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Working to reroute aircrafts that were planning to land. cnn is live first now in dc and joined on the phone by former faa inspector. first, what happened. >> well, fred this is such a busy quarter and this is causing major delays. confirming that they're having a problem with the flight tracking computer system. so computer problems and it's affecting three major dc area airports, bwi, reagan nation and then the one in virginia. this is a busy quarter, and a lot of travel plans are being affected. the faa spokeswoman telling in a statement that the faa is diagnosing a problem at an air traffi...

The faa telling cnn in a statement, "the faa is diagnosing an automation problem at an air traffic center in leesburg virginia. some flights into and out of the new york and washington, d.c. metro area airports area may be delayed. we are directing high altitude traffic around the affected air space." separately from this an faa official adds that this has nothing to do, they believe with an accident or any sorts of hacking. and they do say that things are starting to get back to normal. that's according to officials. but, of course fred, we just heard from vaughn and have heard from many othe...