this week that their recommendation to president biden was not to shoot this down because of risk to people and property below. so this balloon made its way across a good chunk to have united states, from montana on tuesday and wednesday to where it is now over essentially north carolina where it s reaching the coast and open water beyond that where you no longer have the risk to people and property below. therefore, the question then becomes, does the military change its recommendation and recommend to president joe biden if you go ahead and follow the we ll take care of it, that will be the time and the place to shoot this down. it is worth noting, i ve been watching flight tracking websites pretty much all morning. there we ve seen some note worthy flight activity. a couple refuelling tankers right off the coast of myrtle beach essentially flying in a holding pattern. why is that note worthy? because fighters that could be used to shoot this down might need to refuel as th
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
there. and mike, we can see that it is the plane, the alaskan airlines plane that we are talking about right behind you, and what are we knowing about the efforts that were made to try to locate the missing door plug? well, fredricka, we know that they are going to be extensive searching cedar hills neighborhood which is a 15-minute drive here from where we are standing, but this is the first time to see the plane in question right over my shoulder with confirmation from the last hour and since we last spoke to you with the officials familiar with the investigation. so as we are pushing in, and you can see that it is light activity and the hole where the door plug should be is on the other side of the aircraft. it is away from our point of view, but what is going to be happening at least here at portland international airport, there is going to be a media team going in and out of the team filming what the finest aviator pete muntean has just described, the head rests ripped off and t