people know i take classified documents i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we will have breaking news on george santos, the disgraced long island republican. first news impacting travelers across the country. flights are resuming after an faa ordered national ground stop just before 6:00 a.m. eastern time caused by an outage to a critical computer system for airline pilots. tom costello has been on top of this story all morning. what do we know? what do the runways look like right now? 7,000 delays nationwide, 1,100 canceled. this computer system called the notum went down. it gives pilots information about the airports they are coming from, where they re going and potential alternative airports. it s included in this. the computer system went down in the early morning hours. as the delays mounted, the faa came in and said, we have to
first of all, of course, to understand the immediate aftermath of the lessons that are learned from that. but also because we re going into a period where congress will be looking at a periodic reauthorization of faa, legislation that typically sets what the next five years are going to be like for the agency. it s the right time for us to be stepping back and saying, in terms of resources, funding, staff, authorities, systems, is everything set up for what we know is going to be a period of continued change and continued rising demand and pressure as our national aviation system evolves? as you know very well, better than anyone, the airlines, travelers, everyone has been so disrupted by the holiday disruptions, also by what happened in florida separately. is there any connection to that? what do you say to travelers and to the industry about the nightmarish delays? here is another problem that s cropped up.
Irish holidaymakers heading to popular summer destinations overseas could be facing into potential Covid-19 chaos as cases surge in popular holiday regions, and.
you re live in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m boris sanchez. hundreds of christmas eve flights are grounded as the omicron variant hits airlines hard. we re tracking the holiday disruptions and the surge in covid cases that s shattering records. also, newly released video shows a brutal three-hour battle on january 6th. rioters attacking police in a capitol tunnel. one of the most violent clashes during the insurrection. and a teenager s shopping trip turns deadly. a bullet tearing through a dressing room wall shot by a police officer firing at a suspect. how did this confrontation go so horribly wrong? so right now thousands of people who expected to be boarding a flight this christmas