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Nearly 94 million hitting the road. >> now we're sitting still. >> reporter: at e airport so far, a mixed bag. >> i'm glad we've got a lot of leeway becausehere's flow way if i was even here two hours early, i don't think i'd make a flight. >> as you see, there are no lines. no lines at all. >> reporter: in newark, new jersey, friday, getting to the airport was a headache for some when an air train got stuck. onepansioner tweeting, "-- one passenger tweeting, "hundreds stranded. send help." for other flyers, potentially facing long lines or delayed flights, not a concern. >> i'm not worried. h...

Condition this morning. heather? >> on-line al qaeda magazine is targeting san francisco airports for destruction. the spring issue of inspire an al qaeda propaganda magazine has a picture of the air train at the san francisco international airport. it goes on to instruct the readers to quote stand up, pack your tools of destruction, assemble your bombs ready for detonation. despite this the fbi insists there's no specific threat to the san francisco bay area. >> fireworks on capitol hill over the irs scandal. law americas putting more pressure on lois lerner to give up what she knows about th...

That something called positive train control could be something that helps prevent accidents like this. explain to our viewers and me, frankly, what positive train control means. >> it means that there's an outside influence on how the train is operated. so if you have a computer driven system, the system is going to tell the train to slow down, regardless of what the operator's telling it to do. let's not forget that we have a lot of trains in this country operating with no operators whatsoever. right there at jfk, we have the air train that leaves jfk airport every day multiple times going t...

What one lawmaker describes as a nightmare snar yoe. alison kosik joins me now. what are we learning about these security concerns? >> well, don, these are some stunning ref lailgss that came out of a state homeland security meeting that happened here in new york city on friday. about some of the city's biggest vulnerabilities. >> reporter: at jfk airport, a fully automated unmanned transit train called air train rolls into the international terminal several times an hour. in testimony at a state homeland security hearing on friday, a port authority police union official said train patrols hav...

Much the entire airport. terminals a, b around c lost power. 30,000 customers were affected so it's just not the airport, but the prime impact, of course, is at the airport. it has caused some delays there. the faa says it's only at the terminals, and we have some good news to pass on. we've just gotten off the phone with two stores in terminal "c." they say their power has just come back on, so hopefully the entire airport will be restored before long. brooke, this all happened beginning at 2:30 eastern time. >> okay. so hopefully the people we were just reporting stuck in the air train and m...