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Then you think about all those flights and where they're going to land. the planes that have come from the u.s. need to go to manchester, birmingham, paris, maybe cardiff. you can imagine not being able to use that airspace. you have an enormous number of controllers trying to find places for all these planes to land and then you have those flights that might delay others taking off. so anybody who's going to take a flight around this part of europe i strongly suggest you check before you go also think about flights that simply won't take off from the u.s. if they were going to because there w...

We're talking about flights coming in from the u.s. many dozens able to come from american airlines, united and delta all being hugely disrupted. originally we were told the airspace was closed because of a computer failure. now they're saying a technical problem or power failure and they're saying that the area around southeast england is restrict sod they are restricting the number of flights in and out of the airspace. it was believed the airspace would be closed completely until 2:00 eastern but they are now stressing that the airspace is open but we restrict traffic volumes in accordance ...

>> just, you know, just getuessing now. any guesses? >> yeah. here is what i would say. the conventional wisdom is the university of chicago. university of illinois in chicago. it's a public school. there's a populous democratic spirit. i'm with you. >> public school larger more inclusive, and the university there in hawaii are they actively trying to -- >> yeah. the draw back there, of course you say there are plenty of tourists who go to hawaii. but it is so remote and the idea of making these libraries assessable to people when you're that far off the mainland maybe it makes it harder. that...

International hub canceled and even more delays. and then there is the ripple effect because of a computer failure. a real life demonstration of how a downed computer system can cripple air travel for thousands and thousands of fliers. >> london, heathrow airport one of the busiest international airport, at a stand-still on friday, no flights going in or out. >> we got the back-up canceled so we had to get out. >> the air base closed after the computer system went down. many planes were diverted. >> the vulnerability exists because of the fact there should not be one singular point of failure ...

Midair to another location. this is a massive operation going on now. >> yes, but i want to stress that they are telling us that this is closed due to a computer failure. they're not saying anything more than that. i can't remember a time when they've closed the airspace for this many hours because of a computer failure but i don't want to read anything more into that right now it's a massive computer failure and that's an area called swanwick. it controls the entire london region, which is a large region with at least five airports and we are talking about not just flights coming and going to...