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
Billionaire heiress in memphis. Police confirming a short time ago the body found monday afternoon is that of missing Kindergarten Teacher and mother of two Eliza Fletcher. The suspect in the disappearance is now charged with firstdegree murder. Great to be back with you, john. John good to see you as well, sandra. This is America Reports. Sad news to start us off. Fletcher had been missing since going on a jog early friday morning. Surveillance video shows a man believed to be Cleotha Abston henderson exit his truck and aggressively run toward fletcher. The man then forces fletcher into his car. Sandra Court Documents say he was seen cleaning his truck and acting strange before the attack. He is a convicted kidnapper, spending nearly 20 years in prin for a similar crime carried out back in 2001. John Criminal Defense Attorney with more on this in moments, but Charles Watson is in memphis. Whats the latest, charles, and the charges against the suspect . Good afternoon, unfortunately th
kevin corke live in washington. the young lady to my right was not even born in 1984. i m not surprised by that. talented though she is she is young. i on the other hand was already in college, i believe. [laughter] great to be with you this morning. we anticipated this move by the white house. there are consequences to driving down the spr to its lowest level since 1984. critics argue from a national security perspective this move by the white house is suspect and purely political. yet again, mr. biden is drawing from the pool for yet another summer between 10-15000000 barrels and, of course, there is this from the white house. the president is calling on the department of energy to be ready to move forward with additional significant strategic petroleum reserves sales this wednesday winter, if needed, due to russia or other actions disrupting global markets. there is that. one look at the levels now especially when compared with the beginning of 2022 and you can see why t
republican challenger herschel walker, they are fighting for every last vote in the georgia senate race. meanwhile republican candidate blake masters and mark kelly, crisscrossing arizona in the tight senate race there and up in new hampshire, senator maggie hassan is trying to hold off surge from republican challenger from buldoc. team coverage all across the campaign trial across the country. let s start down south. early voting is shattering records and that s a hot race. hi, there, eric. good afternoon to you. nobody in georgia and i mean nobody wants to see this race go to a runoff, they are sick of election season so they want there to be a winner on tuesday. the only way to avoid a runoff is voters to go out and vote. that s why you are seeing big crowd and big names in the last few days on the trail here. we are expecting former ambassador to take stage in georgia any minute now. long-term contracts controlled the senate two years ago by flipping georgia so this is
travelers stranded over the holidays nearly a week to get back home. lines at the airports growing, frustrated travelers losing their patients, desperate passengers forced to spend days sleeping on the floor at terminals while the airline cut 80% of its schedule at the height of the holiday travel season. and surrounding them, lost luggage. take a look at this, thousands of bags with personal belongings piled up at airports across the country. passengers got little satisfaction to contact the airlines because the phone lines were jammed up. even southwest flight crews had trouble getting through to find out about their own schedules. take a look at the screenshots, flight attendants on hold nearly five hours and nearly eight hours waiting to be cut through to scheduling. the scheduling department to receive their assignments. reports of pilots waiting on hold for 20 plus hours. lisa boothe, what a mess! lisa: first of all, i eat too much during the holiday like chris farley