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
now it s interesting because in that summit between president biden and lopez ope obrador the there was nothing out of his mouth about any intentions to try and cooperate with our country on getting it done. the state department says is the world s second largest criminal industry. we spoke to a former lawmaker in mexico from mexico and she was simply saying that it is getting worse, human trafficking in her country. listen here. we have 26,000 children missing in my country. to hear the families of these girls and boys that are missing, it s something that it s a nightmare. we also spoke to a sex trafficking victim. her name is carla and held for four years and rosa rescued her when she was 16. this is what she told us. there is no words to describe the pain that one feels as a human being. i would tell the citizens of the united states that we re also human. they were just batting down our position. a blackhawk helicopter operated by the national guard as part of
backyard barbecues, saying vaccines will be available to everyone on may 1st. i need you. i need every american to do their part. if we do this together, by july 4th, there is a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. empathy is a singular biden strength, and his prime time address underlined the great american sorrow. ha hate, the president says, must stop. the truth offers the country forward, a light in darkness. the president said that cookout in july is dependent on americans keeping their distance and their masks on in the meantime. travel now, the cdc worries, rivals the track back on thanksgiving. that, we recall, was the gateway to the horrific winter surge. an update from the coronavirus team highlights new steps to make sure every american will soon get a shot in the arm. we need to make it easier for every american to get vaccin
bill melugin is covering the crisis non-stop for near two years and here to tell us what he is seeing. let s go to national correspondent griff jenkins spending a ton of time on the border live in eagle pass, texas with what s happening on the ground there right now. hi, griff. hi, dana and bill. good morning. walking up just behind me right now a group, we can see a family looks like about a dozen migrants. we ll find out where they are from. it happens like clockwork all day every day. in the intro you were showing texas dps smuggling videos, another one shot this weekend. take a look north of where we are in eagle pass in kinney county, texas dps stopping a transport van finding in the cargo area six migrants rescued. the driver was from houston and admitted to officers he was paid $2 thousand to smuggle them and charged with human smuggling.