frustrated after more airline chaos. the faa grounded all u.s. flights for about 90 minutes because of an outage of a system that sends critical safety messages to pilots. there are now more than 1,200 cancellations, 7900 flight delays. it s been less than two weeks since southwest s meltdown. flights have been gradually taking off. at this hour, it s not known what caused the system s failure according to transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he says there s no sign it was terror related. there was an issue with irre irregularities with the messages. we have to figure out why it happened. why it wasn t stopped from being disrupted and the original source of the errors. when there s an issue in the faa that needs looked at, we ll own it. same as we ask airlines to own their companies and operations. we re at the world s largest airport, atlanta s hartsfield-jackson. what s the situation at this hour? reporter: flight operations have resumed as normal for the most p
the race for president. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. good to be with you. aishah: good to be with you, too. karl rove joining us later this hour with his political advice for both parties heading into the new year, and vivek also coming up in a couple moments here. he s fired up on a new recommendation that marines drop the sir, the ma am. is our military taking wokeness too far? begin with a fox weather alert. john: desperate and disappointed, travelers are feeling as the once in a generation storm puts a damper on thousands of flights across america. the dangerous blizzard has intensified into a bomb cyclone as it takes aim at the great lakes and parts of the northeast. erie, pennsylvania and cleveland, ohio, taking the brunt of the heavy snow this hour. john: meanwhile, rain and gusty winds knocking out power to more than 80,000 people in connecticut. new england residents bracing for freezing temperatures this evening. temper
christmas the night before christmas and all throughout the country, good luck for those trying to travel anywhere in the country. more than 11,000 flights cancelled or delayed in the u.s. just today. bad for travelers that can t get off the ground. bad even if you re not traveling because that package you re waiting for might not get to you. fed ex and ups say they are worried and close to 1.5 million americans are without power. fox on top of a country frozen in place with mike tobin in chicago where they re used to flight cancellations but nothing like this. madison alworth in newark, new jersey with a lot of travelers that have had it with this. max gordon in new york where major flooding worries are adding to all of this. fox weather meteorologist steve bender on just how long we re all going to have to deal with this. so forget about who will see a white christmas. the race is on for millions of americans who are having a devil of a time getting anywhere before christma
these are live pictures from atlanta s jackson airport where you can see long security lines already forming this morning. we re tracking hundreds of delays and cancellations at airports across the country. where we re seeing those slowdowns and where the weather could impact your travel plans right now on new day. we re so grateful that you re starting your holiday weekend with us. it is saturday, july 2nd, just two sleeps away from fireworks and hot dogs and all the good stuff. thanks so much for waking up with us. good morning, kristen. good morning, boris. yeah, just two days away if you can get there as you look at all of these major travel disruptions that we re seeing this morning at airports across the united states. they re threatening to spoil the holiday for millions of americans. airports being put to the test as the number of people traveling by plane this fourth of july weekend climbs to near pre-pandemic levels. but staffing issues, cancellations and su
Happened. It seems dubious that the Russian Military, in other words, would want to take down a major passenger plane. Certainly with not the intent of taking it down. Again, we simply dont know who brought this down. Im also here with lieu dtenant colonel rick francona. Just in terms of kants, we have not seen separatists heretofor, they have brought down at least one transport plane, but they were not flying at 33,000 feet. Yeah, this would require, as we were talking about, a more sophisticated system. Talking about, you know, hitting it inadvertently, it would be very difficult for that to happen. Generally once youre locked onto the target, it goes to that target. And if it veers off that target and is no longer being guided, they selfdestruct. But when youre targeting a plane at that altitude, are you
clear on exactly what kind of a plane it is . No, its a return on your radar. Right. It will be a certain size, you can estimate the size of the aircraft. You may have other sensors