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
than the system were supposed to work it out. they ve had update meetings with industry et cetera and it has greater implications for even more systems in the faa. so, it sounds like you re saying this speaks to potentially more bigger issues facing the faa than just today s failure if this has been more than a decade since people have been talking about this being a major issue that needs to be addressed. yes, and because so many different applications of our national aviation system, national aerospace system depend on it, as you foreign carriers, foreign carriers can t come here without accessing this system and also by the way, literally hundreds of users are allowed to interface with this system to run their airlines. so really, the miracle is it s amazing that it only take the notam system down because so much depends on this computer architecture and it s run by a host of different contractors,