The FAA will deploy a temporary backup system to Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control as it seeks to switch to a fiber-optic network.

Several equipment outages over the past two weeks at the Philadelphia-based air traffic control center that guides planes to and from Newark Liberty International Airport have raised concerns about how safe it is to fly at one of the nation’s busiest airports.

Newark Liberty Airport has become the poster child for the problems plaguing the nation‘s airports.

Severe weather will continue in the Southeast and northern Rockies in the short term, then expand and shift to a large part of the Central and Eastern states as the week progresses.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says flights in and out of Newark will be scaled back.