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Cancellations and delays the rest of today and all of tomorrow. new information in the newsroom now, jonathan hunt is with us. jonathan, what is this. >> shep, united has grounded 96, its entire -- 96 757 entire fleet. cancelled today more expected tomorrow. this is the result of what's called air worthy's directed by the f.a.a. now, this was not an emergency directive according to an f.a.a. spokesman speaking to fox news from seattle. that would have meant the planes had to be grounded immediately. this is a voluntary grounding of all united 757's. it's to do apparently with the air data comp...

Information into the autopilot. so this is really, really important stuff. united says, look, the computers have been operating. so it wasn't the real danger. let's look at a statement from them. they say further operational checks were necessary following a modification to the 757 air data computers. all systems have been fully functional. however, the airline did have to cancel at least 25 flights inconveniencing passengers. >> they said we just found out that the faa has sent a message to all 757s that they have to be inspected before they can fly. they haven't told us what the issue is. we...

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North of mexico city when they were forced off the road and surrounded by a group of more than ten people. we are told that those agents were doing routine work and driving in an armored vehicle with diplomatic tags. united airlines hoping to get all of its boeing 757s back in the air today. united grounded the whole fleet about a hundred airplanes to do unscheduled maintenance. the airline says it needs to check recent upgrades to air data computers and they measure things like temperature and air pressure. those checks take about an hour per plane. some flights could get canceled today bec...

He has had a couple hard questions. we'll bring you any information you need to know from that press conference. but i want to talk about airlines. i'm always talking about airlines. for all that we complain about them, we are using them more and more. i've got a lot of news on the airlines today. the first piece of news, the big one, united airlines. it is gradually bringing its boeing 757s back into service today after safety inspections that should have been done seven years ago. in june of 2004 the faa ordered carriers to replace the jets' air data computers which regulate speed and altitu...