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According to a december 21st message to ramp workers. members of the house transportation committee now pushing the department they oversee to probe even further. >> i want to see pete buttigieg say that he's going to hold southwest accountable by first figuring out where all the money went when the federal government and taxpayers bail out airlines like southwest to the tune of over $7 billion. what i first want to see is an accounting of where that money went because, clearly, it didn't go upgrading and updating their technology. >> >> secretary pete buttigieg did face some criticism for not...

>> carley: way or the staff shortages happening? >> well, i believe on a macro level a lot of it is post-pandemic. there are so many workers in the u.s. that sort of disappeared from the entire labor force. from pilots, there is a pilot shortage. it is difficult to recruit and retain the best pilots. so, we are kind of fighting that as well. >> carley: all right, so, you know, in the summer months and kids are getting off school. a lot of family vacations that people are looking forward to. what can people expect as the summer months progress? >> i think it will be a challenge for everyone acr...

Not responded to the airlines. you have ramp workers, engineers, mechanics, pilots, the flight attendants, as they test positive and having to step out they don't have a proper support to get a plane in the air so it's sort of compounding and will go on for a little bit. this is not a day and then tomorrow is fixed because the employees are out for up to ten days and so if they're out for longer then you rely on the current workers to putt in overtime. they will not but can't work on the backlog that's growing. >> doctor, weigh in on this. talking about the isolation period, this debate over i...

Number was around 10,000. it comes as the highly transmissible covid variant hit flight cruises and winter storms hit the nation, as americans try to head home. kerrey sanders has more. joe, today is not a good day if you're planning to fly. first of all, there have been major delays and cancellations, just as there was the day after christmas, more than 1,500 domestic cancellations. there are more than 900 cancellations, more than 1,800 delays, most of those related to the spread of coronavirus. when the airline employee tests positive, they have to quarantine for ten days. as we know, coro...

Pilots at southwest and flight attendants of course, but ramp workers, mechanics, dispatchers schedulers, ticket agents people from the top to the very bottom. many thousandsnt of people. some unknown but apparently large number of these people have still not been vaccinated. why is that? well, many of them have already recovered from covid, they have antibodies that offer them greater protection than any vaccine ever could, that's the science, so they don't want the vaccine. others have sincere religious objections. they objectt to the use of the fetal tissue in the pharmaceuticals so they do...