Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Omna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, a sudden closure of El Paso's airspace leads to confusion and security concerns.

A delayed jobs report shows stronger than expected hiring last month, but newly revised numbers inject more uncertainty into the

jobs market.

And Judy Woodruff explores Boston's patriotic past and its struggles to live up to its founding

principles.

You know, you see factors from the past, from the really distant past, hundreds and hundreds

of years before that were never settled.

Welcome to the News Hour. The commercial airspace over El Paso, Texas was temporarily shut down early this morning.

The FAA, citing unspecified security concerns, initially said all flights would be halted for 10 days.

But just a short time later, the FAA reversed course and reopened the airspace,

saying only that the closure was done out of an abundance of caution.

The explanations offered by the Trump administration have led to many questions and tough criticism about how it was handled.

William Brangham has more on this chaotic, confusing turn of events.

That's right, Umna. After the FAA announced the reopening, an official with the Trump

administration blamed the issue on Mexican drug cartels, alleging they'd sent drones near the airport

that had to be dealt with. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, stood by that assertion later today.

But multiple news organizations reported that the closure was in fact

triggered by the Pentagon trying out a new anti-dron defense system without giving aviation

officials enough time to assess its danger to commercial flights. On the ground in El Paso, though,

the city's mayor, Renard Johnson, decried the confusion

and lack of communication. I want to be very, very clear that this should have never happened.

You cannot restrict airspace over a major city without coordinating with the city, the airport, the hospitals,

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