$253 million. that's one half of 1%. one half of 1% of the sequester. >> hopefully any delays you experience now can just be blamed on the usual misery of flying. nancy cook is an economic and fiscal policy correspondent for the national journal and josh marks, the executive director of the aviation institute. nancy, i want to start with you. one month into the forced budget cuts polls show around half of americans still don't know whether the cuts were good or bad for the country. was this week's flying frustration enough to change that? >> well, i think that we're just starting to see the cuts. i certainly think that the polling hasn't necessarily kept pace with the way that we have seen the cuts. i certainly think that tons of passengers and people that were going through airports were really frustrated by the sequester cuts and we're starting to see other things like furloughs of employees at the white house budget office, the irs, and so the more and