What the government shutdown could mean for your next flight

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  It's Wednesday, October 8th.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, the Supreme Court weighs a ban on so-called conversion therapy,

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  an important FDA approval that went under the radar,

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  and the man who went hiking and missed his Nobel Prize call.

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  But first, the government shutdown is beginning to take its toll on the nation's airports.

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  Right now, air traffic controllers are deemed essential,

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  so they have to keep showing up for work, but there are still problems emerging.

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  All 11,000 of them are still working without pay in the government shutdown,

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  and some are now calling out sick during a time when they're not getting paid.

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  That's Pete Monteen, a CNN correspondent covering aviation and transportation.

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  He reported with his colleagues that on Monday night,

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