WASHINGTON – United States Secretary of Transportation, Sean

Duffy says if you're going to be flying anywhere for the thanksgiving

holidays, you may want to make other plans. Secretary Duffy said

that the flight reductions could go as high as 20 percent due to air

traffic controller staffing shortages. It's not for certain yet, but that's

what could happen if the government shutdown continues. So far

40 airports are affected as air traffic had to be reduced due to the

shortage of air traffic controllers. The air traffic control system is

also being rebuilt as the systems have been outdated since the

late 1980's. The problem is in the United States Senate, where it

takes 60 votes to pass the clean finance bill, that was passed, by

the U.S. House of Representatives, and 53 of the 54 Republicans

voted for the clean bill, but the Republicans lack 6 Democrats to

vote for the clean bill. The Democrats in the Senate nearly

unanimously voted no except for two Senators who voted yes with

their Republican colleagues to keep the Government open. The

Government Shutdown now reaches its 40th day as of November 7th.