BREAKING: Widespread technology outage disrupts flights, banks and media outlets | LiveNOW from FOX

Welcome back here on live now from Fox 69. over on the east coast and 319 on the West coast. My name is Josh Brelo, and I'm here for the next several hours to bring you all of your top stories and breaking news and I do want to get to this image right here that we have. of 1 of the airports. across the country that are dealing with a mess right now. We're talking ground stops from many major airlines including American and Delta they've issued the ground stop and it's all connected to a widespread Microsoft outage. also impacting Banks some social media outlets and other companies around the world. Microsoft does say it's working. to gradually fix the issue, which has reportedly affected companies like Visa. ADT Security and Amazon and that's really just to name a few the list goes on and on. airlines in the UK Europe and India have reported problems as well. and Microsoft. 365 did post on X the company was quote. working on. rerouting the impacted traffic to alternate systems to alleviate impact in a more expedient fashion, and they were quote observing a positive trend in service availability. The company did not respond to a request for comment and did not explain the cause of the outage we did hear from our Fox 5 DC teams, Melanie Alnwick a short time ago. Who said that some of the flights are are returning to normal. But as you Can see on that monitor right There It simply says recovery. So not everything is working and this does appear to be over at the airport in Atlanta. What I'm going to do is play for you some comments that were made moments ago by officials there. Let's pop up the audio and listen in Sorry. and 1 more little Scoot and I'm ready Come on. We good. 1 more second on me. All right, that's right. buddy. Thank you. Yeah, he says he's rolling. Okay. Hey, will you keep the mic flat down a little bit? I'm sorry about that. No worries. Okay, Give me a thumbs up already. Good, okay. um. 1 2 3 I'm Andrew goal on the director of communications here at Hartsfield Jackson Go b i l where where are the incident which is ongoing just a quick look around the airport right now. We'll show you that Uh, this is an unorthodox situation. but we are working with our Airline Partners. we're working with all of our partners to mitigate any challenges faced by this ongoing incident. which is impacting numerous Industries. worldwide. Uh, we are recommending that all of our passengers listen and monitor. their social media channels on their individual Airlines to make sure that they download the apps with their Airlines for information. and of course to follow the airport social media channels as well. Uh again, we're keeping our eye on the situation We're doing everything we can to mitigate this ongoing situation. and we'll provide more updates as necessary. any of the airlines telling you if keeping you updated on when they'll come online. 1 no. We are not right now hearing that. Let me I'm sorry. Let me rephrase that. Um we are constantly in communication with our Airline partners. That is something that our Emergency Operations team will be coordinating. now. We know that this is impacting the individual. Airlines Is it impacting any airport operations as well? internally? at this point? know we are just mitigating what could be some of the passenger facing challenges that we're seeing right now. as always we are prepared for busy days and today was going to be a very busy day. but we are prepared We're working with our customer service team and with making sure that all of our passengers are addressing some of the challenges as needed. Here at the airport here the airport spokesman Andy go. tell us a little bit about what this airport is going through right now and what you all are doing on your end, of course again, it's a projected busy day today. It's Friday during the holiday period What we're dealing with right now appears to be uh an incident involving. um software worldwide impacting a number of different Industries. including the aviation industry. 1 Challenge that we're facing right now Is that some of our customers when they come in to try to check into their? Airlines? are addressing some of the challenges there so we're working with their Airlines to make sure that they get all of the support that they need. we're working with our passengers to make sure that they get all of the support that they need as well. in terms of to the FAA about that's well above my pay grade, but 1 of the things that we do is again. different Affiliate the country that are covering this from each and every angle many of them at their local airports, and we do have those live images that we are showing you this 1 right here that I'm popping up on your screen is Orlando. International Airport that is where our Fox 35, Orlando team is live. shaping up as far as traffic is concerned but until then Deborah Danielle back over to you. and we appreciate it. Just thanks 602 now to that breaking news. We've been telling you about all morning long. some major airlines forced to ground their flights and a global internet outage could be to blame for those issues Fox 35 is Marley camper is live at Orlando International Airport this morning and Marley. I will tell you if you didn't know already. looks like American Airlines says that they have safely been able to re-establish. their operations. So is that what you're seeing there as well? Yeah, we did learn moments ago that American Airlines was able to safely reestablish their connections, but that doesn't mean that all the flights are going to be able to. hop right back on and Delta United. Allegiance so many other airlines are still having troubles. I mean take a look at the line. We're in the Delta terminal and it hmm 5:30 we spoke to some families They've maybe moved up 30 feet in the line. So Delta just announced a few minutes ago that they're going to have all of their flights grounded until 8:00 a.m. That could extend that's just the latest update that they said here locally at the airport. and they said only 1 of their computers is working via ticket encounter Some people have tried to use the kiosks here and they aren't working So this is a global issue. This is a software problem. That's happening. Uh all over. the UK. Uh, it's even widespread in India and Australia so so many people across the the country and across the globe are going to have these travel issues. I'm going to bring on Eric Okay, so you found out moments ago when you got here. what was your first reaction? what's going on? Like why are we? waiting in long lines? Just stuck. I mean, this is not normal for Orlando Normally it's pretty quick. So definitely walking in seeing the news crew. You're going something's going on. Yeah, and so, Tell me where are you traveling? And what were your plans We're trying to get to the Philippines. We had a death in the family. So we're trying to thank you. We're trying to get home to. to handle that and you know last minute trip, you know. now we got to figure out how we're going to get there to handle that So, yeah and you you waste the kiosk and it didn't print out all your tickets, you said and now you're scared that you're not even going to make your connections cuz you have a lot of stops. Right, right. We have um here to Detroit Detroit Detroit to Incheon Incheon to Manila and then Manila to the north of the Philippines, so we got 4 455 flights. I think it is so 27 to 30 plus hours of travel. and updates at this point from from your apps or anything. No nothing from a Delta saying they just the last thing I got was we looked to see you on board. No notice of delays or anything. So all right, Eric, I'm praying for you guys. I'm so sorry. I'm praying for your family as well. Hopefully. they're able to get this sorted out. Um, the FAA is aware of the issues and they're working closely with all the airlines many airlines have reached out to the FAA to ask them for help when it comes to the ground stops. So we'll be here live all morning giving you. guys updates as they come in. So make sure to stick with good day Orlando, but for now reporting live at MCO Marley Capper Box 25 News. All right, Marley. Thanks so much for that and this is reportedly a Microsoft outage we're talking about here according to orders this outage is also impacting the London Stock Exchange. and according to the Associated Press. companies like visa and ADT and Amazon. also, experienced technical issues as well as Banks media companies. They also and I think we were experiencing some issues a bit earlier if you were listening our audio board was just going all over the place. and clicking so it's possible that we were impacted as well. We're actually working to figure out what the deal is there. 629 over on the east coast and 329 on the West coast. My name is Josh brell, and I'm here for the next several hours to bring you all of your top stories from across the country and across the world. Do want to take you out to some of the live images that we do have at airports all over the country right now This is actually over. at LaGuardia We do have as I mentioned a bunch of different shots that I do want to pop up for you. This is Orlando. International Airport. This is over at the airport in Boston. And let's see what else we have. It looks like those are the only airports that we're seeing right now. that don't have any sort of. reporters standing in front of the shots, but we also have this 1 showing the exterior of LAX and we know that things are fairly quiet now, but give it just a few hours and you're going to see traffic backed up there for quite a while. We've also been keeping an eye on the flight board this morning to let you know of the number of flight. delays and cancellations as you'd imagine that number is going up. very quickly. as of right now. There are about a thousand delays Within. into or out of the US. in about 660 cancellations