when there s life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. do not despair, do not give up, in the words of churchill, never, never, never give up. try john meacham, as always, thank you for being with us. i hope you and your family are having a great fourth of july weekend. that was joe s conversation with john meacham ahead of this july 4th holiday. erin o hearn picks up the coverage right now. good money. morning, john. don t go far. no holiday starting yet. good morning to you at home and welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, july 4th. we begin with the latest fr
over the holiday weekend and canceled more than 1500 others. that is according to new data obtained by the flight tracking website, flight aware. it comes amid a new single day travel record since the start of the pandemic. close to 2 1/2 million people traveled through u.s. airport on friday at the start of the july 4th weekend. we have the latest on the holiday travel mess that is disrupting airports from coast to coast. joining us now from lax, nbc s george. it s nice to see that the pre- pandemic travel levels are up, but the headache that goes with it is not nice to see. reporter: good morning and happy fourth to you. it certainly has been a rough couple of days for holiday travel. as you mentioned, we are back to pre-pandemic levels in passenger still getting caught up in these rampant delays and cancellations in airports and airlines, there just trying to keep up with that travel demand. this morning, the holiday travel nightmares continue.