cnn aviation correspondent, pete muntean, is joining us now.d how it got to this. >> flight attendants are calling this one of the ugliest incidents yet. this happened saturday on a flight from philadelphia to miami. police say this passenger was fueled by alcohol, spilled a drink on himself. came back from the bathroom with his shirt off and then groped two flight attendants. a third flight attendant was assigned to watch this passenger and that is when this happened. >> hey! no, hey! >> this is where it gets really interesting, though. the flight attendants restrained this passenger to his seat using something called restraint tape. that's something that flight attendants have to deal with unruly passengers and other emergencies. frontier airlines said it was suspending this flight crew. they got a lot of pushback from airline unions. now it's changing its tune, saying it supports this flight crew and prosecution of this passenger. he is 22-year-old maxwell berry of ohio. miami-dade police have charged him with three counts of battery. there

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cnn's pete muntean joining me with more. we're talking southwest, american and delta.t's so interesting and a lot of factors at play. most airlines are saying they don't need to put a mandate in place because they insist many of their employees are already vaccinated. united airlines announced friday all its employees would need to get vaccinated by october or face getting fired. the ceos of southwest, delta and american airlines have all been on the record saying they're not putting mandates in place, not changing their policy after united did. delta air lines ceo was on television the other day and said about 75% of the existing workforce is vaccinated, and all new incoming employees are requiring to be vaccinated. he says a mandate just isn't necessary. >> we're going to continue to encourage it. i think there's additional steps and measures we can take to get the vaccine rates even higher. what we're seeing is every day those numbers continue to grow. i'm proud of our team. i think we have one of the highest vaccination rates in the country without a mandate. >> er

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pete muntean, cnn, pia airport. >>> good morning, welcome to "new day." i'm boris sanchez. >> i'm christi paul. we have learned that the u.s. just hit the daily highest case count in six months and there's good news on the numbers of people getting vaccinated. >>> plus, not backing down, new york andrew cuomo slamming the report that she sexually harassed seven. and the governor is addressing that report. >>> and with 1 million new jobs last month, what that tells us about the pace of economic recovery right now. >> and scorched earth. massive, devastating wildfires ripping through parts of the american west. we're on the fire lines, as officials work to try to contain them. "new day" starts right now. >>> buenos dias, it's saturday, august 7, thank you for waking up with us. great to see you, christi. >> you as well, boris. the u.s. with 107,000 new covid cases in a day. this is a rate we haven't seen for nearly six months since the country was in that dangerous winter surge that we went through. >> yeah. not only are infections rising, deaths are going

cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins me now. a flight last week and cops met the unruly passenger on the ground. >> it's a really big about-face because there was push back after frontier suspended these flight attendants. frontier airlines had this happen on a flight from philadelphia to miami. miami-dade police say a passenger on one of these flights essentially got drunk, took his shirt off, groped two flight attendants, and then a third flight attendant was assigned to watch him, and this happened. it gets really interesting and spicy here because, after all this happened, this passenger was duct taped to his seat. this tape -- it's called restraint tape. it's in the kit for flight attendants to deal with flight emergencies. frontier came out and said they were suspending this flight crew. now it says they support the flight crew. 22-year-old maxwell berry is charged with three counts of battery according to the miami-dade police department. we reached out to him for comment, although he's not reached back up to us. 3,715 un

pete muntean filed this report. >> reporter: canceled flights and hours long lines at airports across country after spirit airports axed more than 45% of it schedule today including more than two dozen here at baltimore weighing international airport alone. >> very angry. pissed. the worst airline that i ever saw. >> i just want to get to my destination and never have to deal with spirit airlines again. >> reporter: spirit says overlapping operational challenges began over the weekend at contribute boughting the problem to bad weather and staffing shortages. they acknowledged the breakdown of an i.t. system that controls crew scheduling about you now it says that they have rebooted its network and cancellation numbers will drop in the days to come. >> we had people being evicted from hotel rooms. >> reporter: with more than 400 new cancellations todays spirit has canceled more than 1600 flights since saturday. kevin robinson's flight to austin got canceled twice. have you ever had an airline experience this bad before? >> no, this is actually the first time in all of my years. >> repo

. >> pete muntean, thanks so much. and our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." see you tomorrow. >>> happening now, the u.s. closing in on 100,000 new covid cases a day. dr. anthony fauci warns the number could soon double despite vaccinations reaching the highest level in a month. >>> new evidence of the attempt to overthrow the election. an ex-justice department official planned to resign over former president trump's direct instructions to back his big lie. and a new report says a trump loyalist inside the justice department was pushing trump's false claims. >>> and growing calls for the new york governor governor cuomo to resign as the manhattan d.a. looks into potential sex crimes. at least four new prosecutors are investigating sexual harassment allegations against cuomo. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." ♪ >>> we begin our coverage this hour with breaking news just coming into the "the situation r

cnn's pete muntean joins me live. what could this mean for travelers going forward?nd it's a pretty big blow to governor ron desantis. it's so interesting here is that norwegian took this to court and won just in the nick of time. its first fully vaccinated cruise set sail just this weekend. it was a tool of last resort that it had to do this to fight for what's right for its guests. now passengers will have to show proof that they are fully vaccinated. thanks to this court decision, first it says that norwegian's brand trust would be severely harmed and could be destroyed, the court said, if there were an outbreak of covid-19 on any of its cruise ships. it also equates this to the first amendment saying that free speech protects someone who wants to volunteer their vaccination record to the cruise line. governor ron desantis is vowing an appeal. he says this is not protected by the first amendment. he actually calls this discriminatory. but this comes at a time when the travel industry is trying to figure out what's right. united airlines just mandated that all of i

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