Plane Sit News Today

Happening in the midwest, the big airlines only have about five or six hundred planes each and if theyre sit only the ground at chicago, its going to cause backups even in warm weather cities like miami or los angeles. even last night, my producer had trouble flying from kansas city back to los angeles. he got in late last night but his brother was delayed for more than 24 hours. looking at the total numbers, across the country, 2,000 flights have been cancelled. more than 3,000 flights delayed....

Flights on saturday, several hundred on sunday, and the focus has been on the 737 300s that might have cracking. any know that they saw significant cracking on that plane that made the emergency landing on friday in yuma. the question is whether other planes might have similar types of issues underneath whats called a lap joint, that is a joint when the different plates of metal on top of the plane sit on top of each other. underneath one of the plates they found the significant amount of cracki...

>> bob: pain and suffering. >> andrea: how long will it take congress to do something about this? we used to hear about the terrible stories about people trapped on planes. they didnt have food. they were maybe not having the sanitary conditions on the plane. they passed a law in congress. any airline that lets a plane sit on the tarmac for more than three hours gets fined $25,000 per passenger. thats why they keep canceling all the flights. im just, im just throwing it out there. >> eric: that ...