in less than a month after holiday travel was severely impacted, tied to weather and a meltdown at southwest airlines due to outdated airline systems. this time southwest is canceling 400 flights. still nowhere near as bad as just weeks ago when it had to cancel more than 16,000 over about a week. but now, with an faa failure, every airline is being affected. we booked our flight to chicago with about a ten-hour layover just in case something happened, and i m glad we did. reporter: even with operations continue ever continuing to normalize, the next step for officials is making sure this isn t the new normal. this situation begs the question about the current state of the technology structure of the faa. we ll have to look at that. reporter: now it is understanding how this was possible and what steps are needed to make sure it doesn t happen again. now today, we ve seen more than
China's technological research capabilities have seen steady growth from 2014 to 2019, characterized by contributing to 12,284, or 4.5 percent, of the global total number of "triadic patents" within the period.
state, totally normal. but it s not just iraq, but the president appointed kushner on a list of other issues, including trade deals, communicating with china, heading up the office of american innovation which includes updating the entire government s technology structure and tackling the opiod epidemic crisis. he s very good at politics. reporter: he s held meetings with foreign leaders when rex tillerson was noticeably absent. today the president was asked how he can do all of this. there s a lot of relationships that jared has made over time with different leaders, mexico being one of them you mentioned, that are going to continue to have conversations with him and help facilitate. that doesn t mean it s not being done in coordination with the state department. quite the opposite. he s a direct line to the president where the other institutions are not? great. i think that s good for government. reporter: so is jared kushner, who sources say has won
american innovation which includes updating the entire government s technology structure and tackling the opiod epidemic crisis. today the president was asked how he can do all of this. there s a lot of relationships that jared has made over time with different leaders, mexico being one of them you mentioned, that are going to continue to have conversations with him and help facilitate, that doesn t mean it s not being done in coordination with the state department. reporter: so is jared kushner, who sources say has won the president s confidence by projecting a lot of confidence especially when he doesn t have the experience or knowledge of the defactor secretary of state. to the point that some diplomats like the chinese ambassador have