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An official message from Medicare. A new law is helping me save more money on prescription drug costs. You may be able to save, too. With Medicare's Extra Help program, my premium is zero, and my out-of-pocket costs are low. Who should apply? Single people making less than $23,000 a year, or married couples who make less than $31,000 a year. Even if you don't think you qualify, it pays to find out. Go to ssa.gov/extrahelp, paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Everybody, Evan Brown and our Fox correspondent in Miami, Florida, to talk a little bit more about what's going on with our transportation system here. I was just talking to Jay Radcliffe, Evan, from daytradefund.com in the market, but he spent years in the airline industry as well. And oh my gosh, what is going on? He says there's still some problems happening out there. And then Delta, they had some internal things, despite the fact that Microsoft brought on a big barrage of problems for everybody. But where are we on this? Yeah, well, the problem was not Microsoft itself, but CrowdStrike, which is a very large cybersecurity software suite that is used by large companies, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and the like. It's designed not just to prevent virus attacks, but also hacking and the like. And they pushed an update to their users who are on Windows. And that update was faulty. Its software coding was faulty. And because of that, it took down things left and right. They have since pushed an update to that that would correct it all. But adopting it has been a bit slow. And Delta has had a significant impact here. There were a number of airlines that were impacted, but Delta seems to have been the worst. There's still canceling flights, may or may not be directly because of the CrowdStrike issue. But they are still having troubles getting people to where they were supposed to go or getting them home or whatever the case is. And now the Department of Transportation is looking into this. Why did Delta have such a troubled experience here? Where other people, other agencies, other companies were certainly affected, but they seem to be able to recover much quicker. And that's a big question here, because Delta is such a large airline. And so many people depend on it, not necessarily just for getting to vacation spots, but also for business travel and whatnot. Well, with the breakdown, obviously the hotel industry picked up a lot, because there were a lot of hotels near airports that were completely booked, and people had to spend the night inside terminals, and people chose to do that as well, because their flights were so close to each other. But moving forward, I mean, when you have problems like this, are there ways now to not repeat the same problem in place? Well, that is the big question, right? You know, what are the contingencies that these companies have in case their vendor for cybersecurity has a failure? Yeah. And Jim, I think there would be probably, I would imagine a number of companies would be interested in suing CrowdStrike. They're supposed to be able to depend on them. But I also think it highlights the need for more than one of these vendors at that level of computing, right? That more than one company needs to be able to provide these services so that the companies like Adelto have options, other than just to go with CrowdStrike and be dependent on them. So I think it's kind of unveiled a number of issues in our cybersecurity. And, you know, could they be exploited in the future by an actual bad actor? Yes, yes, they could. Yeah, absolutely. Well, maybe this drives some competitiveness out there as well, with CrowdStrike and another organization, Elon Musk, or somebody else that's monstrously big, to develop the same similar type of software that will do the same thing for them. We'll have to wait and see if that does spark them. All right, Evan, thank you so much. An official message from Medicare. A new law is helping me save more money on prescription drug costs. You may be able to save, too. With Medicare's extra help program, my premium is zero, and my out-of-pocket costs are low. Who should apply? Single people making less than $23,000 a year, or married couples who make less than $31,000 a year. Even if you don't think you qualify, it pays to find out. Go to ssa.gov/extrahelp, paid for by the US Department of Health and Human Services.