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spreading covid misinformation. days before the anniversary of january 6 new polling shows just so divided we are as a nation. that is coming up. and then happening right now a crucial call for president biden today with the ukrainian president offering help. but we want to begin with that breaking news on covid. the nbc news tally shows the u.s. surpassed 55 million cases over covid. an illustration of how quickly this omicron variant is spreading. this is just two days after hitting 54 million cases. and four days after hitting 53. a noted acceleration of cases. and at the nation s airports, more than 3,700 flights canceled as millions of americans head home. this is coming after at least 2,700 canceled yesterday leaving thousands sleeping on benches and unsure how to get home. we have two reporters standing by for us. steve, on this one, passengers not only dealing with an unbelievable number of cancelations from the weather and omicron variant impacting travel. talk ....
they re also still studying the impact omicron could have in vaccines but they still maintain vaccines are effective in preventing death. after south africa discovered themicron variant, president biden has a travel ban against 18 countries including canada and health officials say it s probably here. governor kathy hochul declaring a state of emergency. today president biden made it clear that while we should be prepared, we shouldn t panic. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists and we re learning more every single day. sooner or later we ll see cases of this variant here in the united states. we ll have to face this new threat just how we faced those that have come before it. the best protection against this new variant or any of the variants out there, the ones we ve been dealing with already is getting fully vaccinated and getting a booster shot. biden said that ....
control of the direction of our government or not. finally, there s former trump national security adviser michael flynn, who floated invoking martial law after the election. if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election. the big question is how far will the committee go to enforce these subpoenas if, like others, steve bannon, in particular, will not comply? joining me now, cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, state and federal, he s done it all, elie honig. big, controversial names in this new batch of six people who have received subpoenas. first of all, michael flynn. yes, that michael flynn. he was one of the biggest proponents of the big lie, and he was part of one of the craziest meetings of this whole thing in december 2020 when he met in the oval office with donald trump and others. they talk about seizing election machines, imposing martial law. speaking of crazy ....
but an adviser to president zelenskyy just said this, quote, sooner or later debts will have to be paid back. that is why disarming the belgorod vor on nez depots is a absolutely natural process. karma is a cruel thing. russia is escalating its economic attacks beyond ukraine into the west. it shut off gas supplies to poland and bulgaria. they ve shut those off because the nations refuse to pay for the gas in rubles. this is significant. both countries rely on russian energy, they are nato members, and both have aided in the ukrainian defense. in the meantime ukraine now admitting it is taking significant losses in the east as the russians are intensifying attacks there in this new strategic bombardment of the area. and in the south a second missile strike overnight on a strategic bridge near odesa, this is actually video from the first strike. new images coming in moments ago showing the damage there, this is a rail and road bridge and it s the only link betwee ....
[sneeze] lawrence: welcome 6:00 a.m. bless you. ainsley: i was trying to hold it in. brian: sorry about that. i will talk to her in the break. ainsley: i tried to hold it. brian: one sneeze before fox & friends first. if lawrence is going to start, then i will sneeze. ainsley: i m allergic to these guys. steve: mark can we just start over? can we roll the animation again? let s start over. ladies and gentlemen, take two. lawrence: okay #:00 a.m. on the east coast, tuesday, march the 19th. steve: we are starting over. lawrence: okay. all right. this is fox & friends. let s just go. brian: what a terrible start, lawrence, going to rehearse this again. a high seas trump says paying $450 million is almost impossible. companies just don t do it as letitia james prepares to snatch up his real estate empire. i got news for you latisha then you got to take care of it. sean duffy has a lot to say about that, and that s his picture. ainsley: plus, big ....