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Cancellations and delays the rest of today and all of tomorrow. new information in the newsroom now, jonathan hunt is with us. jonathan, what is this. >> shep, united has grounded 96, its entire -- 96 757 entire fleet. cancelled today more expected tomorrow. this is the result of whats called air worthys directed by the f.a.a. now, this was not an emergency directive according to an f.a.a. spokesman speaking to fox news from seattle. that would have meant the planes had to be grounded immediatel...

Information into the autopilot. so this is really, really important stuff. united says, look, the computers have been operating. so it wasnt the real danger. lets look at a statement from them. they say further operational checks were necessary following a modification to the 757 air data computers. all systems have been fully functional. however, the airline did have to cancel at least 25 flights inconveniencing passengers. >> they said we just found out that the faa has sent a message to all 7...

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North of mexico city when they were forced off the road and surrounded by a group of more than ten people. we are told that those agents were doing routine work and driving in an armored vehicle with diplomatic tags. united airlines hoping to get all of its boeing 757s back in the air today. united grounded the whole fleet about a hundred airplanes to do unscheduled maintenance. the airline says it needs to check recent upgrades to air data computers and they measure things like temperature an...

He has had a couple hard questions. well bring you any information you need to know from that press conference. but i want to talk about airlines. im always talking about airlines. for all that we complain about them, we are using them more and more. ive got a lot of news on the airlines today. the first piece of news, the big one, united airlines. it is gradually bringing its boeing 757s back into service today after safety inspections that should have been done seven years ago. in june of 2004...