told the states that they ought to make building new roads the lowest possible priority because of climate change. we are talking about somebody more interested in trans phobia than transportation. dana: how do things look today, grady? the situation here at the airport now is a lot better than it was at this time yesterday when that nationwide ground stop had just been lifted. but the airlines are still playing catch-up today. in fact, right now there are nearly 700 flights across the country that are delayed. pales in comparison to yesterday. by late last night more than 10,000 delays had piled up across the country. more than 1300 flights were canceled. the faa says that flight system went down as a result of a damaged database file and says there is no evidence of a cyberattack. though curiously canada s
ainsley: grady trimble joins us from o hare airport. good morning steve, ainsley and brian. the situation here this morning is certainly better than it was at this time yesterday. but the airlines are essentially still playing catch up this morning after yesterday s nationwide ground stop. the first since 9/11. by late last night, there were more than 10,000 delays that have piled up across the country. more than 1300 flights were canceled throughout the day faa says flight system went down damaged database file. there is no evidence of a cyberattack. pretty scary that we have a system like that that doesn t have a redundancy and redundancy to make sure that doesn t ha happen. to make any family plans or vacations, i m very nervous because it s, you know, it s money out of our pocket.
we re getting a clearer picture now into what went wrong behind the scenes. the faa now says it was a damaged database file that led to the meltdown of the mission to air systems, which gives critical alerts to pilots. the damaged file not only caused the main system to meltdown but also the backup system to meltdown according to sources. now multiple government sources tell us this is initially a problem known to the faa on tuesday afternoon but the faa tried to reset that system on wednesday morning when it thought it would have the least impact on air travel that ultimately failed causing the nationwide ground stop. multiple sources tell us that that file was not put in by any one particular person, they don t know that just yet, they also don t know if it was any one particular action that caused that file to be corrupted. there s big questions here for pete buttigieg, the faa falls under his portfolio at the
o donnell: operations at the f.a.a. and major airlines have returned to normal, but the lingering effects of yesterday s outage that grounded flights, that may take days to recover from. more than 4500 flights were disrupted today, mostly because of the bad weather. more than 12,000 were delayed or canceled on wednesday. the f.a.a. is blaming a damaged database file in a system that is nearly 30 years old. in a galaxy far, far away, nasa makes another amazing discovery. gets used to a different one with opzelura. for the treatment of mild to moderate eczema opzelura is proven to clear or almost clear skin. and significantly reduce itch, fast.
this is human error. which i apologize for. this was an access database file that was on our regular system, and it was just a matter of the save. it was just a matter of human error. has something like this ever happened before? not that i know of. now we welcome professor. what do you make of explanation for the missing votes reappearing today? and this make sense to you? not really. it s awfully bizarre. in a clip that wasn t part of what you showed, she claimed that they didn t use the form she sent them, that they amended