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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

71% of flights delayed on Saturday.

We're all because of staffing issues.

And since the beginning of the shutdown,

more than 4 million passengers have personally experienced travel troubles.

Okay, it's a bit of a misleading stat.

How many millions of travelers get delays on a regular weekend, I wonder?

Quite a few, as that is just the way flying is in the United States now.

But no, it's a huge problem.

The headline being the shutdown is going to end this week.

Eight senators, Democrats crossed and said, we'll vote to end this thing without getting any of the stuff that we're demanding for the past 40 days.

And that's seen by some as caving.

I don't know how else you would see it.

But the shutdown is going to end this week.

Government workles will be back to work Thursday.

Now, unraveling the whole airport thing,

don't have any idea how long that's going to take

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