It's Tuesday, November 9th. I'm Priyanka Erbindi.

And I'm Josie Duffy Rice and this is What A Day, where we are begging Snuffa Lepigus

to join his friend Big Bird and get vaccinated.

Yeah, everybody else on the streets done it. Snuffey, what's the hold up here?

I feel like Snuffey is maybe not five yet. He's been for two million years since the 70s.

On today's show, we do a midterm check-in on the Supreme Court, plus several countries

like the US are calling Nicaragua's latest presidential election and democratic.

But first, the US ended a year and a half long pandemic travel ban yesterday,

reopening borders to vaccinated travelers from 33 different countries. The ban included

people from the UK, much of Europe, China, Brazil, South Africa, and more, and it kept most

non-US citizens out of the country. I'm so excited about this. The pictures are amazing.

Yeah. Another sign that hopefully we're getting back to normal. So, what do people need to do now

to get into the US? So, visitors are now able to fly or drive into the US with proof of vaccination

from the list of eight vaccines that are approved by the World Health Organization, plus a recent

negative COVID test. But there are some exceptions for underage travelers and people from countries

with low vaccine availability. This resulted in, as you were saying, a really emotional day as

families around the world were finally able to reunite after being apart for nearly two years.

There was lots of reporting of tears and balloons and just happy reunions at airports around the

country. It's really heartwarming, highly recommend looking at pictures and checking it out.

Same. It's an easy way to make your day better seeing people reunited.

So, US land borders also reopen for non-essential travel yesterday, so leading to even more

reunions at the Mexican and Canadian borders just a good day all around.

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