£500,000 after winning the pdc darts championship. good morning. it is a cold start to the day, frosty for some of us, the risk of ice in the northern half of the country, and some snow showers in the west but heavier snow with the potential for drifting and blizzards in the higher rate in northern scotland. it s tuesday the 4th of january. prince andrew s legal team will today try to convince a new yorkjudge to throw out a civil case brought by a woman who accuses him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17. the duke has consistently denied the claims. it follows the release of a document that shows virginia giuffre was paid $500,000 in exchange for committing not to sue anyone connected to the sex offenderjeffrey epstein. here s our legal correspondent dominic casciani. a woman making the gravest of allegations. the unprecedented defendant, a prince of the realm. and now, a day of critical court hearings for both virginia giuffre and the duke of york. she says she was s
biden administration rejected a proposal for free rapid test for the holidays for the president trying to reassure frustrated governors on a video call earlier, but he just wound up blaming them. look, there is no federal solution. it s gets solved at the state level. seeing how tough it was for some folks to get test this weekend shows we have more work to do. when i took office ten months into the pandemic, and even so, we had no, 0, over-the-counter home tests in the united states. we got to work. we crossroad the number of pharmacies offering the free test and now there are more than 20,000 places we can get testing for for free. for over the counter at home tests, as i said, there were none when we took office. none. now we have eight on the market, it s clearly not enough. if we have known, would have gone harder and quicker if we could have. we slept tens of millions of unvaccinated people and we are seeing hospitalizations rides. and even dr. fauci thinks biden fu
covid cases are averaging nearly double what they were at the start of november doctor anthony fauci said americans need to remain vigilant. even though were pleased by the evidence for multiple countries, it looks like there is a lesser degree of severity, we have to be careful we don t get complacent about that. as it might lead to a lot of hospitalizations in the united states. were following the latest from our southern border, texas attorney general ken paxton is asking courts to force abiding the administration to restart border wall construction, more on that in just a moment. we begin this hour with charles watson lida hartfield jackson international airport in atlanta with more on the holiday travel nightmare. what is the move there? is pretty common here right now but it s been chaotic with thousands of people flying this holiday weekend and it continues with another wave of cancellations. today airlines dropping more than 2300 flights globally, more than a th
the omicron variant also forcing broadway shows to go dark and pro sports team to put their seasons on hold. we have fox team coverage night charles watson is live in atlanta with the latest on the covid search. first david lee miller light at laguardia airport in queens, new york. john, thousands of travelers will not have the opportunity to spend christmas day with loved ones. a number of major u.s. airlines again today were forced to cancel flights because there was a shortage of pilots, flight attendants and support crews caused by the fast spreading over come variant the number of cathleen should increase during the day as of this are according to flight where.com, lisa and her 40 flights were grounded. three to eight of the cares of flights accounting for 15% of its schedule canceled. united and jetblue have canceled 12% of their scheduled flights. only yesterday christmas eve one of the business travel days of the year, the same airlines also made significant cancell
specials starts with the grinch who stole christmas. annual christmas specials were an event. frosty the snow man returns. this was on once, if you missed it. you were screwed. mom, mom, can we watch this. sunday december 4 birl yves tells story of rudolph the red nosed reindeer. i was obsessed with clay claymation. tells story of rudolph, an outsider. burl yves as the snow man, hermie the e.l.f. the cast off. i want to be a dentist. it say lucrative business. give than your boss, santa gets paid in cookies. you and scariest claymation thing. the abombable snow man. rudolph has run every year since 1964. the message circumstance bullying works. would rudolph had gotten his life together if not for all of the name-calling. be prepared for cancel culture too come for rudolph. isn t there anyone who knows what christmas is all about? charlie brown and the peanuts gang. in 1965, a year after rudolph, cbs aired another christmas classic. we love c