if you defy the mask rule, you could lose precheck status for good. mr. mayor, thank you very much. i want to know, people on twitter always ask why i call you the mayor of reagan national airport or the world s most interesting well. it s because you cover your beat so well. it really is astounding. thank you for everything you do. i hope you have a wonderful holiday, pete. reporter: merry christmas, john. might i also add pete muntean will answer any question you have about aviation quickly. and i feel the smile in the email. royal caribbean announcing a covid outbreak on the cruise ship, the second in less than a week. the miami herald reporting 55 have the virus. the ship has been denied entry since leaving florida on saturday. the ship will stay at sea until it s planned return sunday.
vaccine is in public trials. a universal vaccine able to target future variants will bring us the closest to normal. until then we need to develop an idea about how we sort of go back and forth between protecting ourselves, protecting others, and kind of keeping those good habits going if we want to have a new normal. reporter: what that looks like is sparking everything from debates to court battles. in new york city, sarah palin allegedly flouting covid-19 restrictions by dining inside a restaurant while unvaccinated on saturday. and then testing positive on monday. delaying her defamation trial against the new york times. an attorney for pale declined to comment. in new york state, a state judge blocking the governor s mask mandate. the department of education rejecting the ruling saying, schools must still follow the mask rule. and another stage goes dark. sir elton john testing positive for covid, delaying two concerts
officials saying governor kathy hochul and the state health department did not have the authority to enact the rule without lawmakers. regardless of the well-aimed extensions of state officials, such authority is entrusted solely to the state legislature, the justice wrote. the new york times reports the state s attorney general s office and the state health department plan to appeal which would automatically restore the mask rule until an appellate court issues a ruling. joining us nous the surgeon general of the united states, dr. vivek murthy. i am here in poland and there are a couple of places i have been to, including a school, which has never missed a day since covid began. their technology and their practices are all aligned so that they had an effective way to stop the spread from day one. i just wonder if all of our
and are seeking confirmation the court s order is stayed. while the legal steps occur, the position that schools should continue to follow the mask rule. judge who ruled against the mandate said enacting a state requirement to wear masks is not the responsibility of the health department, saying it s entrusted solely to the state legislature. one of the parents who challenged the mask mandate hopes that the judge s ruling is going to be upheld. listen. we are united in the republic that the people lead and will always lead in choice, government shall not ever parent our kids. we will be parenting our kids, and it s about choice and only choice. adding to the confusion, the judge s ruling does not affect local mandates, so just the one here in new york city that requires school kids here to go to school wearing a mask. and despite the ongoing legal
word from an appeals court judge keeping new york state s school mask mandate in place for now. it comes just hours after a ruling striking down the state s indoor mask mandate sparked chaos and confusion across schools and businesses. we re not anti-mask, we re just anti-mandate. reporter: the governor had vowed to fight it, even with covid cases dropping dramatically in new york. the last thing i want to see is a different trend because people gave up on the masks. i think it s common sense, i think it s safe to have a mask. reporter: some schools today swiftly ditching the mask rule. others keeping the mandate in place, outraging some parents. that is a lie. you guys will all be sued. watch me. reporter: on long island, parents angry after they say their maskless kids were told to stay in the library and join their classes via zoom. i just think it s wrong. for one day, given these kids the opportunity to have the choice to be maskless or masked. it s their constit