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Signing deals with the team they re already on. the biggest guy to find a new home is a player heading to the houston rockets with a deal worth $130 million. van bleak was drafted seven years ago. now he s getting more than $40 million a year. van bleak is the first undrafted player to ever get a max deal on the nba, and after making it to the league, fred vanvleet tweeted, bet on yourself. today is july 1st. that also means it s bobby bonilla day, getting his annual $1.19 million payment from the mets. he famously turned a $5.5 million buyout into almost $30 million by taking deferred payments with interest. the payments started in 2011, so he s got $1.19 million 13 times already and he s got 12 more coming. he s going to get his last ....
Way for the holidays. this is coming as we ve seen long lines at airports across the country. the tsa, 2.19 million people at airports nationwide yesterday. that is the highest number we ve seen at the holiday rush seeing day after day for about a week of numbers at or near 2 million people each day. just the start, poppy. the tsa says they ll screen another 20 million people between now and january 3rd when everybody begins coming home all at once. and this news, the biden administration says that it is cancelling travel restrictions for those coming into the united states from south africa and seven other countries. they e put those restrictions in place last month because of the omicron variant. they all end december 31st now. poppy? a lot of big headlines. thank you, pete. i wish every one of those people on the 468-some flights that are canceled, that they get another flight and get to their loved ones. thanks for the reporting. shimon, you are in times square. it s going to be ....
Breakthrough case. right now it s set for ten days. they want it to be five days. the head of delta air lines, and one of the industry s top lobbies wrote the cdc to take that down some, even though some airline workers oppose that. huge numbers, 2.19 million people screened at airports yesterday. it s the highest we have seen during this holiday travel rush. we are not over yet, poppy, 20 million people expected to pass through security at america s airports between now and january 3rd. that s when we expect all of these people to come home all at once. by the way, we obtained the united airlines memo about these cancellations poppy, and they say to their staff that this is all about worker shortages at the flight crew level, and also for the operations folks, those behind the scenes, so really a tough go there. for sure. pete, thank you so much for the reporting. now to new york where the state has just shattered its ....
Go down, leading them to cancel some flights. most of the flights, according to flight aware, were at united airlines and delta air lines but also alegent and jetblue. we obtained a united airlines memo to its staff in which it said the omicron cases are primarily affecting its flight crews and operations folks, those behind the scenes. the airline industry says there is a fix for all of this. they want the isolation period required for somebody who gets a breakthrough coronavirus case slashed in half. right now it has set at ten days. the airline industry is pleading with the cdc to set that at five days, even though some unions oppose that. even still, the number of travelers is very high. 2.19 million people screened at airports across the country on thursday. that was expected to be one of the busiest days for travel. many more busy days ahead. the tsa anticipates another 20 million people will travel between now and january 3rd. that s when they expect ....
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 behind the scenes. the airline industry says there is a fix for all of this. they want the isolation period required for somebody who gets a breakthrough coronavirus case slashed in half. right now it is set at ten days. the industry is pleading with the cdc to set that at five days, even though some airline worker unions oppose that. the number of travelers is high. 2.19 million people screened at airports across the country on thursday. that was expected to be one of the busiest days for travel. although, still many more busy days ahead. the tsa anticipates another 20 million people will travel between now and january 3rd. that s when they expect everybody to come home all at once. jessica? thanks so much. pope francis is calling for dialogue as the world copes with ....