is fast approaching. virgin orbit s team usually based in california have decamped to cornwall, and they re setting up a new mission control here. it s quiet now, but on the night of the launch, it will be bustling. it s the nerve centre of a complex operation. we basically have three different launch systems out there. we have our ground hardware, we have an entire aeroplane and a rocket. and so we have people that kind of specialise in each area of expertise here in the control room. so they re kind of looking at the data, making sure everything s healthy, consistent check ins throughout the day to make sure everything s going really well. and then we kind ofjust take it from there. the jumbo jet used to be a passenger
what s the scene there? . reporter: poppy, i want you to look at this board right now. things are beginning to change here at newark. the faa about a minute ago sent out an update, update number four, saying they re making progress on restoring the critical information system that pilots need on the notice to air missions system. they said that departures are resuming here at newark airport and atlanta s airport due to air traffic congestion in these areas. we expect departures to resume at other airports at 9:00 a.m. we ll see if that happens. you see the orange delayed next to these flights and then you see yellow check in open, just in the last few minutes some of the earlier delayed flights turned into check-in open. now some of the open check-ins are for international flights. we spoke to several passengers
mayor adams says the city cannot afford to put the bill and they are demanding federal help or else. this is unfair to all of our cities to have to go through this without any help from the national government and the state government. i m not going to sugar coat it, i m not going to give the impression that this new influx is not going to impact our basic services. and this is new video of long lines of migrants this morning in downtown manhattan waiting to meet with immigration officials for mandated check-ins and appointments, and back here in midtown manhattan, the city, the mayor says they expect a surge of 1,000 new migrants a week if title 42 ends. sandra: doesn t matter if you are a border community or not, everywhere has to prepare for the influx. thank you very much. john. john: thad cleveland, a sheriff in texas on the border
every way possible, internally by firing lots of people and demanding loyalty, long working hours, individual check-ins with engineers and on the platform itself by posting twitter polls to ask if donald trump should come back. something that he said he was going to do before he bought the platform. he s kind of making a little bit of a joke out of this, you know, semi public space. yeah, he definitely seems to be enjoying his new role, his power with the company and you have a great new piece and point out twitter is still a company, right, but it s also just a guy and what i found really interesting is you make the excellent point this is not tesla, this is not spacex. this is not elon musk building a company from the ground up. part of the friction, i guess, that you re seeing is that he took over this existing company and culture. that s a much different way to begin. it s one thing to build a company around a vision like
down there, in the black, we have run into a lot of groups that were participating in the macy s thanksgiving day parade and they re all heading home. and i can t show you, because there is a group check-in area downstairs mobbed with people. there has been that here. and generally speaking pretty smooth sailing and take a listen to what travelers we re talking to say they want to get ahead of early. take a listen. my semester ends next week. i m hoping to finish. i hope by traveling today, there will be less people traveling, but people are always traveling. just be safe. a straight flight home. i m surprised the airport doesn t look more busy than it already is. we ve been keeping track of tsa check-ins as best we can and here it is running smooth, and the lines are relatively short and looking over past year, the tsa put out some numbers that showed that this year has not quite reached where we were in