. >> all right, the power is back on at atlanta's hartsfield-jackson international airport, but thousandsf holiday travelers want to know why no one had any answers when the outage crippled the world's busiest airport. >> no, i'm not. >>> president trump with no plans to fire the russia special counsel, but the president's allies are ramping up efforts to discredit the special counsel. the latest issue -- transition team e-mails. >>> and senator john mccain will miss this week's final vote on tax reform. he's back in arizona. he's recovering from side effects of chemotherapy. all right, good morning, everyone. good monday morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> it's a very early start this monday. i'm dave briggs, monday, december 18th. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. >>> we start with atlanta airport, the power back on. limited operations are expected to resume this morning at atlanta's hartsfield-jackson airport following sunday's total blackout that left thousands of holiday travelers stranded. nightmarish experience for many people. dark terminals, evacuation with tem

." >>> the power is back, but the trouble's not over at hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport. the airport is working to get planes into the air and stranded to their destination. mr. trump says he's not going to fire mueller as two sides clash over e-mails. >>> and the wildfire battle rages on in southern california as thousands of firefighters go up against the so-called thomas fire around the clock. >> the minute the wind went up, we immediately went around with our hand crew and our dozers. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. i'm anne-marie green. >>> this morning power has been restored to the atlanta airport but trouble is not over. an electrical fire brought the busiest airport to a standstill mostly yesterday. most of the flights were grounded and thousands were stranded. flights have already been canceled today. roxana saberi is at the airport with the latest. goodroxana. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. the airport just announced a few hours ago that the lights are back on on all concourses and thousands of meals a

power outage crippled hartsfield jackson airport in atlanta for 11 hours. but thousands of travelers are still stranded. their flights were canceled, and passenger planes are not yet flying in or out of the airport. >> official says the power went down because of an underground electrical fire. the fire was not deliberate. still, the blackout prevented flights from coming or going. passengers were even stuck on the tarmac for hours. at one point 92 planes were just sitting there when people were finally allowed off the planes, they had to navigate through this, crowded dimly lit terminals. what is really surprising here is this is the busiest airport in the world. why didn't the backup power system work? atlanta's mayor addressed that very question. >> i certainly understand the frustration throughout the day. they said that the busiest passenger airport in the world should certainly have a redundant system. the straight answer to that question is that we absolutely do. but because of the intensity of the fire, the switch which with accesses the redundant s

atlanta's hartsfield jackson.n is thanking the u.s. with help in preventing isis inspired terrorist attacks in st. petersburg. mr. putin spoke by phone with u.s. president donald trump on sunday, and he thanked mr. trump for the cia's information on the planned attacks. >>> meanwhile, president trump says he is not considering firing special counsel robert mueller. he did say that his transition team was upset about mueller's recent request for thousands of their e-mails. mr. trump again said there was no collusion with russia. >>> john mccain's daughter says the republican senator is responding positively to cancer treatment. mccain is currently home in arizona recovering from chemotherapy for a brain tumor. >> he is expected to return to washington in january. so he will likely miss this week's vote on tax reform. but the republican bill probably can still pass without his vote. president trump says he spoke by phone with mccain's wife. >> i did speak to cindy mccain. and i wished her well. i wished john well. t

atlanta's hartsfield-jackson international airport, the busiest on earth, is in the dark right now. no power. the electricity suddenly went off about five hours ago. it has not come back on and there is still no sign that the power will be restored any time soon. that means since about 1:00 this afternoon eastern time, no planes have been taking off in atlanta. and people who were supposed to travel today from that airport. stay tuned. we have a live report from atlanta's airport in just a few moments. >>> it's a very busy night of news. first, president trump saying he has no intention of getting rid of special counsel robert mueller. listen. >> no, i'm not. >> so the president's insistence, however, comes as his own transition team launches new attacks against the special counsel. it accuses robert mueller of unlawfully obtaining thousands of transition e-mails. it claims the documents were private property even though they were on government servers and registered to gov.com addresses. this is significant they're putting this out defending the investigation. a spokesman says, quo

i want to show you a live look at hartsfield-jackson international airport where operations still have a long way to go to get back on track. in fact there's a crippling impact from the power outage there yesterday for nearly 11 hours that power was out. it disrupted about 1,200 flights and this morning it is affecting the rest of the country including here in the bay area. i want to take you to sfo. flights were impacted at sfo. a live look at the airport right now. and we know at least two flights were already canceled this morning. according to flightaway.com more than 400 flights out of hartsfield will be canceled today. power was restored just before midnight local time. experts say the ripple effect of the outage could last for an entire week which would really impact the holiday travel. a fire in the undergrund facility caused the fire and the backup system was also damaged. they say terror cannot be ruled out yet. back to you. >> jessica, thank you. 6:04 now. a regional director with the democratic party is under investigation for sexual assault. he submitted his resignation af

atlanta hartsfield-jackson airport. the busiest airport on the earth. that airport is without power. the power went off six hours ago. it has not been back on. no planes have taken off from atlanta. the airport is full of people planning to pass through atlanta today. obviously these images from a little bit earlier. we now know they have brought in construction lights to help keep people able to see because it's obviously gotten dark there. one of our producers from d.c., betsy klein, is among those stuck on a delta plane right now at atlanta's airport. betsy, what are you and other passengers now being told? >> reporter: hey, ana. we're stuck on the planes. there's no power. they're telling us that they're starting slowly to unload these places. there are five sets of those. so it's very slow and we're pretty far back in the line. it's going to be at least two hours. he also says he doesn't know what's going to happen to us once we're deplaned, where we'll go in the airport and what resources will be available to us. he said it will take a number of d

the long delays in atlanta at hartsfield-jackson airport. a little birdie tells me you got caught up in it yesterday. >> reporter: that little birdie would be absolutely correct. typically like an hour plane right between atlanta to d.c. turned into a 14-hour amtrak ride for me yesterday. >> oh, no. >> reporter: 14 hours. fortunately i had a blanket and window seat so i went to sleep. as i was getting ready to board the train, i called out in reporter fashion, who else is in the same boat that i am, who else was supposed to be on the tliet? at least two dozen people piped up and said, me, too, i was getting ready to fly to north carolina or virginia or to new york. one person said he typically be about 20, 25 other people with him. i have to say that train was e absolutely packed. amtrak is a good second resort if you can't get in the air. >> thank goodness for the train. >> yes. >> glad you made it. >> thank you, blayne. >> you should be well rested. >> more rest is needed, though. >> all right, blayne, take care. >> she started her career

eric: and we have breaking news out of the nation's busiest airport, operations at hartsfield-jacksonernational airport, well, as you can see, look at that. they're not going anywhere. the power outage has caused that airport to have a complete ground stop. in fact, inbound flights from other parts of the country and the world have been held at the points of origin until about 4 p.m. eastern that just passed about 11 minutes ago. passengers are sitting and waiting at the height of the christmas travel season. can you imagine being stuck sitting on the carpeted floor right now? they say even some of the wi-fi and cell service is out. we will bring you the very latest on that situation on this sunday afternoon in atlanta. >>> meanwhile, it's a griming milestone in the scott peterson case. we're ant to mark 15 years since the disappearance of his wife and unborn son. coming up, we'll take a look back at that tragedy that gripped the nation. >>> and republicans on the verge of overhauling the u.s. tax code, the first time in decades that would give the president his first mayor legislativ

authorities from hartsfield- jackson international airport in atlanta say that an underground electrical fire shutdown operations. there were no lights in the terminals including the baggage areas and waiting areas. there is no power on the runways either. the flights were canceled or diverted. travelers were left to fend for themselves and they were helping people who could not help themselves.>> what has been shocking is that we haven't seen any emergency management like police officers or firefighters to help with traffic control. we were literally carrying old people down the escalator and up the escalator and carrying wheelchairs. my heart was racing because i was scared for these people and we are just like random people trying to evacuate one of the largest airports or most populated airport in the world. >> because the atlanta airport is so big problems can affect the entire air travel system. under the planes and flight crews are out of place especially on the east coast. it could take days before airlines get everything back to normal. this is one of the busiest travel weeks of

. >> abc news reporter danya backes has the latest from atlanta's hartsfield-jackson international. >er: atlanta's airport in near darkness after the power was knocked out. >> they went out, then they went back on, then they went back out again. >> on the campus today, one of georgia power's three substations had a fire. there are two substations that power hartsfield-jackson airport. >> reporter: thousands of passengers stranded. >> it's frustrating, but then again, everything happens for a reason. so -- i don't know, we're just trying to make the best of it. >> atlanta airport, no power, no lights. >> reporter: passengers forced to use flashlights and in some parts of the airport the only sights and sounds the emergency announcements. >> right now we're just focusing on the comfort of our passengers, because we know that they have had a very, very long and difficult day. >> reporter: up to 100 planes stuck on the tarmac, hundreds more canceled or delayed. >> i think for airlines that are headquartered in atlanta like delta, it's going to have a cascaded effect, it's going to take a

out of hartsfield-jackson, as many as 100 planes were left sitting on the tarmac.y sunday night with the delays and cancellations, they were already starting to impact other u.s. airports. airlines are now bracing for a ripple effect that could continue into one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. laura podesta, cbs news, new york. >>> here is a live look at sfo at this point. no major delays are being reported. but southwest said they canceled some of its flights from sfo to atlanta tonight. >>> next, the nfl owner now selling his team after sexual misconduct allegations. why steph curry was one of the first to respond. country scrambler plate, with jimmy dean sausage, homestyle potatoes and scrambled eggs mixed with bacon, ham and cheese. part of my brunchfast menu. how's it going down there? that's good. lica misses you. i'm over it though. (laughter) that's fine. i miss her more than you anyway. ♪ ♪ hey, my window is closing. yeah that's okay. alright miles. i love you. (phone hangs up) ♪ ♪ yeah i love you too. ♪ ♪ i'm worried. i have this medical bill...o

10 breaking news this morning -- breaking news this morning -- power is back on at atlanta's hartsfield-jackson international airport after a nearly 11-hour blackout. that outage left thousands of passengers stranded in dark terminals and in planes sitting on the tarmac at the world's busiest airport. kendis gibson has the latest. happening today -- problem for fliers. contracted workers at dulles could announce they're going on strike. they want their employer, huntleigh usa coporation, to allow them to join a union. those employees say they'll announce whether they're striking today -- at 2 p-m. also today -- we're people killed when a plane on its way to frederick went down in indiana. those three people - along with a dog on board - died after the plane crashed saturday night. a second dog survived. the f-a-a is investigating. we'll keep you posted. congress is heading toward a vote this week on the g-o-p tax reform plan. as arlette saenz reports -- republicans believe they have the votes they need for a massive overhaul. the president weighing in on accusations that the special counsel at

. >> powder outage meantime shuts down hartsfield jackson airport leaving thousands of travelers standedphia to atlanta are cancelled or delayed it could continue to affect air travel across the u.s. this holiday weekend. con spond enter laura pedes ta has more. >> it all but shut down the airport in atlanta. >> light flickereded once it was squarey and then they flickered again and deposit come back. >> outage began 1:00 in the the afternoon and led to all flights be cancelled at the country's buzzest airport. thousands of standed travelers were forced to wait in planes or darkened term names. many said they had no idea what was happening. >> at first gosh what's going on could be weather and i notice today flickered and went off i was like negotiation could be worse thanficials say the outage was caused by underground fire as workers scrambled to fix the problem federal aviation administration issued a ground stop meaning no flight could depart for atlanta. at hartsfield jackson adds many as 100 planes were left sitting on the tarmac. >> apologize for the inconvenience. >> delays and c

after nearly after a day atlanta's hartsfield-jackson airport is up and running. this has been a fox news alert. now back to "the next revolution" already in progress. r would be the absolute worst thing he could do because the narrative is unraveling right now. you've got. >> you've got the collusion narrative. >> it's falling apart on its own. for trump to turn around and fire him, that gives ammunition to the left and the media and to people who do not like him to say see he is worried about something and trying to push them out of the way so he doesn't have to deal with them. i think he should just let this go, let all of the facts come out because right now it's not good for him, but i would say that president does need to be careful in his tweets and what he says about this, don't step in anything that you could avoid by being hot on the tweet trigger. >> so the narrative about collusion, i completely agree. i was that it was a joke and it's completely unraveling. they have shifted onto this obstruction of justice or some other procedural missteps that the p

. >> reporter: a massive power outage bringing atlanta's hartsfield jackson international airport to a standstill. some passengers stuck on the tarmac for up to nine hours. >> all the airlines that are like canceled, they're saying we have to leave the airport basically. there are people who have nowhere to go, so what do you want us to do. >> reporter: even the former transportation secretary grounded. anthony foxx tweeting, there is no excuse. this is insane. shuttles and bus services transporting some passengers to the georgia international convention center. hours-long blackout caused by a fire in an underground electrical facility. the backup system also knocked out. >> because of the intensity of the fire, the switch which accesses the redundant system was damaged which caused damage to two systems rather than one. >> reporter: even with the power restored this morning, the outage has set off a massive ripple reflect delaying 2,000 flights at the beginning of the holiday season. a perfect storm with a record 51 million passengers flying over the holiday period. that's a 3% incr

they are vulnerable. >> hartsfield-jackson officials say the airport is operating at 95% capacity.eorgia power can continues to investigate. officials bludgeoning to focus on reliability and making sure this never happens again. simon jonathan serrie, thank you. speaking of line, the pentagon has been keeping track of, or trying to come out of the type of aircraft they don't take off and land from conventional airports. we are talking about unidentified flying objects. , ufos. you can laugh if you want but a lot of people are taking this revelation very seriously. garrett tenney is here with more on this program. >> good evening. we may not know if aliens exist but it turns out our government had a special team of ufo hunters that was trying to find out. the pentagon now confirms the existence of a secret ufo program tax with investigating reports of on a on his edified flying objects. the advanced aviation threat identification program was created in 2007 at the urging of harry reid. over the next five years, the program receive more than $20 million for its work which included an

. >> officials are still hartsfield-jackson with the major disruption at the key hub. kris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. many of those 30,000 travelers are going to be trying to get out of here today. let me show you what the airport looks like as we take a view here. this really came at an awful time. the airlines look at sunday as the start of the christmas travel rush. this is an airport that's busy on a good day. 275,000 passengers on average, 2,500 planes coming and going. so today really becomes about recovery. tears of joy late sunday night at hartsfield-jackson when the lights finally came back on. >> it was great when the lights came back on. that was exciting. >> backout in atlanta. >> reporter: but for much of the day, this is what the inside of the nation's busiest airport looked like. thousands of passengers stranded inside as the airport ground to a standstill. >> we were old people down the escalators and up escalators and carrying wheelchairs and my heart was racing because i'm scared for these people's lives. >> we had to walk down the esca

hour cut forced the cancellation of more than a thousand flights the outage had to atlanta's hartsfield jackson early on sunday afternoon leaving thousands of passengers stranded on a fire in the underground electrical facility is suspected as the cause around two thousand five hundred flights and two hundred seventy five thousand passengers use the airport each day flights connect around seventy international destinations meaning the power has had impacts across the world. so africa's ruling party the african national congress has begun voting for a new leader to replace the president jacob zuma the two front runners current president served in the post and soon was ex-wife and causes. have been formally nominated as candidates in the vote whoever wins could become the country's next president after elections in twenty nineteen but the battle for power has exposed deep divisions within a party that's lost public support in recent times hundred pages more from john as . all of the nominations for the top six positions in the african national congress have now been confirmed and as expected it i

hour blackout ports the cancellation of more than a thousand flights the outage hit atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport early on sunday afternoon stranding thousands of passengers it's believed it was caused by fire which jam mentioned underground electrical facility that airport handles about twenty five hundred flights and two hundred seventy five thousand passengers a day. strong winds are feeling a wildfire in the u.s. state of california at the so-called thomas fire is now the third largest in the state's history it's burned through an area roughly the size of new york city and destroyed thousands of buildings by fighters say forty percent of it has been contained. earlier this week i referred to this fire is a beast and it's a monster. we all recognize that but we will kill it the team behind me the men and women on the field i have no doubt they will take care of business and we will put this fire out. more than to point five billion people worldwide don't have a bank account i mean they have no access to services like loans and insurance a small start up and senegal is hoping to change

world's busiest airport leaving thousands of passengers stranded at the outset struck atlanta's hartsfield jacksonirport has been severe disruption to flights what caused the power failure is now on the investigation joining us live correspond diana estabrook dan we know really and we're not really very much closer to knowing what actually happened here but whatever it was was big it was pretty catastrophic. yeah and actually peter we've gotten some late word from georgia power they hope to have power restored to georgia hartsfield airport by midnight eastern time tonight so in a little less than five hours they think that this outage which was caused by a fire at an underground facility but they still don't know how that fire was started now this whole debacle started about six hours ago and it forced the federal aviation administration to call for a ground stop so flights that were already on the ground in atlanta waiting to depart had to be grounded and then flights that were headed to atlanta from other u.s. cities had to be grounded in addition to that there were some flights that were in bou

at this hour -- the hartsfield-jackson airport is still catching up on getting all those stranded passengers onto planes. but it will take a few days to get service back to normal. the cause of the power outage?? a operations. the ceo of the power company says there will be an investigation to make sure an incident like this does not happen again. what should you do - if this happens to you? seven on your side talked to the experts to find out what rights you have. and the bad news is - not many. according to "travelers united passenger advocacy group" - in this case, the airline wasn't at fault, and you're on your own. you may have options if you buy travel insurance - but you need to read the fine print. a washington redskins player threatening to sue police in loudoun county -- claiming he was racially profiled and roughed up during a recent traffic stop. abc seven has confirmed safety, su'a cravens, was pulled over on november 29th in ashburn. the official report states cravens was cited for going 39 in a 25 mile per hour school zone... and also for having illegal tint on his windows. bu

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lights flicker back on at atlanta's hartsfield jackson international airport much to the delight of exhausted travelers i started what. yeah yeah you know i'm just excited to be. going now we can power up our cell phones it is just wonderful look around the airplanes happy again. but not everyone is happy while the power has been restored the travel chaos continues i literally spent a whole seven hours on an airplane without food or water and then they finally let us off they finally let us off too and then i walk into a dark room where everyone sleeping on the floor and i still haven't got my confirmation i was on the phone with delta for about two hours still nothing the southern u.s. airport is one of the world's busiest more than one thousand flights were grounded after it plunged into darkness over eleven hours on sunday just days before the start of the christmas travel rush passengers say airport staff appeared quick to deal with the power outage and that there was little help from first responders they have these elderly people with handicapped people lined up the little cheers like t

blackout forced the cancellation of more than a thousand flights this outage hit atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport early on sunday afternoon stranding thousands of passengers it's believed it was caused by a fire which damaged an underground electrical facility that airport handles about twenty five hundred flights and two hundred seventy five thousand passengers every day and flies to nearly seventy international destinations. the world's steepest cable railway has opened in switzerland it took fourteen years to build and it's being hailed as a triumph of european technology a futuristic looking trains i'm seven hundred forty three meters up the mountain and central switzerland to the alpine village of stars say. the bell shaped carriages had been a tilting floors and so passengers can stay upright even as they speed up and turn gradients in nearly fifty degrees. these are the headlines on al-jazeera air attack is underway at a military training center in afghanistan's capital kabul gunmen stormed a partially constructed building near an intelligence training center in the west of the cit

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world's busiest airport has left thousands of passengers stranded the outage struck atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport and has been severe disruption to flights what caused the power failure is still under investigation don estimate reports from washington d.c. . well georgia power still hasn't figured out exactly what caused this power outage at the moment it says it was caused by a fire in an underground facility but it doesn't know how that fire started now the utility also says it has redundancies in place so something like this shouldn't have happened so it will be interesting to find out what could have caused something so catastrophic at the moment the georgia power has restored power to its international terminal it hopes to have power restored to the rest of the airport by midnight the f.a.a. here in the united states was required to call a ground stop which meant that all of the flights that were in atlanta ready to depart had to stay grounded and then those flights that were in other u.s. cities headed to land had to stay grounded as well a number of flights international flights th

passengers stranded at atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport finally have something to cheer about but sunday's chaos is likely to be an unwanted guest during the current holiday travel season the reason in almost have to blackout at the world's busiest airport the sudden power outage caused by a fire at an underground electrical facility forced over a thousand flights to be canceled or grounded and many travelers say they were left to fend for themselves. they have these elderly people when handicapped people wind up there will cheers like twenty that could not do nothing because it could get down the escalator and it is sad the people are helpless they can't get out they can't get downstairs. i mean it was this is a nightmare. after around ten hours of work local power authorities managed to get the lights back on but for many travelers the chaos continues. i literally spent a whole seven hours on an airplane without food or water and then they finally let us off they finally let us off too and then i walk into a dark room where everyone sleeping on the floor and i still haven't got

stranded travelers and delayed flights at the world's busiest airport officials at atlanta's hartsfield jackson international airport say air traffic control is working normally but passenger terminals do not have electricity it wasn't immediately clear what had caused the outage. conservative former president sebastian pinera has won chile's presidential election with almost all the votes counted bonaire has already won nearly fifty five percent of the vote clearly ahead of the center left's a one hundred who has conceded defeat billionaire already served as president between twenty ten and twenty fourteen this time around he is pledging to increase economic growth and no a corporate taxes his win will see chiller join a tide of latin american countries that have turned to the right in recent years and the correspondent of homs is following that election for us and she now joins us from santiago so often hear what will pinero as when mean for chile. well first this one consolidates the neo liberal tendency that we have been seeing in the region since two thousand and fifteen with winning in ar

stranded travelers and delayed flights at the world's busiest airport officials at atlanta's hartsfield jackson international airport say air traffic control is working normally but passengers term passenger terminals do not have electricity it wasn't immediately clear what had caused the outage voting has closed in chile is closed for to presidential election and initial exit polls suggest conservative former president sebastian pinera will win his project to take around fifty four percent of the vote billionaire piniella hussein here is up against a one hundred year a center left former journalist now if voters had been near a victory chile would join a tide of latin american countries that have turned to the right in recent years official results are expected in a few hours. correspondent ophelia holmes is following that election for us and she joins us on the line now from santiago ophelia thanks for joining us how close are the results looking at this point. hello well so far twenty seven to twenty eight percent of the votes have been counted and seen your eyes winning from fifty four perc

(pam) that was rebekka schramm reporting from the hartsfield-jackson airport.the fire isn't yet known, but there's no indication that it was deliberate. (steve) now to our four zone forecast. you're looking live at the golden gate bridge.(pam) kron-4's chief meteorologist brittney shipp joins us with a look ahead .a weak, fast moving storm system will bring widespread light rainfall to the region late tuesday into wednesday morning. breezy southwesterly winds will develop ahead of the system tuesday afternoon before switching out of the northwest in wake of the frontal passage. dry weather conditions then return region- wide late in the week and will likely persist into early next week with seasonably mild daytime temperatures and cool overnight conditions. still ahead at 8.. you may notice some changes at malls this holiday season.. still ahead at 8.. you may notice some changes at malls this holiday season.. what they're trying to do to lure in shoppers. and next. calling an uber instead of an ambulance... what a new study says.... could be behind the growing

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according to its website, hartsfield-jackson handles, on average, 275- thousand passengers a day... ...passengers that, for hours, weren't going anywhere on sunday -- which will likely impact air travel across the country for days.i'm andrew spencer, reporting (jr stone) coming up.... it was a day of remembrance for mayor ed lee... we will take a look back at his time as mayor.(justine) plus... the pentagon is spending tens of millions of dollars researching something "out of this world." we'll explain after the break (jr stone) new tonight at a eight... three astronauts representing the u-s, russia and japan are on their way to the international space station. the new crew launched from the space complex in kazakhstan today. the trip is expected to take about two days. they are scheduled to dock at the space station early tuesday. the crew will join others already at the i-s-s. they will spend more than four months in space, conducting more than two hundred science investigations. (justine) the pentagon spent tens of millions of dollars researching the possible existence of u-f-o's.

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you can literally hear the cheers the moments the lights came back on at atlanta's hartsfield jackson airport. >> the power outage came at the start of the busy travel season. passengers were stuck in the dark for 11 hours. one person described it as pandemonium. >> you can hear it there. people literally had to yell to find each other because they couldn't see. georgia power says a fire in an underground electrical facility may have caused the outage. over the next few days, it's likely to impact your holiday travel plans no matter where you're flying. >> justin finch is live with the number of delays we're seeing this morning. hey, justin? >> reporter: hey there, good morning. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: very slow moving line. i can tell you as well this morning, i have been watching the board as well. we have flights in from atlanta due to arrive. the first at 9:00 a.m. and a couple others at 10:00 a.m. in terms of flights departing from atlanta here, we're seeing one flight so far at 7:00 a.m. [ inaudible ] a lot of people found out their flights were going to be canceled yesterday

. >>> we are tracking the crippling impact that power outage at hartsfield-jackson international airport is having on the rest of the country including here in the bay area. for nearly 11 hours the power was out and that did include about a half dozen here at sfo. we checked flight aware.com. i want to show you why this is having such a big impact. here is what it looked like when the lights went out in atlanta. power was restored just before midnight local time. the ripple effect could last to a week. a fire in the airport's underground facility is what caused the fire and the backup system there was also damaged. the city's mayor says terror cannot be ruled out. >>> 5:04 now. a regional director with the california democratic party is under investigation for sexual assault. he submitted his resignaton after a 23-year-old woman reported he sexually assaulted her last year. that's according to the "l.a. times." this is the twitter page. the alleged incident took place in a public area at the airport/hotel during a convention in which women were discussing sexual harassment prevention in

haer hartsfield jackson international in atlanta. the cause of the outage its not known.left thousand sitting in the dark on a busy sunday for holiday travel. trump transition team is crying foul over the way special council, robert mueller's russia investigation obtained its e-mails. errol barnett has the more on this from the white house. >> there is absolutely no collusion. i didn't make a phone call to rush yeah. i had nothing to do with russia. >> president trump continues to dekni deny any wrongdoing during last year's election. claiming robert mueller is breaking the law. mueller's team gained access to e-mails from mr. trump'svided be team itself but general service t s administration. the transition team lawyer sent the seven page letter to two congressional oversight committees describing action as unlawful adding special council's office extensively use theed materials in question. the special counsel spokesperson said when we have obtained e-mails in the course of on ongoing criminal investigation we, have secured either the account owner's consent or appropri

problems with flights are expected to continue all day >>> right now power is restored at hartsfield-jackson international airport. problems with flights are expected to continue all day today. >> we left san diego at 4:00 a.m. we sat on the tarmac for six hours. i had my 5-month-old with me. >> a lot of people stranded for hours. fire in an underground electrical facility knocked the power out. they believe it was sparked by a switch gear that failed, grounding more than a thousand flights in atlanta. delays now reported at sfo. this is a live look at the airport. at least four flights from san francisco to atlanta have been canceled today. there are combinations of delta, frontier and united flights. a wick note, for holiday travel the airport -- a quick note for holiday travel, the airport tells me there are 78,000 passengers expected to fly out today. >>> could there be another washington shake-up? the president weighs in on whether he is about to fire special council robert mueller. >> reporter: and how a change in marijuana laws is getting a second chance to hundreds of thousands of pe

this morning, we've seen delays and cancellations at hartsfield-jackson airport.ill recovering after the power outage created a travel nightmare on sunday. may have caused the issue. a wire was frayed in the tunnel. officials believe a rat may have gnawed on the wire and sparked the fire. the switch caught fire and burned out critical lines knocking out the main power system an the backup power syst system. >>> a showdown in congress brings new threats of a government shutdown. lawmakers must pass a budget bill to keep the government operating past friday. republicans need democratic votes to pass a budget in the senate. but right now, the two sides disagree on spending levels, protecting some undocumented immigrants from deportation and funding for a health insurance program for low income children. >>> 6:46 now. changes are coming to prince george's county schools. that's after a grade fixing scandal shook up the district. >>> meagan fitzgerald is live in upper marlboro with a look at what the dikt ceo has planned. meagan? >> reporter: good morning aaron dr. kev

atlanta hartsfield-jackson international airport excellently shut down. planes were on the runway ready to take off and couldn't go anywhere. our among those stranded last night. larry: this is now hour number eight. take a look at this. i'm hearing stories of some people being sitting on the tarmac on their airplanes after arriving at hartsfield-jackson for five hours. >> christmas is next week. i need to shop. i need to do all this. i need to go home. period. jonathan: larry missed the morning show. he will be back for the "abc7 news at 5:00". power by the way at airport is back on. but think of it like a terrible snowstorm that shut down an airport. a very vital and busy airport. there is always a domino effect. alison: well look forward to hearing larry's stories shortly. hundreds fly through atlanta every day. what happens if you are stranded like the passengers yesterday? you should know what rights you have. transportation reporter sam sweeney is on your side with that sam: in this situation you don't have many options. we caught up today with the

. >>> developing this morning, the power is restored to the hartsfield jackson airport in atlanta. abc kendis gibson has the latest. overnight travelers trapped at the busiest airport. a power outage brought the jackson hartsville airport to a standstill. >> they say we have to leave the airport. there are people who have nowhere to go. >> reporter: even the former transportation secretary, grounded. anthony fox tweeted there is no execute this is insane. >> shuttle buses transporting passengers to the convention center, the hours long blackout caused by by an underground fire. >> the switch was danltd which caused damage -- damaged which caused damage to two systems rather than one. >> reporter: the outage set off a massive ripple effect across the country delaying 2,000 flights at the start of the holiday season. a perfect storm with 50 million passengers flying over the holiday period. >> the problem is atlanta is the big hub for the southeast, and you can't go there. >> i was going to try to get to birmingham, i was going to try to get to wherever, nearby, not. >> it could take

kerry sanders is at hartsfield-jackson international for us this morning. hi, kerry. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the problems here just won't quit. the power is back on. the airport is open. but everybody who's had a flight canceled yesterday now needs to get a new boarding pass. that's woo these folks are doing. just get your phone out and get an electronic boarding pass. the electronic boarding pass at delta is offline. everybody is waiting here to get a paper boarding pass to go wait in another line, tsa security. [ cheers ] this morning, the lights are finally back on at the busiest airport in the world. >> look around. everything is happy again. >> reporter: but the fallout from the epic power outage here at hartsfield is being felt. more than 300 flights already canceled. on top of 1,100 flights canceled on sunday. a passenger tweeting, literal pandemonium when the airport went dark. this video showing an airport employee sliding down a stalled and overcrowded escalator to help travelers in need. >> this created a big mess. a big mess. >> reporter:

this is atlanta hartsfield-jackson international airport.national terminals about four and a half ago. that means in that time no planes have taken off, no one can check in, people who landed are sitting on the tarmac, baggage, all stopped. this is an airport where 255,000 people come and go every day. this is a live image. you see those planes just sitting. joining us right now from the airport is katy hartung. katy, is the power still out? it's about to be nightfall there. >> reporter: an a, the power is still out and there is no sign of it coming back on. we just spoke with a member of the atlanta fire department and they did not evacuate yet but they are trying to shut this place down. no flights will be leaving from the atlanta airport tonight. the question is, where do all these people go especially as it gets darker with nightfall inside that airport? the official assured us everyone inside was safe, there hasn't been any injury to anyone throughout the course of the power outage. but we heard different versions of stories from passen