and we begin this morning with a major moment for nasa. we have engine start. and liftoff. liftoff from a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself, james webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the university. the $10 billion telescope launched moments ago. the telescope which is being called the most powerful ever will take one month to complete its orbit around the sun which is just under a million miles away. because it will be so far away, the telescope won t be able to be serviced or repaired if anything goes wrong. the $10 billion telescope will be able to observe the atmosphere of planets outside of our solar system finding which planets might sustain life. the omicron covid surge is
making the holiday travel a headache today. delta canceling 268 flights while united canceled 196 flights. jetblue canceled 120 of its flights. the airlines blame staffing shortages stemming from the omicron variant. they want the cdc to cut the isolation period in half for employees who develop breakthrough cases from ten days down to five. and countries across europe are tightening restrictions in response to that covid surge. the uk has set a new daily case record for a third day in a row. give us an update on the covid surge and how governments are responding. good morning, jessica. that s right, the situation does seem to be deteriorating now in the uk. more than 120,000 cases recorded on friday and now 1 in 20
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