am taking the train. kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. cnn newsroom starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key faa safety system went down earlier this morning, that led to some scrambling from coast to coast. here is where we stand at this hour, the faa says it is set to resume more flight departures this hour, but in terms of the backlog, the damage that we re seeing, the delays and cancellations, understandably rising by the minute. new york lines are growing, atlanta and chicago delay warnings taking over departure screens. they may be the lucky ones stuck in the airports that are already i
relies on the notam system, always have, in my 30, 40 years in aviation i have never known this system to go down. so i think this is a significant problem right now. so to that point, david, what vulnerabilities in this system could this expose? and, again, we re early, they haven t figured out what brought it down, but the idea that a system like this could bring basically the whole air transportation system down and very quickly, listen, that s worri worrisome. it s very worrisome and even more so worrisome to me is i just went on to check my notams because we use these for pilots up and down the row, even drone pilots use this notam system to see what s going on in any particular operational area. here is what bothers me, the faa says, it s okay, go ahead and fly, however, when i go to the notam search and look at it right now it says due to system processing delays recently entered notams may not be