- [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
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
the struggle is real for southwest. the lead starts right now. six days in, southwest has canceled more than 15,000 flights. tomorrow may not be better. southwest s stock is taking a hit. then, new details emerging about the final days of the trump administration. a witness told the january 6th committee donald trump s chief of staff regularly burned documents. gives a whole new meaning to fireside chats. plus, why celebrities and social media are driving a shortage of a life-saving diabetes drug. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly. relief is still a few days away for southwest airlines passengers. the airlines canceled 2,500 flights today. more than 2,000 others already canceled tomorrow. putting the total number north of 15,000 since bad weather hit last week. airports are filled with long lines of southwest passengers trying to rebook as piles of lost luggage continue to grow. now, while other airlines recovered from the winter storm fairly quickly, southwes
There is still no letup at southwest as it cancels more than 2300 flights again. that s nearly all the flights in the u.s. canceled again today. gabe cohen has more from baltimore. reporter: tens of thousands of travelers still weathering southwest s meltdown without a clear end in sight. i m hungry. i m exhausted. i just want to go home. reporter: the airline canceling more than 2500 flights wednesday. a similar wave of cancellations already shaping up for thursday. this has been a complete nightmare. i trusted southwest with my worldly belongings and to get me from point a to point b and i feel like i was robbed. ashley may says she s stranded in baltimore with no luggage. her flight canceled christmas morning. she was hoping to get back to spend time at her dieing grandmother s side. i couldn t make it and she passed away. i will never get that time back to at least hold her hand or, you know, spend that time with