it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue, and this morning at about 7:00, there were still problems validating that the messages were going out. so for safety reasons to make sure that every aircraft that took off was doing so safely, faa implemented a ground stop. secretary buttigieg said it s still not clear what caused this system failure, but it does not appear to be a cyberattack. what is clear is the ripple effect for thousands of passengers so let s bring in cnn s adrienne broaddus. what are passengers telling you, adrienne?
Within minutes of the seahawks win, fans set a mattress and other trash on far not far from pike place markets. You can see hundreds of people surrounding the flames. As for the game, from the very start it was all seattle. They scored on the second play and never looked back. The final score, 438. We have live team coverage. Gasia mikaelian is at Metlife Stadium in new jersey, and ktvus Heather Holmes watched the game with fans here in the bay area. Our coverage begins with our sports director what. A performance bey seattle. I dont think the odds makers called it. Its hard to believe that denver actually wept in as the favorite. I think i speak for many a 49er fan that says dont even put Peyton Manning in the same sentence any more with joe montana. Broadway joe got a little carried away with the coin flip. First play from scrimmage, Manny Ramirez snapped it right past Peyton Manning. The seattle safety, two points, quickest score in super bowl history. 12 seconds. Following the firs
Ravine after a terrible car crash. 18 month old lily survives and her entire rescue is caught right there on camera. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Hello and thanks so much for joining me. Im fredricka witfield. We start with a state of emergency declared in the South Pacific after Tropical Cyclone pam with the power of a category 5 hurricane struck the island chain nation of vanuatu. The fourth most powerful storm ever to make landfall took direct aim op the capital city of port vila. At least six people are confirmed dead. 20 others injured. And there are fears the death toll just could rise. Wind gusts up to 200 Miles Per Hour tore houses apart and knocked down trees. The australian red cross says shelter, food and water are urgently needed and an official from world vision it looks like a bomb. Joining us is unicef acting chief parker. How bad is it in your assessment . Ive seen many emergencies, fredricka, and many cyclones, typhoon typhoons. This is as bad as any. Certainly the
Majority of nationalities on board. Incredibly interested and have a great stake in the progress of the Search Operations, trying to locate that missing airliner. And i think that even though tony abbott was cautious in what he said he went a little further than any australian official has so far done in terms of describing the progress. Take a listen. We are confident that we know the position of the black box flight recorder to within some kilometers. Our confidence in the approximate position of the black box is not the same as recovering wreckage from almost 4 1 2 kilometers beneath the sea or finally determining all that happened on that flight. But what Angus Houston, the man in charge with overseeing and coordinating the multinational search effort, he down played the Prime Ministers remarks saying essentially theres been no major breakthrough. However, he said that the search area has significantly narrowed down to about 18,000 square miles, which is still a big patch of ocean,
Coordinating the local dea to find which charges are more heinous. Obviously we have three people that were killed here, to include a Police Officer, and i send out my condolences to the sw swasey family. Im a native of massachusetts. I want to let him know our thoughts and prayers for him and his family but the victims of Colorado Springs horrific incident. Were hearing from people who knew him well and hear a lot of good things about officer swasey. Let me ask you about the motive. We know the suspect, robert dear, mentioned baby parts, mentioned antigovernment antiabortion views but still Law Enforcement hasnt determined a motive. Why not and what else do they need . Well, i think at this particular point he seems to be sort of all over the place. It kind of reminds me of the unibomber. Kind of a loner. They said hes kind of off the grid. Once they get into that, they probably already have, in his trailer they might find some writings, manifesto, or some documents that will link to