national cathedral in d.c. canceling in-person christmas services amid the rise in covid cases. merry christmas. i m jon scott. charles walt on in atlanta with the rise in covid cases. we begin with david lee miller at la guardia airport. jon, lots of turbulence for airline commerces. those are the ones who didn t get off the grounds. 944 flights coast to coast have been canceled due to staff shortages due to covid. 600 cancellations globally. delta canceled 12% of their flights today. that followed the flights yesterday, one of the busiest days of the year. most of the cancellations were made well in advance of the scheduled flights before people midwest home. but there was frustration and unexpected delays. listen to this man who made it to salt lake city after a difficult ordeal. we got laid over for 7 hours. and we slept in the nursing little room. we had nowhere to go. we had to figure out a flight. traveling with a toddler can be difficult. a 7-hour layover? a 7
collapsed candle factory in mayfield where they remain unsure how many people are missing or dead. in neighboring illinois six people are dead after 20 to destroyed in amazon facility, officials to operations have shifted to a recovery mission. meantime the governor of arkansas said two people died in the state one in a nursing home in one side in a dollar general store. in tennessee for deaths are reported to be a fox team coverage from across the region beginning with c. live in mayfield kentucky. under tremendously hard conditions officials say they re trying to do the basics to find and identify the death and reunite families with one another and feed and shelter everybody. officials say the storm that hit here the tornado was in ef three wind speeds of 165 miles per hour could have been higher. the death toll not exactly clear roughly 80 dead in kentucky but that number is likely to rise considerably and abrupt onset page after page of names on list of people who are s
a flight is michael strahan, but what i found interesting is the eldest daughter of alan shepard. he was the first american to fly to space back in 1961. i didn t know this. he actually eventually walked on the moon in the apollo 14 mission about ten years later. let s listen in. we re about 15 seconds from takeoff. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 main engine start 2, 1 [ we are now watching blue origin s new shepard s spacecraft with a successful liftoff of its 19th flight, hovering more than 62 miles above earth, it hits speeds a total of an 11-minute flight. now it s just hovering just on the edge of space. imagine what it s like to see that view in that person. zero gravity, it looks like they have entered. this is astounding to watch live. let s bring in cnn s rachel crane live at the launch site, and colonel hatfield. rachel, you are there on the ground. what was it like when it took off? reporter: you guys i m sorry to cut you off. i just get so excited. this
Kentucky legislatures have approved the City of Mayfield s application for $25.5 million in state funding to help them rebuild their municipal buildings that were destroyed in the Dec. 10, 2021
Evangelical relief organization Samaritan's Purse has given away 16 houses in a 60-home subdivision to people who lost nearly everything in a tornado that hit Western Kentucky in 2021 and killed around 80 people.