are expected to fly, and another million are expected to travel by car according to thousands of flights have been canceled due to severe weather and like in airline staffing issues, even if you make your, flight there s a good chance there will be delays. drivers are facing the most travel costs for the 4th of july weekend in history. joining me now from reagan national airport in washington, d.c., is gary rumba. tell us about these airlines. why they are struggling to handle the holiday surge when they know these holidays are coming up? when can travelers expect to get to something normal? there s a shortage of pilots and whether that is calling the messy situation airports across the country this weekend. yesterday we saw 2.5 million people watched two tsa checkpoints across the country. that s the most and busiest day of air travel since before the
cancelled a few, so it is notjust easyjet. there is a bigger picture, which is what we are seeing at the moment is the holiday surge in traffic this is the chance to get away, after the months of shut down, lockdown we had during covid, but during the periods travel was restricteder line, airport, everybody involved with getting you from one airport to another, they had to cut back on staff, because they simply couldn t afford to keep them on when we weren t able to fly. now people are flocking back, there is a problem, these companies can t get the staff they need quickly enough, they have to go through things like security clearances and that takes time, so at the moment we are seeing backlog, it is a minority of flights being cancelled. easyjet said it is running some 1700 flights today of which 37 will can celticed so a small proportion but for the passengers involved, it is of course horribly inconvenient, people feel stranded, they can t get home there,
person sitting beside you on the plane actually is covid positive. and that s the problem with all of this is that you do not know who is covid positive and who is not. and it also is effective, again, if that person beside you is actually immunocompromised and it shouldn t take a person having to wear that on their shirt in order to deserve protection. and unfortunately, what we re starting to do more and more is turn over public health measures to corporations because it was the very airlines that had the cdc put pressure on them to change the mandate of quarantine from ten days to five days back in december when omicron was surging because their staff, their pilots, their flight attendants were all out sick. right? and we had cancellation of flights left and right throughout the holiday surge. so these same corporations have to understand there are consequences when we remove those protective barriers that s not just death and hospitalizations. we concentrated a lot on that, and tha
advised him not to take any questions. the last time he took questions was on friday. meanwhile, record high covid numbers. i know that he took the day off yesterday to write his speech. he will be giving that speech today, yes, later today on january 6th. but that s almost a week without talking to reporters. where is he on the border? 110% increase in apprehensions of unaccompanied minors at the border. where he is telling the border agents not to arrest these human smugglers. take some of that vacation time and go town there. article in vanity fair he rejected a proposal to order 732 million covid tests. those home tests to prepare for the holiday surge. and now they are saying no, we plan to order 500 million home tests. well, where are they? it s a little too late. it s after christmas. we needed those at christmas. steve, you said you couldn t find tests. i couldn t find tests. weeks before we could find them. but christmas hits. everybody needs test to go back home to destinatio
the border, afghanistan, the economy, education, oh, they were going to follow that after everything they ve done? keystone pipeline, i could go on. that clip of the president, after hearing the questions, and having the look in his face like my 6-year-old son does when he lit the carpet on fire, that is a 2024 campaign ad right there. it is in broad daylight that the president is a coward. he does what jen psaki and ron klain tell him to do. i guess for political purposes so that he doesn t not work will acquire another cleanup on aisle five. this administration has no answer as to when test will get to people, we are likely talking about weeks, but they should have been out ahead of the holiday surge. it is the ten dime short administration whose credibility on covid, foreign policy, you name it is shot and were not even one year m. emily: gillian, the issue as well is that because of the