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The united states explode. members of the january 6th selection committee reveal actions. just days before the u.s. marks a full year since the insurrection. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." we begin our coverage this evening with the latest on the omicron surge now seriously disrupting everyday life across the united states. cnn's alexandra field is joining us from new york right now. alexandra, americans are trying to keep some sense of normalcy, but the virus is causing all sorts of problems fo...

Lester >> all right anne thompson tonight, thank you. here at home american airlines is getting back to normal after canceling thousands of flights over the last three days affecting more than 200,000 passengers tom costello is at reagan national airport. tom, what went wrong >> reporter: well, the airline is blaming high winds and reduced runway capacity in dallas late last week and a series of cascading problems that got worse and worse. in fact, very quickly it found it didn't have enough flight attendants they were out of position it canceled 2,200 flights since last friday 20% of flight...

Are areas where government could do something and should because the whole point is to industry going, not have a cath judgement cascading problems elsewhere other areas are affected. if not affecting the availability of carbon dioxide for the food industry, that sort of thing. it is notjust the energy intensive industries at risk if production gets hold of this winter, it is any other number of manufacturing industries that depend on them. talk us through the challenges in europe and what other governments are offering in terms of support. it governments are offering in terms of support.— t...

Fuel and of supplies, nobody can conduct an amphibious landing lie the u.s. department of defense. we have the people, and the resources. i spoke to mitch landrieu, who was in washington talking about the lessons learned from katrina. if you get 48 hours or 72 hours behind a storm, it is very hard to catch up. you're basically looking at cascading problems, one on top of the other on top of the other. right now it appears the problem du jour is they don't have drivers, because they can't get to work because there's no gas in their tanks because the gas tanks have no electricity. but if the mil...

>> i was in the pentagon in the fall of 2012 when superstorm sandy hit new york and secretary pin et ta and the entire military leadership sprung into action to deploy resources. because nobody can do logistics, nobody can deliver air drops of fuel and of supplies, nobody can conduct an amphibious landing lie the u.s. department of defense. we have the people, and the resources. i spoke to mitch landrieu, who was in washington talking about the lessons learned from katrina. if you get 48 hours or 72 hours behind a storm, it is very hard to catch up. you're basically looking at cascading proble...