cases. president biden preparing to take a crack at the recent battle. the president is on display on other issues. how soon can we do this? send a note to president biden because the answer is we can do it right now. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. i know it s cold, but i home you all see the sun wherever you happen to be waking up this morning. that is a beautiful shot of atlanta at this hour, 7:01. this morning, there are millions of people in texas waking up again to below freezing temperatures after the brutal winter storm hit this week. yeah. power has been restored to most of the state, more than 14 million texans either do not have running water in their homes or have to boil the water they do have. officials say it could be days. you know the storm crippled the power grid and shut down coronavirus sightings and killed more than two dozen people. there s good news here, temperatures are expected to rise in the coming day
emphasizing they re trying to reach out to passengers before they come to the airport so they know there is a cancellation or they know there is a delay, they won t come. so they re trying to reduce the bottlenecks. all of this is due to the covid numbers, employees calling out sick and to weather problems. looking ahead there in the forecast, there is some troublesome weather across the country in the coming week, and i think the numbers of covid cases are also rising slightly in places. if you put all that together, and with new year s coming, you would think there would be more travel as the week goes on. probably we re in the middle of this. i don t think we re at the end of it, we re not at the beginning of it, obviously, so we re probably in the middle of this. the best advice is to check with your airline before you go to the airport to make sure your flight is taking off, when it s taking off and if there is a delay or cancellation. this study of a fourth vaccine do
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thank you. now on bbc news it is the travel show with a look back at 2021. hello and welcome to the travel show. there is no denying that 2021 will not go down as a great year for travel. hotels, airlines, tour operators and all of us that wanted to get away have had to cope with ever changing rules and restrictions to do what we simply took for granted two years ago before the pandemic struck. so this week on the show, we are looking at 2021 and some of our favourite stories of the year. and it was a year when us started changing the way we think about travel. in a moment, we ve got about travel. in a moment, we ve got a report from mike in kenya about how the pandemic meant that many kenyans could now afford to take a safari holiday for the very first time. first up, though, sustainability was a big topic this year and that is why back in august, i took a voyage on a ship that is hoping to change the way that some cruise passengers s travel. the golden horizon weighs a whop