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
monster storms like this. no municipality is equipped to battle storms like this by them southeasts. it requires mutual aid. governor kathy hochul knew that. governor hochul provided aid and called for aid from communities all across the state of new york. so many communities stepped up. our neighboring suburban communities, cities of rochester and syracuse, the town of am hurst, many others that i m not mentioning, all realizing buffalo is the epicenter of this storm in western new york. the storm conditions in buffalo were worse than they were, any place else in new york. wind gusts up to 79 miles per hour, shaking people s homes. temperatures that dipped to minus 22 degrees below zero with the windchill. whiteout conditions, where you could literally not see in front
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