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later in the program for that. dana, awesome to be with you this past year. i look to many more. dana: me, too. all right. a new gallup poll shows the gop holding a 5 point edge in support among americans, a 14-point swing from a year ago giving republicans their best lead since 1995. bill: we have reaction from two of the best in a moment. reince priebus and jim messina standing by. we start with mark meredith. a year ago republicans were facing bleak poll numbers. today a much different story with gallup reporting the gop seeing a huge surge in support over the last year. good news for republicans comes at democrats expense. 13 polls throughout last year asking 12,000 adults asking how they saw themselves leaning. fourth quarter the republicans had a lead. a huge shift from the start of 2021. republican party officials tell us they aren t surprised. we viewed this as a direct correlation between joe biden and kamala harris s failed policies coupled with the d ....
the history of this person and the reason why he was there and how it s unfolded overseas in london. all that developing today again. dana: let s look at this video. you can see the hostages making a break for it. racing out of the synagogue as the f.b.i. looks on. the agency breached the building shortly after. the gunman is confirmed dead. bill: 44-year-old british citizen demanding the release of lady al qaeda serving time in a prison miles from that synagogue. dana: u.k. police are questioning two teenagers in con he can with the case. president biden is commending law enforcement for getting the hostages out safely. president biden: it was an act of terror. it was an act of terror. not only was it related to someone who had been arrested, i might add, 15 years ago and in jail for 10 years. i want to make sure we got a word out to synagogues and places of worship we aren t going to tolerate this. the attorney general is focused making sure we deal with these ....
will require hospitalization, might be up. we can t be complacent in these reports which are likely accurate that it is ultimately in the big picture less severe. we re still going to get a lot of hospitalizations. cnn s ryan young and polo sandoval are monitoring the situations around the country. you re at atlanta s hartsfield-jackson airport, more flights being canceled. how are travelers dealing with the frustrations? a yeah. more flights are being canceled across the country. everybody wants to get the new year started off on the right foot. when you add the sprinkle of travel into it it made things quite hard. think ability the fact that when you walk into some of these airports there s not even concession stands nope a lot of places because they re dealing with the covid outbreak. you add this together, you can understand why frustrations are starting to rise. take a look at some of the video we shot on the inside. the lines on the inside at the ticket counte ....
an agreement to address the climate crisis. we ve got a look at climate coming up. first, let s get a check of your news headlines. good morning, to you, and merry christmas. i m jessica dean. the omicron surge means getting home for christmas is a challenge for many travelers today. both delta and united flight cancellations are in the triple digits for the second straight day. delta canceling 268 flights while united had 196 cancellations. jetblue has canceled 120 flights. the airlines blame staffing shortages stemming from the omicron variant. cnn aviation correspondent meet mo pete muntean has details. reporter: as the cases went up, it caused their staffing levels go down, leading them to cancel some flights. most of the flight cancellations on friday were at united airlines and delta air lines but also alegent and jetblue. we obtained a memo to its staff in which it said the omicron cases are primarily impacting its flight crews and operations folks, those ....
reporter: hospitalizations now surging among the unvaccinated. do not do things like go to gathering where there are people who you do not know what their vaccination status is. reporter: overseas, the netherlands locking down, israel putting travelers from canada, germany and u.s. on no-fly list and uk not rolling out new restrictions. over the last 24 hours, largest number of new cases since the pandemic began. also tonight, democratic senator joe manchin dealing a potential death blow to the president s ambitious social spending plan. i ve tried everything humanly possible, i can t get there. he has never negotiated in good faith. he has got explaining to do, let him vote no in front of the whole world. i m pamela brown in washington, you are live in the cnn newsroom. just days before christmas and the prospect of a new year, sobering warning tonight in the fight against the coronavirus, new surge of cases and hospitalizations in the u.s. driven by ....