carey, the pop superstar revealing her long battle with bipolar disorder. nbc's kristen deahlgren has the story. >> reporter: for decades, mariah carey has lived her life in public, sometimes showing er

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my colleague blake mccoy is there. are as i mentioned just a moment ago we did hear from the president on the russia investigation. he called it junk. what more did he have to say about that? the investigation that's ongoing into russia's involvement in the 2016 election? >> in his mind, the fact that the house closed their report on friday, in his words, found no collusion, he feels like it's over. this whole thing is overblown and he's ready to move past it. speaking about james comey specifically, he said he's a liar and a leaker. that got the crowd revved up here. >> they love the john lovetts allows from the late '90s. senator john tester, the democrat of montana, early early before this event, the president was in washington, d.c., he played some golf at trump national golf course, tweeted a bit about senator john tester who released that two-page document about the president's former nominee to head the veterans administration. admiral ronnie jackson. the president did bring up the admiral tonight. what did he h

blake mccoy is live for us outside of trump tower with the latest. blake, the big question is what caused this fire? has that been made clear yet? >> reporter: not yet, alex. you can see a heavy fire department presence is here as they work to determine a cause of this deadly blaze at the president's name stake manhattan building. flames erupting from the 50th floor of trump tow near midtown manhattan, grinding fifth avenue to a halt as bystanders watched black smoke billow from the windows. debris falls to the street. >> that didn't look natural. it was shooting out and the glalsz sta glass started falling down. >> reporter: the new york siloe fire department was arrived around 5:05 and arrived within minutes. >> the apartment was virtually entirely in fire. they were knocking down the fire. >> reporter: inside the apartment a 67-year-old art dealer was found unconscious. the tower is home to the president and first family in d.c. at the time. fire officials say the secret service reported no damage to the president's penalty house on the 66th floor.

. >> nbc's blake mccoy is in carver county, minnesota. c legal analyst katie fang is also with me now. blake, let me start with you are they essentially saying that prince died from street drugs? >> yes, that's right, craig, but they don't know where the drugs came from, which is why there are no charges. the street drugs that you're talking about, it was counterfeit vicodin that was given to prince by someone. but they don't know who and that counterfeit vicodin was laced with the deadly drug fentanyl. which we know is much more powerful than vicodin. so prince was battling an opoid addiction and he was getting pills from several sources, including some legally through doctors. but they don't know where these street drugs came from and that's why they're not filing charges. while no criminal charges are being filed, a civil case was settled today by one of prince's doctors, dr. michael todd schluenberg. the dea found that doctor was prescribing prince's longtime friend and bodyguard percocet to be used by prince. he has agreed to a fine a

nbc's blake mccoy is in washington michigan. ow the president expects a big crowd tonight. what do you expect? >> reporter: well, we're seeing the starts of a big crowd right now. doors open in about 30 minutes. that's the venue. an athletic complex. you can see folks lining up waiting to go through security. they've been out since early this morning hoping to get close enough to the stage when the president arrives. he's going to be speaking at 7:00 tonight. this is meant as counter programming to the white house correspondents' dinner going on in washington, d.c. the president will be speaking here at 7:00. a few hours before that he's going to be speaking in front of a friendly crowd here getting his message out. we know he's going to be talking about the economy, jobs, tax cuts, messages that really resonate with average people here in middle america. some other issue that is we're going to be watching for to come up in the speech. peace talks between north and south korea. he's also been tweeting about the russia investigati

blake mccoy is outside trump tower with the latest. a significant fire, pretty frightening to witness from the ground. >> reporter: absolutely. ground fifth avenue to a halt. investigators remain here trying to determine what caused this deadly fire. as you mentioned, it broke out on the 50th floor of trump tower, above the president's offices but below his penalty hou -- penthouse afarmpartmenapart. 67-year-old todd brassnard died. the president was not home at the time but tweeted thanks to firefighters. six of them were injured but we're told all firefighters will be okay. alex? >> all right. now i want to talk about the sprinkler system. you had mentioned that. what is the deal there? there was no sprinklers? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the new york fire department says there is no sprinklers here. any newer building would be required to have a sprinkler system. that wasn't passed until the '90s. it was grandfathered in and will make it more difficult. >> you can i'm hmaginmagine. thank you blake mccoy. >>> my next guest found

blake mccoy is on the scene a few blocks from it. >> reporter: good morning to you, willie. firefighters remain on scene to determine a cause as the president's namesake manhattan building. flames erupting from the 50th floor of trump tower in mid town manhattan. grinding fifth avenue to a halt as bystanders watched black smoke billow from the windows, debris fall to the street. >> it didn't look natural. it was so much fire shooting out and then the glass started falling down. >> reporter: the new york city fire department said they were alerted to the 4 alarm blaze around 5:30 p.m. saturday and arrived within minutes. >> the apartment was virtually entirely on fire. they pushed in heroically. they were knocking down the fire. >> reporter: inside the apartment 67-year-old todd gr s grassner, an art dealer was found unconscious. he died at the hospital. the tower is home to the president and first family who were in d.c. at the time. fire officials say the secret service reported no damage to the president's penthouse on the 66th floor. fire at trump tower is out, very confi

here is nbc's blake mccoy. >> for nearly eight frantic minutes, a 12-year-old boy is under water. his left leg is sucked into a hotel pool drain unable to be pulled free. the surveillance video which first made headlines last week is difficult to watch. >> it has been very traumatic for our family. >> reporter: now speaking out in the first interview, alittle is papis said her son, she asked we not name him, spent eight days on a ventilator and three in a medically induced coma. >> a total of three days where we didn't know if he would open his eyes or what would happen once they did stop the medicine to wake him up. >> the frightening scene happened last month when his family was on vacation at the avista resort in myrtle beach, south carolina, in the unguarded swimming pool the two boys lifted a case and his leg got sucked into a pipe and became stuck. now to everyone's surprise, the young boy is home in michigan and back at school. >> people who hear that he had been under water for eight minutes say there is no reason your son should be alive today. why do you think he is? >>

blake mccoy is in washington, michigan for us, and what do you expect to hear from the president? >> well, we have made it from outside of the sports arena to inside now. and as the president's tweet alluded to, he is going to be talking about the economy, and how he feels that he has been able to help everyday working americans who helped to elect him, and he is going to be talk about the economy and the tax cuts and also, president trump is very comfortable in the environments surrounded by his supporters and look at the red "make america great" hats, and he tend goes off script in the environments and he could talk about anything, north korea, the russia investigation, and you just don't know. so it is interesting to see what he chooses to talk about. we have known that this is the reason that he chose washington, michigan, instead of washington, d.c., to give this speech, is that washington, michigan happens to be in macomb county, which is the key county in michigan that helped to swing michigan to president trump's election. they had elected obama twice and went hard for tru

. >> blake mccoy joins us now from oklahoma city.me more about the issues there because people are confused. they did get more money, but we know teachers are famously, you know, underpaid across the country. >> reporter: yeah, andrea. let's put that $6100 raise into context. it was their first raise in more than a decade. so while they're happy they're getting more money, it was less than what they were asking for, which is $10,000. and in addition, there are no guaranteed raises going forward. they were asking, okay, well, can we get a pay bump in year two, pay bump in year three. all of that was left off the table. it's not that the teachers are ungrateful. they don't trust the legislature. they want more assurances that they're going to get more money in the future. i want to bring in lawrence lane, a high school teacher. you've been a long-time teacher in your district. you work four jobs. >> no doubt about it. i've had to. i work part-time at a retail outlet in tulsa. i also officiate high school basketball, announce high schoo

our blake mccoy has the story. [ chanting ] >> reporter: thousands of teachers and students marching out of the classroom to the steps of oklahoma's capitol. >> we need textbooks, we need more teachers. >> reporter: jennifer thornton is a third grade teacher in tulsa taking home just $1,952 a month after taxes, accepting help from family hen her 19-year-old son and recalls passing students while driving to a food bank for the first time. >> they waved smiling at me and i thought, i can't -- i'm so embefore rased. embarrassed. i should not have do this. i have two degrees. >> reporter: a walkout lawmakers tried to i void passing a pay raise for teachers last week, the largest in state history. you got a big pay raise last week. why is that not about? >> it's not about the pay raise. it's about the kids. we need funding for our kids. >> reporter: this student brought what's left of her textbook >> it is from 2006. >> every single day you'll see a teacher come in early, stay late. all for us. this is all for us. >> 55 strong! >> reporter: this teacher revolt began in west virginia a mon

blake mccoy, nbc news. >> in a new statement, greitens defended his relationship with the woman saying it was consentual and any allegation of violence or sexual assault is false. >>> overnight the republican speaker of the house hit back. and demanding his impeachment. >> let me be clear about this. this is not a witch hunt. the testimony outlined in the report is beyond disturbing. >> it is clear to me that this governor must resign, if he fails to do so, i believe we should be begin impeachment proceedings. >> california's governor has agreed to deploy 400 national guard troops to the u.s./mexico border at president trump's request, but not for immigration enforcement. governor jerry brown stressed that the troops will not be used to detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. those troops are headed to new mexico where jeff sessions is speaking on securing the border. and sessioned blasted sanctuary cities saying they allow criminals in their communities. >> they are saying, we're sanctuary city. if they were hauling dope to san francisco when they got arrested they

nbc news's blake mccoy has that story. >> reporter: teachers in oklahoma preparing for week two of a out are finding unexpected allies. >> i am so proud of our teachers for walking out and striking. >> reporter: becky murphy is a lawyer. she and nearly 200 of her female law colleagues will visit the capital monday to mediate a resolution, or they say they'll run for the legislator's seats come november. >> if you're not willing to come up to the table with a solution, then i'm going to find somebody who will do that for you. >> reporter: it's the evolution of a movement that started simply as a facebook group by middle school teacher alberto morjan. are you surprised how this has taken off in >> it surprised me a little bit but it doesn't because there's a problem. i mean, you hear them now. there is a problem na needs to be fixed. >> reporter: educators demands are far from met. $10,000 raise for teachers over three years, 5,000 for support staff, an additional 200 million for classrooms. this is where things stand. despite signing off on that average $6100 raise, governor mary fall

nbc's blake mccoy has the story from one of the meetings here in new york. >> reporter: march for our lives took demands for stricter gun control to the streets, led by determined young people. >> if you don't stand with us, you are against us. >> reporter: two weeks later, they are taking town hall for our lives to the lawmakers. in more than 100 cities across the country, like sterling, virginia, near the ball field where several people were shot and wounded during a congressional softball practice last year. >> if our safety is up for debate, it's frustrating and sad. >> reporter: in chicago, long plagued by gun violence with nearly 2,800 shootings last year. >> we see mass shootings but we also see gun violence in chicago every single day. >> reporter: broward county, florida, home to marjory stoneman douglas high school where 17 were shot and killed in february. >> i am tired of marching. i'm tired of protesting and tired of holding up a sign to say stop killing our children. >> reporter: one of those student survivors on hand for this town hall on staten island, new york. >> wha

blake mccoy is in washington township, michigan, for the latest on that tonight. blake, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, jose. this washington, unlike the capital, is very much trump country. mccomb county was pivotal in giving donald trump the key electoral votes from michigan in the 2016 election. this is a county that went twice for obama and then swung heavily to donald trump. he has a lot of supporters in the crowd tonight, many of them wearing red "make america great again" hats. he's set to go on stage at 7:00 p.m., just before the white house correspondents dinner gets under way, and this is counterprogramming, getting his message out in front of a friendly crowd. in explaining that decision, he said in a fund-raising e-mail this week, why would i want to be stuck in a room with a bunch of fake news liberals who hate me? i came up with something much better, i'm going to hold a rally in michigan and spend the evening with my favorite deplorables who love our movement and love america. he's promised to talk about jobs and the economy tonight,

blake mccoy for us this morning. you. >>> let's check in with dylan with another check on the weather. >> great crowd this morning. i hear you're celebrating a birthday. how old are you turning? >> 10. >> 10 years old. and where are you from? >> houston, texas. >> and you get to secelebrate yr 10th birthday in new york. how cool is that? that's pretty cool. let's look at the southeast where we are going to see the chance of some stronger storms. this morning the heaviest of the storms are moving through new orleans with torrential downpours, also small hail and damaging winds are a possibility. mobile, alabama, seeing that. and it continues to move east. this storm system is going to continue to slowly move east through the day today. so it's going to be kind of a washout for areas like eastern virginia and north carolina, south carolina too. then the front moves away but it gets very, very cold on the backside of this system with temperatures still staying below average. rainfall amounts could be up to about 1 to 3

nbc's blake mccoy is at the scene for us this morning. blake, good morning to you.hat can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, savannah. the roadway on long island just reopened. that's the overpass in question. and when you see the video, it's amazing that everyone survived. >> we have a motor vehicle accident. eastbound parkway. >> reporter: overnight, a terrifying crash on a busy new york highway. a charter bus carrying dozens of high school students plowing through an overpass, coming out the other side. the top of the bus, sheared off. glass was sprayed along the busy highway. >> the impact to the overpass was significant. it wasn't just a bump. if you look at the bus from the side, it's got substantial damage. >> reporter: video seen here, shows students climbing out of the bus. first responders using ladders to rescue those left inside. all 43 passengers and the driver were injured in the crash. at least one seriously. injuries range from broken bones to cuts and scrapes. >> this was treated as a mass casualty incident. >> reporter: 38 students between 16

blake mccoy is in oklahoma with more. >> here in oklahoma, schools are closed today in anticipation of this teacher walkout. it could be the largest demonstration ever here at oklahoma's state capitol. a teacher rebellion marches on. this morning more than 40,000 teachers in oklahoma will stage a walkout. rallying at the capitol for increased school funding and better pay. lawmakers true to stave off a walkout with a $6100 increase but teachers say it's not enough. >> i'm not walking out on my children or my students. i'ming was out for them. >> oklahoma says it extends far i don't understand salaries. pointing to overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks and buildings in disrepair. >> our buildings are falling down. >> we need legislature to keep working. they need to fully fund our classrooms. >> oklahoma consistently ranks near bottom. 47th in per pupil spending. $3,000 below the national average. other states like arizona and kentucky have seen rallies and walkouts as well. inspired in west virginia where nearly two weeks on the picket line resulted in a pay raise. >> i want my st

here is nbc's blake mccoy. >> reporter: this morning, missouri governor eric greitens remains defiant in the wake of a scathing new report outlining in detail an extramarital affair the year before he was elected. >> let's call this what it is. a political witch hunt. >> reporter: a bipartisan investigation found the woman overall credible in her claims that include sexual violence and blackmail. saying, in part, she felt coerced, maybe, into giving him oral sex. in a subsequent encounter, she says greitens slapped her. i felt like he was trying to claim me, the report reads. the slap did not leave a mark but was jarring. it wasn't sweet and gentle. it was forceful. greitens says the affair was consensual and denies any violence. >> the testimony outlined in the report is beyond disturbing. >> reporter: that is missouri's speaker of the house, a fellow republican. democrats going even further. >> we just saw a governor that took absolutely no responsibility for anything at all. it was an absolute disgrace. he was absolutely dishonorable. it is time for him to resign. >> reporter: now,

here's nbc's blake mccoy. >> reporter: for nearly eight frantic minutes a 12-year-old boy is under waterveillance video is difficult to watch. >> traumatic for our family. >> reporter: speaking out in her first interview, she says shirr son, asked we not name him, spent eight days on a ventilator, three in a medically induced coma. >> total of three days roughly you didn't even know if he would open his eyes or what would happen once they did stop the medicine to wake him up. >> reporter: the frightening scene happened last month when his family was on vacation at the vista resort in myrtle beach, south carolina. the unguarded swimming pool, two pois playing lift add drain when his leg got sucked into a pipe and became stuck. to everyone's surprise, the young boy is home in michigan and back at school. >> people who hear that he had been underwater eight minutes say there's no reason your son should be alive today. why do you think he is? >> i know that so many people prayed for him, and -- sorry -- it's just a miracle, i think. >> reporter: she gives particular credit to shean skerski t

nbc's blake mccoy has that story. >> reporter: this morning several sun country airline passengers are waking up in mexico stranded. >> even when we went to the airport, no communication -- >> reporter: the vacations getting an unplanned and unwanted extension after the return flights to minnesota were canceled because of a massive snowstorm. the bigger issue, they were the airlines last flights out of the area for the season. >> i mean, i'm sure there are still people stranded there. >> reporter: sun country sending an e-mail telling them the tickets would be refund and they need to book their own return trips at their own expense. stating in part, because this cancelation is due to weather and our seasonal service has ended, you will need to make arrangements on another airline for your return flight. >> they're like well you don't have seats on this flight. and we're like, what do you mean we don't have seats? we have a confirmed flight and this is our travel day. >> reporter: now calling on federal officials to review the cancellations to ensure other passengers are protected. sena

nbc's blake mccoy joins me live with the latest.e know about the latest allegations against gritens? >> not good, the walls keep closing in on governor greitens. the latest allegation relates to a charity that he founded in 2007. the attorney general has found evidence that greitens used a donor list from that charity to seek out political donations later on when he ran for governor, which would be a crime. those findings have been handed over to the st. louis prosecutor. that is the same prosecutor who is already taking governor greitens to trial next month on that blackmail charge. he's charged with felony invasion of privacy for allegedly trying to blackmail a woman he had an affair with. this would be a second felony charge, should that st. louis prosecutor decide to move forward with it. the governor has denied any wrongdoing. continues to do so. calling this a political witch hunt, but it's not looking good for the governor. i've been down to jefferson city several times. i've spoken to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who

. >> blake mccoy outside trump tower in new york a few blocks away from me here at 30 rock. >>> when and if president trump knew about the alleged hush money payment between stormy daniels and attorney michael cohen is still a topic for discussion and late night ridicule on "saturday night live." >> you just denied knowing anything about the stormy daniels payout. but if that's true doesn't that make her nda nonbinding? >> ooh, that's a toughie. borat, you want to take that one? >> daniels' attorney michael avenatti tweeted a response, unlike the talented alec baldwin on "saturday night live" last night, in a deposition under oath mr. trump will not be able to simply pass the question about the nda to someone else. joining us now, danny savalos. president trump on a trip last week went back, talked to members of the press on the plane, said he knew nothing of the $130,000 payment, referred questions to michael cohen, his attorney. how significant is that? >> the fascinating thing about contract law is you'll see beau sides take the exact same statement and apply their own pr

michigan's electoral vote, and so there a bigger symbol iism at play here >> that is my colleague blake mccoy there in washington township, as he said in michigan as we are awaiting the remarks from the president of the united states at the campaign rally there. and counter programming tonight. there is that and the white house correspondents' dinner, and we will have jay newton small, and alex ssietz, and als, let me bring up something that kellyanne conway talked about tonight about this president's approach to the press. what you make of oit? going to fox news and twitter and finding the ways to talk to the american people unorthodox or nushgs and how has that been manifested this week? >> what he and a lot of the politicians call speaking directly to the american people is often meaning to avoiding the tough questions whose job it is to hold politicians accountable. when he skipped it, it was a statement, and this year, it is not a surprise. but he is the first president to skip this dinner and that is because reagan was shot and he phoned in to give some encouragement about the importanc

nbc's blake mccoy is in oklahoma city. blake, good morning. what does today hold?> reporter: good morning to you. many schools here in oklahoma are closed today in preparation for this walk-out. teachers will descend here on the capitol hill for what could be the largest demonstration ever at oklahoma's capitol. a teacher rebellion marches on. this morning, 40,000 teachers in oklahoma will stage a walkout, rallying at the state capitol, for increased school funding and better pay. lawmakers staved off a walkout last week trying passing a $6,100 salary increase, the largest in state history, but teachers say it's not enough. >> i'm not walking out on my children or students. i'm walking for my students. >> reporter: problems in oklahoma extend beyond salaries, pointing to overcrowded classrooms, outdated books and equipment in disrepair. >> our buildings are falling down. it's because my classroom tables have been molded back together three times in the past 24 months. >> we need the ledge slature to keep working. they need to fully fund our classrooms. >> reporter:

nbc's blake mccoy is outside prince's paisley park estate. d morning. >> reporter: hoda, good morning to you. prince we all know lived a remarkable life, but sadly died an all-too-common death, opioid addiction. this morning here in minnesota the case is now closed, the evidence being released. we do want to warn you, some of it is disturbing. newly released evidence taking us inside prince's paisley park home the day he died. his lifeless body sprawled by an elevator, the victim of a drug overdose. photos show an unidentified white powder in the home and a bag labeled opium. chilling snapshots of prince's final moments. singer sinead o'connor's smash hit "nothing compares to you" was written by prince. she told police he would fruently descend into drug-fueled rages. hen we would come out of the room he would be very violent, very aggressive. his eyeballs would disappear literally from his eyes as if they vanished. >> reporter: authorities say what ultimately killed prince, counterfeit vicodin laced with extremely potent fentanyl. >> in all l

nbc's blake mccoy is in the newest battle ground, talking about oklahoma. good morning to you. >> reporter: teachers here feel emboldened vowing to continue the walkout. it's a movement. this morning, teachers will descend on oklahoma's capital for a second day demanding better pay and more money for classrooms. this man teaches. his salary $44,000 a year. he works three side jobs for extra cash, officiating basketball, announcing football and working at a discount clothing store. >> i imagine you're not working four jobs because you want to. >> no because i like to do things no normal people do. >> why not leave? i have a love, a tremendous passion for what i do. >> reporter: oklahoma law makers passed an historic pay raise last week but teachers have doubts over how it will be funded and they're demanding additional funding for overcrowded outdated classrooms. one sign read my textbooks are older than me. >> in is my history textbook. >> that's why we're here. here's here for the kids. >> koundsounds like they're her you. >> it's not only the teachers fig

blake mccoy has that story for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you.ares are made of. minnesota-based sun country airlines abruptly canceling the tickets leaving hundreds of passengers stranded in mexico trying to get home on their own. this morning several sun country airline passengers are waking up in mexico stranded. >> even when we went to the airport, no communication. >> reporter: their vacations getting an unplanned and unwanted extension after their return flights to minnesota were canceled because of a massive snowstorm. the bigger issue? they were the airline's last flights out of the area for the season. >> i'm sure some people are still stranded there. >> reporter: sun country sending an e-mail saying their tickets would be refunded and they'd need to book their own return trips at their own expense. because this cancellation is due to weather and our seasonal service has ended, you will need to make arrangements on another airline for your return flight. >> they're like, well, you don't have seats on this flight. and we're like, what do y