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and a texas showdown, a judge hearing arguments right now in the high-stakes lawsuit over abortion pills. this is what we're watching at this hour. ♪ ♪ thank you so much for being here. i'm kate bolduan. the u.s. state department does not call in the russian ambassador every day, but that is what's happened. this is after the pentagon says a russian fighter jets forced down a u.s. spy drone in international waters in the black sea. according to u.s. officials the russians first dumped fuel on the drone similar to the one you see here and then hit its propeller forcing the u.s. ...

grounded right now. i want to take you to the scene, this is in las vegas. keep in mind, okay, this is a system that pilots use for any kind of notification. not clear how many flights are affected or which locations. we want to get straight to pete muntean but we're told new information pete as we get to you perhaps you have information on this. united has delayed all flights temporarily as well. what is going on? >> reporter: so far we've heard from american and united airlines. united said it's holding all flights on the ground right now because of the major system outage, the not...

good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc head quarters in new york city. if you're watching this from an airplane gate, you already know the headline. more than 8500 flights delayed or cancelled after a key system went down. >> your flight was supposed to leave at 9:30 this morning? >> yeah. >> what time are you going to get to leave? >> 5:00 p.m. >> wow. so what are you going to do? >> just wait. >> how much more do passengers have to take before something is done to fix the airline system? plus house republicans are staing the first battles of what looks to be an all out politic...

Faa is holding a rare emergency safety summit, and so far we heard from the acting faa administrator as well as the transportation secretary pete buttigieg. this is happening as the agency at the faa is investigating yet another close call between two commercial jets. this time at reagan national airport. pete muntean has the latest. >> this latest incident underscores how serious this problem is. to put this into context, the last time the faa held a safety summit like this was in 2009. that was the last time there was a fatal crash involving a commercial airliner in the united states. there ...

According to the "new york times" boeing actually has been surveying thousands of passengers for an answer to that question. joining me now, cnn's reporter with details on this. this is fascinating. what is the "new york times" finding out? >> reporter: they've uncovered that boeing has been serving thousands of people from around the world, asking whether or not they would be comfortable getting back on this max jet. 40% of the people that they surveyed in december says, no. not comfortable flying on this plane gagain. same as october. not a lot of thing that. the "new york times" through doc...