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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 to coast....

Position because this had a delay has lasted so long nationwide. think about this, the planes are in the wrong spots, the crews are in the wrong spots and they are mandated by federal regulations that makes them essentially time out if they have been on the clock for a certain period of time. so even though this ground stop is over, the delays may linger here and that is the big question as we go forward, jim and erica. >> absolutely. pete muntean, appreciate it. thank you. also with us cnn anchor and correspondent amara walker who is at atlanta's hartsfield-jackson airport, athena jones is at...

Relies on the notam system, always have, in my 30, 40 years in aviation i have never known this system to go down. so i think this is a significant problem right now. >> so to that point, david, what vulnerabilities in this system could this expose? and, again, we're early, they haven't figured out what brought it down, but the idea that a system like this could bring basically the whole air transportation system down and very quickly, listen, that's worri worrisome. >> it's very worrisome and even more so worrisome to me is i just went on to check my notams because we use these for pilots up ...

Displayed. it has you confirm that you read t it says, yeah, i read this, i know that. so it's shifted the responsibility now over to the pilots and the dispatchers. so we're going to continue to see delays because they're going to now have to check every airport, every route 25 miles both left and right on that route to see if there's anything that might affect that flight. so there's going to be continued delays. >> so, david, early on this morning as we were watching this, we saw that -- we've heard from passengers in london sitting on the tarmac for three hours but we know of flights takin...

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