Homeland Security Secretary addresses media amid nationwide FAA ground stop

Just to make sure we understand, there is no indication and we had no reason to believe that as of right now that this was a threat to the United States. This was a telecommunication outage throughout FAA. Out of abundant caution, we have grounded all the flights and all the flights are accounted for as incoming flights. Either internationally or the flights that are currently still in the air. We'll be dealing with those case by case. As you can imagine, there will be a Priority list as they start coming in but as I will repeat myself there was no prior indication, there was no indication as of yet that this was a a nefarious attack against us. It's just a telecommunication outage as of right now. The last time I believe that we've had a Had a national ground stoppage was 9-11, of course, through DHS. We're getting a ton of calls saying, is this a terrorist attack? Is this a terrorist attack? Everybody's safe. There is no reason to be concerned about your loved ones, if they're flying or anything like that. I just want to make sure everybody's at ease about that. As we investigate what caused this, you always got to assume that as many cyber attacks that take place, that you make that assumption. But as of right now, that's not known. So we're going to continue to work. The first thing we want to do is make sure we restore the communications. We get all the flights on the ground, and then we get back normal operations. But we're going to continue to work to find out what the root of the cause is.