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
Connections and then when that happens, the rebookings have to happen. so go to the app, make sure you re on the app. reschedule if you can, travel tomorrow if it s not an urgent trip right now. don t leave for the airport right now away if you can use the app to schedule for another day. but you have millions of people coming and going here at america s airports. this is a vital artery. we heard from the united airlines ceo a couple of months ago, september usually is kind of a slow month for united and september he said was one of the best months they ve had for september in years. that s with liehybrid work in t u.s., every weekend is a three day weekend, people are traveling like crazy. so the airlines have been struggling to keep up with passenger demand. today, this is not an airline issue this is an faa issue to be clear. they have the planes, the staff,
Air, they re fine. let s bring in our chef business anchor, none other than christine romans. you ve been standing by. emailing with airlines all morning. we ll get to all of that. but this means money. this is business. it does and it s an inconvenience for so many people. we re back to pre-pandemic levels. yesterday 1.67 million people pasted through tsa checkpoints in the u.s. that is more than on the same day in 2019 so we are back to prepandemic levels and millions of people are flying at peak operational times you have 5400 planes in the air and all of those connections and business travelers and vacations that are happening here, this is a big inconvenience and it s not because of weather, flight crews that are not available or overstretched or staffing issues. this is 100% because of an faa outage. i was emailing with united
9:00 a.m. here in the united states. but at some airports we re told that is starting to lift at what is it, newark and atlanta airports and they re hoping by 9:00 a.m. it ll lift throughout the country here. 3,700 flights have been delayed, at least until 9:00 a.m. so we will continue to follow this here on cnn throughout the hour. we want to get to am ril walker who s in atlanta international airport, with the latest. what are you seeing? reporter: don, first off, what i m seeing is not nearly as messy or as chaotic as the holiday season. i have been talking to a few people. it s a wednesday, right, so it s a lower traffic less busier travel day. i spoke with a father who i just found out his daughter s flight at 8:55 to california has been
Circumstance where all of the flights across the country have been grounded for what appears to be a problem with the overall computer system. here in california, this is going to impact us, we are in an emergency situation right now with the weather and the storms and flooding and power outages and mudslides so on top of that to have 24 airports which have scheduled flights, to have all the flights grounded is significant for us in our state. does the weather, that was my first thought, the last thing california needs, does the weather impact at all the resources you are getting in from the federal government, outside of money, to help deal with the crisis across the state right now? so it is a state of emergency here. people have been watching these dramatic rescues, we ve had evacuations in santa barbara and southern california and montecito. so we certainly need our airports to bring in supplies