Senator feinsteins family. May she rest in peace, and may her memory be a blessing. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Up front next, mccarthys meltdown, the house speakers attempt for the bill goes down in flames. And one of temps 18 codefendants in georgias sprawling case strikes a deal with prosecutors. The big question is who is next . The State Of Emergency, New York City, the biggest city in the country, and water. A major river now in flood stage. And the threat tonight is far from over. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Mccarthys mess. Hours away from a shutdown, and Kevin Mccarthy appears unable to get his party to stop it. Mccarthy Behind Closed Doors said there arent many options left, this after his last vote filed. He was so confident he had more ideas, though he was making jokes. Just listen to this exchange. Reporter can you tell me the planned . That was a few hours ago, joking, now its not many options left. Its no laughing meter. A whole lot of americans living pay
detected it, alerted the community. now they feel they re being punished from all of the travel restrictions. reporter: that s right, caitlyn. the very top official, the president of south africa who i have to say after covering him for some time is pretty diplomatic on these issues. he was very not diplomatic naming them one by one, almost naming and shaming them, including the u.s. the countries that have cut off southern africa including south africa from travel. he then went on to criticize those countries saying this is all deeply unfair. these restrictions are completely unjustified and unfairly discriminate against our country and our southern african sister countries. the prohibition of travel is not informed by science. nor will it be effective in preventing the spread of this
minutes. things are running smoothly. meanwhile, delta, the hometown airline, is expected to continue their flights to south africa despite the travel restrictions going into effect on monday. cai caitlyn? reporter: we know south african leaders are upset. nick valencia in atlanta, joe johns, thank you for updating us on the latest. at least a dozen countries have detected cases of the variant. the countries in the red have detected cases of omicron. they are still evaluating test samples. scientists in south africa first alerted the global community about the severity of this new variant about four days ago. it has quickly become a major concern around the world as the world lieders wait to learn more about this. david mckenzie is in johannesburg. they ve been pretty verbal about their concerns about the response. they say their scientists are the ones who sequenced this,
actually put in more restrictions on more countries in the future. the president declined to answer that question, caitlyn. we know, of course, this is a decision he made about restricting travel pretty quickly after getting that update from dr. fauci. nick, i want to go to you. you re in atlanta. one of the busiest airports in the world. delta is headquartered there. they are still servicing the flights to south africa today. the clock is still ticking and it s not going to be for much longer. reporter: yeah. we re starting to see the last of the flights come into atlanta from south africa before the travel restrictions go into effect on monday. i spoke to one woman who arrived from johannesburg. she said her travel experience was a nightmare. her first flight was canceled. to her surprise when she got here to the atlanta airport she did not have to go to or through any additional covid screenings. she did say that she thinks people are making a lot to do