Mostly because it takes the place of milk and the calcium children need for bone strength. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, september 29th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Im so glad its International Coffee day and it falls on a monday. And i think we can have a barista here with us all the time, which we actually have today. Very excited about that. Yes. Youre working an me. Ill get there. Im trying coffee from all over the world this morning. Im not a coffee drinker, even though im a morning guy. Youre naturally an a caffeine high. Ive got a twinkle in my eye. Well begin with damaging storms bearing down on an already hardheight region. The southwest. In particular, phoenix right now. Look at that, folks. This weather has just been battering the region there. Heavy rains, winds up to 75 miles an hour. Abcs rob marciano has been keeping a close eye on these storms on the move. Reporter so much for the desert southwest. Another round of heavy rain and
Reporter at least the passengers knew there were problems. Just really frustrated trying to get through the line. Reporter with control centers around chicago picking up the slack, about 70 of flights are getting in and out. Still more than 500 chicago Flights Canceled on sunday. The problem . The damage was so extensive to the Regional Center outside chicago when a 36yearold contractor who worked in that building sabotaged equipment, started a fire and then tried to commit suicide. One official says there is so much blood its a biohazard. Along with that, fire and water damage and cut cables. So the faa decided to build a duplicate system assembled inside the building. Building a new center will take days meaning the delays and cancellations will take two weeks. Its affecting the whole world. Traffic coming from europe and asia flying to chicago are impacted simply because they have to absorb some of the delay. Reporter one faa official described the detay lai as being similar to a ba