In New Jersey, travel woes continue for passengers who have been experiencing long flight delays and scores of daily cancellations at Newark Airport for over a week amid staffing shortages, thick cloud cover and ongoing construction. The chaos started last Monday after air traffic controllers lost radar and radio communication with airplanes for 90 seconds due to a technical problem at the Federal Aviation Administration’s facility in Philadelphia, which has been experiencing outages. The incident led to the controllers taking trauma leave to recover from the stress.

United Airlines has canceled 35 round-trip flights out of Newark Airport per day, citing customer safety concerns and calling out the FAA for failing to keep its air traffic control system updated. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for an inspector general to investigate the “chaos” at Newark.