putting the blame on winter weather and the highly contagious omicron variant, infecting workers, and over 1,700 t.s.a. agents are infected with covid. airlines did not see this new variant coming. if pilots and flight attendants and gate agents can t go to work, how can the airlines run the schedule they sold to the public months okay. reporter: united airlines solution is offer triple pay to the pilots in hopes of easing january shortages and the flight attendants union is hitting back against the c.d.c. after the agency cut the isolation time for covid-infected workers from 10 days to five after a positive result. the problem is now we re adding more sick people into our ranks. we re going to have more flight crew who are sick. reporter: and it s not just covid disrupting travel. it s also weather. in chicago alone, more than 50% of flights have been canceled because of storms. nikki. battiste: that is right, tom. thank you.
agencies and airlines. a.p. reports that united is offering triple pay for pilots. and spirit is paying double through tuesday. and no press briefing at the white house since federal offices are closed. so are schools. some school districts have announced they re closing tomorrow. federal and d.c. workers are teleworking today. with this historic surge in covid cases, the district of collect i can t announced today that they ve closed in-person testing facilities because of the storm. charles? charles: thanks, rich. now there s this. the fda is authorizing pfizer s booster shots for kids. the cdc advisory board will take a look on january 5. let s get the read now from fox news medical contributor, dr. marty makary. we knew they would go down the
takers. imagine 911 call takers in a social media environment. and he finds when the public names and shames employees, in response, they do what you would expect them to do. they escape, they sometimes pass the buck, and some of them leave. and i think we re seeing some of that in the great resignation. and partly, the great attraction. we can find, if we re tired of dealing with these customers, let s find a job where we don t have to deal with them. here s the thing, ethan. many of these companies are making massive, massive profits. could they be doing more to help protect or even incentivize their workers on the front lines, right? every day, we re reading about airlines that are offering triple pay to their pilots, but those call center operators who have to talk to people who are waiting three, four, sometimes ten hours after their flights get canceled, those people aren t getting a dime more. sarah did a wonderful job of doing the first step, which is just making this known