states. reporter: the number of flight delays are still climbing along with major outrage over how air travel came to a near unprecedented halt. the faa did just post that no u.s. departures will happen today until 9:00 a.m. reporter: wednesday morning, airports across the country stood still as the federal aviation administration implemented a nationwide ground stop, something not seen since the n9/11 terrorist attacks. interesting day. everybody except medivac and military stopped. reporter: the faa fail injury st failure started overnight in notices to air missions the bulletins provide the latest information about airports and air space. it s absolutely essential and the system can be very fragile. reporter: the effect cascading cancellations and delays in the thousands. first it was a 20-minute delay and then an hour. reporter: anger is stretching from concourses to capitol hill. ted cruz the top senate republican overseeing transportation is calling
pete: good morning, good morning. so great to be back. will: it is halloween on fox & friends this morning. we will be dressing up a little later in the show dressing up in our costumes. pete: how much input did we get into your costumes? the answer is zero. there is a little bit of confusion about who is what. rachel: i saw your outfit, they told me it was mine. i was like, how am i supposed to wear this? it was huge. they re like, then later on it was figured out that actually that was your outfit. pete: okay. i haven t even seen mine. will: i think i know what pete will be. i can t imagine you being that. [laughter]. by the way there was, we had a halloween parade, dog costumes. pete: was it a parade? will: it was not a parade. pete: may have been described as such. rachel: there is rachel s hunky boyfriend, our producer. will: her dog flapjack. rachel: her dog flapjack. will: didn t win. we had an instagram poll which dog had the halloween costume. the dog named tucke
suarez live in tampa. chad myers is tracking the storm. chad, we re talking about all of the computer models, the various paths. what are they telling us right now? they re getting more organized even though there are five or so different models that we look at. the ones that the american model was really way out in the middle of the gulf of mexico. that was last week. the european model was in the atlantic ocean, 700 miles away. now all of that has calmed down and narrowed down to about a 100 wide strip where not that much air, what a pretty picture as long as you doan have to deal with this. this is the hurricane. the visible picture from the sky. this is what it looks like when you talk about the hot towers. the big thunderstorms around what could be and likely later today an eye. the storm is now breathing. it is sucking air into it from the surface and it is blowing it up to those towers and out of the top and that is what we call a breathing, living, growing hurricane
immigrants are hoodwinked, promised shelter and jobs, only to end up at martha s vineyard because of a republican governor s immigration protest stunt. how volunteers have come to the migrant s rescue. and the ceo of fedex delivering a dire warning about the economy with his company on the front line of the supply chain crisis. welcome to the lead. we ll start with that ceo s gut punch. the head of fedex warning that not only does he think that the united states is headed for a recession, but business is starting to slow around the world. that message created a lot of anxiety on wall street today. fedex stock tumbled, the dow is closing this hour after spending a day in the red. let s bring in cnn s alison kosik. we often come to you at the top of the show when the markets are either substantially up or massively down, but this time, it s this comment from fedex that is getting the world s attention. and fedex s ceo was pretty direct about where he thinks the economy
Universities dont stop some of these protests, sandra. Sandra Alexis Mcadams live in New York City at columbia. Calling on congress for more bombs and more weapons. Which we know will only lead to more violence and more death and more atrocity and absolutely not, absolutely not most of america is not with you, mr. President. [cheering] most of america is not with the people that dont want to deescalate and to facilitate a ceasefire. To obviously not talking to these americans. Sandra that happened just moments ago, congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and cory bush, they are demanding a ceasefire as the white house asked congress to send billions in new aid to the middle east. More on this this hour, but Breaking News, a source telling Fox News Hamas has released two american hostages and that is great news all over the world. Im sandra smith in new york. John very good news. John roberts in jerusalem, America Reports as another alert goes off on my phone, we are working to confirm more informa