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00:00A shooter is on the loose in Chicago. Over the weekend, an assailant opened fire against border

00:05patrol agents in the Windy City, and the culprit is still on the lam. Officials say the shooter

00:11was behind the wheel of a black Jeep when they shot at agents conducting immigration enforcement

00:15operations on the southwest side of the city. Other agitators threw paint cans and bricks at

00:21Border Patrol agency vehicles during the incident. Chicago police were able to clear the area,

00:25thankfully, before anyone got hurt, but the shooter and vehicle remained at large as of Sunday

00:30night. The Department of Homeland Security posted a statement to X that reads in part, quote,

00:35these confrontations highlight the dangers our agents face daily and the escalating aggression

00:40toward law enforcement. The violence must end. More than 4,000 flights were canceled over the

00:47weekend as the FAA and airlines were forced to reduce the load on air traffic controllers. Well,

00:52at least those air traffic controllers that came to work. I told you these cancellations were coming

00:56after the controllers missed their second paychecks, and many had to leave the towers to make ends meet

01:02by working for ride shares or some other branch of the gig economy. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

01:07joined CNN State of the Union Sunday, and I hate to be the one to tell you, but he painted an even

01:13grimmer picture going forward. It's only going to get worse. I look to, you know, the two weeks before

01:18Thanksgiving, you're going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle. We have a number of people

01:23who want to get home for the holidays. They want to see their family. They want to celebrate this

01:27great American holiday. Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane

01:31because there are not going to be that many flights that fly if this thing doesn't open back up.

01:35So we're back to waiting on Congress to figure this whole mess out. And speaking of missing

01:40Thanksgiving with family, Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced plans to keep the upper

01:45chamber in session until a deal is reached to reopen the government. Translation, lawmakers will

01:51be trapped in D.C. for the holiday. Perhaps the prospect of turkey and stuffing in the comfort of

01:56their own alms is enough of an incentive to get the Senate on the same page to end this shutdown.

02:02A desperate search is underway for a West Virginia coal miner who went missing after flooding over the

02:07weekend. A crew in the Rolling Thunder mine in Nicholas County hid an unknown pocket of water Saturday,

02:14causing the tunnels in the mountain to fill with water. It sounds like literal hell on Earth.

02:21Remarkably, everyone was able to escape except for one, a yet-to-be-identified miner. Rescue workers

02:28believe the one missing person is trapped three quarters of a mile beneath the mountain. Now,

02:34they've been pumping water out since Saturday night, but no one knows just how much water is down

02:40there, so we don't know how long it's going to take. Once they get a certain amount of that water

02:44out, the plan is to send in underwater drones to locate and establish communication with the miner who

02:50hopefully is still alive. For more on this story and everything else you could possibly want to know,

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