FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to 'extraordinary circumstances'

Back to the breaking news across the country. The FAA ordering a nationwide ground stop, this about in the last 30 minutes or so, for all airlines due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety. An unprecedented move from the government agency that hasn't been done since 9-11. So all planes grounded right now. Judea's in the newsroom here. I know you're monitoring this. This is a once every 25-year event, and you hear reasons of safety. You start worrying, but now Sean Duffy's saying that it seems to be a communications issue. Yeah, that is what all the officials are telling us as well so far that we've gotten in. Of course, we're going to keep our eye on it. And I've been doing a lot of my own research as well. So, Jason, we actually have seen this happen in the last couple of years. The last time this happened was January 11th, 2023. Then it was a pilot notification system error. It went down. This only lasted about two hours, just under two hours. And at the time, it paused all domestic flight departures. About 10,000 flights were delayed, over 1,000 canceled. And then, of course, before that, we're talking about the terror attack, September 11, 2001. Then all civilian flights were ordered to land at the nearest available airport. So what we're talking about today, right now, all flights currently in the air will be allowed to finish their routes. We were trying to look out at some of the different airports, determining whether we were seeing flights come on in. Of course, we're not able to confirm that just yet. Again, what we're hearing from Sean Duffy, what we're hearing from some of our other air... One of the experts is that this would be a communications issue. But that has me wondering, how are they going to communicate with the pilots who are still in the sky? I've heard in a couple of different reports that potentially, as they get closer to their landing airports, they could be ordered to get a little lower in the sky. I'm just trying to make sure that this is as layman's terms as possible. Get a little lower in the sky, where then they would be able to hear from the air traffic controllers. All flights that have not taken off just yet, as you can imagine what a ground stop means, you are not able to go anywhere. International flights they're running right now on a case-by-case basis. Now I've got a couple of questions as I continue my research and hopefully I can get you some answers soon. The first one of course being how many flights are currently in the air over the U.S. That is a figure that I have not been able to put my finger on just yet but that would determine for us you know how many flights are being impacted and then the second one is how long this could last. So we know with the one that happened January 11th excuse me of 2023 that was just We're going to try and wrap this up and figure out how much more I can give you guys. Again, I'm continuing to do this research and get you guys more information, but that's what I have so far, Jason. All right, Judea, thank you very much. Let's go straight to the airport. Let's go to Mrs. Martinez, my wife, Lissette, who is a flight attendant and now stuck in the airport along with many, many, many others. So, hon, what's the situation in there? I mean, everybody's frozen in time, right? We kind of are. We heard the announcement when they said it over the loudspeaker. It wasn't really much. We don't know anything, but we heard the announcement. No one's really going crazy right now. Everyone's just kind of standing around. To see what ends up happening. No one's upset yet, but we'll see in a couple minutes or a couple hours who knows how long this is gonna take. You probably know more than I do, because we get all the text messages kind of at the same time here. ...at the airport. We're not that special. We don't get much info. The FAA says there's a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all air route traffic control centers. So FAA technicians are investigating the issue. I just was wondering what the announcement was. What does the big board show? Is everything canceled? Thank you very much. What about flights that had boarded maybe? Are they just sitting on the tarmac? My goodness, I haven't even noticed if anything was actually boarded right now. For the most part, every single airplane is at their jet bridge. Nothing is moving around. The board still says flight's taking off. They've pushed back departure time up until now. They just said, hey, we're gonna push it back 15 minutes. And who knows if they keep doing that for the next 15 minutes, 20 minutes, who knows? The board still shows things just a little delayed. Nothing canceled yet. Yeah, no announcements or anything, it looks like. Okay, so everybody's still getting to the airport. They're going through security, and then soon they're going to be stuck in the terminal. And maybe this gets resolved sooner rather than later, but they haven't issued a nationwide ground stop for all. planes since 9-11 like this. So, all right. Well, I'll let you go, hon, because we got to go as well. Incredible. But thank you very much. And I love you. All right. Okay. Bye.