Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight,

more than a thousand flights are canceled across the U.S. amid the longest-ever government shutdown,

while SNAP food benefits remain in legal limbo. As President Trump targets the agency in charge of jobs reports, we examine what other labor market

data says about unemployment in the U.S.

One number is never going to tell you everything you want to know, but there is value in having

a headline number that everybody understands.

And Tucker Carlson hosts white nationalist and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes on his show,

causing a rift in the News Hour.

U.S. airlines began cutting flights at major airports today as the longest government

shutdown in U.S. history continues.

More than a thousand flights at 40 airports were canceled by early evening. And the Trump

administration battled in court over in order to start paying food aid immediately. Lisa Desjardin

reports all of this comes as Congress and the President remain deadlocked over a way out.

Today, a government ordered nationwide scaleback of flights and a new question mark for travelers.

Nobody want to travel and then you end up getting stuck, so that's definitely a concern for a lot of us, for sure.

As the government shutdown enters its 38th day.

I think the shutdown is terrible and it's affected my travel and that I woke up this

morning not knowing whether or not I could take my flight. Meanwhile, over a million federal

workers have been without pay for at least a month, many forced to stay on the job. And many air

traffic controllers and TSA workers are calling out sick.

TSA agent and mother of two, Maggie Sabatino, is watching her pantry closely, staying home for a specific reason.

When I call out, I tell them the truth.

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