joining us justin george, transportation reporter for "the washington post." justin, thank you so much for being with us. explain to us why is southwest such a mess right now? what happened? >> yeah, it's pretty staggering. it's basically a perfect storm of what happened here. you had antiquated sort of older scheduling systems. you have so many things, so many variables, you're working with when you talk about flights. you're talking about positioning airplanes and cries and pilots and runways and gates. and all of those things sort of have to work together. well, according to employees, according to the union, according to analysts, southwest has been long working with out of date equipment. and they've been urging the airline to make an upgrade like many airlines have. and they haven't yet. they've been slow to do so, for whatever reason. and they've gotten by in the past, past storms, because they've been very centralized. they've been centralized in the state. their systems can sort of recover from that pretty quickly. or in a matter of days or so. but wha

joining us now, justin george, transportation reporter for the washington post. justin, thank you so much for being with us. explain to us how southwest is such a mess right now. what happened? >> it's pretty staggering, it's basically a perfect storm of what happened here. you have antiquated older scheduling systems, you have so many things, so many variables that you're working with in flights. positioning airplanes, crews, pilots, and runways. all of those things have to work together. according to employees, according to the union, including to analysts, southwest has long been working with out of date equipment. they have been urging the airline to make an upgrade, like many airlines have. they haven't yet. they've been slow to do so for whatever reason. they've gotten by in the past, because they've been very centralized, centralized instate, and their systems can recover from that. they can do that pretty quickly, or in a matter of days or so. what happened is that we saw a massive winter storm here. it blanketed 60% of the nation, and hit many airports. m

responsibility is with the department that proposal originated following the death of george floyd in 2020 kron four's. justin campbell is looking into the proposal. he'll have more coming up at 9 o'clock. the oakland naacp is calling for a recount of the city's mayoral race nearly a month after saying town declared victory over lauren taylor. >> in a statement today, the civil rights organization said many older voters have expressed confusion over the cities ranked choice voting system and the lack of voter education. the organization also pointed out alameda county does not allow for any automatic recounts, even in the case of a close election and a recount led by an individual or community would cost more than $100,000. well, four's amanda hari is speaking to oakland's naacp ease president tonight. she will have a response coming up on kron. 4 news at 9. the chp says a wrong-way driver is responsible for today's deadly crash in the east bay. a viewer shared dash cam video of the scene. >> that crash happened around 11:00am on highway 4 near railroad avenue. a dodge durango had been traveling westbound in

. >> by the way, george kittle will be making an appearance on new year's live justine and i will say cattle pay some hockey. the capitals, alex ovechkin scored is 800st in 800 and second career goals against the jets tonight pulling him ahead of gordie howe for second place on the all-time list. got the empty netter with a win over the jets. he's only the 3rd player in league history to score more than 800 goals. now only the great one. wayne gretzky with 894 goals stands in his way from becoming the nhl's all-time goals. leader warriors. really. they have lost 7 of 10. their superstar steph curry's out for a couple more weeks, at least with the shoulder. and the team is just out of sorts, not playing well, getting crushed on the road. they do play their next 8 at home and that will keep them in the bay for 22 days. hopefully they get some home cooking and can kind of reset. get on a little roll until steph comes back. but their first game of this homestand is going to be hard. it's christmas against the new rivals, the young guns, the memphis grizzlies, they're led by john a star hi

justin: republican challenger herschel walker and incumbent rafael warnock are vying once more to be george's next senator. both parties have brought out big-name support. >> mr. walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of georgia. like whether it is better to be a vampire or a werewolf. >> she didn't come to talk about hope and change, he came to make fun of my friend herschel walker. justin: in the final days of the campaign, walker still fending off accuser allegations, with one day left ago, concerned that walker's candidacy and democrats in a majority could affect turnout. although democrats have secured control of the upper chamber, a georgia win would tighten their grip. but a republican win could stall the president's agenda, possibly giving the gop an edge in 2024. justin finch, abc news, washington. reggie: this week, congress could consider lifting the covid vaccine mandate on military members. the national defense authorization act is set to be unveiled today. that could include the 21 republican governors that asked the biden administration

always george michael, the fray, david bowie, and i do like a lot of the new justin bieber song's.erly hilton which was awesome. >> trace: michelle paulino, you have your list. >> my top artist was kacey musgraves, bonnie barrick, dr drake, shady graves -- >> trace: somebody throw some jazz and there appeared. >> i'm a huge jazz fan, i had count me see here, and sometimes i just want to relax a little, and i also like bics, i'm a big fan of miles and on occasion i will break out some marvin gaye inner city blues is a great reminder of where we have been as a country. >> trace: for the opposite, let's go to matt finn. >> i am the odd one out, i have pandora, i am old school, but i will be curious what my a super embarrassing song would be. do something i even admit. >> trace: even the genre? >> hip-hop and r&b. >> trace: that's nice. >> i'm so behind the times come i don't have spotify either. my son loves harry styles, so we listen to that, i like taylor swift, not ashamed to admit it. but i listen to '90s music, stuck in the '90s. >> trace: it's amazing, because somebody said do y

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