Nationwide ground stop: How will college, professional sports teams be impacted?

The FAA onboarded this new AI smart system. Again, there is no confirmed connection that that is what happened, but it is all very interesting and we're just sharing details of what we're learning with this small updates and big updates that have been rolling out. We do have Antoine Lewis who has been with us because Antoine, what is very interesting that you pointed out is that all of the sports teams that are affected by this, the NBA, college sports, the team's got to get out there to play. They got to fly. There are no planes taking off in the United States right now. So any update on that just looking at some of the reactions coming in from fans trying to get more information on the NBA's Twitter pay X page X account asking what does this mean? What does this mean a couple of New Yorkers who are Brooklyn Nets fans? Wanting to know what does this mean for our game and things like that? So these are some of the problems some of the issues that have been Impacted by a ground stop and one of the first things I want to do is to explain to everybody as Steve pointed out What that means it means that no plane can take off now this information has Came into our newsroom around 3.30 this afternoon that the FAA had issued because of an extraordinary circumstances and reasons for safety, ground stoppage being imposed all over the nation's airports. So we're talking about 19,000 or so airports impacted. And as Natasha pointed out, even though this new technology has been introduced, this AI smart technology, there has been no confirmation of any connection to that. But certainly as they are looking into factors and trying to examine what exactly this means. They have to consider all things. So that's what's going on right now. Ground stops can apply in a single specific airport or regional airspace, but in rare instances nationwide. Now, Natasha, you asked about the sports teams in specific. We've been following the Nets because the Nets were supposed to be playing Memphis on tomorrow and by NBA rules, the team must leave for the city where they will play next at least one day before that game unless they were playing the previous night. So it is our understanding that the Nets were actually seated on a team plane on the runway in New Orleans as of Friday afternoon because they had just played the Pelicans last night and it was supposed to be taking off to go. The ground stop went into effect minutes before the plane was supposed to leave and the Nets stayed over again because they were We're beating there. The Detroit Pistons flew to Miami a little bit earlier. They landed just at 5 o'clock. So they were in the air when the ground stop was announced and went into place. So that would have impacted them. Other teams, there were at least five that were supposed to fly this afternoon for their games. And we're talking Cavaliers. Cleveland, Chicago Bulls, Memphis Grizzlies, Dallas Mavericks, and it looks like Minneapolis was also impacted by this. Let's talk about college football because there are a lot of games that we're supposed to be playing. You know, Saturday games are huge. I like that many were supposed to. Be playing those that arrived, as we understand, before the stoppage include number two, Utah, number six, Texas, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Arizona State, Baylor, Tulane, Kansas State, Purdue, Oregon, Minnesota. Now, those were the ones that had already landed in between like that with getting more information about those that were supposed to take off before the stoppage. These college teams include Florida, Nebraska, USC, Wake Forest, South Carolina, Illinois and Missouri. Now, this is interesting. Alabama reportedly took a bus to Nashville where the Crimson Tide were scheduled to play Vanderbilt. So it looks like they found a plan B there. But again, these are all of the things that we're looking into information. I'm scouring and going over social media, just trying to make sure I'm doing that. And before I send it back up to you, also just keeping my eye on what the Associated Press is reporting and up to speed with as well. And we're still looking into more information. from that. That's the latest from the newsroom. I'm staying here. We'll send it now back upstairs to you. All right. We appreciate it, Antoine.