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airports on friday seeing double the number of travelers from 2020, but storms could up end the itinerary. your new day starts right now. thanks so much for waking up, up with us sunday december 19th. i have to acknowledge a wave of panic when i say december 19th. i have not done enough christmas shopping yet. i m in pretty good shape but you have plenty of time. hope so. the start of christmas week brings additional anxiety for millions of americans, not just because of shopping delays but covid-19 cases continue to rise across the u.s. and now the white house says that president biden will address the nation about the threat posed by the new omicron variant, as one medical expert put it, a tsunami is coming for unvaccinated americans. the omicron strain has been detected in all but seven states in the country. experts, though, say the delta variant is still fueling the latest wave of infections. from new york to miami and across the united states, lines fo ....
. pete: we request and you deliver yet again, our nation s anthem on this sunday morning, december 19th, year of our lord, 2021. welcome to fox & friends. thanks for being here. we have four big hours for you. as always wonderful to be here with my dear friends will cain, rachel campos duffy. how are you doing? rachel: could the pictures get any better every single week? i will tear up, i saw the veteran for 98 flags for my birthday 98 birthday. by the grave stone of a vet rang. we love it. keep sending them. that is purple, viking cover, right, pete? pete: close, close. a lot of people. rachel: good morning, everybody, merry christmas. looking forward to the last weekend before the holiday. will, how are you doing this morning. will: several of the photos look like stock photos. they re not. they re user photos. you re wonderful photographers with wonderful moments. speaking of patriotic i can t wait to hear from pete in just moments from the speech you gave out the ....
to the january 6 investigation. former trump official mark meadows is suing lawmakers to block their subpoenas. we ll tell you the committee s response. the omicron variant of the coronavirus now in 22 states. health experts are predicting a winter surge and urging americans to get their booster shot. and 2two more countries joi the diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics. we ll have china s reaction. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s thursday, december 9th, and we begin with the latest challenge to the january 6 committee s ability to investigate the capitol insurrection. it s an about face by former white house chief of staff mark meadows on testifying. instead, he s suing the house speaker and the committee to block enforcement of his subpoena to appear. donald trump s former top aide is claiming effective privilege, but he s already turned over thousands of pages of documents and has written about conversatio ....
a man rescued from a cave in the breacon beacons after more than two days underground is said to be in good spirits, despite multiple injuries. around 300 people were involved in the operation to bring him out on a stretcher from what is one of the deepest cave systems in the uk. it took them more than 5a hours. hywel griffith reports. pulling together to help one of their own. the rescuers own pictures tell a story of teamwork in the most challenging conditions. today, as they cleared up, a chance to realise just what they d achieved. we look after each other, we re an extended family, effectively. we don t know each other, all of us. we are like a big family, but if one of us is in trouble, no matter where it is, we ll go and help. the man they rescued was an experienced caver in his 40s. when he fell, he broke bones in his leg and jaw. there was no way he could make his own way out. it s hard to fathom on the surface, but beneath us here are 37 miles worth of tunnel ....
but if one of us is in trouble, no matter where it is, we ll go and help. the man they rescued was an experienced caver in his 40s. when he fell, he broke bones in his leg and jaw. there was no way he could make his own way out. it s hard to fathom on the surface, but beneath us here are 37 miles worth of tunnels criss crossing between the caves. there are only three ways in and out and this tiny metal door is one of them, an entrance to hidden world. it was here at cwm dwr that the caver entered with his group on saturday. they d travelled around 500 metres when he fell from a ledge. his friends raised the alarm. the route back was too narrow and so the rescuers had to carry him 3km towards the top entrance. manoeuvring a stretcher meant it took ten times longer than usual, clocking up 5a hours the longest carry in uk caving history. if you can imagine lots of passages, some big, some small, chambers, but they re all kind of stacked on top of each other, overlapping ....