Newark airport disruptions continue

After yet another ground stop at Newark Airport over the weekend, U.S. Transportation Secretary

Sean Duffy holding a press conference blaming many of the issues on outdated equipment

And Fox News' Linda Schmidt is live at Newark with the very latest. Linda, what can you tell us

Well, first of all, they blame the outdated equipment today. Those complaints have been

coming for decades now. It dates back to at least the Obama administration. The system has never

been updated. So here we are. Today at the news conference says Transportation Secretary Sean

Duffy, along with the FAA, saying that they have established an emergency task force to work with

both Verizon as well as a contractor that works with the FAA. Their plan is to add three new

telecommunication lines between Newark and Philadelphia to help alleviate some of the

problems here. But that is just a temporary fix. Also today, they said a software update was

implemented on Friday to help prevent radar and communication outages in the future but also said that is a temporary fix Secretary Duffy also said he plans on meeting Wednesday with all of the airlines that operate out of Newark to reduce the number

of flights here. The goal is to have a manageable number of flights land at Newark. Families

shouldn't have to wait four or five hours for a flight that never takes off. By lowering the number

of flights, we can ensure the ones that are kept, they do actually take off and they do actually land

And we also learned from that news conference this afternoon that the critical shortage of

air traffic controllers here at Newark cannot be fixed by deploying controllers from other areas

here to Newark. That's because on average, it takes about two years to train an air traffic

controller already in the system, it takes about two years to train them how to work in a different

airspace. So that obviously is not a solution here. Back inside to you. Yeah, the problems continue

All right, Linda, thank you