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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...

Even your connecting flights are all going to be not departing or not starting to move until that time. this is a nationwide issue, it's not just a local issue. and, again, we will offer some snacks up front here. help yourself. >> reporter: so that's in state college, pennsylvania. but here in newark things are beginning to get back to normal. this was one of the first airports right here at nuke and atlanta hartsfield-jackson the first airports to get flights going again because of the backlog that was present. we will definitely see more delays here, but in terms of people being able to che...

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There was no one here an hour ago, almost no one standing in line to check in and the folks at spirit tell us that most of their flights are -- they're showing some delays, but most of their flights are getting back on track. you heard pete muntean mention that the domino effect, the ripple effect of some of these earlier flights causing future delays. some folks we spoke to said they're delayed a couple of hours and the boards are showing that as well. an hour, two-hour delays. we do know from flight aware as of the last maybe 15 minutes ago the last update more than 4,000 delays, nearly 700 ...

International airport. we don't know what that means for the backlog and if that will continue to cause some delays here, but if you look at the departure board behind me, yes, there are several delays, just a few cancellations, but of course the advice is that everyone who is flying today to call their airlines or at least check the flight status before they head out. back to you. >> athena jones is at newark, one of the other busiest airports, where they were lucky enough, i suppose, they were one of the first to get things going again. i wonder how quickly are things picking up there or is ...