action. also tonight, parts of buffalo, new york remain paralyzed by a once in a lifetime blizzard. the national guard now going door to door as the death it will keeps rising and the city struggles to dig out. as the january 6th committee releases a bach of transcripts, i ll speak with adam schiff. stand by for his take on the latest revelations including a claim that trump s white house chief of staff burned documents at the white house. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get right to the southwest airlines meltdown. it s causing major disruptions across the country. our correspondents are covering the impact at major airports to the fallout from southwest and the airline industry. let s go to nick valencia. he s over at the atlanta airplane, the busiest airport of the nation. nick, how are southwest passengers being affected there? reporter: wolf, some passengers flying southwe
the rung waway too long. this is a melt down that affects the nation and can affect the entire world and finally, i expect there will be some lawsuits because in the famous meltdown of 1999 in detroit, there were ma lawsuits and class actions in the airline involved in that one and ended up paying $2,500 per passenger for those involved in thatfiasco. three major vectors that could point the investigation lands on southwest and they should? we ll see how that works out. will southwest airlines lose a lot of customers? i know you re speaking with a bunch of experts and analyst and if so, what can they do to get them back? it s a great question, wolf. i ve been wondering the same. on one hand you have a company that prides itself on customer service that is synonymous with customer service in the industry. this is not that. yet, when i have spoken to consultants today, they say sometimes we as consumer haves short term memories so i suppose it depends on how disastrous