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System malfunction, showing if not halting some ports of entry. the international arrivals hall is at capacity. we ll continue to the hall as soon as space becomes available. reporter: new york s jfk the first to report what became a nationwide problem. from dallas to dulles, l.a. to miami. everybody is pushing and shoving. got a little crazy over there. i was in line for about two hours. reporter: customs and border protection nearly an hour into the problem called it a temporary outage, but added it is still processing international travelers using alternative procedures. but admitting lines are long at some of the country s largest airports. david kerley joins us now. david, we saw the long lines in your report. now we re hearing systems are starting to come back online? reporter: that s what they re telling us, the systems are up, they re processing passengers. it s going to take a while too deal with the backlog. this is not the first time this has happened. a year and ....