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Live from america's news headquarters, i'm patricia stark. air travel on the east coast is slowly getting back to norm a. thousands of passengers experiencing hours of delays or had their flights cancelled. an automation problem at an air traffic center in virginia is the cause. the problem has been resolved. technicians are trying to figure out what cause it had. former president bill clinton hitting the links with president obama on martha's vineyard today. civil rights leader vernon jordan and former trade ambassador ron quirk rounded out foursome. president obama and mr. clinton will be ...

>> that's a great question. we don't know exactly at this time. we know that this is been happening over the course of many hours. we're hearing this there were ground stops in certain areas and airports, so potentially knowing that this is a problem, it prevented them from taking off. that dramatic picture that you you showed of the flights in the area and the big area around dc and there's not many flights in the air show that they're keeping the planes. >> yeah, a lot of people and david with us now as a former faa and safety inspector. when you hear an automation problem in virginia and by...

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...