Airline travel amid the pandemic and the pandemics impact on the aviation industry. Sharp talksn about issues affecting native americans and the role they played in the election. Good morning. It is wednesday, november 25, the day before thanksgiving, traditionally one of the busiest travel days in the year. This is a Union Station in washington, d. C. , popular hub. Health and state Public Officials have urged people not to travel or spend the holiday outside their household, yet millions of americans packed airports this week in more are expected to hit the road today and tomorrow. We want to hear about your travel plans or lack thereof. If you are traveling this thanksgiving, what precautions are you taking . Give us a call if youre traveling. The number, [video clip] 202 7488000. If you are not traveling, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning. That number 202 7488003. If you do, include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspan
His column. He has been on the airline and aviation beat for nearly two decades. He joins us on zoom this day before thanksgiving. Despite all the Public Health warnings and efforts to get people to stay home, air travel has hit an eightmonth high this thanksgiving. Has the amount of people willing to travel surprised you . Guest not really. I think for a lot of people, there have been mixed signals about travel. You have an Airline Industry that is pushing hard on the notion that travel is safe. There are dangers to it. And, you know, in some ways the , a more definitive warning about thanksgiving travel came late. We have seen a bit of a falloff in the number of people screened by tsa yesterday, down to 37 of what it was for a comparable day last year. Over the weekend, it was about 45 of last years totals, so, you know, there are a lot of people traveling. Look, people really want to go. They want to be with their families or take a break. And i think, you know, they have not gotten
A political transition and bolivias former leader abel morales heads home from exile in argentina just days after his party swept back to power we will have a live update from one of science. To simply told you sport is less than the brim of age schools in stoppage time as a simulation state some of the telly and league while he goes to the dont call in show. The fight against covert 19 may have taken a significant step forward this monday the u. S. Drugs make a fine vaccine candidate has proved to be more than 90 percent effective bringing some hope in a pandemic thats killed nearly 1300000 people all over the world now pfizer says it is on track to ask for permission to sell the vaccine before the end of the month but u. S. Health regulators have. Theyll need some time to review any potential vaccine the head of the World Health Organizations also been calling for Scientific Solutions and solidarity to end the pandemic that was what proved to be a largely Virtual Meeting of the w h o
Arizona, georgia, michigan, and pennsylvania. Rnc says the purpose is to make sure there is no malfeasance. In the press release they did suggest democrats were engaged in some sort of manipulation of the vote count. Were going to keep an eye on that as we keep an eye on the ongoing vote count. A closer look at the numbers, starting in georgia which is just razor thin, a statistical dead heat, democrats have not carried this state in a president ial election since 92. Each candidate has 49. 4 of the vote. Theyre continuing to count absentee ballots but biden is ahead by 1100 votes. A live look in arizona, this is maricopa county. 90 of the vote in there right now, looking a little sleepy in the vote counting room. Biden is up about 47,000 points and maricopa has more than 200,000 ballots outstanding. So we are keeping an eye on that as well as pennsylvania this morning. It looks like we are going to have potentially some solid results by the end of the day. We will keep you posted. Bac
3,295,304 over President Trump with 3,289,717. This is the first time in a while joe biden goes into the lead many its votes out of philadelphia. We are getting reports from philadelphia right now, a heavily democratic area. Theyve taken a while to count their votes but theyre doing it. As that comes in, that propels biden to the lead. It is still not projected but right now the trend lines definitely favoring joe biden. Still a lot of votes to come. Where are they coming from . What is the expectation . There are more from philadelphia and more from pittsburgh which is also heavily democratic county and a few more here and there throughout the state. Thats the bulk, the democratic places. What are you making for before you make call into the apparent winner category . This is still very close. Like i said, trend lines have been headed towards joe biden. This is still close with just a few thousand votes. We are going to look for more votes, see what we get, and as always start looking