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LiveNOW from FOX's airport report captures the shrinking options for stranded passengers before Friday's nationwide departure restriction was lifted.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 374,059 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (28,151).
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Brad Skibo needs a recharge. Reporting from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, he tells anchor Mike Pache his phone battery is running low while he searches for somewhere to plug in.
Around him, the bigger problems are multiplying: departure boards show cancellations and changed boarding times, and passengers queue at service desks and gate counters to rebook. Skibo says the terminal is getting more packed. Pache notices the difference from their earlier check-in, too.
The LiveNOW from FOX Short drew roughly 374,000 views in its first day, more than a dozen times the channel's usual start for the format. It puts a ground-level view beside the official announcements: as the wait stretches into the night, Skibo describes increasingly scarce hotel rooms and the possibility of sleeping in the terminal.
Several prominent comments ask the question this airport dispatch does not resolve: why were flights grounded? The accompanying description cites the FAA's initial explanation of a temporary telecommunications outage. Later coverage on the channel describes investigators examining whether an installation error or a faulty router caused the disruption during a network upgrade.
The airport report was part of a broader surge of interest in LiveNOW from FOX's coverage, including a briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. A subsequent White House update reported that the FAA had lifted the restriction Friday evening, allowing departures to resume. The channel's Saturday reporting continued with the cancellations and delays left behind.
The main international airport serving Austin, Texas, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is about five miles southeast of downtown Austin.
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- Channel
- LiveNOW from FOX
- Subscribers
- 5,640,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 13,381,079
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,566,518 (on a normal day: 1,989,412)
- Video published
- November 13, 2026
- Video views so far
- 376,136 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 20,099
The numbers
The Austin dispatch and several official updates drew unusually large first-day audiences, each compared with the channel's usual uploads of the same format.
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The coverage identifies Mullin as the Homeland Security secretary.