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the friday before juneteenth, clocked in as the most popular air travel day of 2022. and all of this as inflation hits a 40-year high. let s start with the travel troubles facing so many americans right now. in los angeles international airport, already today more than 770 flights cancelled. and still, there might be more this holiday weekend. why? yeah. it s because a lot of people are flying first of all. tsa saying they screened about 2.5 million people on friday. that s the highest number they ve seen since the sunday after thanksgiving. and then the problem is that the airlines just can t keep up. of course, part of the reason why so many are flying this weekend is because it s a lock summer weekend. a lot of people have off monday for juneteenth, and of course, it also coincides with father s day. and then these airlines just not keeping up for a number of reasons. one, being weather problems. delays and cancellations. there s also staff shortages and infrastruc ....
this would play out before the electorate and whether any opinions or any votes or legislation might change. we ve also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center of the committee s attention, former president donald j. trump, wondering what he has to say about all the committee s assertions, and there are a lot of them. like that he was told his scheme was to told overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence s life was in danger at the capitol but kept publicly lashing out at him during the attack anyway. well, the wayit seems to be ove because today in his first public appearance since the hearing, he didn t really deny any of that exactly. instead, he admitted he did pressure pence to try to keep him in power. but he did deny one thing. never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a ....
children as young as 6 months. we know the white house says vaccinations could begin as early as next week once given the okay from the cdc and the fda. president biden already pledged to make 10 million vaccine doses available nationwide with the majority of states already preordering shipments since the beginning of the month. yeah. but many health experts are worried that parents of young kids may not take their kids to get those covid shots. the latest polling from the kaiser family foundation show that only 18% of parents of kids under 5 would want to vaccinate their child as soon as a vaccine becomes available. cnn medical analyst says that parents should remember the benefits of vaccinations still outweigh the risks of covid-19. more than 400 children in this age group of under 5 have died tragically during this pandemic. thousands have been hospitalized. it s really distressing for little kids to get sick, so that s what we re trying to do to prevent that ki ....
Pilot s union. here s what he said. we ve been very vocal about it for the last few months and picketing at delta bases and hubs throughout the system to send the message that our pilots are tired and frustrated. we re fatigued. and so we do know that the administration is taking a look at all of this. transportation secretary pete buttigieg in a private conversation telling the ceos essentially they need to review all the flight cancellations and try to soften the impact of all of these cancellations, because it is going to be a difficult summer for travelers who are going to be frustrated and who are going to have a lot of headaches dealing with those cancellations, delays and trying to figure out what to do when that happens. fred? oh, my, it s only mounting. thank you so much. i appreciate it from l.a. the white house says lowering costs is a cop priority. even as the fed raised interest rates last week, the sharpest ....
The company is scheduling more flights than they can fly. we ve been very vocal about it for the last few months. we ve been picketing at delta bases and hubs throughout the system to send that message that our pilots are tired and frustrated, we re fatigued. jail inmates are being commended to coming to the rescue of a deputy being attacked. video from the hillsborough county sheriff s office shows an inmate trying to choke the deputy with a pillow case. other come to help her. the deputy had minor injuries to her neck and throat. the sheriff s office says the attacker bridget harvey was charged with battery and admitted to planning the assault. officials say they discovered that she had a comb that she had sharpened on both ends with her teeth. i know we re all kind of trying to reset a little bit after everything that we all went through together with covid. i m wondering if you are having a hard time maybe believing in ....