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We've already covered a lot of good stuff. I'll give you a rundown

later in the hour if you miss thing. But I want to get right to Alex Stone, ABC News, because this

idiocy continues with the federal government. They're cutting flights. Eventually, it's going to be over

4,000 flights a day, you know, a week from now. eventually it's going to be over four thousand flights a day uh...

you know a week from now and it's because you know they shut down the government

and they never thought about hey maybe we should fund air traffic controllers

let's uh... talk to alex see how bad it's it's gotten and it's how bad it's

going to get

Alex

hey there john yeah this has the potential to be a major headache for anybody who's traveling,

so that the airlines were given about an hour's heads up yesterday

before the FAA came out and announced that they're going to begin canceling 10% of flights.

They're going to begin at 4% and then ramp up to 10%.

And this is to reduce strain on this system as so many air traffic controllers and TSA, but this is about air traffic controllers are calling out sick because of the shutdown.

They've gotten another paycheck that has a $0 pay stub on it.

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