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am taking the train. kaitlan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. cnn newsroom starts right now, of course, with the breaking news as well. good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we are following the breaking news this morning after u.s. flights were grounded, the faa now lifting that ground stop. u.s. flights resuming here. there is, though, as you can imagine a huge mess unfolding at airports across this country and, frankly, around the world. a key faa safety system went down earlier this morning, that led to some scrambling from coast to coast. here is where we stand at this hour, the faa says it is set to resume more flight departures this hour, but in terms of the backlog, the damage that we re seeing, the delays and cancellations, understandably rising by the minute. new york lines are growing, atlanta and chicago delay warnings taking over departure screens. they may be the lucky ones stuck in the airports that are alr ....
Cancellations, understandably rising by the minute. new york lines are growing, atlanta and chicago delay warnings taking over departure screens. they may be the lucky ones stuck in the airports that are already in their seats, that s what s happening in london where passengers say they have been stuck on the tarmac for hours waiting to take off. the president has been briefed as the faa is still working to find out exactly what caused the outage. i just spoke with buttigieg, they don t know what the cause is. [ inaudible ] i told him to report directly to me when they find out. air traffic can land safely just not take off right now. they don t know what the cause of it is. [ inaudible ] in a couple hours [ inaudible ] and we will respond at that time. [ inaudible question ] we don t know. we will find out. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean has the very latest from reagan national airport. ....