overseas, far from home and their loved ones. as we pray for peace and spread joy and glad tidings we also look for hope toward the possibility of a better year and to give thanks and to give thanks to, for everything we ve gotten to you, the service, your family and, to give you as much space as you need. mike: meantime parishioners flocking to the st. patrick s cathedral in manhattan to celebrate midnight mass. the church scaling back some of the service for a safety measure with the surge of covid cases in new york city. the faithful descending on the birthplace of jesus to bethlehem. the number of visitors lower than usual for the second straight year as covid once again loomed over the festivities. covid changing how millions across the united states celebrate christmas for the second straight year. charles watson is live in atlanta. hello, charles. reporter: mike, a lot of christmas day traditions being stripped away again this year much to the disappointment of many
track in 2022? let s ask wall street journal columnist and fox news contradict tore karl rove he was senior advisor to president george w. bush. karl, welcome, i guess i would like you to analyze what happened to joe biden to win in office promising unity, promising return to normalcy. and here we are a year later not normalcy. yeah, the guy that we heard from the basement in wilmington, delaware, turned out to not show up in the oval office 2021. we ve seen a number of missteps promising that the covid would be in the back in the rear-view mirror by july 4th. we ve seen overpromising. we have seen foreign policy debacle like afghanistan and most amazing thing is that he s pursued a left agenda. whether it was the american rescue plan, or the build back better, or his executive actions, he s angted not as a traditional democrat we thought he would be and instead as, you know, if not a if not a caring member of the democrat party at least a fellow traveler with them. p
the first female governor of georgia, the first black woman ever elected governor of a u.s. state. stacey abrams will be joining us here live for an exclusive interview tonight. i m really looking for to that conversation. if you have been watching the news unfold over the course of the day today, it has been a little bit like watching a snowball running downhill getting bigger and bigger. when we went to bed last night, there was one known case of the omicron covid variant in the united states. a person in california who had recently traveled to south africa. south africa s where that variant is thought to have originated, or at least where was first detected. public health experts and officials like doctor anthony fauci have spoken with chris hayes tonight on msnbc. they have been warning us that as soon as the omicron variant was anywhere, it was likely going to be everywhere very quickly. we shouldn t expect to be able to keep this new variance out. well, sure enough, we
from buffalo and she says she has never seen anything like this. we still have scores and scores of vehicles that were abandoned when people left during the storm, or in a ditch, they cannot possibly get out. we have had snowplows, major snowplows and rescue vehicles. i saw them myself in ditches buried in snow. anita: the brutal weather causing thousands of flight delays and cancellations. flight aware, charles watson is at the airport in atlanta with all of the latest there, and charles, you ve been chatting with us there from the airport over the last couple of days. how are things looking today? well, look, it s busy. the travel troubles continue here in atlanta, and at airports across the country. this is a taste of what it looks like here in atlanta, what we are experiencing. a lot of folks in the airport today. large crowds, large lines full of people who are just hoping that the day goes smoothly for them. unfortunately, that likely won t be the case for many as