Rush is in full swing Tom Costello reports from Virginia and the heavily traveled I 95 corridor A tough concern nationwide distracted impaired driving and speed Speeding surged 11% last year Virginia drivers recently taken it for doing one O 6 one 15 even 140 mph If you're flying today you'll want to make sure to check on the status of your flight ahead of time and several airlines are already scrapping flights and met a surging COVID cases and uncooperative weather Four people are injured after a shooting at a suburban Chicago shopping mall last minute at Christmas shoppers were locked down inside the oak brook center mall Thursday night is around a hundred police officers swarmed the area police say two people started shooting at each other in a quarter next to a department store one of the injured is thought to be a suspect and is now in custody Another woman is accusing actor Chris note of sexual assault New York singer Lisa gentile as the fourth woman to come out against the Sex and the City actor A Michael castner And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom U.S. markets are closed in observance of the Christmas holiday United Airlines holdings is canceling over 100 flights while Delta Air Lines has cut about 90 united said in an email on Thursday that a jump in omara COVID-19 cases is affecting the availability of flight crews and ground personnel Delta said its cancellations were due to a combination of reasons including but not limited to potential inclement weather in some places and the impact of For the 6th day in the last week New York State broke its record for new daily COVID-19 cases Governor Cathy hogel's office announced Thursday that the state reported 38,835 new cases in the last 24 hours The previous record set Wednesday was 28,942 Across the state 130 people per 100,000 in population tested positive for coronavirus according to state data In New York City 175 residents out of every 100,000 people tested positive Wednesday in upstate New York the southern tier had the highest figure at 98 cases per 100,000 people Already there have been 16 deaths on Rikers Island this year experts say a staffing shortage due to COVID-19 made already challenging conditions at the jail even worse Now the omikron variant of the virus is threatening to overtake the notorious jail New York one reports 21% of the population incarcerated at Rikers has tested positive for COVID-19 Less than half the population at Rikers is vaccinated Bitcoin rose to about $51,000 in touch to the highest level in more than two weeks helped out by wider positive sentiment in financial markets Ether the second largest token was near $4100 Global news.