griff jenkins. merry christmas eve, julie. this is fox news live. united and delta airlines both claim staffing shortages for the wave of cancellations, combined out of covert protocols, long lines and weather delays, it could be a mad dash to get home for the holidays. david lee miller s live in new york city with the latest. high david lee. hi, griff. home for the holidays is taking on all new meetings with this christmas season. would be travelers, at least many of them, are stuck at home, because of as you mention, staffing shortages. at a number of major airlines that have caused flight cancellations. the spread of the omicron virus is to blame. united today, castle about 9% of its schedule. that s 175. the onset of micro, nationwide spike in omicron case this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people that run our operation. as a result, we have unfortunately had to cancel some flights and are notifying the impacted customers in advance of them co
airlines have already started to cancel flights for the weekend, as well. travelers of all ages being forced to change their plans. the thing i don t like about it is when you get stuck because airport is is so busy. it s canceled. it was bound to happen. it sounds like me as a convenient excuse for delayed flights because they are already short-staffed as it is. david lee miller is live in new york city with more. hi, alicia. many of the cancellations taking place are entirely not unexpected. it delta s ceo earlier this week fearing staff charges could result in disruptions, for people testing positive for the virus from ten days to 5. the airline boss at the current policy was developed last year when there are no vaccines and effective treatments. today, delta granted at least 141 flights, about 7% of its schedule. united canceled 170, about 9% of its flights. in a statement, united said, and i quote, the nationwide spike and overcome cases this week has had a
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it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is in a candy coma. i m jonathan lemire on this monday, november 1st. we ve got a lot of news. let s get started. air force one is expected to touch down in about a half hour, kicking off a full day of events for the president. biden will deliver the leader statement and hold a bilateral meeting with the indonesian president. the commander in chief faces a difficult task, trying to convince allies the u.s. can lead on his climate agenda despite the stall at home. he was asked this question yesterday. can the world and others be confident that you will be able to follow or do make good on the promises on climate change that you have made when you re at glasgow without a vote having taken place on your bill? it s going to pass in my view, but we ll see. we ll see. you all believed it wouldn t happen from the very beginning from the moment i announced it, and you re always amaz
we ll be speaking to a disaster response expert live in the programme. the desperate search for survivors is continuing for a second night across a vast area of southern turkey and northern syria after two major earthquakes devastated the region on monday. at least six thousand people are known to have died, but with so many feared trapped under the rubble, the death toll will climb further. we ll be talking to an aid worker on the ground and will look at the scale of the devastation in just a moment. but first lets go through what happened. the first earthquake on sunday had a magnitude of 7.8, the epicentre was in turkey s gaziantep province. there have been almost 30 other shocks in the region, all powerful enough to magnify the damage. a second major earthquake struck 130km north of the first. rescue efforts continue across the region. this is the scene live. this is gaziantep, this is the live shot, it s just after ten in the evening locally. it s expected rescuers will