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to walk that back yesterday, tweeting about a quote federal plans to fight the virus. the one thing is clear, the u.s. is falling short on testing. connecticut, georgia, and ohio. just some of the states calling out the national guard to help distribute masks and tests. fox coverage starts now. we got my coven he s going to tell us what to expect in schools as millions of students prepared to head back after the holidays. but first, we go to david, he is hoping to be delaware of the president this afternoon. hi david. high gillian, high rich. we are just a few days away from the beginning of a brand-new year, 2022. we are talking about the national guard. we are talking about ventilators going back to states. some of this language is reminiscent of what we heard in the early days of the pandemic. the white house, covert response team held a news conference just about two hours ago, making several announcements showing somewhat of a federal response. meaning that the ....
peak levels. and even on this day after christmas, people are lining up to get tested. airlines are also struggling with the surge and sick-outs, which means airline travel is beginning to plummet. thousands of cancellations. let s start with you. . we re talking about thousands of flights canceled today alone. think about all the people who travel on the day after christmas, and it s all coming together with so many people thinking they would be able to go see family and friends and get back to work with business as usual starting monday morning for many americans. unfortunately, a thousand flights canceled today. that brings the total up to about 2,000 for the weekend of cancellations and delays, and then you add in those international flights that were canceled as well. we spoke to some travelers that were just frustrated, right? they finally wanted to get out and meet family members, some of them for the first time in two years, but their flights were canceled. on ....
bought tickets for protecting himself by getting a booster shot and as the former president who not only pushing operation work speed said during the saints show we saved tens of millions worldwide by creating the vaccine. good for donald trump, but why did it take a question from o reilly for trump to announce he had gotten the third shot? was he worried about that negative reaction from part of his base? o reilly said trump called him after the event and the commentator insisted it was good for him and now that trump is defending the vaccines and i hope he keeps doing it, the network should play those clips because many of his supporters are vaccine evident hesitant. it s hard to fathom how we reach the point where a simple yes by the former leader of the free world is calls for catcalls. this is media buzz. the press reaction was largely negative even on msnbc when president biden announced the government would deal with a drastic shortage of covid test by buying ....
rise. they re up only 3% in the last week. still some of the nation s largest cities are breaking records in case number, new york setting a new high. in los angeles, new cases tripled in the last week. the surge is making a mess of holiday travel, too, with several major airlines cancelling hundreds of flights this morning because of staffing shortages. that s where we start, as one of the nation s bus yi airports, one of the world s busiest airplanes in atlanta. nadia, what is the situation like here? reporter: you hear a lot of people saying merry christmas, but there s a lot of grinches out there, because the flights have been canceled. getting home to see their loved ones is not going to happen. we re talking about more than 1,000 flights canceled today, tomorrow, throughout this christmas weekend. we just had an update on more cancellations. delta air lines, almost 300 flights canceled today so far. more than 200 for united, more than 100 for jetblue. the number ....
the chancellor, rishi sunak, has held talks with business leaders about the impact of omicron, after cutting short a trip to the united states. many businesses are calling for urgent help from the government. retail sales have been hit, and hotels and restaurants are reporting cancellations at what is normally one of the busiest times of the year. danny savage reports from leeds. all: merry christmas! at the myrtle tavern in leeds tonight, the ventilated marquee outside is credited with saving this business throughout covid. they understand people might be wary about going out but they are being firm about cancellations. we sent an e mail on tuesday to everyone who has booked in december and it basically told them you will be charged if you don t let us know. please let us know in any of the circumstances and we had probably 150 cancel but we ve got about 6,000 bookings, so 150 is not really that bad. pub landlords call this mad friday , such is the expectation of t ....