system forced the faa to ground flights. majority are on the east coast. the white house is monitoring the situation. bill: let s begin in atlanta, often the most the busiest every day. steve harrigan is there live. what s happening? a lot of confusion among travelers here at the world s busiest airport. people trying to arrive and figure out what s going on. will their flights take off? updates in the past few minutes from the faa. they say normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the u.s. following an overnight outage to the notam system. the ground stop has been lifted. we can continue to look into the cause of the initial problem. for about an hour and a half there was a full ground stop on flights all across the u.s. even though that s lifted now, flights are beginning to get back to normal. airport officials around the country say it still could be a very long day for travelers. always a ripple effect when something impacts a flight. if they c
i see. okay, so, actually, the producer is in my ear who you were talking to, travis. and while you were setting up the shot, you all were talking about you were talking about, you know, joining us. you were setting up your shot, and then at that moment it happened. so when you were setting up your shot, does that mean you were or were not able to capture it happening, or you purely eyewitnessed it with your own eyes only? caller: i definitely witnessed it with my eyes. i m going back in the footage now. it happened so fast. how many airplanes did you see around this balloon and what span of time between you seeing the airplane activity and then actually seeing what you are claiming to be a missile strike? caller: they ve been flying around it for, i don t know,
coastline, and of course, what, generally about 14 miles of waterways along the coastline, which is, you know, u.s. territory before hitting international waters. a lot of the airplane activity is flying a along the coast. it s using that space to navigate. this is a really critical spot for the national airspace system, because as flights traverse north and south along the coast from florida up to large metro areas in the northeast, this is an area that s really critical for them. this is where a lot of those routes go through north and south that will be highly utilized. florida is a big destination for any airline. so this is going to have an impact beyond just these three airports. this will impact flights going up and down the coast. but this looks to me, and i m just looking at the depiction now, that this goes well beyond the borders of international
0 effort to take this balloon down, that would pose a risk to these airplanes down below. so we re seeing this sort of take place to make it so that the area below is clear and safe for this to possibly happen. we will see exactly when that takes place. we know from the ground stop that was published by the faa, that is in place until 2:45 eastern standard time, so another 45 minutes. and this is also impacting, you know, flights that are going into other places. so this might mean that commercial flights on the ground are being told to stay on the ground so the trickle effect, the trickle-down effect goes beyond this area. it s a huge area, but it goes well beyond that and it s including places that have commercial planes flying into the three airports impacted. let s zero in on that. a huge area, 20,000 square miles, and that includes the coastline, and of course, what, generally about 14 miles of waterways along the coastline, which is, you know, u.s. territory before hitting inte
people okay, there is ice on the runway in anchorage, that kind of thing. the problem is just that their computer systems are old and overtaxed. there is a huge uptick in airplane activity and flight activity across the country and the systems are old and just couldn t keep up. they had a hiccup in the system yesterday but they were able to fix it. and then it went down last night and it cascaded through the night. dana: i do think in the scheme of things while this is inconvenient and super concerning especially because at the time nobody knew what was going on and it seems like maybe a cyberattack could be ruled out soon, we don t know that for sure. the one thing that is interesting how quickly they could figure out now planes can all systems go and everybody will be able to move on. it seems like a quick