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Uber and Lyft are no longer requiring US riders or drivers to wear a mask after a judge scrapped the mask mandate for public transportation.

Military base are being allowed to use ride sharing apps to travel freely unaccounted for. >> they're letting them leave. they can catch an uber and actually leave the base. they don't know exactly how many are even there. they can't account for someone if they don't return. griff: and in a bizarre development, nadal hasan the radical islamic terrorist who murdered 13 people at fort hood in 2009 wrote a letter from death row congratulating the taliban on their takeover. his attorney saying in a statement, quote: hasan is pleased to see that the biden administration is now seemingly willing to ...

America to the rescue there in texas? >> reporter: you know what they say, money talks. that type of action can have a big difference in legislation. now, this issue is somewhat controversial, somewhat emotional, and companies seem a little more hesitant to talk about this than, say, black lives matter even, or voting rights. but we have heard some companies speak out, yelp, for instance, match and bumble, those dating companies. both texas-based and women led. they have spoken out against this. uber and lyft, those ride sharing apps, american airlines, silicon laboratories, we're hearing a lo...

Million passengers through security lines. that is high since the pandemic began. over the weekend, not including yesterday, tsa cleared 7 million passengers. this weekend in many ways was a stress test on the travel industry and all of these other facets of the economy. look, we had some stumbles but no major disasters. the lines at security were long. they were long in airports across the country. tsa is going to hire more folks. they already hired more than 3,000 since the beginning of the year. they will hire another 3,000 before july 4th, 3,000 before labor day. hopefully that will allevi...

>> reporter: no, that's right. and look, last year, nobody wanted a rental car. the rental car agencies sold their fleets off to try to make some quick money. they now cannot replace those cars because of this semiconductor problem that we hear so much about. people are having to be very creative about how they get around the country once they land. take a listen to what brian kelly had to tell me on this. >> people are going to wild extremes due to the rental car shortage. we've heard reports of people renting u-hauls and moving trucks simply because they needed to get to where they want to g...