Stock exchanges, health care systems, government offices, also feeling the impact and new this morning, president biden s campaign manager insisting that he is in this race and will be donald trump, who just wrapped up his convention last that s tonight. That s despite growing pressure on the president to drop his reelection bid. But let s start with the massive cyber outage. Here s what we know right now. It is causing gridlock it s a major airports in every corner of the world thousands of flights have been canceled more than 1,700 in the u. S. Alone, even the border crossing with canada is backed up but with cars, look at this stretching for miles and also take a look at this map by these red dots that you re seeing on the screen right now are airports that have parsed aufor groundstops. You might say, okay, that s not a lot of red dots, that s atlanta laguardia, boston, detroit minneapolis salt. I mean, those are major airports around the world and important passengers are exaspera
Airport, the president said this. No the best of our knowledge, the taliban check points are letting through people showing american passports. Now, that s a different question when they get into the rush and crowd of all the folks just outside the wall near the airport. That s why we had, yesterday or the day before, we went over the wall and brought in, how many? 169 americans. Sgr right now at kabul s airport, we re told some flights have resumed after no planes took off for ten hours. Thousands of people there still stranded. Soldiers on the runway told cnn that 10,000 people had their paper work processed and ready to go but they were stuck in the blistering sun after the country they were being evacuated to said they reached capacity and k could handle no more. The united arab emirates will host 5,000 afghans on a temporary basis after a request from the united states government. They are scrambling to enlist over nations to accept evacuees. We are waiting for this briefing. How
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with me are aletha adu, political correspondent at the daily mirror, and the former conservative adviser mo hussein. tomorrow s front pages. that s begin with the tomorrow s front pages. that s begin with the metro. it leads on the falling number of omicron cases in the uk for the fifth consecutive day. there s been a weekly drop of almost 10% in covid hospital admissions. the times reports the comments from the head of nhs providers, chris hopson, who believes the front line of the service will hold , as there s growing hopes that we are past the omicron peak. the i says that the prime minister is planning to announce a living with covid plan by march, which could include winding down testing and the scrapping of free lateral flow tests. another of those measures is reported in the telegraph reducing the covid isolation period from seven to five days, a measure which the chancellor supports. we were just saying nadhim zahawi also supports that. the mail has a warning fr
freedoms they have sacrificed so much to protect. the covid-19 pandemic provides the government no license to abrogate those freedoms. there is no military exclusion from our constitution. the ruling temporarily blocks the pentagon from punishing navy seals who refuse the vaccine. pentagon spokesman john kirby said tonight that defense officials are aware of this injunction and they are reviewing it. this comes as the omicron search now threatens classroom shutdowns across the country once again. if the struggle to get kids back in school is lighting up parents, but some teachers unions are pushing to start the new year remotely. president biden is back from his delaware holiday, returning to a very snowy d.c. monday attic covid testing crisis speaking just as americans need to get back to work. biden is expected to make briefer marks tomorrow about the pandemic. we begin with the changing federal response to omicron, including mixed messaging on quarantines and a push for bo