Has been extended by the Biden Administration, this despite the president telling 60 minutes back in september that the pandemic was over. And now new images, Satellite Images show china show crowds gathering at crematoriums though chinas government insists covid has only killed a few dozen people. We begin with another round of travel chaos that could delay flights for another full day. It comes as a nationwide outage of a key Warning System because the fda to ground all departing aircraft and in a very strange twist, the same Warning System in canada also broke down today. Charles watson is live with the breaking details in atlanta tonight. Good evening. Good evening. Travel troubles caused by the system outage will likely continue through thursday. There are a lot of folks out there not able to make it on flights on wednesday and will not have to wait until sometime later today to get to where theyre going. Meantime, in the latest update, federal Aviation Administration says preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file. At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. The faa is working diligently to further pinpoint the causes of the issue. The system which updates pilots on issues that could affect their flights went out tuesday night, causing the faa to hold all departures. The nationwide ground stop was lifted shortly after 9 00 a. M. Wednesday morning with the damage was already done as a cascade of disruptions left frustrated travelers to deal with more than 10,000 Flight Delays from coasttocoast. There is just a lot of frustration, a lot of confusion. Trying to figure out i should do. Speak i thought because of the holidays, that was the main issue. Really it is still happening and here we are, two weeks into 2023. Meantime republicans in congress are pressing for answers as the white house looks to transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg for clarity. How could a stable platform like this suddenly go down . Were there no backups . My top priority right now now that this system is working again is about 9 00 this morning is to understand the root cause, understand how it could have led to this level of disruption, and understand how to make sure it does not happen again. The bottom line, u. S. Travel Association Says this system is older needs to be updated. White House Press SecretaryKarine Jeanpierre said that the faa is currently working with dlt to try to update the system and she says the white house welcomes the attention from congress to ensure the faa gets everything they need in the future so this issue doesnt happen again. Trace its going to take a while. Charles watson live for us at let lanna. Thank you. Lets talk about the system malfunction with aviation expert and former represented kyle bailey. Great to have you on the show. The Wall Street Journal said the government in general has the same problem industry has and that these systems get old and modernizing them is really painful both in terms of money and of time. It really is, because you talk to pilots and they say that the system is archaic and ineffective. Thats 100 true. The government, its very bureaucratic, lots of red tape. To build a new system or to get a new system, youre talking months to many years and then you have bidding and contracts. Its Government Bureaucracy is very slow and its not like the private sector. This was spacex for a highly funded private company, things would be implemented much quicker but everything pretty much goes at a snails pace when youre dealing with the government. Trace transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg has been highly criticized for handling some of these crisis weve seen. He said this today. Watch. We have to understand how this couldve happened in the first place, why the usual redundancies that would stop it from being that disruptive did not stop it from being disrupted this time. And what the original source of the errors or the corrupted files would have been. Trace i guess, is there confidence among the airlines, among pilots that the federal government will get this right eventually . I dont think theres confidence. Its a matter of when is it going to happen again . Without a new system or a modern system in place. Will it be tomorrow, in a week, month, in a year . We dont know. We got pretty lucky we havent had Something Like this with the complete National Shutdown since around september 11. God only knows when its going to happen again. Trace yeah, a couple weeks ago, had this happened when southwest melted down, that could have been chaos that lasted for weeks. I want to put the number of flights on the screen here, kyle. The number of flights today, 21,000 flights delayed. 10,143 flights canceled. More than 1300. That backlogs the airlines. We know that they only have so much equipment, only 500, 600 planes each so when youre talking about 20,000 flights and 11,000, or 12,000 are affected, its going to take a while before this thing gets back on track. Thats correct. Its a cascading effect. As you know if you getting in in a plane on los angeles, he might have come from dallasfort worth or newark, new jersey. He mightve been the third stop. Yet they have to get this repositioned and picked this schedule back up. It doesnt happen quickly but we will see the aftereffects for 24 hours to 48 hours before things get back. Trace i have to ask, are you kind of baffled that canadas notam system will go down the very same day and hour and a half after hours goes back online. The governor says the government says there is no evidence of a cyber attack thats highly unusual. I am baffled but in life, ive experienced things where you will have two or three things happen and you cant figure it out. It does make this a little bit worse, come a little more suspicious. If i was a cyber person trying to attack something i might go at something more vulnerable. That was my initial thought. Probably wouldnt go over this. Probably would go for something perhaps it would affect airplanes in the sky. One point in defense of the faa. The system, the notam did work, but millions of passengers mightve been stranded or delayed. The system did stop and it did prevent catastrophe. So i mean, that would be one glimmer of light if there was anything in this whole unfortunate incident that happened. Trace fair point, kyle bailey. Thank you for coming on. We appreciate your time. Meantime, other breaking news, second batch of classified documents associated with President Biden has been found at a new location and the New Discovery is raising a whole bunch of new questions. The administration insists its being transparent but answers are in short supply. The White House Correspondent kevin corke is live with the closer look. Good evening. Sources tell fox news that aids the president actually discovered another batch of classified documents from his time as Vice President and we know it could be even more. The latest discovery comes after it was revealed on monday that aides found documents at our private office. For his part, the 46th President praised his lawyers, adding they did the right thing by immediately turning the documents over to the National Archives. And then he claimed he was surprised to learn there were any government records that were taken there to that office. Adding that he didnt know what was in the documents either. But that of course made for a fairly awkward Press Briefing today. On these documents, how could anyone be that irresponsible . Isnt that what this president says about mishandling classified documents consumer the president spoke to this personally. He believes classified documents and information should be taken seriously. He takes them seriously and he was the surprised to learn about any records. Trace peter doocy want to get on the job. Meantime over on the hill, incensed republicans say its high time for the attorney general Merrick Garland to do to mr. Biden what hes already been doing to former President Trump. Thats exactly what Merrick Garland has done to donald trump and as you were saying a second ago, it cant be that we have two tiers of justice in that country. It cant be that theres one rule for republicans in a different role for democrats. Merrick garlands and we have to have a Special Prosecutor for trump. That means weve got to have one provided in. As you can well imagine, g. O. P. Critics are questioning why the white house didnt disclose the discovery of the first batch, which as you dont happen before the midterm elections. But that wasnt known to the public until just this week. Other questions had to come, trace. Trace like when did they find the second batch . And where . Trace and where did they find the second batch . Kevin corke, good stuff as always. Lets bring in the political panel. Richard fowler, mike davis. Thank you both. Mike, i want you to listen to the house until chair mike turner and then ill get your response on the backside. Watch. Its very troubling that the search continues and yet the Department Of Justice is standing down where they read Donald Trumps home. Theres also questions we need to have answered about whats in these documents. Why did he have them . Trace whats in the documents . Why did he have them and wise information being withheld . This is a much more troubling than President Trumps documents because President Trump come as a former president , had the constitutional and statutory right to take his president ial records and he left office, classified or not, thats why he gets secure officebased, federally funded staff, Secret Service protection. Security clearances. Thats not the case for former Vice President. They are not allowed to take president ial records when they leave Office Especially classified records. You have to ask why did former Vice President joe biden take these records and it wasnt just a mistake. He had them into different locations any move them at least twice. Trace right, thats it very good point. Richard, do you think attorney general Merrick Garland should appoint a Special Counsel to look into the biden documents . I think we are going to have to wait to see what happens but lets be very clear about whats happening as we speak. As we speak, one of the trump appointed u. S. Attorneys in the city of chicago, he is reviewing this case to see if there was any legal wrongdoing done by the current president of the United States. With that being said, in the case of former president donald trump, there was a subpoena issued by a federal judge that believed that the president was engaging in some form of crime. This is not happening the case of joe biden. In the case of joe biden, these documents were found and they are now returned to the National Archives where they belong. Lets clarify one thing for the record. The president cannot take out classified documents just because he feels like it. Trace the president can declassify documents. A Vice President cannot declassify. We havent seen any evidence he did not declassify them and thats an important point. Secondly, these documents were found two months ago, mike. Two months ago and they were not revealed before november 8, the midterm elections. They also were not revealed before they appointed a Special Prosecutor to go after the trump documents. We do not know when the two days documents within disclosure of documents, when they were found or where they were found. These are all big, big points. Yeah, this is absolutely a political coverup by attorney general Merrick Garland and the Biden Justice department. Like you said, they found these documents on november 2. Six days before the midterm elections and attorney general Merrick Garland appointed a Special Counsel to go after trump on november 18. Why didnt he mentioned that he had these documents, these stolen classified documents in bidens possession during that time . Why did we wait two months for him to come out with this . This is clearly a political coverup. Trace i want to read some of this. It says like Many Americans im concerned about how some in the industry, hes talking about big tech, collect, share and exploit our most personal data, deepen extremism and polarization in our country, tilt our economies playing field, violate the civil rights of women and minorities, and even put our children at risk. That is a big slam from the president against an industry that has very much leaned in his favor, richard, your last thoughts on this. Look, i think what the president is saying there is we do have a problem when it comes to how Social Media Platforms deal with the public. We know f for a fact that Social Media Platforms because a higher suicide rate among teenagers. They cause eating disorders because of the information they sent folks. We also know that while tiktok is legal here in the United States, its illegal in the country of china where the owners of that company is. We need to be having a conversation whether youre a democrat or republican about how we rein in the social Media Companies and ensure that our children arent suffering from them. Trace . Richard fowler, mike davis, gentlemen. Thank you both. Good to see you. Take care. Trace meantime the fox news at night Common Sense Department is wondering why, if the World Health Organization says the new Omicron Variant just not have mutations know to make people sicker and why sections of the u. S. Medical community agree, why has the Biden Administration renewed the Covid Public Health emergency for the 12th time . I would swear i heard somebody say the pandemic was over. The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with covid and we are still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. Trace thats where i heard it. Its funny because health and Human Services also told local and state Health Agencies to get ready for an end to the emergency. That was in august. What change . Its chilly not to increase in hospitalizations and deaths. Those rates have been steady for a while now. It appears the emergency might be a bit of a power play. It allows the administration to continue offering a litany of benefits like medicaid. Maybe thats why enrollment in medicaid has exploded 83 Million People. Common sense is beginning to think Emergency Declarations are kind of like taxes. Once theyre in place, they have a habit of becoming permanent. A Public Health emergency remains in place here in the u. S. While china appears to be in the throes of a fullblown crisis. Lets continue the Covid Conversation with fox news medical conservator dr. Marty makary. Dr. Macario, its always great to have you on. I just want your quick thoughts on the continuation, the declaration of the emergency, the public covid emergency for the 12th time. The worst thing you can do in Public Health esquire wolf more than necessary and its getting ironic to have a State Of Emergency for an endemic lowgrade virus at this point when you dont have one for Heart Disease and diabetes. The white house is going to find themselves in the big problem when you have a State Of Emergency designed for a rapidly spreading epidemic declared when you dont have that situation. Trace yeah, i want to move on to china. Im fascinated. We have the Satellite Images. I want to put up this New York Times oped. He says as cases explode, chinas low covid death toll convinces no one, going on to say chinas murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of covid death will very much underestimate the true death toll. The World Health Organization says. Your thoughts. China has a let it rip strategy and theres a very high death toll because they have low rates of natural immunity. They did not use the time they had over the last two and half years wisely. And we know that theyve been massively underreporting deaths but now we know exactly how. Many doc