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From a weather standpoint, the flights in the air shouldn't have many issues landing, but no flights in the U.S. are departing due to a communication issue.

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00:00I'm Jeff Cornish. And I'm Anna Azalian. We do want to tell you right off the bat, there's a national
00:04ground stop in effect, according to the FAA, because of a communications outage.
00:09Yeah, this was officially issued at 3.54 Eastern Time. You can see the date and the hour in Greenwich
00:16Mean Time.
00:17But this is tied to a communications outage, as you said. And again, no new departing flights. So there are
00:23some planes in the air right now.
00:24Yeah, as we understand, it will be allowed to land. So we'll continue to track this and keep you updated
00:30on the latest.
00:31The good news, and our forecasting team is tracking this closely, from a weather standpoint, we don't have too many
00:37issues for those airplanes that are still in the air.
00:40Yeah, that's certainly some good news. There are some problem spots in parts of southern New England, the New York
00:46metro.
00:46We have a lot of clouds and a bit of a lower ceiling. And then the west is not in
00:51a good spot here with rain and low clouds as well.
00:53As we tend to, we've had delays all day in San Francisco. Aside from this, because of low ceilings and
00:58because of the rain that's been moving through.
01:01But those are really the main areas that we're tracking active weather.

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