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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 tod...

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 will definitely be going on a bag checking hiatus of this. i will be remastering the art of only car...

That you have with hotel and restaurant management now. it's doable. it needs to expand for these events and scale it down after the events. you can't check 22,000 people a day. it's ridiculous. so it might mean you have a lot bag checking throughout the weekend. >> that city is famous for policing people playing cards. they don't have to think it seems or they never consider the possibility of something as heinous as this. so they're all doing a reexamination of their business here. these are anomalies. they are unusual events. so how do you prevent overreacting? >> i think that -- let me add...