airport. covid causing a travel nightmare across the country. airlines struggle to find crews to staff flights. i m john roberts in washington. sandra, happy new year to you. happy new year to you, too, john. the travel challenges are what everyone is talking about today. omicron variant pushing to levels not seen in this pandemic, nearly 500,000 cases reported in a single day shattering the previous daily high set two days beforehand. throw in a winter storm with exploding case counts, all the ingredients for a massive travel headache. nearly 4,000 flights have been canceled so far today, according to flight aware. the omicron surge is leaving many airlines without crews to operate those busy schedules. fox team coverage starts now. standing by from the white house, but first senior national correspondent at reagan national airport outside washington, d.c., snow finally tapering off a bit. good afternoon, john. that s right, the snow is just slowing down a few minutes
christmas and i wish you a happy new year in 2022. but before we turn the page on the year of our lord 2021, it is time in this closing week to take stock what we learned this year. the frauds that were exposed. the evils we learned to hate, and the truths we woke up to who we are and who we hope to be. tonight and in the coming days, i will be talking very wise and knowledgeable people who are reckoning with the lesson of the year of chaos and crime. a year that began with a promise that now we could return to normal and ended with a horrifying possibility that this, all of this terrible this is normal now. the images of 2021 that will stick in our minds are many. the footage of brutal criminality in american cities. taking place in broad daylight. our fellow citizens, arrested, not because they stole or ransacked but because they tried to buy a burger without showing their papers. the image of afghanning dropping through the sky as they clung desperately to american planes.
staffs and secretary of state. served 35 years in the u.s. army, two decorated tours in vietnam. credited with reforming the u.s. military following the cold war and being the architect of the first gulf war. sandra: fox team coverage begins now weighing in on the medical side of this story. john: first to national security correspondent jennifer griffin on powell s life and career, what a life and career it was. jennifer: it was. known for integrity, he will be remembered for the powell doctrine during desert storm in first gulf war as chairman of the joint chiefs at the pentagon, which stated only use force if it has clear and achievable object itch with public support, sufficient firepower and exit strategy to end the war. he told secretary of state regarding use of u.s. military u.s. troopss should not be used as toy soldiers. then there was his pottery barn rule. you break it, you own it, tough lesson the u.s. learned after invasion of afghanistan and iraq after 9/
maccallum and this is continuing coverage of the breaking news just a short while ago. a shocking revelation that catherine princess of wales has been diagnosed with cancer. let s watch the full video the palace just released. i wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you personally for all the wonderful messages of support and your understanding whilst i ve been recovering from surgery. it has been an incredibly tough months for our entire family but of had a fantastic medical team who have taken great care of me for which i am so grateful. in january i underwent major abdominal surgery in london and at the time it was thought that my condition was noncancerous. this surgery was successful however test app after the operation had cancer been present. my medical team therefore advised i should undergo preventative chemotherapy and i am now in the early stages of that treatment. this of course came as a huge shock and william and i have been doing everything we can to
that i m telling you right now that [bleep] that [bleep] back there is not real. kat: i have two theories to question what she was seeing was real or not first is ambien and chardonnay and second one she was reading the news. it is definitely been an insane week for news. there have been stories coming out all over the place about things that aren t real or that seem like they re way too hard to believe. or in the case of michael oher a story i guess we should have maybe never believed. is your tailback when you look at him you think how you would never let anyone or anything hurt him all right go back. got it. what about collins? fine they can be on the team too are you going protect the family michael? yes, ma am. inspiration behind blind side is now suing the family that adopted hem claiming that they took a lot of his money and that they never actually adopted him at all. the family is denying everything but the movie was advertised as based on true story turn