Delays and tension at British port of Dover 

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Thousands of truck drivers have been held up since Sunday at the southeastern English port of Dover. Now, after many realized that they would not make it back into Europe before Christmas, there have been scuffles with British police. France had put a travel ban in place because of the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom. Host Marco Werman has the latest.

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