Nationwide ground stop delays AUS travelers

Box 7 Austin's Dominique Lay is at ABIA where she's been talking with people all afternoon and evening about this ground stop. Dominique. Alec, yeah, I talked with people all afternoon talking with them about birthdays they're going to miss, concerts they're trying to make and just trying to get home. But one of the questions on a lot of these people's minds is, is this ground stop related to yesterday's outlook outage? And DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullins is saying the two are not related. And he's also saying that right now there is no, there is nothing that indicates that this is a cyber attack. But he cannot rule it out 100%. We are not going back to Korea today. We hope that maybe tomorrow or we don't know when, because the flights are delayed. So before coming here to the airport, we already know that the flight was delayed, but only for one hour. And right now, We have no information. Delays, cancellations, and a lack of information for people at Austin-Bergstrom Airport after the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop following communication issues impacting multiple air route traffic control centers. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is saying routers got overloaded with data because of an old air traffic control system. We talked to a lady over here and she basically just said the whole section with all the restaurants and the gates is just completely closed. We don't know what to do with our check-in bags either and we asked her okay then what is everyone doing in here and she said I have no idea. So it sounds like everyone's kind of just standing around. Waiting for an update. One woman who boarded her plane and was ready to take off tells me her plane's pilot was giving passengers updates every 15 minutes. Be like, oh yeah, I'm here to give you an update. There's no update. We haven't heard anything from the company. We haven't heard anything from air traffic, so we're just going to sit here. And after nearly two hours, passengers were let off the plane about an hour and 45 minutes. We went back to the gate and then we all had to get off the plane and then it was just like pretty much. All these people in the airport just not knowing what to do.