season. i ll do what the medical experts advise me to do. and i m quite certain they re not going to advise me in the wrong direction when it has to do with his health. his health is the first, foremost and only priority. reporter: this was his second diagnosed concussion this season for tua tagovailoa, kaitlan. there s an overwhelming amount of former players on social media urging tua to take care of his body and mind, let them heal because his long term health is far more important. rg-3 saying he shouldn t play again this season. we ll see what he and the team decide. thanks for the update. cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 29th. don is off this morning. we have a lot of news under way, especially coming out of ukraine where russia has launched a massive attack overnight. missile strikes hitting critical infrastructure injuring civilians. we re live at the scene of one of those strikes in a few moments. al
right now. first, my personal apology on behalf of myself and everyone at southwest for all of this. second, a pledge to do everything we can and to work day and night to repair our relationship with you and offer some new resources that we have to get you the fastest information and fastest service possible. it is the top of the hour, 8:00eem eastern. we re glad you re with us. it is december 29th. welcome to cnn this morning. i think everyone wants an apology. i m confused because he said at one point that if you still haven t gotten your bad you could get it at no cost to you, which is you could get back at what you own. so we re talking about this apology this morning from southwest airlines. this time from the chief commercial officer brian green. this comes at 2300 more southwest flights today have been canceled and they announced new ways they are planning to help stranded customers. listen to this. you could submit a full refund request for any canceled
we are coming on the air with a hot mess yet again at airports all across the country with southwest canceling thousands more flights even today after all the winter weather that smoked the u.s. over the weekend. we ll talk about what these grounded flights means for those travelers who want to get home and getter that luggage home. officials are trying to get buffalo back up and running after it was hit with more than three feet of snow. overseas the vatican announcing a turn for the worse for former pope benedict. we re live from home with the latest on the liter s condition. uncertainty at the southern border after the supreme court decision leaving title 42 in place. what it means for the thousands of migrants hoping to cross into the u.s. to seek asylum. we have a lot to get to. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in nya charles at los angeles international airport, marissa para in buffalo, new york, and meteorologist michelle grossman joining us, too.
cubic meters of gas into the baltic sea. there s a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. you can only guess how many marine animals are being killed right now, countless. but the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere. it s 90% methane. methane, as biden has told us, is the key driver of global warming, which is an existential threat to humanity in planet. so if you re worried about climate change, what just happened to the pipelines is its close of the apocalypse as you can imagine. it wasn t an accident. the same ten leaks were det detected, there were two undersea explosions, each of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of tnt. nothing on nature can account for that. leaks were in three separate places. only one explanation. this was an act of industrial terrorism. that was obvious to the prime minister of poland and he wasted no time saying so. today, we are also dealing with an act of sabotage. we do not know the details of what happened yet. but we can
acknowledging that americans are, quote, really, really down right now after this strain of the pandemic. and as they struggle with inflation and rising interest rates. we want to welcome our viewers here this the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the first public response by former president trump to the damning evidence and testimony presented by the january 6th select committee. cnn s jessica schneider is following all the new developments in the investigation. i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic. but just like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, mike, and i say it sadly, because i like them, but mike did not have the courage to act. former president trump using his platform at a conservative political conference to deny the evidence against him and blast the january 6th committee. they con p