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
morning following a major computer outage at the faa. john: the white house set to brief in moments after the biden administration mixed messaging added to today s confusion. karine jean-pierre ruling out a cyber attack, only to have president biden say later that they don t know if hackers were to blame. sandra: will the white house have the story straight by the time the briefing takes place? it s scheduled for now, so we are watching for karine jean-pierre to take to the podium. when that begins, we ll get to it. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. hectic morning for a lot of travelers. sandra smith in new york. john: some were out on the tarmac and the flight was called back. i m john roberts in washington, what we will be watching for, including the first response from 1600 pennsylvania to those classified documents that turned up at president biden s former office. we ll dip into the briefing for any news. sandra: we ll watch for that. but fir
we begin this hour with breaking news. right now, thousands of flights in the u.s. are delayed or cancelled after a major outage overnight to an faa computer system that provides safety updates for pilots normal flight operations are slowly resuming after the faa lifted a ground stop about an hour ago. the domino effect of the pause is being felt throughout the country. according to flight aware, more than 4,000 flights are delayed. over 800 are cancelled. the white house directed the department of transportation to investigate. the president himself saying he has spoken with the transportation success tear pete buttigieg about getting to the bottom of it. joining us now is ann tone ya hilton. what s the latest after the outage? reporter: there s a lot of travelers who have been checking their phones for hours. this is due to everything you just described. this is a critical function that gives an important realtime safety information. it alerts them to abnormal, unusual
people know i take classified documents i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we will have breaking news on george santos, the disgraced long island republican. first news impacting travelers across the country. flights are resuming after an faa ordered national ground stop just before 6:00 a.m. eastern time caused by an outage to a critical computer system for airline pilots. tom costello has been on top of this story all morning. what do we know? what do the runways look like right now? 7,000 delays nationwide, 1,100 canceled. this computer system called the notum went down. it gives pilots information about the airports they are coming from, where they re going and potential alternative airports. it s included in this. the computer system went down in the early morning hours. as the delays mounted, the faa came in and said, we have to
presidential trapper. available at walgreens. some republicans are jumping on the discovery of classified documents at president biden s private office, equating it to former president trump s large stash of government material stored at mar-a-lago. apples to oranges, really. we re going to go through the differences and play for you president biden s first comments on the matter. house republicans creating a special committee for gop grievances and what they call the weaponization of government. what could possibly go wrong for republicans there? yeah. meanwhile, a republican lawmakers calling out her own party for being tone death on the re-elections. plus a significant development. dozens of soldiers coming to the u.s. for weapons training. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, january 11th. go to have you with us. we have san sfrin politico and host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire. by the way, shoc