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out that people on the ship had covid is because the first destination we were supposed to go to, it took we sat there for a couple of hours, and then we found out they wouldn t let us on the destination because of so many people on the ship having covid. and they just let everybody go about their business. we re also seeing more major flight disruptions as airlines deal with staffing shortages caused by covid. cnn s nadia romero is at hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta, one of the busiest airports in the world on one of the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of flights have been canceled today. walk us through what s going on. reporter: you have all of that coming together. you have the fact that it s a sunday, people normally travel on sunday. you see higher numbers. it s the day after christmas, people have to get back to work tomorrow, and you have the omicron variant. you have all of these things all coming together, and that equals more than a tho ....
we ll hear from one woman who is inspiring work with the homeless and less fortunate has earned her the title cnn hero of the year. all that and more is coming up this christmas morning. let s get a check of your news headlines. good morning, boris and merry christmas to all of you. i m jessica dean in washington. and we begin this morning with a major moment for nasa. engine start. and liftoff. james webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe. the $10 billion james webb telescope lifted off from the european space agency s launch site minutes ago. the telescope which is being called the most powerful ever will take one month to complete its orbit around the sun which is just under a million miles away. because it will be so far away, it won t be able to be serviced or repaired should anything go wrong. the telescope will be able to observe the atmosphere of planets outside of our solar system as never before, potentially finding which planets might ....
see their loved ones. for other people they found out today, more than 1,000 flights canceled for this entire we weekend, today and tomorrow form the number are staggering, delta announced more than 280, jetblue more than 100 flights. all those people were excited about traveling again. i just spoke with a man who is on his way to paris. he says his hasn t seen hi family since 2019, because the borders closed, and despite the omicron variant or delta, anything else, he s going to make his way back to his family. other travelers are not so lucky. listen to their fears of not making it home in time. so a lot of those travelers are talking about what it means for them not seeing their family, but stuck in the airport. people are starting to make their way to get inside. some of those flights were canceled earlier in the day. more flights were scheduled for the afternoon and for the evening hours, but this time around, people have been checking their phone. i spoke with one ....
data indicates so far, cron is mild in most cases. booster mandates are surfacing around the country and around the world. california may not be so golden to residents by the number of people moving there dropped significantly during the pandemic. major companies like tesla and disney moved to red states like florida and texas. we begin, approval ratings dropping for president biden on a number of issues. great to be with you. more polling data to share. as you pointed out, more rough times ahead for the biden administration if the latest surveys are to be believed. 49% of those surveyed in the latest fox business poll say they disapprove of the job mr. biden is doing. his worst marks on the pandemic to date and a far cry from his ratings in the spring when he enjoyed 64% approval. the number of those saying the virus is not under control has inched up. 44% saying it s somewhat contained. 28% thinking it s not at all under control. that s up six-point since october. m ....
what we re thinking about is a peaceful planet. we re not thinking of anything else. they re trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. things were kind of at a standstill. the baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn t honor the human spirit and didn t honor creativity. the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. a novel titled on the road became a best-seller. when kerouac s book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. that if we re living in an age of conformity, if everybody s trying to work for the corporation, that you re losing a sense of self. i was traveling west one time at the junctio ....