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amarillo, texas, where is judge will decide whether to expand a ban on a drug used as medication abortion more than half the women who terminate their pregnancies do itwith this drug it is extremely low risk fewer than half a percent of patients experience complications, which means almost no one. medication abortions are illegal in 13 states, and that does include texas, where the arguments in this landmark case just wrapped a group of doctors who do not support abortion brought this ...

just got his bag. every once in a while big cry go up through the island of miss fit bags with someone saying they have got their stuff and they are on their way home. its still a mess. you still have people who are stranded and cant get home. you have flight staff that cant penetrate this antiquated communication system to let the airlines know that they are available to fly people home. you have got a lot of really tired people and they are just stuck. >> our luggage is missing. its ...

a controversial covid emergency immigration policy remains in place. yet the southern border crisis shows no signs of slowing down and a plan for how to manage a post title 42 border is nowhere to be found, at least not yet. we have fox team coverage tonight, matt finn is on the ground again in eagle pass, texas. one of the epicenters in the migrant encounters in the u.s. we begin with aishah hasnie on the politics at play and the growing blame game on all of this. good evening, aishah...

honor the lives lost as a community and nation continued to mourn, jackie ibanez. >> could morning, carley and todd, though shooting that left 19 children and two teachers did appear to hundreds of mourners stood in line yesterday to pay their respects and 10-year-old avery joe garza, rodriguez spirit private and public services for all of those will be ongoing in coming days but meanwhile the mayor of uvalde calling for side of the massacre robb elementary to be demolished. >> i dont ...

Congress also promising scrutiny. >> moneys that were paid out during covid, they were paid out to maintain the payroll and to maintain the workforce. >> bloomberg reports the carriers vice president of ground operations declared a state of operational emergency at the airport after an unusually high number of employee absences, according to a december 21st message to ramp workers. >> when the federal government and taxpayers bail out airlines like southwest, to the tune of over $7 billion, what...

According to a december 21st message to ramp workers. members of the house transportation committee now pushing the department they oversee to probe even further. >> i want to see pete buttigieg say that hes going to hold southwest accountable by first figuring out where all the money went when the federal government and taxpayers bail out airlines like southwest to the tune of over $7 billion. what i first want to see is an accounting of where that money went because, clearly, it didnt go upgra...

>> carley: way or the staff shortages happening? >> well, i believe on a macro level a lot of it is post-pandemic. there are so many workers in the u.s. that sort of disappeared from the entire labor force. from pilots, there is a pilot shortage. it is difficult to recruit and retain the best pilots. so, we are kind of fighting that as well. >> carley: all right, so, you know, in the summer months and kids are getting off school. a lot of family vacations that people are looking forward to. what...

Not responded to the airlines. you have ramp workers, engineers, mechanics, pilots, the flight attendants, as they test positive and having to step out they dont have a proper support to get a plane in the air so its sort of compounding and will go on for a little bit. this is not a day and then tomorrow is fixed because the employees are out for up to ten days and so if theyre out for longer then you rely on the current workers to putt in overtime. they will not but cant work on the backlog tha...

Number was around 10,000. it comes as the highly transmissible covid variant hit flight cruises and winter storms hit the nation, as americans try to head home. kerrey sanders has more. joe, today is not a good day if youre planning to fly. first of all, there have been major delays and cancellations, just as there was the day after christmas, more than 1,500 domestic cancellations. there are more than 900 cancellations, more than 1,800 delays, most of those related to the spread of coronaviru...

Pilots at southwest and flight attendants of course, but ramp workers, mechanics, dispatchers schedulers, ticket agents people from the top to the very bottom. many thousandsnt of people. some unknown but apparently large number of these people have still not been vaccinated. why is that? well, many of them have already recovered from covid, they have antibodies that offer them greater protection than any vaccine ever could, thats the science, so they dont want the vaccine. others have sincere r...