right now on andrea mitchell reports, travel nightmare. thousands of airline passengers stuck on tarmacs across the country this morning during a national ground stop caused by the outage of a key system. transportation secretary pete buttigieg joins me. house republicans are rolling out a new conservative agenda, including on abortion, while launching investigations into joe biden and his family. i will talk to a key republican lawmaker who calls her colleagues opposed abortion restrictions tone deaf. brian fitzpatrick on how moderate republicans are reacting to the secret deals cut by speaker mccarthy with the freedom caucus. questions continuing to swirl around the biden classified documents controversy. the president says he does not know the contents of the files found in his former d.c. office.
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city. if you re watching this from an airplane gate, you already know the headline. more than 8500 flights delayed or cancelled after a key system went down. your flight was supposed to leave at 9:30 this morning? yeah. what time are you going to get to leave? 5:00 p.m. wow. so what are you going to do? just wait. how much more do passengers have to take before something is done to fix the airline system? plus house republicans are staing the first battles of what looks to be an all out political war over the next two years. votes on abortion rights, immigration and the irs are expect anded soon. is it just for show? and somehow the catastrophic situation in continueses to get
multiple times. he says i have been in touch with this va this morning about an outage affecting a key system for providing safety information to pilots. faa is working to resolve this issue swiftly and safety so that air traffic can resume normal operations and will continue to provide updates. we are learning now from one of our key correspondence as well as others, more about this down system. it is called notice to air missions heard it s an important part of all preflight planning. the fact that it has been taken off line means that pilots may struggle to have an accurate sight picture of the trajectory of their flights take. it is very important. the faa says this about it. they say they are working to restore its notice to system. performing final validation checks and reloading the system alpert operations across the national airspace system are affected. we will provide frequent updates as we make progress.
ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. all airlines across our entire country ordered to delay outbound flights until 9:00 a.m. eastern time. this development comes after the faa is experiencing a massive system failure. steve: computer failure. as of now the website flight aware is reporting over 1200 flights have been delayed or grounded because of this outage. brian: the administration says it s working to get everything back up and running. no word yet on how long that could take. and that s what we are looking at right now. so it s hard to imagine a pigger story right now that effects more people in more places than this story. in fact, pete buttigieg tweeted this out: i have been in touch with the faa this morning about an outage affecting a key system from providing safety information to pilots. the faa is working to resolve this issue swiftly and safely so that air traffic can resume normal operations and continue to provide updates.
delayed nationwide. hearing from pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary, tweeting, quote: i have been in touch with faa this morning about an outage affecting a key system for providing safety information to pilots. faa is working to resolve this issue swiftly and safely so that air traffic can resume normal operations. we ll continue to provide updates. the faa says it is working to restore this system. obviously they re saying that but, steve, to your point, no idea how long that could take. 9:00 a.m. is the time we saw on the screen. and we know how this goes, expected to go a little bit longer if you are a betten man. steve: absolutely. and ultimately what caused it we don t know. todd, thank you very much. meanwhile today on this wednesday, this is national human trafficking day. an issue that effects over 40 million people around the global, including one in four kids. and with officials warning that open border policies are putting more migrants at risk, our next guests