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system forced the faa to ground flights. majority are on the east coast. the white house is monitoring the situation. >> bill: let's begin in atlanta, often the most -- the busiest every day. steve harrigan is there live. what's happening? >> a lot of confusion among travelers here at the world's busiest airport. people trying to arrive and figure out what's going on. will their flights take off? updates in the past few minutes from the faa. they say normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the u.s. following an overnight outage to the notam system. the ground stop...

0 effort to take this balloon down, that would pose a risk to these airplanes down below. so we're seeing this sort of take place to make it so that the area below is clear and safe for this to possibly happen. we will see exactly when that takes place. we know from the ground stop that was published by the faa, that is in place until 2:45 eastern standard time, so another 45 minutes. and this is also impacting, you know, flights that are going into other places. so this might mean that commercial flights on the ground are being told to stay on the ground so the trickle effect, the trickle-dow...