Planes are back in the sky after yesterday s faa system outage grounded all u.s. flights. the agency wrote in a tweet, we re continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the notice to air mission system outage. our preliminary work traced the outage to a damaged data base file. at this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. that file affected the backup systems. that s not good. the noticed to air mission system noifz pilots where they need to fly. it is separate from air traffic control that keeps planes a safe distance from one another. they directed an after action process for the faa writing this in a tweet at my direction, faa is continuing the system review. it will continue its work to further pinpoint the sources of the issue and steps to prevent it from ever occurring again. yesterday s outage caused a
Cascading cancellations and delays in the thousands. first it was a 20-minute delay and then an hour. reporter: anger is stretching from concourses to capitol hill. ted cruz the top senate republican overseeing transportation is calling the failure completely unacceptable. congressman rick larson is the top democrat on the house transportation committee. we re going to need some answers and i m sure we ll get answers out of the d.o.t. to share with congress and we ll move forward figuring out what to do next. reporter: critics insist faa systems are outdated and underfunded. transportation secretary pete b buttigieg said he s directed an agency after action process to determine root causes and recommend next steps. my primary interest now that we ve gone through the immediate disruptions of the morning is understanding exactly how this was possible and exactly what steps are needed to make sure that it doesn t happen again.
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The decision the helicopter be abandoned and detonated so it could be destroyed in place. so, moving forward, i m sure you got lots of questions. i ll do the best i can to answer them. i want to remind this is an operation not yet 24 hours old. so, while we provide as much context as we can, i suspect, as you ve covered these things before, that we ll learn more information as time goes on. we re still reviewing the results of the operation. we re still going through the after action process that we always do and we ll do the best we can to provide you as much contect. i also would add, and i m saying this as a bit of a disclaimer here, that there are still operational security matters that we re not going to be able to speak to. we obviously take these kinds of missions very seriously. we want to be able to copt to conduct these kinds of
Quickly. it was always going to be moving 5,000 people a day. what is it when president joe biden said u.s. military went over the wall to kabul international airport to help get 169 americans. what does it mean to go over the wall? is it resources going beyond the airport or just picking out 169 americans out of the crowd to get them out of the thousands we have seen outside the airport and bring them inside, just to speed the process of americans. that is the priority of the u.s. military at this point. biden putting an emphasis on getting afghans out as well. they are having much more trouble getting through taliban check points. that s something the u.s. government is trying to work with the taliban on and the lines of communication many the ground on kabul to try to speed that up. this is very far from a perfect process as you see the crowds there. the chaos, we hear the gunfire from videos we have seen. there s a lot of work to go before this process is moving