Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Thursday, January 12th. I'm Naila Boudou.

Here's what we're covering today. The influx of migrants arriving on South Florida shores. Plus,

the internet's short video creativity crisis. But first, today's one big thing. The latest

Fiasco to snarl US airtrap. Air travel across the US was at a standstill for several hours

yesterday morning because of an outage to system. The FAA uses to send real-time safety alerts to

pilots. I've directed FAA to figure out exactly how this happened. The timeline piece by piece about

what was known overnight going into last night and then coming out of it. That's transportation

secretary Pete Buttigieg on MSMBC yesterday. But yesterday's outage is just one of many issues

the airline industry has faced in recent months. Here to explain what's going on is Axios's Joanne

Mueller. Joanne, let's start with this FAA problem yesterday. Do we know what caused it?

I think that the FAA is still trying to figure out exactly what's behind it. But it's one of those

systems that is only there for rainy day when there might be trouble, but you can't really operate

without it. And so that's why they ordered a ground stop. Yesterday was very specific and unusual,

but let's zoom out for a second. Why has air travel been such a mess for the past month?

Well, you know, it's really longer than the past month. You know, if you go back to last summer,

there were repeated meltdowns. And a lot of it was people coming back to traveling after

the pandemic and weather problems that disrupted travel in certain areas. And it quickly escalates

through the whole or cascades, I should say, through the whole country. And also the air traffic

control system is kind of overburdened. There's a lot more flights in the air. And now we have drones

and other things like that. And the FAA is working hard to keep up, but they've got pretty old

technology. And that's going to need to be fixed. What can we expect Secretary Buttigieg to do

to smooth things over or fix this? It's interesting. The transportation secretary has been blaming

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