as the first black anglican archbishop of capetown, he preached nonviolent resistance to the apartheid system. he was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1984. cnn s david mckenzie now reflects on tutu s historic role in modern south africa. you find your cousin has been killed reporter: when we spoke to the late traffephotographer in he remembered a different time. we got a funeral each week. people getting killed. and then you don t find one person. five, six, seven, eight people, mass funeral happens. reporter: during the 1980s, the apartheid regime was at war with the black majority. one of its goals, to turn the liberation movement against itself. neighbors ds betrayed neighbors. friends became informants. in this maelstrom, a diminutive anglican bishop was ever-present. desmond tutu was never afraid to step up to the racist regime using his bully pulpit of peace. during apartheid, archbishop tutu s position in the church gave him a semblance of protection, and hi
rise. they re up only 3% in the last week. still some of the nation s largest cities are breaking records in case number, new york setting a new high. in los angeles, new cases tripled in the last week. the surge is making a mess of holiday travel, too, with several major airlines cancelling hundreds of flights this morning because of staffing shortages. that s where we start, as one of the nation s bus yi airports, one of the world s busiest airplanes in atlanta. nadia, what is the situation like here? reporter: you hear a lot of people saying merry christmas, but there s a lot of grinches out there, because the flights have been canceled. getting home to see their loved ones is not going to happen. we re talking about more than 1,000 flights canceled today, tomorrow, throughout this christmas weekend. we just had an update on more cancellations. delta air lines, almost 300 flights canceled today so far. more than 200 for united, more than 100 for jetblue. the numbers keep
hospitalizations haven t seen that rapid rise, up only 3% in the last week. testing the remains. huge concern as the united states tries to keep the numbers down. long lines await those attempting to take a covid test as we look at footage from raleigh, north carolina. scenes like that playing out across the country, some of the largest cities and states breaking records and case numbers. new york setting a new high with 44,000 new cases reported on friday alone. in los angeles, meantime, new cases tripled in the last week. the surge, of course, having big impact on holiday travel. several major airlines cancelling hundreds of flights because of staffing shortages. alison kosik is monitoring the developments. new york is seeing so many cases now, what s being done to slow it down? boris, great to see you. new york s governor, mayor, they continue to urge people to go ahead and get vaccinated if they haven t been, and they re telling people to get a booster if you have been
waiting ten days. last hour, president biden was asked if the isolation guidance for all americans should be amended. listen to what he said. well, i just listened to my team, the docs, and they think we should keep it the way it is right now. let s begin this hour with our aviation correspondent pete muntean at reagan international airport. pete, so many flights cancelled today because of covid. reporter: that s right, poply. 600 flight cancellations in the united states. 2,300 globally, and airlines say as these coronavirus cases went up, their staffing levels went down, causing them to cancel some of these flights. these are the latest numbers from flight aware, 180 flight cancellations today on united airlines alone. 160 at delta air lines. big cancellations at jet blue and allegiant. airlines say there is a way to fix this. they want the cdc to reduce the amount of time one would need to spend in isolation if there is a breakthrough case. right now it s set for ten