Transcript of Nationwide Ground Stop Issued for All Planes, Complete Mess!

Alright, we got breaking news at this hour. I am stuck, just like many of you, right now. We have a ground stop across the United States of America. I waited a little bit to make this video, to get all of the information right now. It is coming in fast. The ground stop was issued about an hour ago, grounding all flights across the United States of America, essentially indefinitely. According to the FAA, there is a, quote, "telecommunications issue" that has essentially forced all planes to ground. If you are in the air watching this, you will be fine. You will land.

Rule out that this is not a cyber attack? And how long do you expect this outage to last? What is the cause of it?

So we're working with Secretary Duffy on this. We're not ruling out anything at this point. The first thing is the safety of everybody that's flying. We are assured that everybody is safe. Everybody that's going to be in the air that's currently on a plane, your loved ones, as I said, we're going to get you on the ground, and we're doing it in a safe manner. To say that we can rule out anything, that's not what we do at this point. The first thing we want to do is make sure everybody is safe and we restore operations. Flights, either internationally or the flights that are currently still in the air, we'll be dealing with those case by case.

Secretary Mullen, you're saying that there's no indication yet that this was a nefarious act. Does that mean that you just haven't seen the evidence? And it's possible that this could be either a cyber attack or some kind of an AI intrusion?

Well, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. Anytime something like this happens--I mean, the last time I believe that we've had a national ground stoppage was 9/11. Of course, through DHS, we're getting a ton of calls saying, "Is this a terrorist attack? Is this a terrorist attack?" Everybody's safe. There is no reason to be concerned about your loved ones, if they're flying, or anything like that. I just want to make sure everybody's at ease about that. As we investigate what caused this, you always got to assume that as many cyber attacks that take place, that you make that assumption.

So is it currently the communications is down as we speak right now?

Yes.

And then secondly.

There is--Let me explain. We are able to communicate at certain levels, but it's overwhelmed some of the systems we have. Once again, Sean Duffy, Secretary Duffy, is on this. He was on the phone earlier with the President and several of us, and they're doing a phenomenal job in a crisis mode.

So is it days or weeks?

That's too early to tell. That's too early.

How are we going to.

I didn't have him got you. Go ahead.

Thank you so much. You say this is not a 9/11-style event, but if it is a widespread telecommunications issue, it could in theory be a cyber attack related to some sort of terror, a version of terror, but the modern-day cyber version.

You can't--This isn't the same comparison to 9/11. That is a road I won't go down. But people are making that assumption because it's a stoppage. Do we know what has caused it yet? No. We're going to go through it, but I'm not going to make assumptions. As I've said multiple times, it's very difficult to make assumptions. We want to always deal with facts, and we're going to deal with facts, and as we get them, we'll roll them out to you guys. All right?

So that's the latest from Mark Wayne Mullen. But don't worry, he wanted to make sure everyone knew it's not AI.

Can you explain just--the President has been briefed? You've talked to him?

Yes.

And then.

Well, there was--I wasn't the only person in the room, obviously.

And then there are thoughts that this could be an AI-related error or issue.

We call it SI, I don't even remember. SI.

We call it SI around here. Remember SI. That is what they're suing right now. When there's a nationwide outage, when people are stuck and people are furious, here's more from a CNN analyst who knows what they're talking about.

Yes. But what are you learning as you're talking to sources?

We don't know the depth. We don't know the scope of this totally. We know a little bit about the why. And that is, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, problems with radio frequency outages at air route traffic control centers. Those are 22 different facilities in the United States that control high altitude aircraft in routes. That's not airplanes departing. That's not airplanes arriving. Typically, at their cruise altitude, these facilities are responsible for tens of thousands of miles of airspace.

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