appreciate the opportunity that country blessed us with. american pride is on the decline. 39% of adults took extreme pride in our country, down from three years ago. pride in our nation has been on the decline for 20 years and an interesting distinction, gallup found 60% of republicans were proud and 29% of democrats did. wall street journal released american pride poll of their own earlier this year with just 38% of americans saying patriotism is important to them. at 1998, the figure was 70%. pride is not the only tradition heading out the poll, 39% of americans think religion is very important, down from 62% in 1998. stunning new fox news poll shows majority of americans believe the country s best days are behind us. gallup poll found 70% of americans have no confidence in national government. start there. joe concha to the midstel in the hot seat. what do you think? joe: one other part about this poll that stands out to me. what is the best country live in the world?
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in america where aviation authorities are still trying to find out why a safety messaging system failed, grounding all departing flights for more than an hour early on wednesday. the white house says there is no evidence of a cyber attack at this point. the us transport secretary said the federal aviation administration must find out why backup systems didn t prevent the failure. our north america correspondent gary o donaghue reports. it was in the early hours that the problems began to emerge with the notam system, which warns pilots of any dangers before they take off. byjust after 7:00am, the federal aviation authority was ordering all carriers across the us to ground their planes untilfurther notice, causing chaos for early morning travellers. i m a little annoyed. i feel bad for the people who are actually sitting on pl
pictures, this is a system that provides pilots with any pre-flight safety notices. so as we continue with the breaking news we want to get to pete muntean, he joins us now from reagan. pete, good morning to you. thank you for joining. as we are hearing now, at least from our own david urban, who is i think at the very same airport that you re at. his flight has been canceled. are we seeing cancellations happening and are they moving the faa is saying the system is down, or they re checking on the system and they re going to ground everything until 9:00 a.m. are cancellations starting and are they going to move back that 9:00 a.m. time that they have put in place now? we are mostly seeing delays right now, don. i just took a breeze by the departures and arrivals board here at reagan national airport we re seeing delays here and around the country. delays go up by the moment, 2,500 delays across the country right now. we ve seen that go up by about 1,000 delays in the last
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
had a permit to do so. speaking before hearing the culture secretary s views, the greek prime minister, who is facing an election, warned voters return was not imminent. translation: if the greek people trust us again, - i believe we could achieve this target after the elections, with full respect, of course, to the obvious red lines that all greek governments have posed. one red line could be accepting the sculptures back on loan. but the law prevents the british museum from returning ownership to greece, even if it wanted to, unless the culture secretary changes her views, for now, a short term loan looks like the only option on the table. katie razzall, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. rain, rain, more rain. sorry, everybody. look at how we closed out the day in somerset. and look at where the rain is at the moment. it s pushing in from the south west. the wind is going to strengthen as well, gale force gusts overnight. the heaviest of the rain at the moment is ac