hospitalizations are trending down, and death rates are projected to as well. and here in new york, a group of public school employees is asking the u.s. supreme court to put a stop to the city s vaccine mandate. court papers filed thursday, lawyers basically arguing instead of allowing these employees to opt out and not receive a vaccine and get weekly testing, instead the lawyers argue that the mandate, quote, forces unvaccinated public school employees to go on unpaid leave for nearly a year. they go on to argue that it places an unconstitutional burden on some of the public school teachers here. jason carroll, cnn, new york. well, the debate over masks has tempers flaring in one alaska city. they wanted to hear from members of the community before imposing a mask mandate due to rising covid cases. on day three of testimony, four people were arrested for disrupting the meeting while most people opposed the mandate,
the plane landed safely and authorities were able to board the aircraft and then remove this person. now, this was a severe delay, obviously, for the flight. they were able to continue along with their itinerary, but this was hours later so delta has apologized for any possible inconvenience. but also they thanked the passengers and crew that was able to gain control of the situation there in flight. now, as you mentioned, this is only the second case in recent days here of one of these situations unfolding and it s been not very smooth traveling on many flights this year. the faa actually tracks unruly passenger incidents and reports that so far this year they ve seen at least 2,900. about 2,200 are people who were refusing to comply with the federal mask mandate due to the pandemic. so these are numbers that do continue to rise, which obviously are concerning for the travel industry, for the faa and transportation security administration, and ultimately what we have is this latest