desmond tutu. we either are going to survive together or going to be end together. a towering figure in the fight for human rights. i m amira walker, pamela brown has the evening off, you are live in the cnn news room. millions around the country spending this christmas week end with friends and family, but, you know, the coronavirus is not taking a holiday, in fact we re seeing new covid cases racing toward record highs now, daily infections now surpass the summer surge sparked by the delta variant and hospitalizations are trending up as well. we are in the thick of the holiday season, and vaccinated or not, triple a estimates more than 109 million people will travel between christmas and new years day. and that increased movement sparking a lot of concerns about this highly transmissible variant. americans are lining up for hours at testing sites, at cities across the nation, something dr. anthony fauci believes is critical right now. we should be using testing much
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. one woma
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buses caring 323 illegal migrants and traveling further in the u.s. if title 42 is dropped eventually we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border and that adds up to 5 million illegal crossings each year. life for us in washington, lucas, good morning. good morning todd and ashley. one of the supremes court title pandemic era that turns migrants away from the southern border will remain in place for now. 5-4 ruling, very narrow. here are the four cojustices to lift title 42, and here is justice gorsuch. the current border crisis is not a covid crisis. should not be in the business of perpetuating need to ask the same for one emergency only because elected officials had failed to address a different emergency work court of the law, not lawmakers of the last resort. dhs is saying people should not listen to the lies for the migrants but the border is not open and we will continue to enforce immigration laws but we do show within the constraints of decade
The things they have committed to us. we will be watching. speak with the chair of the senate committee on transportation and aviation operations, safety and security sagging an investigation will be launched what caused the mask cancellations, the problems at southwest airlines over the last several days go beyond whether a committee will be looking into the causes and these disruptions and its impact on consumers. meanwhile president biden out in the virgin islands for rnr and buried under a deadly winter storm and kind of reminds you of the time the transportation secretary took parental leave when facing a serious supply chain crisis and a real strike threat. many passengers don t seem hopeful something will be done to resolve this travel nightmare, ashley, todd. ashley: marianne, thanks i guess president biden was not on a southwest airlines destination