transportation, it will appeal the florida judge s ruling. now, the news comes as the t.s.a. is no longer enforcing the mandate, leaving it up to business and individuals. cbs errol barnett is at reagan national airport with the latest. ( applause ). reporter: there was jubilation in the skies as passengers found out masks were no longer required. no one is any happier than we are. reporter: one flight attendant celebrating in song. reporter: all major u.s. airlines made mask wearing optional once the t.s.a. said it would no longer enforce the federal rule. airport officials in houston today, carting away these mask requirement signs, the nation s busiest airports all making masks optional. the white house, hoping to keep the mandate in place through may 3 was caught off guard by monday s announcement. cbs nancy cordes today asked
spunt is live in d.c. for the fallout today. good morning. good morning to you. what s interesting is that the mask issue was not even officially on the school board agenda last night. it was open for public comment but you better believe the subject came up as we just saw. seven school districts in the commonwealth of virginia are currently suing over governor youngkin s day one executive order that lets parents decide if kids should wear masks in schools. the districts suing saying he doesn t have the authority to override a law put in place by the general assembly last year that allows schools to impose mask mandates. we want to keep schools open. if you want to keep schools open this is literally the all we can do to keep schools open. a group of students who refused to wear masks saying they were quarantined unnecessarily. segregated from all the other students wearing masks. we were told to use different
governor youngkin. one of his first acts in office was signing an executive order making masks optional. schools are suing to overturn that. bill: the governor is not budging. he was elected on a mandate to empower parents. he maintains they should be the ones who decide what s best for their kids and not the government. dana: the only problem some schools are refusing to listen and parents listen here are fed up. give children of parents the right to skoos for themselves. time to quit hiding behind our children and sacrifice their youth for your fear. we want a choice on masks. all children have a right to an education, a right to an education. stop the hypocrisy. bill: for more now david
youngkin. the washington post, you can check in almost every day. they smear him nearly on a daily basis. for no logical reason except they hate anybody that is conservative. a soviet style police state by making masks optional. liberal school boards in northern virginia defy his executive order. the people that are playing football with are your kids. thankfully they are losing for the virginia senate, by the way controlled by democrats. they voted to end mask mandates and schools by a whopping margin. as youngkin stated, this boat shows that school boards are attacking their own
is no dissemination or transmission in schools? sean: randi weingarten was an advocate of virtual learning and has been for a while. she tried to keep schools closed. she doesn t give a rip about the well-being of your kids. meanwhile the always honest, always trustworthy, always consistent i knew all about the funding of the wuhan virology lab, but i m lying about it, dr. anthony fauci. and they also want to make sure that your kids stay masked at all times, forget the signs. take a look. we understand what the governors are sane. we also want to make sure that people are safe and that the cdc has not we continue to recommend masking in schools for everyone. we continue to recommend masking and public indoor settings and areas of higher substantial transmission. that right now is everywhere in the country. what are your thoughts on children needing to wear masks in school and what do you think