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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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36 air traffic control facilities of reported staffing problems.

That includes the towers in Chicago O'Hare, Dallas, Fort Worth, Phoenix Sky Harbor, huge hubs for American Airlines.

You can also have the towers at San Francisco and LAX to the list.

This is all on the heels of the worst weekend for air traffic control staffing since the shutdown began.

Yeah, we're at day 42. The shutdown, it's going to end, but it hasn't officially ends.

So we're on day 42.

And the flight problem is still big 3,000 cancellations on Sunday, 2,500 yesterday, and off to a bad start today.

And they don't know how long this is going to last.

I still don't quite get the lots of air traffic controllers retired.

You had a life plan, and then you altered it because of the shutdown?

You retired early?

What?

I don't get it.

I mean, even a year early because of this mess up, that'd be odd, but it happened, I guess.

Apparently.

Anyway, I'm looking up at all your big, there are 1,200 cancellations so far today.

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