standed by the winter storm are trying to make it back home for christmas, senior correspondent mike tobin live from chicago's o'hare international airport with the very latest there, mike, i hesitate to ask you, what is the mood there at the airport with all of the delays and cancellations? mike: things are starting to normalize as the storm is moving east of the country, east of o'hare airport. blue skies above you. line of people waiting to go through tsa behind me and frankly that's first line we have seen pile up today. that doesn't mean there aren't delays and cancellations as we look at the mayor carriers, american air lynns has had 89 cancellations. they are headquartered largely out of atlanta. southwest has had it rough throughout the process. misfortune of having most flight patterns the path of the storm. the difficult is for southwest right now, buffalo new york and cleveland where you have the lake-effect snow piling up. united is 212 cancellations, pretty light since yesterday. as we look across the nation, looking at domestic flights, 2,060 cancellations throughout the day.

. >> john: marsha blackburn with the answer to that, and mike tobin is live in eagle pass, texas and have more on how the border union is responding to what the president said on his way to arizona. >> we just heard from the president's lips, why isn't he visiting the border, he has more important things going on. a swift response from brandon judd, nothing is more important than the safety and security of the american people but to president biden it is an afterthought with record number of people and drugs, including deadly fentanyl crossing our border, apparent biden cares more about politics than our children, friends, and neighbors. and the migrants keep coming. late this morning, a group of about 150 showed up in eagle pass, and there is a crisis looming, title 42 set to be repealed, one estimate, if it's gone border traffic would triple, 18,000 illegal crossings every day. one proposal is to bus them to nearby towns like uvalde, texas. there is no bus station, people would just be dropped at a gas station. and you know the name uvalde from the mass shooting at robb elementary.

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mike tobin is at the chicago airport, good evening, mike. >> reporter: good evening, southwest executives promised to return to normal operation. secretary pete buttigieg sends out a letter scolding the airline of problems that were quote, "within controls of the airlines," the secretary monitors the airlines making good on everything on reimbursements and returning home. nearly 2500 flights were canceled and bulk of them is southwest. the boss issuing another apology. >> my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you and you will hear more about that soon. but for now, we are focused on reliability and level of customer experience of what we expect of ourselves and what you expect from us. >> the chaos was predictable. there had been repeated technology fall-out and despite warnings, southwest did not upgrade. the staff that fell off the grid that slept at airport lounges at christmas is the same group of people executives are dedepending onto get

senior correspondent mike tobin live on the ground in eagle pass, texas. at the border is just not letting up both with drugs and people trying to get to the u.s. side. on the mexican side of the border stop that just happened there netted 660 pounds of that deadly and potent synthetic opioid fentanyl. drugs concealed on all things coconut. two people were arrested. the border patrol says there was enough fentanyl in this seizure to kill over 5 million people. texas state troopers picked up 45 pounds of cocaine that a truck driver attempt today smuggle through hidalgo county, texas. the cocaine was wrapped up in 17 packages. that cocaine seizure is part of operation lone star spear-headed by greg abbott. seized 353 million loads of fentanyl. but abbott presses the point that texas is doing to job that should be done by the federal government securing the nation's border. >> it is imperative for the biden administration to step up to make sure they do everything possible to stop this deadly drug from coming across our border, coming into our state and then g

mike tobin live in chicago for us, thank you, mike. gillian. >> gillian: to buffalo, officials are warning residents they are not out of the woods just yet. rainfall is expected over the next few days, major concern of the possibility of widespread flooding. rick is in the fox weather center. >> pretty amazing swings of weather in buffalo this year so far. record breaking snowfall about a month ago, and all of that snow melted, which is pretty amazing for the month of november into december to get temperatures warm enough to melt. now we had this second record breaking storm across the same area, and now we have warm air coming in that's going to melt this again. this a look at the satellite radar picture, big energy across parts of the west. a big story for a number of days across the west, i want to tell you. buffalo, watertown, where the heaviest of the snow has been, typical on the ends of the great lakes. but an average year in buffalo, they get just under 100 inches of snow, and take a look at this, they have already had 101 inch

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mike tobin in chicago. recovery underway in buffalo after the devastating historic blizzard left 37 people dead and robert ray is in buffalo. have we started the thaw? reporter: good morning. the snow removal in full force and these are front loaders pushing all of the snow off of these str streets and south bufo about three miles away from downtown and what happens is look at this, they'll push and meet in the center one pushes another into the next and dump into the trucks and try to get off of the roads and this road earlier today where i'm standing, you couldn't even walk. look at that. that's what i'm talking about. they push it and it's like a choreographed symphony out here and each street, residential street takes on hour+ and over 100-inches since mid november and a tremendous amount of winter activity here and hard to keep up with and now the travel ban lifted as of last night and people able if they can get out of their street to get to the grocery stores and get medicine and food and get to work

foxes mike tobin has the very latest out of chicago. the entire seattle tacoma airport was shut down after this colossal weather system dumped freezing rain on the pacific northwest over all three runways. at daybreak, the airport had one runway open again, but alaska air, the major carrier out of seattle, canceled flights at both ceatec and portland until noon won't be home for family. and i can't do anything about it is what it is muslim joy time here in seattle, while we can that put travelers in the pacific northwest in the company of people nationwide trying to make it home for the holidays. denver was deep in the misery of cancelations on thursday. by friday, the nation joined from boston to orlando, canceled flights and disrupted travel plans were just trying to figure out what's going on. we're trying to avoid this line, and we're just trying to get home. this is a mess. everything you just canceled, canceled, canceled and there was one flight that made it off the air off the ground so that only one so far in our and a half now

senior correspondent mike tobin is in chicago with the latest. mike?ld be inaccurate to say that the mess isn't getting any better. what you see behind me are people going through with a really low tech solution. just walking through this big pile of bags and you hear that

first to mike tobin in mid kay airport in chicago. good afternoon, mike. >> trace, the scene here at midway, you have the mess of abandoned bags behind me, a mess of bags that can't be matched with an owner. people are allowed one by one in to bag purgatory so they can walk a path between the bags and tried to identify their own luggage. every now and then, you hear a cheer. for the most part, people leave frustrated. that's one of the symptoms of this mess. across the nation, flight-away says 2,800 flights have been canceleled domestically. southwest has 80% of the cancellations. one staffer tells me the computer system has melted down to the extent that the executives don't know where the staff is despite the fact that they're calling in. then you have the traveling public that is just trying to get home. >> our luggage is missing. >> we completely cancelled southwest entirely and we're hoping we get a refund. >> so some blame is being pointed at the business model with the point-to-point flights instead of as a hub. more blame is di

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mike tobin is live at the border in eagle pass, texas. mike, what's the latest? title 42 ended up a tool that border agents could use to send back about a third of the migrants who showed up here. we're less than three weeks away from the end of title 42, and the flow of migrants is constant. as recently as friday our cameras reported another big group of about 25 the 0 strong showing up and crossing in a very familiar spot in the riff. then they turn themselves over to the agents on the u.s. side of the border. this as the border saw a record number in november for the migrants who were not caught, 73,000 gotaways in a single month. >> there have been over a million people that have been able to evade apprehension. let's be clear, we don't know who they are, where they're coming from, and we don't know what their intentions are here in the united states, and that is very dangerous. >> reporter: in kinney county, texas, a pregnant woman was drafted into driving a smuggling car. four of the migrants were caught from guatemala, the rest got away. it's developed int

first to mike tobin in chicago. what are folks telling you there today? >> well, what we're hearing from southwest executives, we may be nearing the end of this particularly ugly chapter in southwest airlines history. this as southwest executives have announced a return to normal operations tomorrow promising minimal disruptions, this is after southwest airlines cancelled 2/3s of its normal flight operations to try to get crew and aircraft back in to positions where they can resume this normal schedule. if you look at flight cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2,400, almost 2,500 flights will be cancelled across all airlines. 2, 300 plus of them belong to southwest airlines today. if you look forward to tomorrow, they drop to 39 flight cancellations for southwest. still, you've got management at southwest airlines apologizing for this terrible mess. >> my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations. we're continuing to make this up for you. you'll hear ab

mike tobin from eagle pass, texas. that the liquid fentanyl why is that historic? >> historic because it's the largest seizure of fetterman international ever on the u.s. side of the border according to agents and with title 42 set to expire in 16 days the problem isn't just people coming ink across uncontrolled border but what we see is the problem is lethal drugs coming across as well. you talk about that seizure. u.s. border patrol says working with the county sheriff's deput ies say they made the largest seizure of fentanyl in u.s. history. it was in liquid form being transported in a secret compartment built in the gas tank of a truck and that vehicle came across in robstown texas. the chief of the rio grande valley says it was enough fentanyl to kill 5.6 million people to give you some perspective that's equal to the population of the city of houston. this comes on the heel of that stop you mentioned on the mexican side of the border in which 660 pounds of fentanyl were seized. the deadly synthetic opiates were c

senior correspondent mike tobin is at o'hare international airport in chicago tonight. od evening, mike, there could be some upset people there. >> there certainly could be and here in chicago they are expected to get the worst of it and the flight cancellations are materializing. 262 flights thus far have been canceled out of o'hare. 116 out of midway. nationwide, 2271 domestic flights have been canceled and millions of people are just trying to make it home. >> nature chose one of the busiest times of the year to uncork winter's fury leaving winter travelers with nowhere to rest but the floor of the terminal. even where the weather had not turned back some people got the news that flight was canceled. >> they canceled my flight. so i have got to go back down here rebook or knowed a refund. >> i'm not optimistic already had to cancel a flight for later in the day not looking good. >> denver and twin cities seemed to get the storm first while pushed across the terminal at minneapolis saint paul. ripple of delays and cancellations caused lines to wrap around laguardia. >>

neil: mike tobin at o'hare international airport. what are we in for?r to go to greg herrera, fox weather meteorologist extraordinaire. >> reporter: you saw mitty hicks, it is lighter the snow, blowing around in the wind. visibility drops quickly. clear conditions and then suddenly you can't see. can last 30 minutes or so. winter storm warnings in pink stretch all the way down through missouri, what we're watching are blizzard warnings. you get these often in the dakotas of course, up of michigan dealing with blizzard warnings. blizzard warnings of the great lakes near buffalo. winds howling over portions of lake erie and lake ontario. that means visibility could drop to quarter mile or less. wind gusts are 35 miles per hour stronger or less and last for a hour. no snow is coming down but the winds are whipping behind it. the winds are flipping light fluffy snow around and you get ground blizzard conditions. it is not falling on the ground but the snow is flying around. in the ohio valley, look at this on friday, this is interesting, i-95 corridor start

mike tobin is standing by in chicago. always one of the busiest places.st to meteorologists with the big picture, ian oliver. hi, ian. >> yeah, this is a brutal storm system. the storm is getting stronger and significantly as we move in to the overnight hours. you have this arc of snow here. the cold front from the great lakes in to the southern plains. this mess now that found its way to the mid-atlantic and the northeast. this is a graphic that i'm calling coming a stormtrack shuns. if the front swept through, you know it. this is the arctic air taking over the eastern part of the country. look at denver. 61 degrees colder right now as compared to this time yesterday. that's the actual air temperature. places like dallas, 30 to 40 degrees colder. because of that, we have more than 100 million americans under some form of windchill alert. that's the arctic air that follows this. tomorrow, atlanta, 12 degrees for an actual air temperature. 28 degrees below zero in st. louis, this is where the danger comes in. as the storm system gets stronger, those wind

mike tobin is live in chicago where it's a chilling negative ten degrees. >> i'm showing negative sevenill is negative 28. we didn't expect to have good news today and i have nothing but bad news particularly for the people traveling in the pacific northwest. seattle tacoma airport announced they're closed. there is too much ice on the runway. alaska airlines has canceled all flights not only out of seattle but portland as well. as we look at some of the major air carriers cancellations since midnight last night. american airlines 246, delta 166, southwest has had a rough go, 764. they said yesterday they are canceling a lot of flights out of abundance of caution. united 174. as we look at domestic flights across the nation, we're now up to 3,433 flights that have been canceled according the flight aware.com. for the people stuck on the road there are not a lot of good options to get home. >> unfortunately last night we were scheduled to leave at 7:50 this morning. we got a text saying they rescheduled us to austin at 12:00 today with a layover. we're trying to figure out what's going o

mike tobin with chicago's midway airport, make. >> cheryl the big ugly visuals that have come to the of the way and you can see what remains of the ugly visuals and these are people lining up at southwest baggage service to try to track down their bag. the line is much smaller than yesterday. as we keep around baggage claim, it doesn't mean the bags have been reignited with the owners. what we are finding out from southwest passengers there is an entire airplane hangar filled with bags so the bags are not making back to original destination but you talk about the mess of canceling gnomic cancellations nationwide 2,471 flights have been canceled. of those flights, 2,361 or southwest cancellations. so you still have the major meltdown that belongs to southwest. if you jump over to tomorrow, that number jumps down to 39 southwest flights canceled. it is not clear if that is an extension of the fact they have already canceled two-thirds of their normal route. still southwest management come as you mentioned, offering another apology. >> my personal apology is the first step of making thi

fox to mike tobin in chicago where it's all going down. mike? >> well, going down certainly is one way to put it. going downhill. you have this mass of bags standing as a visual example of that. what you have here is a line of people around the whole baggage area. they're being allowed by a desk one by one to walk into this purgatory of bags to expect the bags and see if they have found their bag. every once in a while a big cheer will go up. it's a terrible miss. you have 2,800 domestic flights cancelled. of that, southwest airlines is responsible for 87% of those. i said that wrong. 5,800 of the flights from southwest are cancelled. bags are stuck. the staff is stuck as well as the traveling public. they just want to get home. >> our luggage is missing. >> we cancelled southwest entirely and hoping for a refund. >> some people point to this business model. more blame is directed at southwest executives that neglected to upgrade communication logistics technology resulting in this meltdown. both southwest flight attendants and pilots unions say

mike tobin at o'hare, thanks very much. take a look at the weather maps chief meteorologist rick reichmuth joins us from the weather center in new york. >> it is so cold and a lot of people without power. if you have neighbors and maybe a fireplace can you go get people over to your house. some people dealing with really dangerous cold temperatures and then potentially without power. these are the cold temperatures. actual air temperatures right now. we are down to 19 in new york. minus 5 back towards pittsburgh. we are cold down across the south. take a look at this. we are below freezing. anywhere you see any color on this map is below freezing. wind chill temperatures feels like 10 degrees in dallas, 19 in austin, so the cold air has settled down across the south. take a look what happens by tomorrow morning. everybody into the teens or low 20's. then we go in towards sunday morning. another repeat of that we're going to be talking about temperatures into the 20's and teens across parts of north fort lauderdale that goin

david: mike tobin thank you very much fraternal order of police of national president joe go multi.ing a breaking point like cities like new york are beginning to look at the broken window theory policy putting more police into the subways. do you get that sense or do you think were going in the wrong direction. >> is a going in the wrong direction. the truth about chicago it is a war zone the west side of chicago the murder rate the most violent city in the world tijuana mexico has been 661 murders in chicago up 38% since 2019 auto theft 134% but don't worry mayor lightfoot is running for reelection imagine the audacity for reelection with the worst mayor and chicago's history and politicians of our community really cared about the residents and what they would be doing is supporting their police department in prosecuting violent criminals to the full extent and they would be doing away with bail reform and were not seen any of those, the truth of mayor lightfoot and kim fox don't give a damn about the neighborhoods they just care about furthering their ideology. >> they don't care

first to mike tobin at chicago's o'hare international airport on the frigid fall-out there. hi, mike. >> well, you do have people, neil, moving through the airport. this side of security certainly isn't piling up with bodies. it's a little different on the other side of the tsa checkpoint. that's because you have a lot of people missing the flights. the airlines have done a good job of notifying people that their flights have been cancelled or delayed. however, the number of cancellations keeps increasing. we look at the major air carriers. american airlines, 357 cancellations since midnight last nights. delta airlines, 284. southwest airlines almost 1,000. 929. united, 277. if we look at just the domestic flights in the united states, according to flightaware.com, you're up to 5,000. 4,733 flights that have been cancelled. people are all over the place just trying to get home. if you made it without delay, you're one of the lucky ones. flightaware.com has the misery map. looks like denver and the twin cities took the brunt of it. now everyone has the misery, even seattle ta

mike tobin, ktvu fox two news. barrier travelers continue to be impacted by the delays and cancelations. san jose mineta airport is seeing the most cancelations with 146 and 22 delays. oakland international has 117 cancelations. 26 delays san francisco international has 41 cancelations. 134 delays all the southwest airlines cancelations are costing passengers more than time. it's costing them a lot of money. travelers who plan to be at their destination or looking instead for hotel rooms, flights on other airlines rental cars. all those are in short supply. we talked with some travelers who were heading to different weddings. they say. whatever it costs, they have to get there, so they're trying not to think about the prices they're paying. never did the math. didn't matter. kids wedding. you gotta go. whatever it takes, so i have to say $200 to 30. maybe yeah, 1000 easily. it's obviously we were in anticipating this scene expense. but here we are. travel experts say the longer it takes for southwest to get its sch

but it's fox news mike tobin tells us. this comes after the carrier canceled two thirds of its service today. relief may be here for southwest passengers after canceling thousands of flights over the last week, the airline expects to return to normal operations on friday. for now, unclaimed luggage has piled up at airports across the country as the carrier faced another day of disruptions. exhausted travelers scrambled for alternate ways to reach their destination. supposed to fly out on christmas eve, december 24th and southwest , um just canceled me with no no notice, and i've been canceled three times between hotel rooms and rental cars. costs are mounting for some people. southwest added a page to its website for passengers to request refunds and re book flights. they're also offering to reimburse folks for most hotel and food costs, though some people say they're still struggling to get help. federal officials are vowing to hold the airline accountable. it shouldn't take an enforcement action from our department in or

mike tobin, be safe.as eve to you, my friend. >>> all right, well, that bomb cyclone is causing temperatures to plummet to dangerous levels in many places in the this christmas weekend. joining us now from the fox weather center is craig herrera. hey, craig, tell us about these cold temps. >> reporter: hey there, griff. it's the cold temples -- temps and that wind chill. you see the temperature on the thermometer maybe reading 8, but the wind chill makes it feel like negative numbers. as a result, the storm moving east, we have 1.6 million customers without power. we're seeing some rolling power outages in places like tennessee, north carolina, south carolina. north carolina, 443,000 customers would want power. major concern, and a lot of this due to the gusty winds. you factor in the cold air, tough to stay warm. in fact, we've got 168 million americans that are impacted by wind chill warnings or advisories, and look how far south they go, all the way down into florida and south texas. how about, right n

fox news mike tobin has more relief may be here for southwest passengers after canceling thousands of flights over the last week, the airline expects to return to normal operations on friday. for now, unclaimed luggage has piled up at airports across the country as the carrier faced another day of disruptions. exhausted travelers scrambled for alternate ways to reach their destination. supposed to fly out on christmas eve, december 24th and southwest just canceled me with no no notice, and i've been canceled three types between hotel rooms and rental cars. costs are mounting for some people. southwest added a page to its website for passengers to request refunds and rebook flights. they're also offering to reimburse folks for most hotel and food costs, though some people say they're still struggling to get help. federal officials are vowing to hold the airline accountable. it shouldn't take an enforcement action from our department in order to get people taken care of or get them their money back, but if that's what it takes, of course, we're ready to do it. meanwhile southwest has ac

mike tobin reports from midway airport in chicago, one of the hubs for southwest christmas will just ruin this was the worst christmas ever plenty of anger and frustration at airports across the country, and it's mostly centering on one airline southwest, the nation's largest domestic carrier, accounting for 85% of the more than 3000 flights canceled in the u. s on tuesday, and the situation isn't going to improve until later this week with southwest now, saying it will operate only about a third of its roots through friday with a large fleet of airplanes and flight crews out of position in dozens of locations. and after days of trying to operate as much of our full schedule across the busy holiday weekend, we reached a decision point to significantly reduce our flying to catch up. this was partly due to the big winter storm that hit right before christmas. but some say the airline is also using outdated logistical software, creating big issues with staffing, stranded passengers and missing luggage. everyone got their flights canceled. they lost their bags, luggage. everyone's trying

mike tobin fox news all right back here at home. he may want to get out and enjoy the dry weather right now, while you still can. this is a live look across the oakland estuary and a preview of things to come. oh, what storm is expected to roll into the bay area later this evening, and meteorologists roberta gonzalez. she joins us now with what we can expect, and when we can expect to receive it, roberta andre, it's the first major storm of our winter season and we fired it up. it's ready to go. it's our live doppler radar. it has a sweet going so you could see where the precipitation is. as of right now morning it's been lightly. raining around the pacific northwestern california border, otherwise light rain showers into humble county 20 and little bit of light sprinkles around mendocino. but this is interesting. a renegade shower running in events mint of the area of low pressure is now over the peninsula. some of this could be virga. evaporating before it hits the landmass out there of it is what the sidewalks at this time, same

mike tobin, ktvu fox two news. troubling holiday travel story. a plane landed in oakland with dozens of passengers from washington state without their luggage. allegiant airlines says 44 checked bags on a tuesday flight from bellingham, washington to oakland were not loaded onto the flight before it took off. passengers waited for an hour before they realized the bags weren't there, and they say no one from allegiant airlines was there at the airport to help legend says it will refund baggage fees and reimburse passengers for any essential items. recovery efforts continue in humboldt county following this week. 6.4 magnitude quake here in the bay area and around the country, support for the earthquake ravaged area is coming together. ktvu is cristina rendon has the details. it's been a steady line of cars all day outside the rio del fire department, but they're lining up to get water and the meal. sam block, based out of oakland is the director of emergency for world central kitchen who drove up to humboldt county tuesday nigh is paid for two foo

mike tobin, ktvu fox two news. alright. the story of this is of some very, very cool. they're mixing with some warmer air to the south. this is how it looks right now and you can see you really see it, but that's cold air, really cold air that's going to be record setting all the way down towards texas that cold air is starting to mix in with some of this goal fair and you're seeing the you're hearing about bomb cycle and that's a 24 hour 24 hour drop in millibars to 24 24 hours. 24 millibars. that's a cyclonic bomb, and that's what we were looking at now and so in terms of big cold. lots of ice, lots of snow and then on the east side of that a lot of rain , so it's just it's impacting such a huge portion of the country. millions and millions of people are being impacted by this not just by flights, but it just kind of getting along. there's the cold air right now. the current temperatures are well below zero in kansas city, oklahoma city's at four degrees dallas dallas, texas 11 degrees , these temperatures are going to drop further tomorrow. this whole thing lasts an

mike tobin fox news alright. let's talk about whether locally now because our weather is about the changes. well nothing is drastic as we saw there, but we're going to get a lot of rain. we of course need it, but you need to be aware of it over the next few days. roberta gonzalez here with more on that spot on andre because it is a quick change in our weather pattern. we had some very mild conditions over the weekend temperatures into the high sixties yesterday, slightly coming down today. rain on the approach by tonight. this is a scene right now looking out at that very impressive area of low pressure, and that area of low pressure is producing some light rain showers right now around that northwestern section of the state of california. we're talking right around shasta county back into siskiyou county into del norte streaming well into humboldt as well. we're starting to see see the light rain traverse and mark march morning, easterly direction towards will it in the next 30 minutes or so right there that wil

fox's mike tobin is chicago's o'hare airport with the very latest. >> mike tobin, thanks for joining us . >> what's going on there? well, you know, in terms of bodies piling up at the airport, tucker, it never really got that bad. and i've got to give a tip of the hat to the airlines because they communicated with the travelers when the flights were being canceled, when they were being delayed. it's a little different on the other side of security because you get a lot of people who couldn't get on their connecting flights. but what is a bomb? cyclone is a weather phenomenon. when you have a low pressure system colliding with a high pressure system, it drives down a bunch of cold air, creates a bunch of wind and usually precipitation. it is marked by a drop the barometer of twenty four millibars over a 24 hour period. now, i've been tracking it. i've tracked 14 millibars. so unfortunately, for all the suffering, i think we're going to fall a little short of earning a bomb. cyclone merit badge will leave the final call to the meteorologists. just a hack at these things. what you did g

chicago's o'hare airport has the most flight disruptions for today and where we find mike tobin. ou. >> i'll start off with what happened in seattle. they got a big dump of freezing rain 2:00 a.m. and that iced over all runways at the airport there. they shut down the airport entirely. it is very difficult for the crews to get the ice off the runways, even more so than the snow. they have one runway operating now but the major carrier, alaska airlines, grounded all planes until noon both out of seattle and portland. as we look across the country major carriers, american airlines canceled 263, delta 209. southwest airlines 798. united 215. domestic flight cancellations 3,897. >> last night we were scheduled to leave at 7:50 this morning and got a text saying they rescheduled us to austin at 12:00 today with a layover. we're trying to figure out what's going on. trying to avoid the line and just trying to get home. this is a mess. >> we were originally meant to fly to toronto for london, england last night and our flight was canceled. then we rebooked to detroit today but that was c

our mike tobin visited o'hare international airport in chicago. >> reporter: nature chose one of theiest times of the year and leaving many travelers with no way to rest but the floors of the terminals. some people got the news their flight was canceled because the weather was bad at the destination. >> they changed the gate and canceled my flight so i got to go back down here and rebook or refind. >> they canceled flights later in the day so it is not looking good. >> reporter: denver and the twins city seem to get the storm first while security lines pushed across saint paul. the delay causing lines wrapping around the corner at laguardia. with the prediction of wind gusts reaching 50 miles per hour in places like chicago driving the windchills of negative 30 and drastically reducing visibility, the storm had a potential to be much more severe. >> please, take this storm extremely seriously. if you all have travrl travel plans, leave now. >> reporter: millions of people trying to reconnect with families for the holidays, it could mean canceled plans again or at best a delay. >> eve

mike tobin. thank you very much. let's take a look at our map, our meteorologist rick is join us. >> good evening, mike. it is so cold out there, a lot of people are without power. if you have a fireplace, there is so many people dealing with dangerous cold temperatures and potentially without power. these are the cold temperatures, actual air temperatures right now, we are down in 19 in new york and minus five back in pittsburgh. take a look at this, we are below freezing. these are your below freezing windchill temperatures, feels like ten degrees in dallas and 19 in austin. the cold air settles down the south. take a look at what's happening by tomorrow morning. everybody in the teens or low 20s. sunday morning and another repeat of that where we'll be talking about temperatures into the 20s and teens across parts of north of florida. this is going to have massive problems here and anything that had water on it is now frozen. now the cold air is in place and we are talking about a significant flash freeze that mean

senior correspondent mike tobin is in chicago with the latest. mike?well, you know, it would be inaccurate to say that the mess isn't getting any better. what you see behind me are people going through with a really low tech solution. just walking through this big pile of bags and you hear that guy just walked by shouted he just got his bag. every once in a while big cry go up through the island of miss fit bags with someone saying they have got their stuff and they are on their way home. it's still a mess. you still have people who are stranded and can't get home. you have flight staff that can't penetrate this antiquated communication system to let the airlines know that they are available to fly people home. you have got a lot of really tired people and they are just stuck. >> our luggage is missing. it's mia. >> we ended up completely canceling southwest entirely. we are hoping we will get a refund. >> 2,885 domestic flights were canceled. 86% of them were southwest. 2,509. the southwest pilots union, as well as the flight attendants union say the

>> bret: mike tobin live at midway. mike, thank you. meantime, let's go to the southern border. record numbers from the southern border tonight. more than 600,000 migrant encounters in the first three months of the new fiscal year. it starts in october. that's an average of more than 6800 per day. correspondent matt finn reporting again tonight from eagle pass, texas along the border. good evening, matt. >> good evening, bret. on the ground here in texas. the state is noticeably bolstering its border. these shipping containers were brought in shortly before christmas. today we watched as the national guard finished installing razor wire on top of these containers that sit along the rio grande river. in el paso, northwest of eagle pass, there's two miles of new fencing and cargo containers that were also installed. governor greg abbott's office tells fox news that texas is going to new lengths to deter migrants yet amid new record surge of illegal immigration. texas dps sources telling fox news that between october 1st and december 29th there were 617,000 encounters at the southw

fox news senior correspondent mike tobin is at midway airport in chicago with all the details. mike? >> raymond, it would be a little inaccurate to say it's -- it's gotten smaller to me throughout the day. low-tech just finding their bags but still you have a lot of people who are stuck away from home. you've got a flight staff that can't communicate with that you are scheduling center to make themselves available for flights so you have a lot of tired people and all they want to do is get home. >> our luggage is missing. it's mia. >> we canceled southwest entirely and we're hoping we'll get a refund. >> 2,885 domestic flights were canceled today. 86% of them were southwest. the southwest pilots union as well as the flight attendants union says the meltdown was predictable because southwest executives did not invest in and modernize the logistic and communication technology. the c.e.o. of southwest offered an apology. >> the tolls we use to recover from disruption service, 99% of the time but clearly we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for the

mike tobin is headed to texas with the latest on this drug bust. >> more evidence both from drugs ande trying to get across. to that bust that you mentioned, seizing a shipment of some 660 pounds of the potent and deadly drug. taking it to lukeville arizona. enough in this seizure to kill over 5 million people. texas state troopers picked up cocaine that a truck driver tried to slip through. the cocaine was wrapped in 17 packages and secured in a hidden compartment tilt into that truck . spearheaded by greg abbott. ceasing over 350 million lethal doses. making criminal arrests. almost 20,000 resulted in felonies. pressing the point that texas is doing the job that should be done by federal government securing the nation's border. >> it is imperative to step up this game of what it is doing at the border to make sure that they do everything possible to stop this deadly drug from coming across our border. coming into our state and then coming across america. >> migrants keep coming. agents have it down to a system. a bus picks them up and they are processed. the latest big group, a grou

mike tobin has more in eagle pass. mike, good morning. >> good morning. thing we can tell you here from eagle pass the flow of migrants is constant. nothing but the elements will stop them and with the anticipated end of title 42 in just over two weeks, one estimate through fema is that the flow of migrants will triple in terms of volume to 18,000 people crossing per day. so one proposed solution or something that is being discussed is to take the overflow, migrants who pile up in eagle pass, texas, 90 miles away to uvalde, texas where they don't even have a bus depo and people will be dropped off at a gas station. you know the name uvalde because of the mass shooting at rob elementary. the mayor says the federal government, which should be securing the border, is dropping another problem at their doorstep. >> like i say, it's a matter of time before we have serious problems. we already have enough problems after the rob shooting and tragedy that we're trying to get over that and then you will add this to it? it is a recipe for disaster. >> a lot of the h

. >> anita: mike tobin is live at chicago's midway airport, one of southwest's largest hubs where you've been for days, mike. anything looking better there today? >> you know what, it is looking better. we could be looking at the beginning of the end with this update. southwest airlines has announced they will resume normal operations tomorrow with minimal delays. it does not mean all of the ugliness is gone. if you look behind me, you have people trying to get their luggage, winding the line around to the baggage service office, but as we pan around bag claim here, the big ugly pile of luggage is gone. it does not mean the bags are renighted with their owners, we have it from some customers they are stored in an airplane hangar. 2,471 flights canceled. of those, 2361 are southwest flights. but if you move forward to tomorrow, with the announcement that southwest is going to resume normal operations, you only have 39 southwest flights canceled. through all the chaos, you have management at southwest offering another apology. >> my personal apology is the first step of making things right

. >> molly: mike tobin live at chicago's midway airport. mike. >> the big visual from this mess is purgatory for lost bags which you have at baggage claim at midway airport. hundreds of bags are piling up. analysts say it is part of a problem triggered by the storm. they say it's logistics technology that southwest caused to get out of date caused this. passengers are stranded by the staff is, too. the union for the flight attendants sent a screen graph showing flight attendants dialing into the scheduling center. seven hours, 45 minutes. five hours, four hours. this is the staff trying to get people home. flight attendants union wrote it's generated by southwest airlines's decision. not winter storm elliott. something we've forecast. southwest is in this remarkable position canceling 2/3 of their flight and the ceo is apologizing. >> the tools we used to recover from disruption serving us well 99% of the time but we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade system for these extreme circumstances so we never again face wha

mike tobin is live from chicago midway international airport with more on this. mike, good afternoon. >> good afternoon, trace. southwest executives are promising an end to this ugly chapter in aviation and a return to normal tomorrow with minimal disruptions. almost 2,500 cancellations today across the board of american aviation. but 2,300 plus of those belong to southwest airlines. they still feel the impact of the meltdown from this winter storm. jump ahead to tomorrow. that number drops to 39 projected cancellations again as the executives are promising a return to normal operations. southwest customers have had enough. >> i need my medicine, my charger. everything, my perfume, all my personal stuff is in the suitcase. some presents for christmas. >> so my concern is really one of my bags is all christmas gifts. i just want that back. >> it's been a nightmare. it has been. no doubt about it. >> it's still ugly. what you're looking at live right now at midway airport is the line to get in to baggage services. these are people that are trying to locate their mis

fox news senior correspondent mike tobin is in eagle pass, texas tracking those developments. what is the latest? >> well, jacqui, what we see on the border is that the flow of migrants is constant despite claims in washington that it's under control. the people on the other side of the border come across when they want to. 250 plus showing up here in eagle pass, texas, turned themselves over to authorities to be processed. what we're seeing is the bulk are from cuba, nicaragua and venezuela. in carroll county, texas, they say they tried to clone one of the border patrol trucks, and didn't work, this he were stopped. in kenny county, texas, a pregnant woman was drafted into service to haul four illegals. it's a place where high speed chases as smugglers bring across people and items they know would be turned away. >> the coyotes and smugglers have no regard for human life and i spoke with sheriff martinez from the border sheriffs and they continue to see the high speed chases and rollovers and deaths and they have no record. >> u.s. border patrol says in just the las week, agen

for that in much more we go to mike tobin carried. >> 's southwest executives rout promised to return to normal operations pete buttigieg sent out a pair he wrote in the letter the front-line employees are not to aim for the mistakes of the leadership level he admonished the reimbursement from returns home spirit nearly 2500 flights were canceled, the bulk of them southwest, the bosses at the airlines issued another apology. after many plans change, and experiences fell short of expectations of us. we are continuing to work to make this up to you and you wil hear more about that soon. for now, we are focused on restoring the of reliability an level of customer experience we expect of ourselves and that yo expect of us. southwest executives were reluctant to ballpark the. but say it will hurt fourth-quarter earnings and it could be weeks until they catch up with customers in need of compensation. >> thank you so much. now, we turn to more developments out of china where the authoritarian 3g0 covid covid obsession is feeling miserably amid skyrocketing cases, china has refused to be tra

we appreciate the good news from you, m mike tobin. is the lifestyle left angry with the christmas songs you grew up? "baby it's cold outside." that's hate speech. we'll explain. >> tucker: the goodness about the collapse of the traditional legacy media is new media is moving to fill the void they left behind. a twitter account has become one of the most important sites of reporting in the new media. essentially, it finds videos that people have posted online about themselves publicly and hold them up for a bigger audience. it's one of the reasons we know it's happening in classrooms around the country right now. here's a sample. >> i've had multiple students come up to me, not just with their sexuality, but also with their gender identity. it's one of the reasons i think it's so important to be out and loud and proud. >> i teach my elementary school students about gender identity. some people are girls. some are boys. some are both. some are neither. >> i might tell this kid, we do have a flag in the class that you can pledge your all

. >> >> >> >> mike >> >> >> >> tobin, thank yo >>> the biden administration ensuring americans that he'll hold southwest airlines accountable. >> reporter: air force one got president biden to his caribbean vacation but thousands americans were not so lucky. now, his administration is vowing to hold southwest airlines to their customer service commitment from everything from meal vouchers to hotel and refunds. >> earlier this year, we had a lot of problems with a lot of airlines and i pressed them to put it in writing and their customer service commitment. we have been able to get passengers hundreds of millions of dollars in refunds this year alone. >> reporter: southwest pledging to earn back customer's trust may face a long road ahead. stocks down 10% in the last two days. there will be scrutiny from congress. >> the money that were paid out during covid, they were paid out to maintain the payroll and the work force. what happened during the three years of covid was a lot of these workers and pilots and other personnel in the airline industry, basically left. >> reporter: there may hav