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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says flights will be reduced by ten percent for the airports nationwide starting today because of the impact of the government shutdown.

Mark Mayfield with more.

The list of airports that will be impacted reportedly includes major travel hubs such as Lax, New York, LaGuardia, Chicago O'Hare, and Phoenix Sky Harber.

This comes as staffing shortages are causing delays and cancelations across the country.

Duffy acknowledges the move will cause an increase in delays.

Duffy says this is to help with air traffic controller shortages and to help the controllers deal with fatigue they've been working without pay because of the shutdown.

Also in focus on day thirty eight food assistance, after a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to pay full November snap benefits by today, saying people have gone without for too long.

President Trump is announcing sweeping cost cuts on obesity drugs.

Sarah Lee Kessler with more.

The White House says Eli Lilly, which makes ZEP bound and Novo Nordisk, which manufactures with GOVI, will lower the prices of those injectable weight loss drugs as little as three hundred and fifty dollars a month for Starter Jos's list, prices now exceed one thousand dollars.

Trump also says Medicare will start covering the drugs.

In exchange, the White Houses agreed to give the pharma companies priority, two month review for certain drugs and a break on tariffs, all this starting in January when Trump RX, the administration's direct to consumer website launches.

UPS has identified the three crew members who are killed in the crash of Flight twenty nine seventy six at the Louisville Airport more from Paul.

Miles, Captain Richard Wartenberg, first Officer Lead Truett, and International Relief Officer Captain Dana Diamond were operating the flight from Louisville to Honolulu when it crashed on takeoff.

In a video statement at UPS, executive Vice President Nando Ceseroone called it a tragic event.

I'm Michael Kassner, a federal judge is issuing a sweeping injunction that places more permanent restrictions on the use of force by federal immigration agents in Chicago.

Lawyers for plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit over the treatment of protesters and journalists say they're working to ensure federal agents follow the judge's order.

We will ask for sanctions, and we will make sure that this injunction is enforced across the region wherever these government agents go.

Judge Sarah Ellis extended restrictions put on area immigration enforcement through a temporary restraining order last month.

The order limits agent's use of tear gas and other riot control weapons.

Ellis accused top government officials of lying in their testimony about threats that protesters post, including US Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino.

The Department of Homeland Security says they will appeal the ruling.

A new Polo Florida Hispanic shows more than one third of Latinos say the economy is worse than it was a year ago, and they mostly blame the Republicans for the shutdown.

In Florida, fifty five percent of Florida's Hispanic voters blamed Trump and the Republicans in Congress for the shutdown, compared to twenty four percent blaming Democrats.

In Congress.

BPS researcher Barry Segura says Unidos by partisan poll of Hispanic voters found the majority of Florida's Latinos worry about income and job security, with eighty one percent concern that Congress is giving the president too much authority over immigration deportations and crime crackdowns.

Today's national day is going old school.

More from Breed Tennis.

It's National Fountain Pen Day.

A chance for you to be fancy and your letter writing.

You still do that right.

We've been using the fountain pen since three thousand BC, and in that time they still haven't figured out how to prevent smudging or ink well spills.

But they are regal and Pilot Pen says about one hundred million are sold every year.

A fun fact.

They are the original pen that can ride upside down.

I'm Michael Kassner.