Hey, it's Martine. Good morning and happy holidays.

So I often hear from listeners who love post reports and have made it part of their afternoon or evening routine

But they want to know what they should listen to in the morning to get their day started

So now we have a podcast for you. The seven from the Washington Post gives you the seven biggest stories of the day all by 7 a.m.

in your podcast feed.

This week instead of your usual post reports, we're gonna play each day's episode of the seven because my favorite thing about this show is how

Efficient it is so you can spend the next few minutes getting caught up and then get back to enjoying time with your family.

Here's what you need to know today to get your day started

Southwest Airlines has canceled thousands more flights. That's what we're starting the seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Jeff Pierre. It's Wednesday, December 28th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Number one, Southwest Airlines accounted for about 85% of canceled flights in the U.S. yesterday.

The company CEO Bob Jordan apologized to customers in a video.

Whether you haven't been able to get to where you need to go or you're one of our heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline.

We're doing everything we can to return to a normal operation.

And please also hear that I'm truly sorry.

The airline is having major issues after a massive storm cause the travel melts down over the holiday weekend.

Passengers are stranded all over the country.

So what's being done Southwest said that it's trying to get things back on schedule by the end of the week.

In the meantime, it's working to process refunds for affected passengers.

Number two, the Supreme Court left a pandemic era border policy in place for now.

That policy known as Title 42 allows the U.S. to turn away people seeking asylum.

The Biden administration wants to end the policy.

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