guilty. the only black juror on the panel that convicted jussie smollett and his hate crime hoax trial opens up about a key piece of evidence, telling local chicago media he couldn t understand why smollett put a noose used in the attack back on to show police as an african-american person i m not putting that noose back on at all. smollett is awaiting sentencing for five convictions related to the fake hate crimes. google is reportedly planning to fire employees who don t comply with the company s covid vaccine january 18th to get vaccinated or be placed on paid leave for one month employees remain unvaccinated after the paid leave would be put on unpaid leave for six months and anyone unvaccinated after that faces termination. okay. get ready to ring in the new year with fox news channel. fox & friends weekend co-hosts pete hegseth, rachel
we need to learn to live with it. but we re not going to learn to live with it by locking down and shutting borders. the right answer is to get everyone vaccinated. changes to the transportation wide federal mask mandate was set to expire january 18th. it has been extended two months. the expiration date march 18th, 2022. that applies to all public forms of transportation, including planes, trains, buses, boats, and also here in terminals. john and brianna. pete muntean at dulles, thank you so much. one of the key questions overhanging all of this, what is the deal with omicron? how severe are the illnesses there? we get new information from south africa from one of the leading scientists there who may have some answers as to how severe the cases are. that s coming up. this week the biden administration is expected to announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 beijing winter
concerns over the new omicron variant, it tightened that time line as you mentioned from three days to one day for this testing requirement now. airlines say that they are going to comply with this, they will be checking for those negative coronavirus tests, but they pushed back on how effective this is really going to be. this is what united airlines ceo scott kirby told me. the reality is omicron is already out of south africa, already escaped, it is on every continent. covid is unique, we need to learn to live with it, but we won t by simply locking down and shutting borders. the right answer is to get efrn vaccinated. reporter: another big change when it comes to the federal transportation mask mandate, it was set to expire january 18th. now it has been given a two month extension, now it is expiring march 18, 2022, and that applies on all public forms of transportation.
it s spreading because it s had an opportunity to do this, so they re just being careful. it doesn t matter to me, honestly, i m just like, all right, cool, if that s what you need me to do, i ll do it. i ll do what i need to do to travel. it s less than testing because people may have contact with covid, and then you reduce the risk. another huge change when it comes to the federal transportation-wide mask mandate, was said to expire january 18th, in only a few weeks. now it s been given a two-month extension, the new expiration date march 18th, 2022. that applies on all forms of public transportation, planes, trains, buses, boats, also here in terminals especially when the numbers are so big, about 2 million people passed through security at america s airports just yesterday, victor and alisyn.
it has escaped, it is on every continent. covid is unique, it is endemic, we need to learn to live with it, but we won t learn to live with it by locking down and shutting borders. the right answer is to get everyone vaccinated. reporter: another big change here when it comes to the federal transportation mask mandate, was set to expire on january 18th, now it has been expanded by two months, new expiration march 18, 2022. that applies to all forms of transportation all because of the concerns over the new omicron variant. good to see you, pete, thank you so much. and another big pandemic move, new york city taking a big step to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. mayor de blasio announced this morning all private sector employees will soon have to be vaccinated. that is on top of the vaccine mandate that is already in place for all public sector employees in the city.