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Industry. it's about all the millions of jobs that we support that are dependent on connectivity and aviation and getting people from point a to b. and so this was not only about saving the aviation industry. it was about saving an industry that is a critical cog in the u.s. in the global economy. >> reporter: american airline c.e.o. doug parker says another reason why these problems will not happen again at its airline is that it is aggressively hiring, adding 16,000 jobs in 2021, 18,000 planned for 2022. we will see if this all works going into the massive holiday rush. the tsa anticipates h...

Do you know what the plan is to get everything back and functioning normally again? >> well, people have already been warned that it's probably going to take another five hours before some of the regularly scheduled flights begin to resume or get back on schedule. many of these flight cancellations or delays are residual effects of what took place on thursday when that winter storm swept through the area. and the airlines have been trying to keep up, but as we heard from jfk today, there's several issues here. frozen equipment breakdown. there's a shortage in some of their staff right now beca...

Stranded on airplanes because of these cascading effects, residual effects from the delays going to the last update from officials, frozen equipment break downs and staff shortages and also heavier than normal passenger loads. this is grading what they describe as cascading series of issues for airlines that are still trying to recover amid this cold as well. this is the latest situation not helping the process here after thursday's storm. the water leak and we will keep doing the situation after we find out what will be the full effect of the incident. we will let you know. >> a bad situation...

Airplane is not america and shouldn't be. and that -- the reason he got on that boat or however he got to the united states was to avoid oppression. and that is oppression. that is trampling on people's rights for no good reason and we should all stand up and say no to this. >> united promised to fix what is broke son this never happens again and saying they'll make big change that's will take effect by april 30th. of note, the airline said they won't ask law enforcement officials to remove passengers from our flights unless there say matter of safety and security. a good place to start you th...

To this. >> united issued a statement after the press conference promising to fix what's broken so this never happens again. and saying they will make big changes that will take effect by april 30th of note the airline said that they won't ask law enforcement officials to remove passengers from flights unless it's a matter of safety and security. good place to start you think. >> you know it's a good place to start. let's see what happens. you know, i'm going to hang on to my wallet on this one. because we've got a system under great stress here. with the passenger loads, the -- the amount of ...