transportation secretary pete buttigieg and breaking down tr ch transcripts from the january 6th investigation. welcome to the viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. > let s get to the breaking news. significant developments involving the united states supreme court decision and impact on the migrant surge at the border. cnn priscilla alvarez is following the story here the situation room. tell me more about this important ruling. the supreme court shar sayin title 42 in effect since march 2020 will e remain in effect including the court hearing arg mtds in the next session in february of 2023. now, this is a order that summit mittly a victory for republican led states to stop the termination of the authority. what it means on the ground, border officials will be able to continue to expel migrants back to mexico or their native countries for the next several months. the administration has been preparing for this
dark clouds, threatening and delivering plenty of showers, as you can see on the cloud and radar pictures. you might imagine with a showery picture we have low pressure sitting right over the uk. not the strongest, deepest one we have ever seen and the winds are fairly light. that doesn t mean the showers, when you have got them, lost a bit longer than they would do otherwise. very few fliess agriplace a shower or two today. very little in the way of sunny spells even in between them. temperature struggling today, a five o clock this afternoon come into the low teens for many. they will be fewer showers in northern ireland and sunny spells into this evening. a line of showers developing to south west england, the middles, home counties and towards eastern england which could be thundery in places. the channel islands may be dry with sunny spells throughout. quite often, showers die away towards the end of the day. not for england and wales, some will continue all night. turni
A lack of snowfall has led to empty ski resorts and holiday cancellations in the Indian Himalayas, with scientists linking the "unusual" winter to the El Nino weather phenomenon. The dry spell in Kashmir has pushed skiers to skip the popular resort of Gulmarg, one of the highest in the world, and left hotels in the scenic region waiting for fresh falls to draw tourists to the panoramic views of snow-capped peaks. Scientists said that this winter's conditions in northern India have not been seen for about a decade, marked by the absence of snowfall in the mountains and biting cold made worse by thick fog in the plains.
the association of british travel agents and you can read more about holiday cancellations on our web page, we have a live page going at the moment. also in greece a bridge has collapsed, killing one person ands injuring eight others. it happened in patras, west of athens. emergency services are at the scene. the bridge had been undergoing construction work. polls have opened in spain s snap election, which could see the far right winning a place in government, for the first time since democracy was restored, after the death of general franco almost 50 years ago. voters face a choice between a centre left government supported by the far left and a conservative led government, backed by the far right vox party . this was the prime minister, pedro sanchez, casting his vote as his party seeks to fend off the challenge from the far right. live now to madrid where we can join news reporter sergi forcada freixas for an update on the
democratic lawmaker ed markey of massachusetts and richard bl blumenthal is calling on southwest to pay up for avoidable holiday cancellations. the airline of course acknowledging a little bit sop of the failures that led to what happened over the past few days but that s cold comfort for the many passengers stranded and i should add while the lines here are shorter, the cancellations remain and i think that is likely because a lot of folks aren t waiting at the airport anymore. they are trying to find other ways to get home if that s even possible for then. wolf? if possible. lucy, what is southwest airlines doing to help these desperate passengers that are stuck? reporter: there has been so many have been so many mixed messages here. we ve had passengers coming up to us as a tv crew asking us for information because there isn t consistent messaging from southwest. yesterday evening there was an