essentially the weather information in text forms to their pilots on the airline. i ve been around aviation my entire life, i m a pilot and flight instructor and i ve never seen this either. the fact there s a meltdown of the system. so many things can be a lynch p pin and the faa is working on modernizing these systems. we have seen what happens when there is a local outage, like in jacksonville at one of the big air traffic control centers and there and how that has a ripple effect throughout the system causing flight cancellations and delays. this system is a nationwide system. it goes out to every airplane trying to take off. the fact that pilots cannot access this is critical and we re seeing the impact right now. pete i want you to stand by. this is our breaking news, faa experiencing a system outage causing major flight disruptions in the u.s.
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.
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