There's a battle playing out over who should control American universities.

We're going to bankrupt these universities.

In season one, we were guessing what was to come.

Now we know.

We want $500 million from Harvard.

It's season two of The Harvard Plan.

This time, it really is personal.

Listen to On the Media wherever you get your podcasts.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

More than 2,000 flights were canceled today, according to the flight tracker,

Flight Aware.com, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is warning that air traffic around the country

could slow significantly if the federal

government shutdown continues into the Thanksgiving travel season. It's only going to get worse.

I look to, you know, the two weeks before Thanksgiving, you're going to see air travel be reduced

to a trickle. We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays. They want to see

their family. They want to celebrate this great American holiday.

Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane.

Speaking there on CNN, Chris Brown with the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1040,

which represents TSA workers in North Texas, says some air traffic controllers who have gone unpaid for nearly a month have stopped working and that their situations are getting dire.

Some of my bargaining unit employees telling me that they're getting close to being evicted. They're getting close to having their cars repossessed.

They can't put food on a table for their families or put gas in their cars just to come to work.

The FAA says flight reductions should reach 10% by this Friday.

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