this is the scene right now at reagan national airport. this pile has gone down significantly of lost bags since the start of the meltdown. but still seeing piles across the country, in oakland, el paso and passengers need to get refunded too, so the story is not over just yet, poppy. >> where's your refund, right, pete? >> reporter: where is my refund, that's right. i had a flight cancel between san francisco and san diego over my holiday break, i was off last week, i submitted it online, southwest southwest.com/traveldisruption. i took a rental car and put in a $300 expense for that. >> we missed you last week, great week to take off mr. transportation correspondent. >> very smart. >>> we both traveled over the last week or two. did you see the luggage just sitting there. >> the sea of orphaned luggage. >> it was unbelievable. hope enveryone gets it back and gets compensated. >>> congressman-elect george santos set to be sworn in to congress tomorrow despite the lies he made about his basically entire background and family. why there's s

there is still a big pile here at reagan national airport.and and el paso and that part of the story is not over yet. >> let's hope there are no christmas presents in there. a lot of money went to airlines during the pandemic. >> yeah. >> could any of this money been spent on a system that would have prevented this? >> reporter: i think that is a question that congress will really have to ask. southwest received about $7 billion in covid funds. airlines $52 billion in total. the biggest part of that money was to keep airline employees on the job it did do that. now the question is should have southwest spent that money on updatingitz outdated infrastructure in the back end to try to make it so this meltdown could have been avoided in the first place. >> pete muntean, good to have you on the case. thank you so much. >>> well the new year ushering in you some laws that were passed during the mid term elections. so let's see what some of them are. people with nearly half of all states will see a hike in minimum wage. washington state now has the

triumphant sports news with victorious emotions and the brightest impressions tonight at the national airportminsk was met by a special team. these guys returned from the unified games of the special olympics of the unique competition that took place in kazan. athletes took part in the tournament with mental disorders. it doesn't matter here. the age of the participants. so the youngest was only 9 years old, and the age of 52 was only 1,500 athletes, by the way, for the first time in the world at this tournament, they managed to combine both summer and winter sports, of course, there are a lot of impressions, and a warm welcome from the city of kazan itself, despite the fact that that it was frosty in kazan these days, down to -15 °, it was warm and cozy there, it was very pleasant to communicate. and we, the guys , with our fellow athletes, coaches in general, are members of the delegation who came to these competitions and this is communication. this and family support. this is development, this is exchange culture and exchange. uh, our children went on an excursion, saw a lot of impression

i'm lauren blanchard at ronald reagan national airport. i'll have the latest of what happened and if flights are back up d they will get a break tomorrow. more rain is on the way we can see the bay bridge toll plaza. nice and smooth going right now. but boy today we had a real backup on mornings on to it was easy. it was surprising. surprisingly meteorologist mark tamayo has in in ways of, you know, kind of planning these next couple of days and really the weekend. we are talking about some rain today. nothing too extreme. you know, i think we've been dealing with them with the extreme rainfall of some of these systems today, kind of a light to moderate deal across the region. it's interesting. now with all the cloud cover and the gloomy skies and the soggy conditions for today. we probably will have a little bit more sunshine to show you. that will be for tomorrow. but another system for today. rainfall expectations nothing major that 2.5 would be favoring the coastal hills of the north bay place like san jose could be under 2/10 of an in

hundreds of flights suddenly crowding the skies as the nation's airports tried desperately to get back to normal. now even hours later the log jam of jets means a lot of fliers are going to be late. >> sandra: the meltdown not even a month after the holiday chaos that left tens of thousands stranded and without luggage. what is the problem plaguing the nation's airways. even of this took billions in handout. peter doocy as we wait for that briefing to begin. it's going to be a newsy one, peter. >> it will be. so far what we have learned about the faa outage, they know what happened but don't know why it happened. and at the highest levels of government we are being told that they don't have any evidence right now this was because of a cyber attack. >> somewhere overnight there was an issue with irregularities in the messages going out, that reflected a bigger systems issue. and this morning as of about 7:00 there were still problems validating that the messages were going out. so for safety reasons, to make sure that every aircraft that took off was doing so safely, faa implemented a g

starting with the travel nightmare at our nation's airports.g outage forced the agency to halt fl

>> calm day at the nation's airports today, neil. 2023 could be potentially a repeat with delays and cancellations and now a new problem out at the airports. something called bumping. not in to one another but bumping you from your flight. that is to say you bought a ticket and you go to fly and they say it's overbooked. yeah, frontier airlines the biggest to bumping. 6,000 people were the top one. the latest on delays, jet blue, allegiant air. that's according to the scorecard. the airlines admit that they have a problem, but they say the government has a problem, too. the person at the faa, the big ground stop that took place, they say the faa is trying to do too much with too little. that's what the former spirit pilot told you a short time ago on the fox business network. listen. >> the faa in this case, even though they have sort of blamed contractors for deleting a file, that's not a reason to accept it happening. so i do think that the faa needs more resources. >> a bit of good news for you. who performed among the best? that w

this is going to throttle the nation's airports for the day. one delay, it is a cascading effect. we talk about that earlier. >> ainsley: look at this couple. thankfully they decided to fly down a day before the cruise leaves. hopefully they will get down there today. in these situations i bet you see rentacar soaring. people like them rent a car and just try to drive to florida. >> rental cars sold out during the holiday disaster with all the weather that happened across the country. it is likely -- that may happen again today. you mentioned -- i'm glad you brought that up. we are talking about the inbound aircraft that have to come in. airports can only get to handle some of the aircraft on the ground. there's only so much tarmac space or space at the gates. they've got to get those planes in and out. >> steve: somebody is in their way. >> folks, just back your patience today. try not to yell and scream at gate agents and crewmembers. it's not their fault. >> free drinks from the beverage cart. >> the fact that they knew about something last

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give all members of congress a briefing on what happened as soon as they know more at reagan national airport. lauren blanchard fox news, alright, taking a live look now at san francisco international airport, where travelers here in the bay area fared a little bit better than others, given how early that ground stop was ordered. it was lifted by the time that many of the early morning flights on the west coast were set to state college. still though the cancelations cascaded through the system and continue to cause problems. flight tracking website flight aware, estimates that at least 9200 flights have been delayed so far. with about 1300 canceled on the white house has said that there was no evidence that this outage was the result of a cyber attack, adding that the department of transportation is investigating and joining us now for more on the faa computer outlets as east bay congress, and mark tamayo sonia, senior member on the house committee on transportation and infrastructure, always like too nice to see you. what have you learned about what led up to today's issue with the system?

i just took a breeze by the departures and arrivals board here at reagan national airport we're seeing delays here and around the country. delays go up by the moment, 2,500 delays across the country right now. we've seen that go up by about 1,000 delays in the last hour, just before 7:00 a.m. it was only 400. this is a huge, widespread effect nationwide because there is now a nationwide ground stop in place from the federal aviation administration. that means that flights are not able to depart from the airports they are leave from. that is a huge impact and every airline is told to stop all domestic departures because of the system outages, called the notice to air missions system. used to be called the notice to airmen's system. notams is the acronym. that means that pilots cannot get the information they need to take off. this means wlohether or not runways are open or not, aids that pilots need to land are in place and working properly. this is having a ripple effect across the u.s. and the faa is working to fix this as quickly as possible. they said there's no evidence so far of a

this is the departures board here at reagan national airport and the arrivals.he delays building up. southwest has route rounded its corner after last week. southwest needs to focus on giving those refunds to passengers, and i want you to listen now to employees who say it's so crucial that southwest repairs that back end infrastructure that caused this meltdown in the first place, but also work on its reputation. listen. >> i think initially it's going to cause some damage, of course. a lot of upset people not getting to their christmas plans which is one of the most important days of the year. totally and completely understandable that they're going to be upset. i do encourage them though to give us another shot. i think we're going to end up fixing this going forward. you know, it does take a pretty -- a very large weather event to make this happen, and the union is definitely going to be pressing the company very hard on making sure things get fixed. >> reporter: this is how you get your money back from southwest airlines. you go to southwest.csouthwest sout

the latest from reagan national airport in d.c. >> reporter: epic air travel gridlock slowly unsnarling today with flights gradually resuming after a computer outage forced it to halt all domestic departures nationwide. the fbi has said there's no evidence of a cyber attack though pete buttigieg caution us -- >> we're not prepared to rule that out. >> reporter: the notice to air mission system that alerts pilots to critical things like runway closures failed this morning forcing a ground stop for about an hour and a half. >> i had to change my flight to tomorrow morning. >> reporter: the massive disruption raising questions about the state of technology at the faa, and it comes as congress is preparing to reauthorize faa legislation that sets the agency's course for the next few years. >> if we need to make some improvements, make some funding increases so it can improve the system. >> money has been thrown at the problem and the problem is getting worse. >> reporter: republicans are slamming the biden administration. secretary buttigieg vowing -- >> we're going to own it, we're going t

kris van cleave, cbs news, reagan national airport, virginia. >>> much of storm-ravaged northern california is again under flood alerts this morning as heavy rain and powerful winds continue to pummel the area. at least 18 people have died since the storms started late last month. more severe weather is forecast into the next week. near san luis obispo, the search resumed for a missing 5-year-old boy swept awayrom his mo's arms by floodwaters on monday. like so many other parts of the state, sacramento has been inundated as flooding talented homes. in southern california a break in the weather allowed people in santa barbara to clean up all the mud after days of torrential rain and flooding. >> a park, a neighborhood park that was completely flooded as the creek overflowed. so yeah, we're just trying to get it back into usable shape. >> over the past two weeks, most of california has received up to 600% of its normal rainfall. >>> the suspect in the murders of four university of idaho students is expected back in court today. a status hearing is being held for 28-year-old bryan kohberger. h

victorious emotions and the most vivid impressions, a special team was greeted at the minsk national airport that night. the guys returned from the unified games, special olympiads, unique competitions were held in kazan, athletes with mental disabilities took part in the tournament. the age of the participants was not important here. so most the young athlete was only nine years old the most experienced 52 only 1,500 people for the first time in the world, by the way, at this tournament they managed to combine both summer and winter sports, of course, there are a lot of impressions, and a warm welcome from the city of kazan, despite the fact that in kazan these days it was frost yes , minus 15 °, it was warm and cozy for us there, it was very pleasant to communicate. and for us guys with our fellow athletes, coaches, in general , members of the delegation who came at these times and communication is this and family support is vitya this is exchange for culture exchange. uh our children went on an excursion, saw a lot of impressions from them, that is, everything is important here, and, of c

starting with the travel nightmare at our nation's airports. the faa says air traffic is resuming slowly after a morning outage forced the agency to halt flights. thousands of flights were delayed for hours and airlines are scrambling to get things back on track but that could take awhile. >> i have school tomorrow, so i have to change my flight to tomorrow morning and i have classes in the morning. >> we've had a lot of airport issues this season. >> we have, yeah. >> over new year's we had issues as well. it hasn't been fun. just delays and a lot of canceled flights. >> it's just the latest disruption to travel after the difficult holiday season that affected millions of travelers. we're going to get an update from one of the nation's busiest airports. >>> plus, what we're learning about how the biden administration is responding. >>> also this morning, the new dangerous scenes unfolding out west as dangerous storms are walloping california. at least 17 people have died. millions of people remain under flood watches. hillsides and roads are g

the national airport recorded the temperatures 76.3 degrees fahrenheit with winds out of the southeast at 15 miles per hour at midday on november 3rd 1961. because an attorney carson glass hailed a taxi from his office to the district of columbia courthouse. he wouldn't need an overcoat it was overcast but glass would make it well back to his office before the light showers that were predicted arrived at 8 pm. barely months earlier carson glass had received a most unusual assignment from his boss, washington heavyweight lawyer clark clifford. he had no idea at the time that it would change the trajectory of his own career and actually become a turning point in the history of the white house. he had been instructed to figure out how to create an organization that would help the new first lady jacqueline. kennedy raised funds to restore the state rooms of the white house and also do it quickly which in washington is no easy feat to accomplish that goal glass assembled a small army of professionals who would spend the next eight months doing the legal and organizational work to create wha

cnn anchor and correspondent amara walker who is at atlanta's hartsfield-jackson airport, athena jones is at newark nationalathena, we often talk about atlanta as the world's busiest airport, what are you hearing from airlines and passengers there? >> reporter: well, it's been pretty muted here and i think that's because it's not such a busy travel day. i did talk to several passengers, most of them dealing with flight delays. i spoke with one woman who was flying southwest, she had a flight that was supposed to leave at 8:55 that got delayed until noon and she got on to another flight for 2:00 p.m. and that got delayed until 6:00 p.m. she said, forget it, i'm not going to wait around here hoping that the system glitch is fixed quickly. she decided to go home and wait it out. i also spoke with a young man who is supposed to be in new york today, his flight was supposed to be at 10:00 this morning and it got delayed which means that he will be missing a very important family gathering. listen to what he had to say. >> i was supposed to be like 11:00 or 12:00 when we landed and now it's 2:00 and we are missin

what's been happening, where you are on the east coast to work around here in the reagan national airport in d. c. it's coming slowly back to life like a normal morning on a week day however, you'll see the plains behind me. they have been grounded all morning. i still have not seen any takeoffs since this grounding was lifted, which happened about 20 minutes ago, a little bit ahead of schedule as the f a had the operations were slowly resuming and that now all of those ground stops on domestic departures in the u. s. have been listed and so on the screen now where i'm seeing all the departures that had been delayed. there still many delays of those scheduled flights that having been pushed back and but very few cancellations. and i'm a lot of relief on travelers faces as they walk by as they're checking the board. but is this the end of the problem? it's still may be too early to tell, given that all of this could create a domino effect. there were 21000 flight schedule to depart u. s. airports today. some nearly 4000000 travelers expected to be aboard. so there is potential that this se

another 100 or so have been cancelled here in this medium sized, a ronald reagan national airport outside of washington were seen about one in 3 flights having delayed some 53 flights have been cancelled thus far. which potentially could have been much worse given that just a couple hours ago, there was a complete round stop on all flights domestic within the united states. due to that apparent computer glitch that we've been learning about from the federal aviation administration. this was in a system that is critical or safety briefings the most up to date information on flight paths and runway conditions, et cetera that pilots look at right before they take off. and for some reason that is still being investigated. that system failed overnight at now. apparently it has been brought back online, but these repercussions were still see an old i just spoke with one gentleman who is hoping to get to his wife today, who he hadn't seen for 5 months. and he said he was fearful because he did not want to delight seeing her even one day more and so far it appears that he will still be able to ge

coming and i think that's going to be the big positive now series army says the maintenance national airport is out of service after an israeli attack to military personnel were killed in the air strikes on parts of southern damascus. israel had repeatedly bombed talk as to syria saying they're aimed at iranian back fighters. i, let's speak now to remy corey, who's supanik glen las jones is now from boston. ramey, thanks for joining us today. i say this is the 2nd attack on damascus airport inside 7 months. tell us more about what's behind anything. these attacks have been going on for years and syria, the israelis, or attack, sometimes syrian positions, sometimes iranian positions, as they call them and sometimes has his bottle of facility. so iran, isabel, and syria are very united front of that confronts israel. and israel constantly tries to make it difficult for them to coordinate their activities and arms and ammunition and things of, of that nature. these really is never announced the details of what they're doing. so most of what we hear, including this attack comes from people withi

he's at reagan national airport. pete, a computer outage that absolutely no one needed right now. what is happening? >> reporter: no doubt, kate. the cascading effect is only beginning. 6100 at last check a flightaware of delays. cancellations just hit 1,000. the ntams, those are the bulletins that pilots need, added-on information about key information, whether a runway is open, whether or not taxiways are open, whether or not the navigational aids in bad weather are functioning. the ground delay programs are still in effect. american is delaying flights out of charlotte. delta out of laguardia. some are waiving fees. southwest airlines getting hit by the lion's share of these delays. about one in every five of those delays are on southwest. we are just seeing the beginning of the end here. this is like planes and crews being out of position. the hallway is the airspace, it is crowded, hard to get people moving and out. now we will see, as crews are out of position and planes are out of position, which domino effect. this is so nearly unprecedented. the last time we have seen a n

the first flights taking off moments ago from reagan national airport here in d.c., this after the faaifted the earl why are ground stop. now restarting all u.s. takeoffs, but the logistical nightmare continues as airports across the country try to get their flights back on schedule. they're still mounting. it all started early morning after a key faa system went down, halting all u.s. flight departures. >> and that spreads around the world. in london, passengers said they were stuck on the tarmac for hours waiting to be taken off. president biden has been briefed, and they're work ing - >> and we'll respond at that time. >>> pete muntean is at reagan airport, and athena jones, and emeril walker there in atlanta. this is a vote good sign now that flights are taking off. >> a very good sign. things were at a standstill. that's when the faa alleviated this ground stop they had in place for a couple hours. they actually ended it early. the issue the notice -- the notem system, the bulletin board, what pilots need to real before they fly. it gives critical information about what they need

that's terminal two at reagan national airport. can you see the control tower there. it seems flights are taxiing, although i've not seen any takeoffs or landings yet. i've been not been able to look at flight aware. it's a huge hub for american airlines so american says it's delaying flights, presumably a lot of upset people there waiting to get on plans or they're on planes and the plane has not pushed back from the gate yet. >> going to newark perhaps, which is a united hub. >> just trying to land their plane. >> they said they knew about it since 3:00 so they can monitor them p the fewer flights in the air they have a better chance to monitor what's there. pete i want you to stand by because i want to bring in john miller. john, what happens now? >> right now a couple of things going on in parallel. at the faa their technical people are going behind the computer screens to see what went wrong here, how do we mitigate this, but two simult simultaneously, they just start, you have the department of homeland security, the critical infrastructure protection people, wh

what's going on at the nation's airports and what's the outlook for air carriers and travel stocks? that's next on the "claman countdown" with the points guy. and later, meme stock mania 2.0. what's behind the incredible trading revival in beaten down retail favorites. some of which are bumping up against bankruptcy. jamie the founder of the best wall street chat group that started the meme craze joins us live. back in a minute. glad you're hanging with the "claman countdown," don't go away. ♪ liz: we have this fox business alert and hope of finding two missing passengers on a plane that crashed in nepal is fading at this hour. the airline flight went down with 68 passengers and four crew members on board and the aircraft mysteriously took a nose dive into a river gorge. service connected and have rescue operations today -- service connected and have rescue did uncover the flight's -- search and rescue did uncover the black box that could help determine the cause of the crash. nepal calling it the worst aviation disaster in its history but according to the flight safety foundations

here at regan national airport, half of all flights today have been cancelled ordea delayed. the faa first knew this was a problem yesterday afternoon and tried to reboot the critical notam system this afternoon but that failed causing that nationwide ground stop. there is good news for passengers here, though, that happened after the holidays when air travel is relatively light and also, all the major airlines are issuing travel waivers meaning that you can change your flight completely free of charge something the airlines are not required to do because this is something that was out of their control, jake. >> pete muntean, thank you. let's bring in mary a former department of transportation inspector general. mary, as you look at this nationwide ground stop this morning, the first since 9/11, 2001, what was your reaction? >> my reaction is it's very unfortunate computer glitches and computer problems have come to this but i think probably more than that i was worried because the system is part of the system wide management information swaim, the nickname s.w.i.m. and contr

it's thursday and off to a calmer start at the nation's airports. >> but the fallout over the coast-to-coast chaos, it is far from over. it's january 12th and this is "today." ♪♪ >>> glitch in the system. an investigation underway into that massive faa failure that brought flights nationwide to a standstill for hours. more than 10,000 canceled or delayed. passengers and the airlines still scrambling to recover. >> we can't look at this as just some software glitch. this was a major problem. we can't have this again. >> this morning, a closer look at what created those problems and what's being done to make sure they do not happen again. >>> paper trail. a second batch of classified documents found at an office tied to president biden. calls from republicans growing louder to appoint a special counsel to investigate. we're live from the white house. >>> flooding fears. overnight, more rain in california putting millions on alert once again amid a desperate search for a 5-year-old boy swept out of his mother's arms. >> i tried to hold his hands, the current pulled him away from me. >> we'll ha

pete muntean is live at reagan national airport where he was yesterday. pete, it's kind of remarkable that they were essentially trying to reboot a system and it took longer than they thought and that's what happened to the pure chaos we saw yesterday morning. >> reporter: true. we're getting a clearer picture now into what went wrong behind the scenes. the faa now says it was a damaged database file that led to the meltdown of the mission to air systems, which gives critical alerts to pilots. the damaged file not only caused the main system to meltdown but also the backup system to meltdown according to sources. now multiple government sources tell us this is initially a problem known to the faa on tuesday afternoon but the faa tried to reset that system on wednesday morning when it thought it would have the least impact on air travel that ultimately failed causing the nationwide ground stop. multiple sources tell us that that file was not put in by any one particular person, they don't know that just yet, they also don't know if it was any one particula

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it's thursday and off to a calmer start at the nation's airports. >> but the fallout over the coast-to-coasts far from over. it's january 12th and this is "today." ♪♪ >>> glitch in the system. an investigation underway into that massive faa failure that brought flights nationwide to a standstill for hours. more than 10,000 canceled or delayed. passengers and the airlines still scrambling to recover. >> we can't look at this as just some software glitch. this was a major problem. we can't have this again. >> this morning, a closer look at what created those problems and what's being done to make sure they do not happen again. >>> paper trail.

. >> sandra: a short answer from transportation secretary pete buttigieg on the chaos at our nation's airportsparting u.s. flight

cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean joins us live from reagan national airport. pete, we've all had corrupted files, shut your computer down for a little bit. are you telling me one single file set down this key system which had these carry-on effects for flights around the country? >> reporter: jim, we were the first to report it was a damaged database file at the center of this meltdown in the notams system, the notices to air mission systems that pilots need to get critical information before they take off. they most read the notams. it gives information about the airport they're going to, the airspace along the route. we're learning the damaged data base file caused the system to melt down on tuesday evening. the faa first realized it then. they tried to reboot not only the main system, but the backup on wednesday morning when they thought it would have the least impact on air travel. that ultimately failed, paralyzing airports around the country for about 90 minutes. a nationwide ground stop, we have not seen that since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. what's als

a wave of delays and cancellations rippled from coast-to-coast just as the nation's airports were starting day. the sun shut down left terminals filled with travelers with nowhere to go. the ground stop order was lifted just before nine :00 a.m. eastern time but the disruptions lingered for hours. pat and allison were trying to fly out of newark new jersey. >> i am really upset but what can i do? >> makes you kind of nervous is there something else maybe we are not being told right now. >> the problem started late tuesday when the faa's notice to air mission system with down. that antiquated computer system supplies information flight crews must have before being allowed to take off. this morning, transportation secretary pete buttigieg said initially there was no sign of a cyber attack. >> there has been no direct evidence or indication of that but we are not going to roll that out until we have a better understanding of what is taking place. >> several hours later he vowed to get to the bottom of what happened. >> my top priority right now another system is working again as of 9:00 this

pete muntean is live at reagan national airport.is single corrupted file, do we have any information pete about how that happened? i mean, also the fact that that one file managed to bring down the whole network. >> it is incredible, erica. and it sorts speaks to the fact that what critics say is a need to update the faa system and to better fund the agency, the cause that one damaged data base file, according to the faa and the notam system, that provides critical data and information that pilots need before they take off. they must read it. the faa, according to multiple government sources, knew this was a problem on tuesday evening. they tried to reboot the back-up system and the main system. those were both infected. on wednesday morning, when they thought it would have the least impact on airline travel and that failed and that led to a nationwide ground stop. airports paralyzed across country for 90 whole minutes. we have not seen a nationwide ground stop since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. want you to listen now to transportati

dismissed people and they realized they didn't have the votes people were recalled from reagan national airporthey held the votes open we've had all kinds of chaos, people have been chased down in hallways. you could be in a very similar situation tonight because people thought that's it, we're done, i'll be back on monday. but, you know, which members might have disparitied that have commitments where they cannot be here? that's where this gets kind of squirrely. >> you've seen by the way, gentlemen, let me jump in because i saw the red board up there, 230 nay votes. it appears we are going forward. my question to you chad, you talked earlier about changing vote. do we have to go lou the entire voting process again? in other words, do we move on to the 15th ballot. >> yes. >> or is there a process where somebody can just change their vote right now, someone like matt gaetz could go up and say i would like to change my vote before we go through this again. >> trace each vote is asylum. so once cheryl announced that, that vote is closed done. you can't go back retroactively. remember there was t

away neil: all right, well, you know, you could have had hours to do just that at all of the nations airportsoday, watching airplanes, but not take off. they weren't going anywhere, for the better part of four hours actually, they were just sitting on the runway, because all systems were down. it was an faa computer issue. gets a little bit more involved and in the weeds but again, planes are flying again, but getting them flying after we had better than 7,000 delays and flight cancellations, just making up for that ground is going to prove tough. all of the major airports are dealing with it here. let's get the latest from grady trimble. he's in chicago at o'hare with how things are looking there. grady? reporter: hey, neil. it is getting better here. that's the good news, because planes have been taking off for several hours now. the bad news is that it is not back to normal here at o'hare or really at any airport in the country right now. the problem now is that ripple effect that we see any time there are flight disruptions, so while it's not the outage itself , it's the fact that crews a

it's not just here at reagan national airport, but also other places. >> we hope those bags get ato their owners soon. thank you so much. >>> it is the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." happy new year, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga. well, the father of one of the murdered college students in idaho is responding to the arrest of his daughter's accused killer. you will be hearing from steve goncalves in just a few moments, but the suspect, bryan kohberger is expected to waive extradition in pennsylvania, his home state. he was arrested there friday. kohberger, a graduate student in criminology attends washington state university in pullman which is a 15-minute drive from moscow, idaho. that's where on november 13th, police found the bloodied bodies of 20-year-old ethan chapin, xana kernodle, madison mogen, and kaylee goncalves. many students have been living in fear ever since. veronica miracle is in moscow, idaho. ve veronica so kohberger's two sisters and parents say they will attend his extradition hearing tomorrow. what are we learning about him? >> reporter: as you mentioned, he's a

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. >>> a new report from the tsa shows a record number of weapons were seized at the nation's airportse vast majority were loaded. caitlin huey-burns has more. >> reporter: the alarming number from the tsa. more than 6500 firearms found in passengers' carry-on luggage last year, an increase of nearly 10% from the year before. and 88% of those guns were loaded. back in may, the tsa administrator warned about this trend. >> we still have a pretty night issue with weapons being introduced into the screening process. >> reporter: four of the top five airports are in the south, with atlanta, dallas-fort worth, houston intercontinental, nashville and phoenix toppin the list. keith jeffries spent 20 years at the tsa. he says new scanners are making identification more efficiet. >> there are folks that own firearms, and then there are responsible firearm owners. but unfortunately, we're seeing more and more where folks are saying i forgot it was in my bag. >> reporter: now, to try and get these numbers down, tsa has increased the penalty for just under $15,000. you would also lose your tsa pre

an incredibly close call on the runway, raising questions about the safety at one of the nation's biggest airports. >>> a monument to a moment in civil rights history the reaction to the new martin luther king tribute in boston, just in time for martin luther king day >> they come out quick increases. oh, that's live! back the other way, sam hubbard. the cincinnati kid hubbard's got a convoy chased by andrews. at the 30, the 20, he will score! >> wild card weekend lives up to its name all the highlights as the nfl postseason kicks off "early today" starts right now what incredible run. i'm cori coffin. good morning >> good to be with you i'm frances rivera the white house facing increasing criticism after a third batch of documents were found in president biden's delaware home. three source tell nbc news the president is frustrated with the ongoing backlash and is irate with what he views as sloppiness by aides who packed up his items when he left the vice presidency for more on this, let's bring in chris pollone who joins us live from washington. chris, good morning. is it safe to say house repub

chaos at the nation's airports. nbc news learned that one or possibly two contract employees may have caused the computer shutdown that grounded thousands of flights early wednesday. >> the software shutdown led to a two hour halt on the tarmac and then 9,000 delays and 3,000 cancellations through the day. >> it is not clear if the software glitch was intentional or a bryan christopher kohberg appeared in court. he is charged with the murders of four under of idaho students. >> kohberger has said through the previous attorney that he believes he will be exonerated. >> damar hamlin is out of the hospital and home with his family after what doctors calling a remarkable recovery. >> the bills safety collapsed on the field suffering cardiac arrest. he was transferred from the hospital in cincinnati to buffalo facility on monday after healthy enough to watch and celebrate the victory against the patriots on sunday. >>> prince harry went on a publicity blitz as "spare" was released to the public. he said returning to the

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reagan national airport in washington looks also very quiet.tion captain john cox, veteran commercial pilot more than 14,000 hours in the air, over 10,000 in command of jet airliners. captain could, tell us from your point of view as a commercial pilot what you see and hear about this notam system and how critical it is to keeping a plane in the air and flying it safely? >> well, the system is how the faa let's you know of unusual or non-normal things around that airport or around ground stations that may be out of service for maintenance and so forth. so it's critical information that you have to have prior to departure, and it gives you things like runways being closed for maintenance. ground stations being out. construction cranes that may be in the proximity of a runway. things like that. so -- and it's a pretty extensive list that the crews get, just before departure. for this notam system to be out, i don't ever remember it fails before and i've been flying 53 years. >> whew. >> so this is really unusual, but i think the faa is doing all

. >>> a live look at reagan national airport at 18 past the hour.ing. >> that's good news. >> yeah, 24 hours after it was chaos in the skies or lack thereof. no planes in the skies. turning now to the major faa system outage that left hundreds of u.s. flights grounded yesterday. that is having ripple effects playing out still today. here to break down the latest from reagan international airport, news correspondent covering aviation, tom costello. >> reporter: things are moving, they are loading up with bags, things are moving on the ramp and the runway. a vast improvement over yesterday. we've got 527 flights delayed nationwide. 63 cancelled, like i said, nothing compared to yesterday when we the series of cascading delays and cancellations. we now know why. it was a damaged piece of in the data base, a critical software that the faa relies on every single day. so far, no hint of a cyber attack. >> at airports across the country this morning, all systems are a go. even though some passengers are still struggling with the domino effects of yet anoth

airport . and as after chinese national, he tested positive on arrival, went missing. after waiting to enter a quarantine facility and health officials and military officers say that keeping a close riled international travelers. south korean says around 25 percent short term visitors from china tested positive on arrival on tuesday. and kim has moved into an airport in south korea. slice connecting cities in china to here in china. international airport in south korea are at a fraction of what they used to be in pre pandemic times. and yet short term visitors who are able to walk through those doors would do so straight into a p c r testing booth. and from there, those who test positive would be moved to a hotel nearby for a week long florentine on their own expense. now health official say they found $73.00 positive cases on tuesday, accounting for about 25 percent of china arrivals on that day. not including locals who were test within 24 hours at a local clinic near them. now these positive cases are being analyzed for variant information. and despite these tighten