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Express Air Coach will roll out another new bus service from Northwest Indiana to O'Hare International Airport, its second in a few months.

First mixed messages on mask mandates coming from the white house as the justice department said it will appeal monday's court ruling lifting the federal mask mandate on public transportation only if the cdc says masks are still necessary for public safety. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. widespread confusion over this understandably so. airlines quickly ditched the mask unless there is required at the destination. and some cities and states will continue to enforce local mandates on public transportation. you got that? me...

>> while the tsa is not enforcing the federal mandate for enough to some plan on keep masking in place. new york's port authority which oversees jfk and laguardia airport says masking is still required and that it, quote, will continue to follow the guidance of the new york and new jersey health authorities with respect to mask mandates public transportation facility. another major airport, chicago's o'hare will also require people wear masks inside even as atlanta, orlando and seattle say face coverings are optional. >> tonight both uber and lyft the ride sharing services say they are not goi...

Airlines saying they weren't requiring masks anymore. within a few hours all the other major airlines followed suit. as you just saw earlier there were a lot of people on board flights yesterday when they got the news. here is more of their reaction. >> congratulations. [applause] >> a mix of people here at o'hare and other airports wearing masks, not wearing masks. the bottom line is you now do have a choice. the folks i've talked to this morning who chose not to wear their masks were quite happy. listen. >> i'm happy about it. it's been a lot. i'm a tired of the mask. >> it feel freeing. >> ...

That's part of the nasty 1-2 punch that's created the travel nightmare. no matter where you look across the country. travelers could be caught in the trickle-down impact of the brutal winter weather that's been moving in over the last 48 hours. it's caused a lot of issues in chicago. hundreds of flights cancelled at o'hare. about 70 cancelled at midway. and we're really seeing this play out in realtime. airlines are having to move staff around. crew to crew, because we have an unknown number of call-ins due to the omicron variant. and right now here at dallas love, there have been about 50 can...