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reporter: i don t think anybody is happy about the price tag, particularly given there s going to be another gubernatorial election just a year from now. people will be voting on whether or not gavin newsom should be the governor again in 2022. if you would have asked me about the surprise a month ago, the answer potentially would have been yes. but the fact that gavin newsom is going back to work in the building behind me this morning after the last couple of weeks that we ve had here in california, i don t think it s a surprise. certainly not to his campaign. they felt very confident about how this was going to play out, especially with the late campaign turn, larry elders, and he wasn t going to accept the results of the election. and the reality is people support gavin newsom s policies, they support him on covid vaccine mandates and mask mandates, support his effort to help the unhoused population, to close the inequality gap and fight the wildfires fueled by cli ....
biden s legitimate electoral votes. we begin with the select committee s letter today asking donald trump s daughter and former white house aide ivanka trump to testify voluntarily before their committee. that letter is not just a scathing indictment of the former first daughter who never had any business, frankly, being in government, no matter who her daddy was. it also painted a devastating picture of how trump stood in the way of real action as the country he was sworn to protect fell under attack. the committee made clear they re interested in a phone call between president and vice president pence which ivanka and kellogg both witnessed in the oval office. they revealed in earlier testimony general kellogg confirmed that trump pushed pence to reject biden s electors. if you don t do it, i picked the wrong man four years ago. you re going to wimp out, he reportedly said. then at the close of that call, kellogg says ivanka trump turned to me and said, mike pence ....
alaska airlines canceled some flights as well. there s been disagreement in the industry on how to handle this new pandemic surge as air travel rebounds to pre-pandemic levels. cnn s pete muntean has the latest from regan national airport. reporter: christine, paula, things are getting busier by the moment here at regan national airport. some of the numbers we have seen are already higher than where they were back in 2019 before the pandemic. the tsa screened 2.08 million people at airports across the country on wednesday. that number actually higher than the same day back in 2019, 1.84 screened back then two years ago. just a bit of context here, though. that same wednesday two years ago, that was christmas day itself when passenger loads are low, but even still we have seen numbers at or near 2 luis palomino per d 2 million per day. there are long lines to get tested for coronavirus. this one at b.w.i. thurgood marshall airport, there was a line for testing either e ....
variant. also this morning the white house announcing that president biden is reversing course will be lifting covid travel restrictions on southern african countries. controversial implications and the number of cases is staggering in some places in the united states. infections from the new strain have quickly surpassed last summer s delta surge. the daily average of new cases is now surging over 182,000. health officials honestly unclear on where the peak is going to be. let s start with cnn s pete muntean live at reagan national airport for us. pete, what is happening with these flights? reporter: kate, 500 flight cancellations in the united states alone, and airlines say as these omicron cases start to surge, their staffing levels went down, which led to them cancelling these flights. from flight aware, about 170 cancellations at unaied alone, 140 at delta air lines. last night we obtained a memo from you nighted to its staff saying this was impacting flight crew ....
touchdowns and he ran for two more. can you believe it? no quarterback in alabama history has ever done that. roll tide. 56-7 over middle tennessee. but the best performance of the day has to go to oregon s mascot. every time they score, he does pushups. for puddles, it was 546 pushups for puddles. the mascot was barely able to waddle. definitely going to be sore today. being a mascot is not all it s quacked up to be. cory, thank you. it s a very strong duck there apparently. welcome back. i m in today for frederica whitfield. and at the burning man festival, 70,000 were left stranded. organizers also say they do still plan the hold the festival s culminating event, the burning of the man as it s called, tonight weather permitting. and cell phone service has been very spotty, even nonexistent for some. but dawn loony is among those trapped at the festival. glad to see that you re smiling. can you tell us what you re experiencing there? reporter: we are great. it i ....