System Processing Delays News Today

am taking the train. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. "cnn newsroom" starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. ♪ good wednesday morning to you, im jim sciutto. >> and im erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the wor...

Even your connecting flights are all going to be not departing or not starting to move until that time. this is a nationwide issue, its not just a local issue. and, again, we will offer some snacks up front here. help yourself. >> reporter: so thats in state college, pennsylvania. but here in newark things are beginning to get back to normal. this was one of the first airports right here at nuke and atlanta hartsfield-jackson the first airports to get flights going again because of the backlog t...

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There was no one here an hour ago, almost no one standing in line to check in and the folks at spirit tell us that most of their flights are -- theyre showing some delays, but most of their flights are getting back on track. you heard pete muntean mention that the domino effect, the ripple effect of some of these earlier flights causing future delays. some folks we spoke to said theyre delayed a couple of hours and the boards are showing that as well. an hour, two-hour delays. we do know from fl...

International airport. we dont know what that means for the backlog and if that will continue to cause some delays here, but if you look at the departure board behind me, yes, there are several delays, just a few cancellations, but of course the advice is that everyone who is flying today to call their airlines or at least check the flight status before they head out. back to you. >> athena jones is at newark, one of the other busiest airports, where they were lucky enough, i suppose, they were ...

Am taking the train. >> kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. "cnn newsroom" starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. ♪ good wednesday morning to you, im jim sciutto. >> and im erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key ...

Position because this had a delay has lasted so long nationwide. think about this, the planes are in the wrong spots, the crews are in the wrong spots and they are mandated by federal regulations that makes them essentially time out if they have been on the clock for a certain period of time. so even though this ground stop is over, the delays may linger here and that is the big question as we go forward, jim and erica. >> absolutely. pete muntean, appreciate it. thank you. also with us cnn anch...

Relies on the notam system, always have, in my 30, 40 years in aviation i have never known this system to go down. so i think this is a significant problem right now. >> so to that point, david, what vulnerabilities in this system could this expose? and, again, were early, they havent figured out what brought it down, but the idea that a system like this could bring basically the whole air transportation system down and very quickly, listen, thats worri worrisome. >> its very worrisome and even ...

Displayed. it has you confirm that you read t it says, yeah, i read this, i know that. so its shifted the responsibility now over to the pilots and the dispatchers. so were going to continue to see delays because theyre going to now have to check every airport, every route 25 miles both left and right on that route to see if theres anything that might affect that flight. so theres going to be continued delays. >> so, david, early on this morning as we were watching this, we saw that -- weve hear...

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