staff burned documents. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, transportation secretary pete buttigieg tells me the biden administration will hold southwest airlines accountable for the meltdown in its operations that has left thousands of flights canceled and thousands of passengers stranded. gabe, what is the situation there right now? reporter: wolf, thousands of travelers are still stranded. the lines to rebook here in baltimore have been more than three hours long at times today. the wait to reach customer service has been longer for many customers. some are literally sleeping here at the airport, just trying to get home. the meltdown at southwest airlines just gets worse. it s a total you know what show here. reporter: southwest canceling more than 2500 flights on tuesday. more than 85% of all u.s. cancellations. and they have already canceled nearly the same total for
executives say they ll need to cancel many more tomorrow. then, breaking his silence did i embellish my resume, yes, i did. and i m sorry. but i m still the same guy, i m not a fraud. republican congressman-elect george santos admits he lied about major parts of his resume, but wait until he explains his jewish heritage claims. and miami dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa has been placed in concussion protocol, hours after playing an entire game. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly, in for jake tapper. and we begin this hour with the winter travel meltdown plaguing a major u.s. airline. thousands of southwest airlines passengers are still stranded, unable to get to their destinations. some of those passengers is been trying to travel for five days or more, after a massive winter storm battered parts of the u.s. southwest canceled nearly 2,600 flights today, accounting for more than 85% of all flights canceled in the u.s. and the company s telling passengers
done, cutting barrel production per day, what thatten moos for already surging gas prices and biden administration seeks for the green agenda, live with reaction and new numbers released by the fbi revealing the u.s. murder rate is continuing a grim climb. there are holes in the numbers that could paint a darker picture. stay tuned for expert analysis. and a famous duel saw kill a alexander hamilton? our chad pergram has the answer. first 60 cent spike in gas prices just this week and big cut in oil production could send costs higher. team coverage with jeff in los angeles, where gas prices are over $6 a gallon. we begin with white house corres correspondent kevin corke. good evening. kevin: got their hands full. good evening. sometimes headlines sound meaningful, but upon closer inspection, they mean little. administration pledge to release more in november in the wake of opec s decision to reduce production. 10 million more barrels, according to the white house. for a c
brian: protester bobby wegner lays him out. steve: good morning des moines, iowa. we are from my web. 52 degrees right now as you look at the des moines river going for a daytime high of 80 degrees in the capital city of iowa. ainsley: did he say it to be funny? steve: my dad? anyway, welcome to new york. and a big show, thank you very much. we have some pants in front of the building holding up umbrellas. ainsley: it is certainly rainy out there. i m sorry for them. i m glad everybody is waking up this morning and it s going to be a good day. steve: meanwhile, not so good in florida because the death toll from hurricane is now above 100 as the rescue crews work around the clock looking for still survivors. ainsley: 430,000 in florida still without power this morning as one resident compares the damage to a war zone. brian: alexandria hoff on the ground in fort myers, alexandria, what is up? we continue to see this morning just dozens of emergency vehi
pronouncement nancy pelosi made over the last year from her compound in napa. hshe does have an effect on your life. what about lying? this was the year of lying. the people in charge tell an awful lot of lies. that s what we learned. we know this for sure, because while they re avid and committed liars, they re not good at it. they re pathetic, obvious and sad. don t take a leak on my boots and tell me it s raining. don t tell me something that isn t true and expect me to believe it. you insult my dignity, diminish me, treat me like a child. if you are your going to tell me a lie, put some effort into, try something clever. don t pull the dusty alibi over the shelf like expired spaghetti sauce and expect me to fall for it again. don t worry. everything is totally fine. we re doing a great job. they ve been trying that for, well, 21 years now with the still somehow secret 9/11 files. for nearly 60 years with the jfk assassination. at this point no living american still believ