currently hospitalized with covid, about half the record high from january. all of this isn t stopping people from wanting to travel, it is now preventing them from actually being able to. several major u.s. airlines have canceled more than 1,000 flights this weekend over staffing shortages of course caused by the omicron variant. and yesterday christmas eve air travel saw more than 800,000 fewer passengers compared to pre-pandemic levels. i want to get right to cnn s nadia romero and alison kosik who are keeping a close eye on all the covid developments for us. nadia, let s begin with you. you are in atlanta one of the busiest airports in the world. what is happening there? reporter: it is definitely picking up now, but we re in the afternoon hours, compared to this morning where we had a lot of flight cancellations and people unaware potentially of their cancellations. but now we re seeing more people arriving going in, there was a flight heading to, no, i spoke to some o
american life and became a cultural icon. she died from parkinson s disease in new york, her publisher says. she was a pioneer at the time what was known as new journalism. her numerous bestselling books included slouching toward bethlehem and the year of magical thinking, following the death of her husband, writer john gregory dunne. she wrote, when we mourn our losses, we mourn for better or worse ourselves, as we were, as we are no longer, as we will one day not be at all. she was 87. the news continues. let s hand it over to michael smerconish and cnn tonight. john, thank you. i am michael smerconish. welcome to cnn tonight. on this eve of christmas eve with omicron spreading far and wide and not nearly enough testing to meet the massive demand, a new report from vanity fair suggests the biden administration dismissed a bold plan months ago to ramp up testing ahead of the holidays. characterized by the magazine a blueprint for how to avoid what is happening
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a stunning new take-away from president biden s really troublesome polling numbers that he s seen the past week or so. his approval has dropped faster than any president since world war ii according to gallup. this poll came out today. he s down 11 points since the beginning of his presidency. some of the slide have to do with the views on the economy and concerns about rising inflation, which we ve seen in our fox polling, which is a major concern. the supply chain, something that has people concern about the american economy. that s where we start today. william la jeunesse is live at the port of los angeles with the very latest. hi, william. martha, you remember, it was ten days ago that president biden said he had good news about speeding products into the hands of americans. well, when you look out here and you talk to those involved in making that happen, they say it s a goal, but it s not a reality. the waters off the coast of basically long beach and los angeles, it
become available for children in the coming weeks. the question is can the country finally get some control over covid? and a mysterious fireball seen in the skies over michigan. the question is was it a comet, space junk, or perhaps a ufo? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that hopes the flying object was william shatner going for an encore. i m jonathan lemire on this friday, october 22nd. we ll start with the news. the house has voted to hold steve bannon in contempt of congress for ignoring a subpoena from the house select committee that s been investigating the january 6 attack at the capitol. the final tally, 229-202. that means nine republicans broke with their party to support the resolution. seven of those nine previously voted to impeach president trump following the insurrection. one of the republicans who voted in favor of the resolution was congresswoman nancy mace of south carolina. she spoke to report