weekend citing covid staffing shortages and bad weather, leaving passengers in limbo. we won t be able to get home. we ve been checking all websites, the airports, the airlines. reporter: from coast to coast on christmas morning, those who did plan to see loved one, taking no chances. my girlfriend tested positive earlier this week and, you know, it s christmas morning, i m trying to see my family and, you know, they re real covid conscious. i m vaxxed and boosted. but we re trying to be safe. i m getting tested because i m seeing my family today. reporter: those lucky you have to get a test. the line goes all the way back there. we ve been here two hours. reporter: others saw their christmas plans wiped out by a covid diagnosis. i tested positive for covid. currently just hanging out at the apartment by myself. i was devastated that i was going to have to miss the holidays. reporter: the surge in cases leaving many medical workers and personnel stretche
rich edson on how the white house is reresponding to this. kelly o grady on lax on how travelers will try to deal with this. we begin with rich. good afternoon, neil. the white house says president biden is pulling out all the stops to deal with this new variant also going in to the holiday season and indoor season in the wintertime. you have a number of restrictions and guidelines that the white house announced. the president was at the national institutes of health where he said that fighting this pandemic should not be political. this is a moment that we can do what we haven t been able to do through this whole pandemic. get the nation to come together. think of it as a patriotic responsibility other than somehow denying people their basic rights. martha: the white house is pushing booster at home testing and traveler rules. the government will require travelers coming to the united states to test for covid-19 within 24 hours of their departing flight. previously you
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neil: demand all they want. the supreme court has ruled against the president s loan forgiveness program. a lot of folks not happy about that. there s options to make the payments more affordable or come up with some other solution. we re expecting to hear from the president of the united states on that. welcome. i m neil cavuto. shannon bream has had a busy day. tell us what s going down. let s talk about the student debt relief program that the supreme court 6-3 said cannot move forward. the chief justice had this to say. that s what the court found here. they said essentially they re waiving away $430 billion in executive loans. dissenting justice kagan said the statute does give the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrower s ability to relieve. the secretary did that. clearly the two sides saw this differently. the bottom line strawberry that program, which the president had expressed it being illegal, the speaker of the house s
joe o dea is an interesting candidate. many people call it leaning likely dem for michael bennett. we ll see what happens there. the president as you know struggles with tough approval numbers. 44% for joe biden right now. and that s clearly why they re staying away, he and the vice president. she s around 37 and change. they re not going near these tight races across the country. fox news sunday anchor shannon bream and david asman both here to analyze what s going on in the race with 27 days to go. let s make a stop with peter doocy who is with the president in cape hail, colorado. what is the focus there today, peter? good afternoon, martha. president biden is not giving in to calls from critics to drill more here in the united states as gas prices go up and up. in fact, he s doing the opposite. today in colorado, he s going to announce new bans on drilling and mining on about 225,000 acres here. he s also going to designate camp hail a monument to the tenth mountain d