it s especially bad in new york. just talked to a passenger on a flight from new orleans into newark. he said you could smell the smoke in the plane as the flight descended into newark. you could see that thick red smoke, he said it was almost apocalyptic. the ground stop at newark and laguardia, both of them have been lift. at newark, there lifted. at newark, there is a ground delay meaning flights held at the departing airport up to two hours now. at laguardia, about 45 minutes. so things are improving a little bit, although we are not out of the woods just yet. we see during days when there are major delays like this a bit of a domino effect, and so this could mean that this wildfire smoke having an impact on the east coast could have a nationwide impact on commercial air tramp. just checked flight aware, we just crossed 2,000 delays nationwide. the good news right now, though,
buttigieg. he says that the cancellation rate right now is less than 1%. but the meltdowns of last year, according to travelers i ve been talking to, still top of mind for them. it is, absolutely in the back of my mind. but i m keeping my fingers crossed that i get home without a hitch. i hope that when i go back on tuesday, i won t have a problem, because i have to get to work. reporter: the faa anticipates handling 42,000 commercial flights today. it says that there could be some hiccups today in the new york area, at newark and laguardia, because of high wind. also in san francisco, because of fog, although no ground stops just yet, rahel. no major delays so far. so could be a pretty good day when it comes to cancellations. and we may stick the landing here when it comes to a smooth start to the summer. i see what you did there, pete muntean, i like it. thank you! i talked to pete on friday on
grounding or putting on hold, that s their language, all flights taking off in the united states until 9:00 a.m., which is quickly approaching in about 10 minutes. we ll see if they move that back. we are told at some airports, at newark and atlanta airports they are starting to resume some operations but we will check with that. but basically around the country, about 3,700 flights and counting have been grounded. this is going to affect the entire system, basically a a do effect. let s check in now with the person that s been giving us all this information now and also about the information you reported earlier from this system is our pete muntean, our aviation correspondent. it s starting to flow in, we are told, but that 9:00 a.m. time still firm right now as of this moment. so what do you know? reporter: 8:50, now, don, we
buss and deport them out of there. this is the rank hypocrisy and you can t even make this up. joe biden has been flying illegal immigrants in the dark of night to all of these obscure airports. for example, in few york, they re not landing at le guard you, at kennedy, at newark. they re landing in white plains, landing in long island at two, three, 4 a.m. in the morning so they, so they don t get caught doing what they re doing. and all these towns have to pick up food, shelter, healthcare costs, clothing, education, and they re dumping it on pretty much every state in the country. so, if there s any lawbraking going on, that will be joe biden s actual policy, isn t it? yeah, no, that s exactly right. and to put it in perspective, martha s vineyard s is a town its population is about 17 thousand. the median home price is over a million dollars. let s compare it to del rio.
abroad where they don t maybe have the same testing structure we re used to here, you ll need to plan ahead to make sure the tests you ll have access to will be acceptable. that includes pcr tests, that includes some rapid antigen tests, some at-home tests that you can do a telehealth appointment with. you might see some changes at some airports too. here they re already starting a new biosurveillance program at this airport, at newark, now hartsfield-jackson and sfo. and a group called express check is working with the cdc and starting to approach some people coming in from certain international locations to give them free testing so they can collect samples and start getting a picture of omicron s entrance into the united states and in the months ahead, try to get ahead of other potential variants that are emerging. it s that new one-day window that people need to plan ahead for. that applies to everyone. whether you re vaccinated or unvaccinated and no matter what