it s the subway series menu. 12 irresistible subs. the most epic sandwich roster ever created. it s subway s biggest refresh yet! it s 3:00 p.m. eastern, and thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. this just in, the u.s. will now require all travelers entering the country from china to show a negative covid test. the new requirements come as cases in china surge following the country s move to ease restrictions. cnn s kevin liptack is traveling with president biden as he goes to the virgin islands. tell us about these new restrictions and why they have been put in place. reporter: yes, sara. these are going to go into effect on january 5th. so about a week from tomorrow, and what they do is require all passengers who are traveling from the united states to show proof of a negative covid test before they get on their airline. it can be a negative pcr test. it can be a negative self-antigen test that s administered by a tell health service, but they need to sho
executives say they ll need to cancel many more tomorrow. then, breaking his silence did i embellish my resume, yes, i did. and i m sorry. but i m still the same guy, i m not a fraud. republican congressman-elect george santos admits he lied about major parts of his resume, but wait until he explains his jewish heritage claims. and miami dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa has been placed in concussion protocol, hours after playing an entire game. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly, in for jake tapper. and we begin this hour with the winter travel meltdown plaguing a major u.s. airline. thousands of southwest airlines passengers are still stranded, unable to get to their destinations. some of those passengers is been trying to travel for five days or more, after a massive winter storm battered parts of the u.s. southwest canceled nearly 2,600 flights today, accounting for more than 85% of all flights canceled in the u.s. and the company s telling passengers
republican congressman-elect george santos is vowing to take his seat in the house next week. why is that a thing? it s despite growing outcry, mostly from democrats after he admitted to a long list of falsehoods, and what he calls embell embellishments. that s another word for lies on his resume. santos also continues to walk back previous claims about his jewish heritage. my heritage is jewish. i ve always identified as jewish. i was raised a practicing catholic. i think i ve gone through this. even not being raised a practicing jew, i ve joked with friends in circles and said, guy, i m jewish. i was raised catholic. i was raised a practicing catholic, but i ve always considered myself jewish. okay. joining me now is nassau county s bruce blakeman. you are representing nassau
he s just saying that he should still be allowed to take his seat in congress and that he didn t do anything that was criminally wrong, but going back to the point that you were making about what a difficulty it might be for republicans to win this seat again, that is a seat that had been held by democrats for roughly ten years before republicans flipped it in the last election. so, if a special election were to be held, there is a substantial reason to believe that democrats would take that seat back. now, that wouldn t change whether republicans control the house of representatives or not, but certainly if you re kevin mccarthy and you re looking at the situation, you re already facing difficulty with your majority, it s not hard to see from that circumstance from a political standpoint. i just want to say, people embellish their resumes. he s portraying them as embell embellishments. he didn t exaggerate, like, i