get home for the holidays, but they re hoping to do so without feeling the effects of that grinch-like arctic storm system that is causing travel delays as it marches across the country. we heard from president biden on this storm earlier today. he says it s no joke and had this message for travelers. please, take this storm extremely seriously. i don t know if your bosses will let you. if you have travel plans, leave now. not a joke. martha: . that arctic system is leaving havoc with temperatures hitting the northeast. no surprise, denver international in chicago, o hare, two places in the thick of the storm seeing the most. nati nationwide, flight aware is
high or very high levels of respiratory virus activity right now. in new york city, health officials issued an advisory saying everyone should wear masks when indoors in public, even if you have gotten your flu shot or had flu before. you should wash your hands, stay home when sick, and getting upto date on your vaccinations. hospitals in the united states are the fullest they have been since tracking began at the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. about 80% of beds are in use nati nationwide. chris wallace sat down with dr. fauci and asked if the lockdowns worked. could we have been less restrictive about closing down the economy and focused, if not from the very start earlier on
voted more republican in spite of his demagoguery. there is a real opening. hispanic is far too diverse. kps voters in texas and florida are fundamentally different in terms of their roots and lived experience in america. for example, there are families that have been in the u.s. for more than 150 years, they are not immigrant community in any sense. it might surprise you to learn that the 2020 census 76% of hispanics in south texas identified as white. at the same time the hispanic i m grant community in florida hails from a half dozen countries. given many of these countries experience with communist oppression it s no wonder that flirtations with democratic socialism back fires badly. but even that division, this is the larger point, hispanics are the largest minority group
nati nationwide. 52% of hispanics identified as independent voters in 2021, ten points higher than the population overall. you can see why democrats default to identity politics doesn t really work. here is more evidence, polling shows that one in four hispanic voters have even heard of the politically correct term latinx and 3% use it to describe themselves. hispanic voters aren t the other, they are us. all things being equal they re going to make political decisions based on economic issues, jobs, gas and groceries like everyone else. they live near the border they will care about border security and if there is any overall differentiation it s that the hispanic community is in general traditionally conservative focused on faith and family. what ronald reagan concedes decades ago when he said hispanics are conservative they just don t know it yet. none of this means that republicans are in the cat bird seat when it comes to winning over hispanic voters, it just means that this massi
nati nationwide. so far abortion clinics and the justice department have been unable to convince the could court to block the law because of the unique way it is structured, empowering private citizens rather than state officials to enforce the law, by allowing regular people to sue others who violate the restrictions. the supreme court is still considering whether various challenges to the texas law can move forward. now the 6-3 conservative court will also consider whether to redraw the viability line or overturn roe v. wade completely. roe v. wade has got to go. reporter: abortion rights activists are concerned the court will give states much more leeway to restrict abortions. by the estimation of our analysis about half the states in the united states would ban abortion if roe were overturned. that means large parts of the south and the midwest where people cross multiple state lines to get access to abortion care and not everyone has the means to be able to do that. report