and it s quite disappointing if you re planning on going anysome place, making a connection today. looks like it s not going to happen. looks like a long long day. not the airlines fault this one. this is a big system and they need to work quickly to get it fixed. david stand by. not that you have a choice. i ll be here until 10:30. send us any information you get. we want people to see what s happening inside the airports. that s david urban, a political contributor. around the country there s an outage of the system, the notice to air missions system, which keeps everything coordinated in the skies and on the grounds. that is out. faa ordering all departures to
couldn t keep from joke. mind your business, file your taxes and keep of my wife s name [bleep] we start with a fox news alert. hundreds of flights from coast to coast are either delayed or canceled right now after the faa experienced a computer system outage. steve: united airlines just announced all of its flights are grounded until at least 10:00 a.m. eastern time. ainsley: todd piro is following the latest developments for us, todd? what a tough time to fly whether it was last year around christmas holiday time to now the faa announcing a total system failure nationwide impacting hundreds of flights. let s take a live look. we are going to orlando, sanford international where all flights are delayed until further notice. the faa tweeting it is, quote: experiences an outage with its notice to air missions system which provides critical flight safety operation information. we are closely monitoring the situation which are impacts all
but that s not necessarily required. it s still unclear what caused all this, but if it chalked up to an act of god and it was out of the airline s hands, that means that travelers may not necessarily get the reimbursements or support they were looking for. if you were planning to head to the airport today, check the app or call the airlines and get as much information before you try to take off today. if you can get through to a human and any airline communication process. so what s the system that went off this morning? what do we know about it and how important is it? the notice to air missions system is critical for all pilots, but especially commercial pilots because it gives them realtime information about whether there s flight delays, whether there s special air space that they can fly through, runway closures because all of that then dictates how they are going to fly the airplane, what fuel loads they need and any kind of perform
missions system which updates essential information for flight operations, information about what is going on at different airports across the country, whether a runway is being updated or a runway is closed. vital information for pilots to know. according to the flight tracker flight aware, more than 1200 flights within, into and out of the u.s. are delayed right now and more than 100 are canceled. transportation secretary pete buttigieg posted on twitter that he has been in touch with the faa. the white house says buttigieg has briefed president biden and that there is no evidence of a cyberattack at this point. we also got word through tom costello that the president has now asked the secretary of transportation to report directly to him on this major developing issue with airline travel across the united states.
even worse. relentless rainstorms have led to the deaths of 17 people. hundreds of homes have been damaged. some ripped right off their foundations. i ll speak live to the local sheriff about how they are coping, even as they brace for yet another full week of rain. but we start with this tidal wave of flight delays and cancellations that swept across the country early today. the latest in a series of widespread meltdowns that have repeatedly in recent months left thousands of passengers stranded. at one point this morning, all commercial domestic departures were suspended after a breakdown in what s known as a notice to air missions system. although flights began taking off four hours ago, the ripple effect delayed more than 7 50rkz 0 flights and forced the kansslation of more than 1100 others. the exact cause of the breakdown is still unknown, but the effect major headaches for the flying public are now all too familiar. and it s been bad for awhile.