cancel culture is spread to the airlines. thousands of frustrated passengers have been told that their plaintiff been canceled. the problem, the highly contagious virus and not enough workers. these are the lucky ones, passengers have been through security to catch a flight. hopefully everybody got home from the holidays. we should be fine. other travelers are not as fortunate. and a preemptive move some airlines canceled flights, citing a lack of cruz because of the baths betting omicron variant. pick united airlines quick grounded 9% the today president lights. nationwide spike of cases this week has had a direct impact on our blake reason the people who run our operation. at least 7% of the delta flights today that got take off. the company said that teams have exhausted all resources including substitutions of aircraft in cruise. earlier this week to produce quarantine time and they great significance and most us carriers report a high vaccination rate for employees
and we are grateful for every one of them that we do. recently for example we spoke to archbishop charles who grew up surrounded by death. we asked him about that, and he said that it made him grateful for the things he has. watch. so you have seen a lot of death in your life, of course. i grew up seeing death. tucker: you re the son of a mortician? yes, i lived in a funeral home, and my friends were afraid to visit me when i was a kid because they had to go to the funeral home to associate with death, but i grew up very comfortable with death, because i thought around me all the time. my father was a wonderful man and a wonderful mortician. he knew how to comfort people and their sorrow and lead them to that important moment. they can change their too. we have allowed people s bodies to be cremated now prior to their funerals which has led to a shoulder period of paying attention to the dead. wakes used to be long periods at first they were in homes and then in
monday on special report, how the omicron surges affecting the holiday season. i make manual in washington. merry christmas and good night from washington. tucker: merry christmas. welcome to a special christmas eve edition of tucker carlson tonight, which we have thought through a little bit. we are not going to bring you the usual depressing slog for the underbelly of american politics. we do a lot of that.or that s the nature of news and the nature of cable news. d but for tonight, christmas eve, we will do something a little different trade will focus on stories of struggle and hardship, that s where meaning comes from. but stories that gave rise to hope in the end. and there are a lot of them.