- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. new covid travel requirements for this coming from china, i will talk to a doctor about these restrictions, and whether they can be effective. after days of delays and cancellations, a southwest airlines slowly but surely seems to be working its way back to normal. but it won t get there right away. a representative for the pilots union says it looks like the flight schedule will be mostly full by friday. the airline has canceled more than 2300 flights for the coming day but that number jobs to only 39 cancellations by friday. airports are filled with long lines of southwest passengers trying to re-book as piles of luggage continue to grow. while other airlines recover from last week s winter storm fairly quickly, southwest has not. on tuesday, southwest accounted for 84% of cancellations among all airlines
the world. i m whitney wild. the death toll from that huge winter storm keeps rising. it is now up to 62 deaths across 11 states. of those by far the greatest share were in erie county, new york, where at least 37 people died. a horrible storm with too many deaths. we know without the work of these first responders and others, more people would have died. first responders are still checking on callers they couldn t reach in buffalo which was buried under nearly 52 inches of snow. overnight buffalo lifted a driving ban. cnn s miguel marquez has more on the digout. reporter: buffalo digging out. officials here responding to criticism they should have done more. 35-mile-an-hour wind gusts for three hours straight with less than a quarter mile visibility. monique alexander died in the storm on christmas eve. a buffalo native who had been through many snowstorms here thought this one was the same. we were waiting for her to come home. i knew something was wrong right a
i m whitny wild. cnn this morning starts right now. morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. it s thursday, december 29th. don is off this week. and ukraine is our lead story. under attack. more than 120 russian missiles launched at ukraine overnight. 90% of lviv this morning is without power. we ll take you to crane. here in the united states, thousands of air travelers are struggling to find their way home still. one major airport is launching an investigation into the meltdown at southwest airlines. and the death toll is rising once again in buffalo. the city s mayor now coming under fire for handling of that recovery and the storm. a new migrant processing center is going up in el paso, despite a supreme court decision to keep title 42 in place. we begin this hour with ukraine. president zelenskyy s adviser says russia has launched more than 120 missiles at the country. it happened overnight. a top official in odesa is calling it a massive missile attack in
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
while the house voted in a nighttime session tonight to adjourn until noon eastern tomorrow, we still don t know why 9 a. m. was not a possibility and what could not be a day three of trying to get a speaker, but that is fine. they ll go into a second and third day tomorrow about this very issue, and of course, republican leader kevin mccarthy has been enduring a series of stinging defeats, now losing a total of six rounds of voting in his attempt to become speaker of the house. he is saying tonight that while there is no deal yet, and emphasis is on yet, he says there s a lot of progress made in talks of some of the holdouts to end the ongoing impasse. this possibly now paves the way for him to become the speaker. but of course, that seems to be far from certain that there seems to be at least 20 that have not budged in many a vote at this point. now, some of his most strident opponents are vowing tonight that they will go to block his bit. i want to go to cnn s melanie za