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in a global pandemic. where are the people? well, the reason there are no people here is that the local ski resorts have already been closed in preparation for the games, which will start in just a month. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc new, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. a $500,000 legal settlement signed by virginia roberts giuffre and sex offenderjeffrey epstein in 2009 included an agreement that ms giuffre wouldn t sue anyone connected to epstein. lawyers for prince andrew say the agreement, which has been made public in the last couple of hours, releases the prince from liability in the civil case brought by virginia giuffre, who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. prince andrew has consistently denied the claims. our legal correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. a woman seeking her day in court. the unprecedented defendant a prince of the realm. but have his lawyers ....
a double whammy for the airlines and traveler witness the covid cancellations because of flight crew sick-outs and the snow coming down today. we ll see numbers go up. 10% at the southwest airlines, 10% at skywest, regional airlines for delta, american and united and 13% of all flights at jetblue. just the beginning of what we have seen, the long lines at airports across the country over the weekend, about 5,000 cancellations in total nationwide. long lines at chicago and atlanta, passengers actually staying overnight in atlanta in some cases, just want you to listen now to one of the passengers who has been trying to get home since thursday. i tried to leave on thursday and they canceled it and we tried to reschedule for saturday night and rescheduled it again and canceled it. today they canceled it on the way to the airport and now rescheduled for tonight. reporter: any lodging or anything at all? no, not yet. so yeah. reporter: got to be frustrating. it is ....
tonight from new york to new orleans, from vegas to san juan, this is cnn s new year s eve live with appearances by katy perry. regina king, lessry jordan, patti labelle, sherry oterry. k.t. tunstell, kris jenner, james taylor plus more surprises and from the heart of times square, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. and happy new year, everyone. we are live in times square for what is going to be a very fun night. it is going to be a fun night. it s the warmest i don t know how many years i ve been doing this. this is the warmest it has ever been. it feels great. and katy perry, regina king, william shatner. so many more surprises. now i had thought the roaring 20s would have started by now. the roaring 20s? yeah. we re in the 20s. so where that s not going to happen. you have to reset. but we made it we keep resetting. we made it through another year and we ll see what the next year brings. it s a greatly reduced crowd here in ....
in the case of children. and a troubling sign, pediatric hospitalizations have jumped nearly 50% in the last week, approaching a peak not seen since september when the majority of covid cases were caused by the delta variant. and even these staggering numbers may not show the full picture. in miami and all around the country, people are lining up, some before dawn, to get tested. some are waiting hours, others scheduling days in advance. and for those lucky enough to find at-home tests, the positive results are not reported to the cdc. now the fda is raising doubts about those tests accuracy, especially with the omicron variant. cdc director richelle walensky says the nationwide shortage of tests was not driving the decision to cut the isolation period from ten to five but what the nation can tolerate. we re going to talk to elizabeth cohen. elizabeth, can you break down some of these numbers for us. jessica, let s take a look at what s happening with cases. we have ....
jim, thank you. . welcome to cnn tionight, i am michael smerconish, merry christmas to all. although it does not feel like christmas. we are a step away from covid. new guidance on the cdc on how long those infected should stay isolated, not just healthcare workers, it s a big change so stay tuned for that. what a way to close out 2021 with an omicron bang. that brings me to our survey question tonight, which year do you think history will judge worse, 2020 or 2021? it s really a toss up for many of us, right? let us know your vote by going to my website, it s smer smerconish.com, we ll share the results later in the program. what will 2022 bring? can we collectively look to the new year as a nation without unity on immunity and with this virus testing us so much again, testing is still such a huge problem with the latest variant crashing down on us, something that president biden conceded on his call with governors earlier today. seeing how tough it was for so ....