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joe. with us, we have our katty kay and host of msnbc s politics nation and president, the national network, reverend sharpton and host of way too early, jonathan lemire. katty, how was your christmas? i didn t cry anywhere silently in any corner. it was great, my son had covid. we had a craft, we put bubble wrap between the front and backseat of the car. that was my idea of trying to create sort of a secure environment. he came home and he was in his room but at least he was in the house with us. that s great. yeah. you got to make do. we do what we can. fantastic. we do what we can said every parent ever born. reverend al, what about you? how was your christmas? great, we did what we did every year, we fed hundreds of hungry and homeless people and a lot of elderly just don t have anyone to eat christmas with. mayor-elect adams and lieutenant governor joined me several hours to give dishes. we could not let them to sit in the headquarters to eat bu ....
thousands of frustrated passengers have been told their flights have been canceled. the problem a highly contagious virus and not enough workers. these are the lucky ones. passengers heading through security to catch a flight. hopefully everybody can get home for the holidays. luckily for me, i should be fine. other travelers today are not as fortunate. in preemptive move some airlines canceled flights citing a lack of crews variant. among the hardest hit united airlines. in a company the company said quote the nationwide spike in omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation. at least seven people of delta s flights today did not take off. the company said in a statement quote delta streams exhausted all options including re-routing substitution of aircraft s and crew. delta asked the cdc to reduce quarantine time for people testing upon for the vice. the airline boss feared the omicron variant would in h ....
we report from one of the worst hit places. hello, and welcome to viewers in the uk and around the world. president biden is expected to announce new measures later today to combat a surge of covid infections, driven by the 0micron variant. officials say, 0micron accounts for 73% of all new cases recorded in the country. 1,000 military, medical personnel are being mobilised to help increase vaccination capacity. the federal government will distribute 500 million free covid tests, and set up federal covid testing sites in new york city. more on that in just a moment. in france, the government is to fast track a covid vaccine passport law they expect that to be adopted by the middle ofjanuary. in germany, federal leaders are meeting now to decide on new measures there. in the last hour in the uk the government has announced measures to help businesses dealing with mass cancellations, a drop in footfall on the high street and staff absence, because of covid ....
radio city rockettes canceled already. christmas spectacular only comes up once a year. 10 broadways shows including my favorite hamilton has already been canceled postponed until after christmas. cross border nhl games canceled. three games in the nfl have already been postponed. already talking about doing the same thing in basketball is already taking place. talk about dropping the ball anonymously with nobody there again for the second straight year. that s what s going on. is this called not canceling? anything. it s getting kind of scary. i guess in a way omicron variant what is it. doesn t look like omicron is really contagious. more than twice as contagious. that s really not goods. experts warn the omicron spread is likely out pacing the nation s ability to track it. clear that okay job is extremely contagious variant so it doubles every two to four days and you just have to look at the projections of what that means and, yeah, we are in for a lot of case ....
the omicron variant, now, now is dominant here in the united states. let s go right to our national correspondent athena jones in new york for us. omicron appears to be spreading even so much faster than what the experts were predicting. it was 2% three days ago, now 70% of all the new cases. what are you learning? reporter: hi, wolf. is that right. this is sign of just how quickly this can spread and how much things can spread with the new variant just over a matter of days. the latest that we had was that omicron represented 3% of cases. now we learned it represents 73% of all new cases. officials in new york believe that omicron is driving a big spread here. this as people here and across the country prepare for a brutal third covid winter. it is going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter. america bracing for a tough winter that s beginning to look a lot like last winter. already in the midst oh of a delta surge, the omicron varmt ....