cancel culture is spread to the airlines. thousands of frustrated passengers have been told that their plaintiff been canceled. the problem, the highly contagious virus and not enough workers. these are the lucky ones, passengers have been through security to catch a flight. hopefully everybody got home from the holidays. we should be fine. other travelers are not as fortunate. and a preemptive move some airlines canceled flights, citing a lack of cruz because of the baths betting omicron variant. pick united airlines quick grounded 9% the today president lights. nationwide spike of cases this week has had a direct impact on our blake reason the people who run our operation. at least 7% of the delta flights today that got take off. the company said that teams have exhausted all resources including substitutions of aircraft in cruise. earlier this week to produce quarantine time and they great significance and most us carriers report a high vaccination rate for employees
and we are grateful for every one of them that we do. recently for example we spoke to archbishop charles who grew up surrounded by death. we asked him about that, and he said that it made him grateful for the things he has. watch. so you have seen a lot of death in your life, of course. i grew up seeing death. tucker: you re the son of a mortician? yes, i lived in a funeral home, and my friends were afraid to visit me when i was a kid because they had to go to the funeral home to associate with death, but i grew up very comfortable with death, because i thought around me all the time. my father was a wonderful man and a wonderful mortician. he knew how to comfort people and their sorrow and lead them to that important moment. they can change their too. we have allowed people s bodies to be cremated now prior to their funerals which has led to a shoulder period of paying attention to the dead. wakes used to be long periods at first they were in homes and then in
an uncritical lens and pushed through the social media echo system without any concern for the truth. there is a pattern here. ask yourself why is it that the left always attaches itself and this takes whatever is left of the reputation on the worst of all characters? jussie smollett is not the first hollywood figure to be lavished with endless undeserved praise. remember a convicted criminal harvey weinstein? he was regularly treated as some sort of infallible icon across tinseltown, even as rumors swirled for years about his behavior. what about the cuomo brothers who were doing happy talk on cable news while the disgraced former governor was covering a massive nursing home scandal and later when we found out his mother was helping to do damage control to shape the public narrative as the sexual harassment probe intensified? don t forget about the russia hoax with a never ending liar adam schiff was propped up as some sort of selfless truth seeker all while he fueled lie af
the president acknowledged with inflation this high may be tough to get votes in the senate for the spending plan he sees as the solution. i think you ll see it change sooner, quicker, more rapidly than most people think. president biden trying to look on the bright side after his labor department reported inflation surged more than expected last month to 6.8%, the fastest rate since 1982 when ronald reagan was president. every other aspect of the economy is racing ahead, it s doing incredibly well. we ve never had this kind of growth in 60 years. but inflation is affecting people s lives. again blaming the pandemic for the supply chain disruptions that have driven inflation, the white house highlighted bright spots where prices have fallen since that data was gathered like natural gas and gasoline. we got the price down below three bucks per gallon but it has not gone down quickly enough. he acknowledge more has to be done before consumers feel confident about
originating. we begin with the latest from atlanta and correspondent jonathaner isry. the world health organization identified the threat and gave it the name omicron and identified ate as variant of concern. what we do know is this has a large number of mutations and the concern is that when you have so many mutations, it can have an impact on how the virus behaves. both mutations include multiple changes to the spike protein, the part of the virus that penetrates human cells. researchers are still determining the threat, omicron s threat through southern africa concerns the british health minister. the indication we have is it may be more transmiss than the delta variant and the vaccines that we had may be less effective against it. officials are redoubling the efforts to get most of the world vaccinated. they face challenges, increasing supply in the poor countries and encouraging demand in rich ones. nevertheless, health experts say vaccination is key to control