with them. there are a lot of folks out there who had scheduled cruises and the cruise industry feels blindsided by the cdc saying, i don t care if you re vaccinated or not, getting on a ship is a bad idea. reporter: the statement the cdc put out was, quote, avoid cruise travel. i don t think the government could have any more of a frank statement than that. but, you know, you re dealing with the reality that the cdc says they are now investigating and monitoring more than 80% of the current cruise liners that are out in either the u.s. waters or expected to enter u.s. waters. that is 91 cruise ships that they say have seen a positive covid rate in which it warrants monitoring here. this was a long year and a half here for the cruise industry. yet now the cdc with this dramatic increase in covid due to the omicron variant, they re seeing this play out on 91