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airport. covid causing a travel nightmare across the country. airlines struggle to find crews to staff flights. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, happy new year to you. happy new year to you, too, john. the travel challenges are what everyone is talking about today. omicron variant pushing to levels not seen in this pandemic, nearly 500,000 cases reported in a single day shattering the previous daily high set two days beforehand. throw in a winter storm with exploding case counts, all the ingredients for a massive travel headache. nearly 4,000 flights have been canceled so far today, according to flight aware. the omicron surge is leaving many airlines without crews to operate those busy schedules. fox team coverage starts now. standing by from the white house, but first senior national correspondent at reagan national airport outside washington, d.c., snow finally tapering off a bit. good afternoon, john. that s right, the snow is just slowing down a few mi ....
mika, a real challenge for you is staying up new year s eve past 7:30. how did it go? i started watching a movie and fell asleep. what movie? bohemian rhapsody. jonathan lemire, just help isolate brzezinski s work way out in the stick in playing virginia. the night before we decided, you know, i kind of trying to turn over a new leaf and relax a little bit more and unwhine and get off. we have been listening to music and it s just a really great variety, you know? great variety, you got the beatles and the white album, mccartney s band on the run. a couple of nights ago, i broke out queen. mika said i am not making this up. this is a woman who does not know a difference between star wars and i played bohemian rhapsody and she goes who s playing this? it s a band called queen. okay. new year s eve we watched bohemian rhapsody. amazing. five minutes later, i looked over she s asleep. but we followed up the next day. we watched it the next day ....
news for parents sending their children back to school today, that is, if the school is open. a number of district are returning to virtual learning not just because of exposure risk but because there aren t enough staffers to open. too many cases keeping too many people in isolation. here in new york city, though, public schools are open. mayor eric adams defying a call from the teachers union to go virtual. i am keeping my schools open and we re going to make sure that they re going to be in a safe place. that includes doubling the amount of testing that we re looking at. the science is showing us that because a child is exposed in a classroom, that entire classroom is not exposed. we did an amazing job over the weekend that many people don t know about. i put in place my team on wednesday. we were able to get over a million and a half test kits and deployed it to every school in the city. we did it in just a few days. okay. now here come the case numbers. brace y ....
[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [cheers and applause] kayleigh: welcome to fox & friends on this beautiful saturday morning. what an appropriate way to start out the new year with the national anthem. it is january 1st, 2022. i am wishing all of you a happy new year. if you are up, i fully expect most of our viewers are sleeping in because they stayed up past midnight but not us here on fox & friends. joey. joey: no, i have to admit i enjoyed a good football game last night. might have been up a little bit later than i needed to. i might have heard the gunfire in georgia as the new year came in and some fireworks went off. hey, listen, we are here right now. i have got all the energy i can need after that win yesterday. i m ready for a great four hours of fox & friends. hey, listen, if you have a new year s resolution, email them to us at foxnews.com. [email protected] you are . mine is to ....
tensions with russia over ukraine and china over taiwan. as the omicron theories is blamed for record price and covid cases nationwide, a new study may reveal why it does not appear as deadly as previous strains. live fox news team coverage today, charles watson on the covid surge, president biden s mounting crisis but first, a look back on life and legacy of betty white. senior correspondent laura is live in new york with more. hi, laura. betty white died new year s eve, just weeks before her 100th birthday. when she left, part of americana went into the history of 2021 and now today she s remembered with a lot of love and laughter. ninety-nine years old, she had a career in television for second seven decades, she passed away in her home. her resume is very warm, many knew her from the mary tyler moore show, rose on : girls and most recently the show cleveland. as part of their continued to skyrocket in later years, she was in demand for many years, she appeared in ....