area the snowball effect can t keep up to connect crews to aircraft. julie: mike tobin is following this from chicago international airport. there are some reasons to be a little bit optimistic or have some optimism. the ugly visual the island of misfit bags is gone. doesn t mean all bags are reunited with their owners or made it to the proper city and moved to storage and people are showing up to baggage help at midway airport being sent to the storage longer where someone takes a ticket and attempts to locate bags. some of the bags are in the wrong city. when you look at cancellations across the nation, domestic flights, 2400 cancellations. of those 2300 are southwest. they still have a mess. move a day forward and the southwest cancellations drop to 39. is that an extension of the fact that southwest has already canceled 2/3 of their flight? hard to tell now. one thing you can tell for sure there are still people stuck away from their destinations, renting cars and pay
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office in new york is now looking into lies told by republican congressman elect george santos. this as cnn is uncovering even more false claims that he s made. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. one of the biggest airline debacles in recent memory has stranded even more passengers this hour. we re following all the new cancellations and the delays by southwest airlines and efforts to get the airline back on track. cnn s reporter is over at bwi airport. this meltdown appears to be far from over, gabe. give us the latest, what are you learning? reporter: look, wolf, just another brutal day for these travelers. southwest canceling 2500 flights, more than 60% of its schedule. as you mentioned, it looks like tomorrow is just going to be more of the same. behind me, just a few of the passengers still searching for their lost luggage. some of them never got out for the holidays. others are
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