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
programming code error code. because remember, when the faa was developing this system, and this was decades ago, they literally had 5 million computer code glitches they didn t quite know how to solve. so things have improved but even a few lines of code can mess up the system. be mary we want you to stand by. hearing from delta airlines. they re one of the biggest think the biggest carrier and hub atlanta. delta focused on managing our operations during this morning s ground stop. we ll provide more updates as soon as we can. in the meantime, customers need to use the fly delta app. so that s them saying, wait. wait. wait before you come to the airport. check the status. so you re not just sitting there. this is the breaking news on cnn this morning, the faa announced it has put all flights on hold