back for another hour. here are the big stories we re watching. another tidal wave of plight cancellations for southwest customers today, thousands left stranded and baggage grave yards across the airports and exhausted customers fighting for answers. i ve spent about nine and a half hours trying to get through to southwest, just on hold with them. probably about 17 calls. and every time, i get about two and a half hours in, it just drops. the line just drops. in buffalo, snow is starting to melt as the death toll mounts. with mounting snow of this volume comes rapid flooding for search and rescue teams to deal with. the latest on their efforts and the blame game over the county s response to the historic blizzard in just a minute. new developments on capitol hill. the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of deposition transcripts, and there are some familiar trump world names on the list. speaking of donald trump, after almost four years of legal battles,
got 80 calls for that, that was yesterday and today only two calls so things are definitely improving on the ground here in buffalo. a lot of issues going on there marissa. buffalo is a place known for high levels of snow and this is much different, but there is this blame game going on. what are you learning from your reporting about how all of this happened, and how so many people died in this storm? reporter: right, so there s a lot of factors to consider here. and first, i want to talk about the weather alone. right? we were here one month ago, and you just said it yourself, buffalo is no stranger to snow. and in fact, during the last snowstorm, they got more snow totals in terms of inches alone and people standing on their front lawn with a beer in hand wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt. snow is not a big deal. this last storm was different though, between the wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour and the wind chill of negative 20 degrees. that is unsurvivable. you can be as