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action. also tonight, parts of buffalo, new york remain paralyzed by a once in a lifetime blizzard. the national guard now going door to door as the death it will keeps rising and the city struggles to dig out. as the january 6th committee releases a bach of transcripts, i ll speak with adam schiff. stand by for his take on the latest revelations including a claim that trump s white house chief of staff burned documents at the white house. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. let s get right to the southwest airlines meltdown. it s causing major disruptions across the country. our correspondents are covering the impact at major airports to the fallout from southwest and the airline industry. let s go to nick valencia. he s over at the atlanta airplane, the busiest airport of the nation. nick, how are southwest passengers being affected there? reporter: wolf, some passengers flying s ....
with qualifying internet. thank you so much for joining me again at top of the hour on cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with an air travel meltdown. it isn t all the weather s fault, let s be clear, more than 4,000 flights grounded today again, nearly 09% on southwest airlines. southwest patients from raleigh, denver, are all lining up at ticket counters looking for answers. many customers are completely fed up. i m traveling with my senior citizen parents for their christmas vacation. i have an autoimmune disorder. i don t have medications. we have nothing. we brought no carry-ons. we ve seen a lot of families who are sleeping on the floor and it just breaks my heart. if my boss is watching this yes it s true i just didn t just blow off the day i m actually standing in the airport doing nothing and i do have a ticket and i hope to come to work at some point in my life. i love that he had some levity there. with new year s eve with just days away nearly 2500 ....
that s the fastest job growth at any point of any president. our job market continues to show resilience as we navigate through this economic transition we re n.for for sometime i ve been saying what we need to do in this transition, we have to move from historically a strong economic recovery to a more stable recovery. you heard the president there. u.s. added 263,000 jobs in september, just slightly beating expectations. the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, back to where it was just before the pandemic hit. employers are hiring, but the labor market is slowing down. this is the lowest monthly jobs increase since april of last year. today s report may not be enough to keep the fed from raising interest rates again next month all in an effort to try to squash inflation. investors are not happy today. the dow, s&p 500, nasdaq all down. all right. with us now is senior white house correspondent phil mattingly, cnn reporter matt egan, cnn economics and political com ....
we begin this hour with celebration turning into tragedy at the university of georgia. just hours after the football team was honored for winning a national championship one of their key players, 20-year-old, was killed in a car crash along with a member of the football staff, 24-year-old chandler lacroix. cnn is live in athens, georgia. what do we know about what happened? reporter: we just got a statement indicating this happened at 2:45 early this morning. that car was traveling southbound on this road behind me just past this curve right here and then, fred, for some reason that car left the roadway, struck this power pole right here. we saw utility crews in the last hour or so replacing and fixing this power pole, and then the car continued, fred. you can see the debris, the fallen tree limbs where it struck a tree. as we make our way over here i will show you the exact spot where this car came to rest continuing past this slope right here and ending at this loca ....
i should pay them a visit. we re hanging out on the couch with griff and rachel talking about all kinds of stuff. talking about if we should have christmas trees up, apparently there s some buses that people have been thrown under. i don t know. what do you think about it, griff? griff: well, i m not even going to go into what i was accused of this idea of throwing anybody under the bus about you we ve had this important debate whether you keep your tree up and of course we re getting feedback from our viewers at fox and friends@foxnews.com but we are getting schooled by rachel saying listen if you re catholic which i am so now i m fully in line in making sure mine doesn t come down, you keep it up for 12 days after. rachel: the 12 days of christmas which end on the sixth of jan which is the epiphany. joey: i like it. rachel: let christmas linger on i love it. griff: i have a problem, though, which is, and this is disclosing information. my wife wasn t happy w ....