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it's the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. more than 8,000 flights have been delayed just today after the faa made a rare move in the ground of safety. they grounded flights to work out major flights in a messaging system. pilots use this system to learn about safety hazards in realtime. >> somewhere overnight, there was an issue with irregularities in the messages that were going out that reflected a bigger systems issue, and this morning at about 7:00, there were still problems validating that the messages were goi...

You look at the chinese. numerous attempts to get into u.s. transportation systems. they've tried to hack into the metropolitan transportation authority right here in new york. so this is a matter of due diligence which is, a, they have to figure out what went wrong in the system, and then they have to figure out, was it from the inside or was it from the outside? >> john, thank you very much for explaining all of that. let's discuss further. we have peter goles, and zach britch. thank you so much for being here. peter, what do you think? just from the cursory information that we have so far...

Delayed, those are pretty astonishing numbers. one of the nice things, though, is today is a quieter travel day. the holiday period is behind us. there are lots of seats for people to be rebooked and rescheduled on connecting flights. typically what airlines like to do is they'll reset their operation tonight and get the pieces in place to have tomorrow morning start out fresh, clean slate. nice thing though is if you are booked, the airlines all have waivers, the big ones, american, delta, and united. you can pre-emptively make changes without any other fees. >> peter, when all the chaos was ...

In -- is in these documents, and these are ten classified documents with briefing materials with countries such as iran, ukraine, and the united kingdom. ultimately here, this is a story of a white house being very cautious as we watched this judicial review taking place and very concerned of course, as well about the prospects, the possibility of a special counsel being appointed in this matter. we know that when special counsels are appointed at white houses, it rarely goes well ultimate i will for the president currently sitting in the oval office. >> jeremy diamond, thank you for that. let...

Workers and airlines. and he said he lost money here. and allegedly he tampered with the aircraft so he could get overtime so he could work on this plane. >> yeah. that's a hard one to wrap your mind around. thank you so much. there's nothing but questions about this one. joining me right now on this one is peter goles. great to see you, peter. i want to raet just a bit from the complaint against this mechanic and what he's accused of. this is what it says. he inserted a piece of foam into the air data module systems inlet where the line connects and then he applied superglue to the foam as to...