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from china, i will talk to a doctor about these restrictions, and whether they can be effective. after days of delays and cancellations, a southwest airlines slowly but surely seems to be working its way back to normal. but it won't get there right away. a representative for the pilots union says it looks like the flight schedule will be mostly full by friday. the airline has canceled more than 2300 flights for the coming day but that number jobs to only 39 cancellations by friday. airports are filled with long lines of southwest passengers trying to re-book as piles of luggage continue to grow. while other airlines recover from last week's winter storm fairly quickly, southwest has not. on tuesday, southwest accounted for 84% of cancellations among all airlines in the u.s..

on wednesday, that number, jumped to 91% and for thursday, it is a whopping 99%. more now from cnn's gabe cohen, reporting from baltimore. >> tens of thousands of travelers still weathering southwest meltdown without a clear end in sight. >> i'm hungry, i'm exhausted, i just want to go home. >> the airline canceling more than 2500 flights wednesday, 62% of its schedule according to flightaware, with a similar wave of cancellations already shaping up for thursday. >> this has been a complete nightmare. i trusted southwest with my belongings, to get me from point a to point b, and i feel like i was robbed at this point. >> ashley says she is stranded in baltimore with no luggage, her flight home to texas counseled christmas morning. she says she was hoping to get back to spend time out her dying grandmother side. >> i could not make, it not best away as of yesterday, i will never get that time back

to at least hold her hand or spend that time with her. she spent her last few days just waiting on me. >> southwest says this chaos began with winter weather, but the airlines antiquated system struggled to track their planes and crews and connect them, resulting in this near weeks worth of canceled flights and missing luggage, as they repositioned those crews. >> we reached a decision point to significantly reduce our flying to catch up. >> and the airline's own employees want answers. >> it has been absolutely horrific. the most despicable working conditions that you can imagine. >> this is going to continue until there is a sweeping change to the way southwest operates. >> transportation secretary pete buttigieg vowing to hold the airline accountable, especially after staffing issues caused problems last summer. >> they provided commitments in writing, including southwest, that they would go above the previous level of what you would do to take care of customers, things like covering the cost, if you get stuck and need a hotel or meal, in addition to rebooking.

>> still, thousands of passengers are stranded and struggling. >> i hate southwest, i hate them. >> but amid the chaos, we've seen remarkable gestures. i'm 72-year-old pam shelby on tuesday, stranded and sleeping at baltimore's airport for days. >> i am scared, i am not going to get out of here, and i am by myself. >> a good samaritan saw her story on tv and bought her a ticket home to alabama on another airline, leaving wednesday night. >> i just want to go take a shower and sleep and get this out of my mind. >> that person who bought the ticket, what did that mean to you? >> she was a godsend. she was my angel. they are footing the bill for things like, hotel food, transportation, unable to reach southwest customer service. now the airline says, those travelers should save their receipts, which will be reviewed on a case by case basis.

the department of transportation adding, they will hold southwest accountable if they do not take care of those stranded travelers. gabe cohen, cnn, baltimore, maryland. >> the southwest airlines snafu is taking a toll on the company's bottom line. in just the past week on wall street, southwest stock has fallen from $37 a share, to less than $33. that is about a 12% loss. reimbursing passengers will get expensive for the airline, airline industry analyst robert mann says this. you are looking at 1 million customers, if an average ticket is 250 to $300, that suggests that upper limit is 250 to $300 million in terms of absolute value. the question is, how do they differ that. i spoke earlier with cnn aviation analyst -- and i asked her what she thought would be the long term consequences for southwest from this fiasco. >> well, i think there will be

hearings, and the problem is when the hearings are over and the cameras and journalist go away, congress tends to lose its will. what probably is going to happen is what happened in a major airline meltdown we had back in 1999, obviously several decades ago, but there were class action lawsuits filed against carriers that were involved, and eventually the passengers were able to recover in settlement, did not go to trial, but in settlement about $200 per passenger grieved. of course, it does not sound like much if it has ruined your vacation or your jobs or work, and you are in an airport without a medicine, but that was at least something the airline had to pay. by the way, in that case, if the government did very little, it was private litigation that delivered that result to passengers. >> you can see my full interview with her in the next hour right here on cnn

newsroom. with covid cases surging in china, the united states will soon require all travelers from that country, including hong kong and macau to test negative for covid-19 before flying to the u.s.. there is a latest officials to announce such a restriction, joining the likes of japan, india, taiwan, and more who have similar measures in place. european union officials are set to discuss their own possible action on the matter in the coming hours. cnn's arlette saenz has more on the new travel restrictions imposed by the u.s.. >> the u.s. will soon require a negative test for individuals traveling from china to the u.s., as health officials here are concerned about the rising covid-19 cases in china as well as the lack of transparency in data regarding the situation. now there's new travel rules are set to go in effect on january 5th. it would require that travelers get a negative covid-19 test, no more than two days prior to

their departure. this must be a pcr test, or an antigen self test that has been administered by telehealth service, and one that has been approved by the fda here in the u.s.. now this does not just apply to those traveling directly from china to the u.s.. it would include those travelers who are possibly going through a third country, so it would apply in airports like seoul, vancouver, and toronto as well. the health officials say they set this timeline in order to get the airlines more time to set their operations in place, so they can implement this plan. now this all comes as there has been a surge in covid-19 cases in china since the elimination of its zero covid policy, a very strict policy that has been in place since the start of the pandemic. but additionally, health officials, say they are concerned about the lack of transparency in the data that china is providing, that includes data relating to the number of coronavirus cases,

hospitalizations, and deaths. but officials are also specifically concerned with the lack of information coming from china were guarding genome sequencing, which is critical in identifying new variants. officials are hoping that these new measures that are put in place would help prevent the spread of new variants as they are trying to gather more information, and this plan is set to take place in just about a week. arlette saenz, cnn, traveling with the president, in st. croix, virgin islands. >> meantime, chinese officials maintained everything is under control with the country's response to the rising covid cases. cnn's selina wang has more from beijing. >> as china finally abandoned zero covid, and starts to open up, other countries are putting in place restrictions on travelers from the country. the u.s. will require all travelers from china to show a negative covid test result before flying to the u.s.. before we got this official announcement, beijing responded to potential travel restrictions from the u.s. by

defending its covid policy, accusing western media for hyping up china's covid policy change and by urging countries to work together. this is what else the ministry of experts spokesperson had to say. vote, turn ahead always believe that the measures taken by countries to prevent the epidemic should be scientific and moderate. and should not affect normal people to people exchanges. now, the irony here is that since the start of the pandemic tomas had some of the strictest border controls in the world. but now that the country is finally easing up and cases are surging, other countries are getting nervous. in addition to the, u.s. japan, india, taiwan have put covid testing requirements in place. in fact, taiwan and japan say if the traveler from trying to test positive for covid upon arrival, they'll have to quarantine for several days. now, china has stopped reporting daily covid cases on a national level. it severely narrowed its definition of covid death.

only reporting a handful of covid deaths for the entire month. but beijing says, look, everything is under control. yet we know that hospitals are overflowing with elderly patients and crematoriums across the country are overwhelmed. fever and cold medicine are scarce. the big concern from some countries like the u.s. is the lack of data from china that could help detach new variants. just eight, the global construction that maintains a database of covid sequences has said, however, that china has ramped up the amount of data in submitting. and, that all the genome sequences shared so far closely resembled the variants already circulating in other parts of the world since july. but the u.s. says the data showed from china isn't enough. and, look, it's not as if china has totally thrown open its own borders. china's borders remains largely close to foreigners, apart from a limited number of business or family visits. selina wang, cnn, beijing. >> let's discuss this with dr. jorge rodriguez, a board to defied internal medicine specialist and viral

researcher. he joins us from los angeles. thank you for being here. >> thank, you alison. >> all right, first, from what you can tell, i am curious what you know of the situation right now in china, specifically in beijing regarding the number of covid cases, and what you think would be the ripple effect from china's sudden rollback of its strict covid measures. >> well, i think that we are not, and probably will not get the absolute truth from china, but in this doctor to doctor network that exist between twitter, and social media, and communication, there are external intel in the past 20 day there have been approximately 250 million 250 million new cases of infection with covid in china. that is astounding. arguably, the most populated country in the world, and we don't know what is happening with these infections. obviously, the deaths are horrible, but every infection

can create a new mutation, and at the rate it is going, i joke that china is not vegas. what happens in china, does not stay in china. it will spread throughout the world. and, this is probably the most serious thing that has happened in this pandemic in the last two years. >> yeah, you talk about the spread, so i'm curious how effective you think the requirement is that the u.s. has travelers from places like china, hong kong, macau, to show innovative covid test before entering the u.s.. or, it's the step more symbolic because, at this point, the viruses everywhere? >> i agree, the viruses everywhere. the step is probably better than nothing, but it is not a solution. if anything, more of a solution would be to test every person that arrives from china, on one route or another here, and wait until that test comes back. listen, there were two planes last week in milan that came from china, one of them 38% of

the people that were tested or covid positive, the other was upwards of 50%. so the numbers could be astronomical. so if we are really going to get serious about trying to slow down, not stop, but slow down the increase of cases coming from china, the people have to be tested when they arrive, and isolated if they are positive. at least that is my opinion. >> do you know how different the covid cases are, the variance between what you are seeing in china versus what we are seeing here in the u.s.? >> no, we really don't. we really don't. because that is the information that we are not getting. sure, the numbers, how many infected, they are important, but if there is a new variant that is highly contagious, highly deadly, we are not getting any of that information and probably the only way we are going to find out is if we see a new variant happening in europe, other parts of the world, or the united states that can be traced back to

that. >> what kind of frequency should people be getting covid vaccine boosters at this point then? >> well, right now, everybody should be getting the latest booster which is the bivalent booster, which includes the omicron variant. even if you haven't gotten all the other boosters, this is the one that you need to get now. obviously, i'm assuming you have gotten the first two or three shots, depending on what maker. again, what i was going to say, we can only control so much of what comes out of china, what we really do have the power to control is that we protect ourselves against that. i know. the sounds like a broken record, but now is the time for people to stop all that bunk of being afraid of vaccines and enough about masks and taking away freedom. you want freedom to live, you need to get vaccinated, you need to protect yourself and large crowds with masks. that is not a lot to asked if it saves your life, or the life

of others that you love. >> yeah we may be moving about feeling like the pandemic is over, but it is certainly not over. dr. jorgy pleasure. the death toll is growing in western new york as emergency crews finally reach areas once blocked by the blizzard. we will have a report from buffalo. plus, victims tracked by fire, jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. we will have heartbreaking eyewitness accounts about a fire in cambodia. fire in cambodia. to freeze your pain and your doubt. ♪ heat makeses it last. so you'll neverr sit this one out. icy hot pro with 2 max-strength p pain relievers.

>> west new york is finally getting a reprieve from the blinding blizzard that has been tormenting the region for the better part of a week. all state highways have now reopened, and buffalo just lifted its ban on nonessential driving. many city streets are still a mess. hundreds of cars have merged and snow covered lanes are slowing down, emergency

responders. the extreme weather has claimed at least 37 lives in erie county, new york. more bodies could still be found, but police say they have finally made it through the roughly 1100 9-1-1 calls that came in during the storm. cnn's athena jones brings us the latest from buffalo. hi there, will the snow is over, it is warming up here in buffalo, the city and county officials are making progress on clearing the streets, more than 1.3 meters of snow that fell over the last few days. the goal has been to make sure that at least one lane of traffic, and every -- clear so emergency services can get through, and so the supplies can get to stores. grocery store,'s drugstores, and the like. the battle continues to climb as authorities search house by house, and vehicles, to make sure that people are doing okay. starting earlier this morning, the national guard started going door to door in

neighborhoods where people lost power. neighborhoods that lost power at one point during the storm, they are checking on those houses to make sure people have the heat, the food, and the water they need. they continue to bring help if they need it. there are also emergency service workers who are going door by door, either checking on people with known medical conditions, or checking on homes that called 9-1-1 during the height of this blizzard, yet, could not be reached, could not be helped. they began with about 1100 calls, and they were down to a few hundred earlier today. so that is a process which continues. i will tell you this, city officials say they are preparing for snow melt, rapid snow melt. we still have piles, and piles of snow at various places around town, some of it blocking important drainage system so they want to make sure they can clear that snow strategically before this warm-up comes or has begun but by the time it gets to friday we are going to see much higher temperatures and they are expecting rapid melt and that

could lead to flood that is exactly what they are trying to avoid. a teenage, owns cnn, buffalo, new york. >> and that warmer weather is affecting not just buffalo, but what looks like more than half of the united states. cnn meteorologist tom slater has the forecast. >> sometimes in the winter months, wishing for warmer weather is not always the best thing. look at the snow pack across north america. from british columbia to the central rockies, this is just the beginning. when do you see what is coming in the forecast for them. upper midwest, ontario, -- focusing on areas such as buffalo, a year ago, 9.3 inches were on the ground, they picked up 100 this year. that is six feet above average. there will definitely be flooding going on, massive melt. earlier today, this is what it looked like in watertown, one of the better clear areas. when authorities say what you are trained on your roads, keep them from getting ice jammed, well how can you find them. this is looking pretty, good but in most locations, clouds of push the snow up five, six,

seven feet high, some areas cannot find their car and you find rain under the forecast not only ate the melting process it accelerates average high in buffalo is 34 degrees, look again, 24 degrees above average. got up above freezing, and everybody is, earlier today, every city and pretty much north america or the u.s. except for -- north dakota was above freezing. temperatures will only be of of average, much above, 20, maybe 25 degrees warmer than normal. here's the warm front. mountain snow as the first in a series of storms that moved, and you see the water vapor, fire hose return, about this atmospheric river, the winds will also accompany this, they were not the only category one winds, they were category 2 knocking out power, hundreds of thousands in parts of oregon, upstate new york, washington state that is. so that system has moved into the desert southwest. the watches and warnings are in place. now, it really starts to kick in. here we go. and sears of storms that are moving in, the first one that already moved, in becomes the second one. this is thursday into friday.

we have another one friday into saturday. if i are hosting to san francisco, maybe ten inches of rain through all of this. here comes the next, one monday into tuesday, then another one back behind that. so massive flash flooding. landslide threat, this atmospheric river is going to cause not only heavy mountain snow and travel problems, but i think we will see unbelievable amounts of rain in parts of california. that is the next story to talk about. first we will be watching the melting in buffalo and areas of the northeast. >> still ahead, authorities in ukraine are urging people to evacuate a city under siege. how residents in kherson are weighing their options amid constant russian shelling. then, the pope praise for his predecessor, we are live in rome with what is known about the health of former pope benedict.

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>> welcome, back i'm alison kosik, catholics all over the world are praying for former pope benedict after pope francis announced that his predecessor is very sick. the former pope who 95 resigned from his post almost a decade ago citing his advanced age. he is now being constantly monitored by doctors according to a vatican spokesperson. let's go to barbie nadeau who's covering this live from rome. barbie, what are you hearing about the former pope's medical condition? >> well, you know, we haven't had an update since yesterday morning when the vatican press office commented on the comments made, the request for prayers by pope francis, so we don't really have a good idea

of how he's doing. of course, is 95, he is frail, 's condition is worsening. we know that he is in the monastery where he lives inside vatican city, hasn't been taken to a hospital as far as anyone knows. and his condition, is not good. at the moment. but, it is interesting, the fact we are even talking about this transparency we don't always see from the vatican does mean the situation is very serious at this point, alison, for the former pope. >> pope francis has been asking the faithful to keep benedict and their thoughts, how is the church thinking of him during this time? >> well, you know, this is a former pope with a very complicated legacy. you know, a lot of people obviously, a lot of the more traditional conservative catholics are praying for him, they lot of controversy surrounding how he handled the clerical sex abuse issues, things like that, so there have been also comments to that effect, certainly on social media, but the greater community will respect the fact

that this was their pope for eight years. was the first spoke to resign in nearly 600 years. so a lot of this is without president, you know if this where the active pope who was failing in health, we would be getting regular, updates but this is really for all intents and purposes, a private citizen living in vatican city now as a retired pope, so it is not clear how much the vatican will tell us until there is real news to share. alison? >> okay, barbie nadeau in rome, thank you very much. in ukraine, officials are urging residents to evacuate the southern city of kherson as russia continues to launch attacks. residents tell cnn many of the people who remain are taking care of elderly parents. those who have fled the fighting say russia's constant shelling became an bearable, leaving them shaking with fear they could be killed at any moment. beyond kherson fighting has intensified on the eastern front lines ukrainian officials say russian forces have, quote, practically destroyed the

occupied city of -- russian troops are now moving towards the town of bakhmut which has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war in recent weeks. and just now, cnn's team in kyiv reports hearing explosions as air raid sirens are sounding across ukraine. let's get more on this with cnn's clare sebastian. she joins us now live from london. so we are getting word of multiple missile strikes, what more can you tell us? >> yeah, there seems to be pretty widespread this morning, alison, as you say, hearing from our team in kyiv that they have heard explosions on the ground there, regional authorities across ukraine are reporting air defense systems have been activated from lviv in the northwest, out to mykolaiv in the south variety, a different regions and mykolaiv, the regional head there said five missiles were intercepted over the feast so this appears to be a pretty widespread, pretty major area attack coming from russia. there are signs as well that it

is affecting the power grid which has been severely weakened by the last few months of russian attacks in odessa. the main power company they are seeing emergency power outages have been implemented, that regional head as well also reporting that air defense systems have been activated, talking about a massive missile attack across ukraine. so, this appears to be still ongoing, we are getting more word from the various different regions about what is happening, but it is clear that as we hear comments from russia like we heard from sergei lavrov this morning that russia is not prepared to negotiate on the regions that it is occupying, that it is illegally annexed as they continue to pursue a military solution here. >> all right, clarissa bastian in london, thank you very much. i want to move to cnn's ben wedeman who joins us now from kyiv. if we have him. ben, thanks for joining, us what more are you learning? you are in kyiv, where are you hearing, what are you seeing? >> well, just about a few minutes after 9:00 local time,

we heard three loud explosions, here in central kyiv. now we understand that those were air defenses taking down russian missiles, but some debris did hit a residence in one part of the city, no word on injuries. now there was much talk last night that of anticipation of a possible russian missile strike, or strikes across the country after three days ago the -- air force base in russia had been hit. now the ukrainians do not say they have hit that base, but it was widely assumed, but it was hit by ukrainian missiles or drones. causing some damage there and disruption to the russian air defenses. so it was anticipated that something was going to have been in revenge for the attack on the airbase in russia, and it appears this is the case.

so there seems to be an ongoing missile strike course missile strikes across the country, not just focused in particular areas and as clare was saying, there have been emergency that basically their courage cutting the electricity in parts of the country to avoid damage to the system in the offense some of these missiles actually do get through. >> okay, cnn's ben wedeman live for us in, kyiv i know we will come back to if you see anything changing there where you are. and, we will be right back. x refund, even if you got ppp and it only takes eight minutes s to qualify. i wewent on their website, uploaded everything, and i was blown away by what they could do. getrefunds.com has helped businesses get over a billion dollars and we can help your business too. qualify your business for a big refund in eight minutes. go to getrefunds.com to get started. powered by innovation refunds.

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>> a huge fire has killed at least 11 people at a casino in cambodia with some people so desperate to get out, they leapt to their deaths. that is according to a rescue worker who spoke to cnn after flames engulfed the structure on wednesday night. he says he saw two people die when they jumped from the building while other people suffered broken legs. the casino which contains a hotel is located near the thai border, so emergency crews from both countries rushed to help. rescue worker also says crews are still searching hotel rooms for more victims. we will continue to follow the, story and bringing more updates when we have them. in the meantime, let's bring in journalist -- she is live for us in singapore.

gosh, these details are just devastating, have officials said anything about what they think may have caused this blaze? >> our teams are reaching out to officials in thailand, and in cambodia, alison, we it's not clear exactly where and how this started, although there are some suspicions of this being near the kitchen, area the restaurant area. people keep on checking on those details for you. now the rescue teams are in the building some of those bits and pieces will begin to emerge, so we can construct this puzzle, put it together, put the pieces together to understand how all of this happened, but some stories that we heard from the location like we -- are rescue worker talking about how people trying to save their lives jumping out of this building, and injuries and the initial was going to point to -- people here in southeast asia

work up to this news. now, 11 people lost their lives in this fire, if you look at the pictures, you can see intense orange flames, plumes of smoke sprouting from this hotel, and to give some context, it is really close to the thai border, now this is one of the reasons why cambodia are reached out to tie rescue teams to thai authorities to have the help with this rescue effort. in fact the rescue work we are talking about having a rescue crane available and that was not available to the cambodians because this is the kind of acid that the thai authorities can provide, one of the reasons they are reaching out for those rescue teams. also the fact that announcement that they are trying to help sack in this -- entire language, because many tourists come across the border, it is right there to use this hotel and casino, i can also tell you this is a real -- holiday period across southeast asia, a lot of people are traveling so it is a very busy

time, but there was a lot of shouting as you can imagine you can see pictures and you can see we darkness when this started and it is really harrowing scenes of flames and now the rescue teams getting in there, trying to get the fire under control. our fear is that -- moment we are watching it very closely and staying in touch with those rescue teams. >> all right, manisha tank, in singapore, for us thank you. the daughter of brazilian football legend shared a photo on instagram of her family and he são paulo hospital, where he is receiving treatment. along with the photo, she wrote this, these moments are hard to explain, sometimes there is a lot of sadness, and hopelessness, others we laugh and talk of funny memories. what we learned the most from all of this is that we must look for each other, and keep close. that is the only way it is all

worth it with everyone together. the family spent christmas in the hospital after he was admitted last month for a respiratory infection, and a reevaluation of his chemotherapy for colon cancer. now to u.s. football where miami head coach mike mcdaniel says -- suffered a concussion on sunday, that is the second one for the dolphins quarterback this season's status for this week's game against the new england patriots is uncertain, and the dolphins are planning to start teddy bridgewater. mcdaniel says he is doing better than the day before, but it is hard to extrapolate beyond that. >> i will do what the medical experts advise me to do, and i'm quite certain they are not going to advise me in the wrong direction when it has to do with his health, his health is the first foremost and only

priority. >> he played the entire game against the green bay packers this past sunday, mcdaniel says he can't pinpoint exactly when you might have been injured. thank you for joining, us i'm alison for our international, viewers world sport is up next, where those here in the united states in canada, i will be right back with more news.

>> welcome back, i'm alison, mention netanyahu stunning political comeback in israel

culminates on thursday when he will be formally sworn in as prime minister for a record sixth time. but before that happens, parliament will vote on his new cabinet that is set to begin in the next couple of hours. analysts expect it to be the most right-wing government in israeli history. let's bring in elliott, he's covering this for us and joins us from jerusalem. so, elliott, who is expected to make up netanyahu's cabinet and what are some of the new prime minister's first priorities? >> alison, as you say, this is expected to be the most right-wing government in israel's history and i think that is what it is garnering so much attention, because of course netanyahu has been prime minister five times before, this is the sixth time, so it is almost the same in that respect. in terms of some of the personalities we have been talking about since the election on november the 1st, you have got, the jewish power party led by -- who has been convicted in the past of incitement original hatred, and supporting terrorism. you have the self professed

homophobic -- as the head of the religious zionism party, is set to be one of the next couple of, years and civil administration in the west bank. and, -- past a specific look to enable him to five personalities in terms of the agenda, the government laid out its plans yesterday, and there are a couple of controversial elements in there as well, one is to develop all parts of the israel in -- the north the south and also, which is what they call the west bank. so, obviously there is a resurgence of a settlement building in the west bank. that is something that is likely to cause controversy, particularly among israel's allies, and perhaps other countries in the region to sign

peace agreements with as well. another plan to restore the proper balance between the legislature and basically, means it will have the power to override decisions by the high court, which in the past my have struck outlaws the it seemed unconstitutional effectively what they want to do is to be able to have the lawmakers to overturn such decisions. there are concerns that it will dilute any checks and balances, and will be on this new government but one thing it did put in this agenda which was low-lying concerns is the status quo of religion and state will be preserved including concerns that we had close in the past from -- there said to be interior minister on changing the status quo a -- sharif s is known to muslims to allow shoes to pray there that is not going to happen

ultimately, alison, netanyahu says -- >> all right, elliott, in jerusalem, thank you. more fallout for george santos, the new york congressman elect who was admitted to lying to key ports of his background, federal prosecutors are now investigating his finances. this as cnn discovers even more of his falsehoods. here's eva mckend with the latest. >> these are blatant lies, my question is do you have no shame? >> incoming republican congressman george santos facing his most conventional interview yet as he tries to explain lies he told while campaigning for congress. >> look, i agree with what you are saying, and as i stated and continue, we can debate my resume and how i work with firms such as goldman -- no, it's not false at all. it's debatable. >> santos trying to minimize his lies with mere embossment. in an interview with fox news, his answers getting strong pushback from host toasty gabbard.

>> it's hard to imagine how they could possibly trust your explanations when you're not even willing to admit the depth of your deception to them. >> santos insisting that despite the controversy, that he intends to serve in congress. >> now, it's going to be incumbent upon me to deliver on those results. i look forward to serve -- >> you're exactly right. >> serving majestic -- >> house gop leader kevin mccarthy remaining silent on the matter, even as his fellow incoming gop house members from new york issued statements criticizing santos, lack of transparency. one of those lawmakers could be, congressman-elect nicole ot, calling for an ethics investigation and potential law enforcement involvement if necessary. santos also under scrutiny for how he made his money and how he was able to lone his campaign more than $700,000. santos telling news outlets that he earned his money in the capital introduction business and did the old building and specialty consulting for high net worth individuals.

the democrat who lost to santos just last month calling on him to resign and to face him in a rematch. >> assuming his name is george santos, i think in fact, he should resign from his position based on who the lies he told. i said if he is so confident that he's got to trust the voter, officer in a rematch. >> now it is gonna incumbent upon me to deliver results and -- >> you are exactly right >>. serving my district. >> house gop leader kevin mccarthy remaining silent on the matter, even as fellow incoming gop house members from new york issued statements criticizing santos's lack of transparency. the most recent, one congressman elect -- urging santos to cooperate with any investigations and called on him to apologize calling the whole controversy a distraction. santos also under scrutiny for how he made his money, how he was able to lone his campaign

more than $700,000. santos telling news outlets he earned his money in the capital introduction business, and did deal building, and specialty consulting for high net worth individuals. and, the nassau county district attorney -- republican has pledged to get to the bottom of this. she characterized the fabrications from santos a stunning, in a statement, adding the residents of nassau county and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in congress no one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county we will prosecuted so multiple law enforcement officials looking into this matter even mckend cnn washington. >> migrants coming from mexico are not giving up on their dream of a new life in the u.s. despite a ruling by the u.s. supreme court on tuesday the court decided to temporarily keep a policy called title 42

under which many of them could be expelled without an immigration hearing leyla santiago went to the city of el paso, texas, the ground zero of the ongoing crisis, and some migrants told her they do not plan to go back. >> -- we she knows someone to be able to as she has repeated find a better future for her children and work. >> her one-year-old son just finished a formal phone journey from venezuela, to nine different countries just to be here in the united states of america. >> her question is, to the people that united states, the government of the united states, why do they not want her here? >> that's into a good by many mothers, here with their future involved after the supreme court ordered tuesday to keep in place the trump era title 42 policy, while challenges play out in court in the next few

months. the policy allows the u.s. government to expel migrants legally seeking asylum before they have had a proper hearing. >> it breaks me because there's no directive, what we are trying to provide with minimal resources we, have is a direction so they can go from point a to point b. >> over the past few months, tens of thousands of migrants have been searching to the southern border, creating the humanitarian crisis. as leftward a time like el paso overwhelmed unable to keep up with the challenges of providing care, and shelter for those in need. >> we've had as many as 2500 crossings a day, and that is will continue, and this is part of -- >> how bizarre is preparing for an even larger surgeon title -- transforming two vacant schools into temporary housing. >> the system has to be fixed -- >> u.s. customs and border protection says it is setting up a new processing facility in a passive, to increase capacity. it is one of ten new temporary

processing facilities being added on the u.s. mexico border. for now, local organizers in el paso are asking people to just try to see the humanity in everyone. >> they are here. where are we going to do? it is time to step up, it is time to say you know, what they are here, does it matter from red, blue, let's hope all of these people. >> and as night falls here, and the temperature jobs, the winds pick, up you can see they are actually part of -- pedestrians here. you know, as the country braces for what could be another potential surge in migrants, we have learned that he department of homeland security also concerned about another potential surge. we obtained a memo that circulated just days ago, warning of potential violent extremist attacks, targeting migrants, and critical infrastructure should the trump era policy come to an end. leyla fantino, go cnn, el paso. >> thanks for joining, us i'm

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