Bag Checking News Today

staff burned documents. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre 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...

Of flights where you are over there? >> reporter: wolf, this is one of the hubs for southwest airlines. and southwest is nearly responsible for almost all of the canceled flights today. this is an illustration of what we have seen. people have been here throughout the day, searching for their bags. however, if chicago midway was not their final destination, southwest crews are not pulling bags for people who had a destination of somewhere else. and that has been frustrating for passengers. >> i ...

That you have with hotel and restaurant management now. its doable. it needs to expand for these events and scale it down after the events. you cant check 22,000 people a day. its ridiculous. so it might mean you have a lot bag checking throughout the weekend. >> that city is famous for policing people playing cards. they dont have to think it seems or they never consider the possibility of something as heinous as this. so theyre all doing a reexamination of their business here. these are anomal...