price hike for the covid vaccine. senator bernie sanders calls it outrageous. he joins us live. this is what we re watching this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. two big stories we re tracking. first, a major outage is causing huge flight disruptions. thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. rue now the faa did lift the ground stop that par liesed domestic air travel. the cause still unclear right now, even as airlines are starting to get flights back up in the air. we re also keeping a very close eye on the deadly storms in california. at least 17 people have been killed from what is now weeks of rain, floods, mudslides, and was some pretty big winds. as bad as it is already, more rain is still on the way. let s start with pete muntean. 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 flight
carlos suarez. just for people to be clear, that s an access point to pine island, right? business owners and residents are getting to go back and see firsthand the damage? reporter: that is exactly right, poppy. there are two things happening now across southwest florida. first, the folks who live on san able island, this morning for the very first time, the folks who live there get their first opportunity to go back home since that storm hit. emergency official are being strict with how folks can get back out. you have to do it by private boat, you have to have a special pass. residents are being told you can only take one guest. they re going to allow the folks to be there for a few hours, then they have to come back. state official are trying to reconstruction that causeway that was wiped out. here in matlacha, eastbound taking to boats to get to pine island, a barrier island. they just have been showing up here at matlacha, and boat captains are saying if you need a ri
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arlette saenz, thank you very much. many floridians are still without power. one of the state s largest power companies, florida power & light, says it expects complete restoration of power. that s not all. there s other big power generators there, but that s good news. mike, thanks for being here. you throughout have said that you guys have been relatively lucky, compared relatively speaking, compared to a lot of folks, but on sunday, you said you still had half your residents without power. what is the situation for them now? yes, thank you, poppy.
sanibel and matlacha so fox can get back for the first time. it will be incredibly painful to see aft destruction. at any moment, the president will demart the white house. le will tour storm damage, meet with residents and business owners impacted by the hurricane. ar arlette saenz, can you walk us thus what the extension of the emergency declaratdeclaration. reporter: poppy, that allows for more federal resources to go to the state in the wake of hurricane ian. it s making funding available for debris removal and other emergency protected measures for a total of 60 days.