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Lakshmi Singh (0:15)
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. As the holiday season begins to ramp up, airlines are starting to cancel hundreds of flights to meet a Federal target of 10% fewer traffic at the nation's busiest airports, the fallout of a government shutdown. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says air traffic restrictions will happen gradually.
Sean Duffy (0:38)
Going to be 4% today in regard to those 40 airports. And again, we're going to step ladder that up to get to 10% next week. The exact number I can't give you. And I don't want to see the disruption. I don't want to see the delays.
Lakshmi Singh (0:53)
As air traffic controllers go on five weeks working without pay, Duffy says the restrictions are the best way to keep air travel safe. Duffy addressed reporters at Reagan national airport outside Washington, D.C. where in January a mid air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black hawk helicopter killed 67 people. The shutdown has forced a broad cross section of federal workers to go weeks without a paycheck. Some community organizations are stepping up. From member station wamu, Jackson Sinneberg reports on how one school district in the Washington, D.C. area is helping.
Jackson Sinnenberg (1:30)
Arlington is the first Virginia suburb you hit west out of D.C. and home to the Pentagon. It's a hotbed for federal employees. That's why the superintendent of Arlington Public Schools asked the district to come up with ideas to help families. One solution, serve dinner at three schools while the shutdown lasts. Arlington Public Schools. Frank bellavia, when you think about communities.
Lakshmi Singh (1:49)
You think about the schools that are there. And these are really are the backbones of the community. So us being here and doing this.
Jackson Sinnenberg (1:56)
Me is nothing, is nothing different. The school system plans to serve 250 meals at each school every weeknight for 30 days or until the shutdown ends. For NPR News, I'm Jackson Sinnenberg in Washington, D.C. the first Friday of the.
Lakshmi Singh (2:09)
Month typically offers a comprehensive report on the performance of the nation's employment sector for the prior month. Today, Labor Department has not released such a report. The government shutdown. President Trump says that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords. These normalized diplomatic ties between Israel and several Muslim countries during Trump's first term in office. But NPR's Frank Ordonez reports Kazakhstan already has full diplomatic relations with Israel.