christmas? lawrence: it was good. i didn t get to see my folks until yesterday. but all is well. i had a false positive test so i m all checked out. carley: i didn t know that. lawrence: i got to hug my mom and dad yesterday. i got celebrate. all is well. will: i got the call from lawrence, carley over the weekend. we ran into each other here in big d. i got the call from lawrence hey i got a positive test. i was around you. i didn t get the gradual lawrence it was false positive. that s breaking news to me right now, lawrence. that s interesting. thanks for the heads up. i love you, brother. here s the things i m going to forgive you that because you have at least one small excuse. and that is i imagine you were up late just like i was last night to watch the most dominant team in the nfl reclaim their position as a super bowl favorite. the dallas cowboys just whooped up on the washington football team. lawrence: it was about time. will: that meant i didn t get much sleep. i
and a tale of two coasts, as part of the west sees heavy snow and bitter cold temperatures, parts of the east could see record-breaking heat. where we re seeing summer-like temperatures in your forecast. there is a day not too long ago when i had to stop and think, when they come in with handcuffs and they come in with a warrant for my arrest. librarians afraid of being fired, or worse, just for doing their jobs. why some say they re being targeted and how they re now fighting back. we re so grateful to have you this sunday deshgs 26th. i hope that christmas hangover isn t too bad. appreciate you starting your morning with us. we begin with the u.s. racing toward a record number of daily new covid cases fueled by the fast-spreading omicron variant. in some parts of the country hospitals are stretched thin as emergency rooms and icu beds begin to fill up. more than 71,000 americans are hospitalized with covid-19. the increase in cases also causing major travel disruption
which us a of them. i heard there were positive variedoris on 12 sgrl. they quarantine them. he. where did you guys get this stuff? curacao and covid of covid lucy kavanagh has more on where. as celebrated another christmas during a pandemic sol holiday joy turk to frustration are open. crop driesies iis nation. airlines cite being star is shortages and passengers being left in limbo. oh, my. we. from coast to coast on christmas morning, those did plan to see loved ones taking no chances. my girlfriend tested positive earlier this week and, you know, it s christmas morning just trying to go see my family and, know, they are real did, test and. for those luck you to get a gift. i tested%tive issor is i was devastate that had i would have to miss the angst. very literally devastating and heartbreaking that we re in the situation that we re in now. hospitals in the twin sideways with overwlemd in be able to boost our cities. to boofrm the bo
to do this again. breaking news overnight, the world loses a hero in the fight against apartheid. a closer look at the life of nobody pell peace prize winner desmond tutu. a lie bray shuts down but it has nothing to do with the pandemic. the new way people are trying to ban books and how some librarians are reacting. after almost two years of bad news, things are finally starting to turn around for movie theaters, how they re trying to get you back in the seats in 2022 and how the comeback is being led by your friendly neighborhood spiderman. good morning. it s december 26th. i m lindsey reiser. i hope you all had a wonderful christmas. hundreds more cancellations at airports yesterday meant people stranded trying to get to their christmas destination or back home. 2,800 flights canceled yesterday or alone. overall about 5,000 flights have been canceled over the holiday weekend, and it s mostly because of the omicron wave hitting airline workers. that s leading to sta
biden was asked did he drop the ball. empty shelves, no test kits. is that a failure? no, i don t think it s a failure. i think it s you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. more on that answer in just a moment, but, first, we start with these promising early studies on omicron, and cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here with us now. what do they show, elizabeth? ana, they show what we ve been talking about for a while, that while this is an incredibly transmissible variant, the most transmissible we ve seen so far it caused milder disease, good news and will until remember people just because something creates a milder disease, this is so transmissible and so many people will get it, a small percentage of the numbers can still be a lot. 2.5 people end up in the hospital but people infected with delta 12.8% end up in the hospital. that s obviously a huge difference. in scotland they found