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In spite of a number of challenges (inflation, supply chain issues, and the labor market), remodelers are optimistic about 2022.

Office. when it comes to travel, amtrak will relax policies for workers and service cuts. 500 amtrak employees have not yet complied with the vaccination requirement. company says more than 95% of its work force is vaccinated or has an exemption. and american airlines is moving forward as it plans to hire 18,000 people next year for travel rebound. american doesn't want to get caught in that terrible situation it had earlier this year where they had -- >> flat foot. >> all of these, you know, labor problems when they had some bad weather. they want to get out there, get hired so they're ready ...

Which gets passed on to the american consumer. >> another possible solution, rail. by opening a new express direct cargo train next week to salt lake city, officials here hope to cut by 300 the number of truck trips each day with one outbound train. >> the only way the boxes will get to the heartland and the midwest where the larger markets are are via train. so rail is critical for the supply chain and also for the economy. >> there's major worries on the front end. you have the traffic coming from asia. on the back end, not only do you have labor problems but right now it's taking three mont...

But this has a whole different cast now. halyna hutchins died on the set of that movie yesterday after a prop gun that shouldn't have been able to hurt anybody fired a projectile of some kind which shot and killed her while she was working onset. it is a set that reportedly had labor problems of its own, including a walk-off by some members as recently as yesterday morning before the incident happened. we are learning more tonight, that there was reportedly a series of issues with the prop guns onset that were cause for safety concerns among crew members before yesterday. still lots of unanswe...

It got to the point where ships began not coming to this port because there was such a backlog. since then they put in new ships, they've been jamming containers on outbound ships, and put in fast new cranes to move it all. you have to think about the variables, hallie. we live in a world in which algorithms at the major retailers try to predict what you and i are going to buy. covid blew all of that apart, you could not predict what people were going to do. then you have covid backups, you have labor problems. then we get to this place now where you can't get things off the ship in time. as m...