Gophers flying to Penn State after nationwide ground stop

Like we've been saying, we're keeping a close eye on how yesterday's flight cancellations are impacting the Gophers. The team plane is scheduled to fly out momentarily. Fox 9's Emily Pofall is live from MSP with more on what we know. Emily? Yeah, so a little bit of good news in the chaos here at the airport this morning. The Gopher flight is scheduled to leave at 9:15. We know that they were actually on their charter plane on the tarmac yesterday when FAA issued that full ground stop. They wound up having to deplane, go back to campus for the night. But we're told they made it back here this morning and they are set to take off just any minute now, really. The FAA issued that ground stop at about... At 4 p.m. yesterday, and it sent airports around the country into chaos. We know that the transportation secretary says that it was because of communication issues between air traffic control towers and an overloaded and outdated system. So they were able to lift the ground stop about four hours later, but this is still the longest ground stop in the last 20 days. 25 years, so a lot of impacts at airports around the country. There are thousands of delayed and canceled flights, including more than 100 here at MSP. So, again, some good news for Gopher fans that at least the game today seems like it'll be able to proceed as normal, you guys. Yeah, that is certainly good news. Emily Pofall doing great work for us out there at MSP. Emily, thank you very much.