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Doctors on the fda panel. >> thousands of americans trapped in a travel nightmare. how to handle the chaos and how long these flight cancelations could last. >> i just want to go home at the end of the day. >> you can laugh or cry and in the words of marjorie hinckley, crying gives me a headache so might as well laugh. some are worried this was just a first try, and a poll shows one year later voters cant agree on what happened that day or who is to blame. florida is dealing with one of the bi...

We are seeing a sharper aattack. in this one theres no denial of wrong doing, so some new teeth we are seeing. but more broadly, we are talking about a company that at its founding was going to be named relentless, and that was the original name for the company and it was a model that he invented was going to be temporarily, never intending them to work there for a whole career, and it is bumping up against the new wind of unionizations. amazon, again, the second largest private employer in the ...

Give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. good day, and merry christmas eve to all who celebrate. i am lindsay riser. we have another busy hour, including the urgent development in the rise against omicron. travel restrictions lifted to

Wide-spread testing and those are the critical measures right now, lindsay. >> yeah, hopefully we dont see lines like that anymore. dr. roy, you talked about those unvaccinated and at this point is it accurate to call this a pandemic of the unvaccinated? >> well, so im glad you mention that, lindsay. what people are hearing, particularly people who remain unvaccinated is they are seeing positive cases or infections among people vaccinated and those are breakthrough infections, and they are trans...

Lindsay. happy sunday to you. in your intro you were talking about how the impact on professional sports league, and as a diehard hockey fan i was anticipating the game last night when it was canceled because so many players on both teams were placed on covid protocol. same thing is happening in the nba and nfl. what is happening in professional sports leagues is what is happening in the communities, 1,300 deaths per day, and the cdc predicts omicron will surpass delta in a number of weeks. what...

The message, lindsay. >> it looks like new york city is once again becoming an epicenter here and you created a lot of waves of one of your tweets is the positivity in new york city doubled in three days. what do you think the priority should be right now? >> thank you for having me on to discuss this issue. this is an incredible challenge. this strain of the virus spreads so much more rapidly than the previous strain does. one thing new york city has in its favor is the high rate of people that...

Vaccine mandates, and 5,000 demonstrated in london and police officers were hurt in a confrontation with protesters. what steps is the government taking there? >> reporter: good morning, lindsay. the government here had been reluctant to impose any new measures beyond having to wear a mask at large venues, and the situation here is not good. london has become the epicenter of the omicron variant and cases of omicron in this country are doubling every 48 hours. theres been a massive surge of covi...

Members, and we have a national responsibility as well and i have confidence joe manchin will understand and we will find the agreement there to be made. make no mistake, joe biden is in charge. >> manchin and kyrsten sinema are also standing in the way of voting rights legislation. for more on what this gridlock means for president bidens agenda, we turn to josh letterman in delaware. josh, what do you make here of all of this latest news happening? >> lindsay, it started at $3.5 trillion, got ...

Were also hearing from the white house that this will be a stark warning about what is to come in the months ahead with president biden wanting to really level with the american people that next few months are going to be very difficult and also to give them the very latest science about what is safe and not safe as we head into the holidays, lindsay. >> josh letterman, live in delaware, thank you. coming up, two weeks without food. theyre physically drained, mentally drained, but our next gue...

Good morning. its sunday, december 17th. i am lindsay riser. we begin with the address that president biden is going to give the nation tuesday about the sudden surge in covid cases across the country. hes expected to announce new steps to beat ban this variant surge days before christmas. this is what the president is trying to turn around, all 30 states on this map in red or orange have seen rises in the last two weeks. >> a nation on edge, with the omicron variant spreading at an alarming rat...