A traveler with measles was at Newark Liberty International Airport for several hours while infectious Monday, health officials said.

An out-of-state visitor with measles could have exposed others at Newark Liberty International Airport this week, the state Health Department announced Thursday. The traveler was at Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday between 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., according to the announcement.

Over the past two weeks, several equipment outages at the Philadelphia-based air traffic control center that guides planes to and from Newark Liberty International Airport, have raised questions on just how safe it is to fly at one of the nation’s busiest airports.

An exclusive video obtained by CBS News shows inside the problem-plagued air traffic control facility that handles flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport during a brief outage on May 9.

The recent chronic delays and cancellations at New Jersey’s largest airport have highlighted the shortage of air traffic controllers and the aging equipment they use, which President Donald Trump's administration wants to replace.

Airlines will meet with the Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday to address weeks of delays at Newark Liberty International Airport following air traffic control staffing and equipment issues.

At a House Appropriations Committee meeting yesterday regarding the Department of Transportation’s fiscal budget for 2026, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) referenced Duffy’s comments. She suggested that Duffy “diverted [his] wife from Newark airport to LaGuardia out of a sense of security.”

Las autoridades de seguridad aérea de Estados Unidos están investigando un fallo en las comunicaciones que afectó a los vuelos que se aproximaban al Aeropuerto Internacional de Denver esta semana, el último de una serie de fallos que han puesto en el punto de mira el anticuado sistema de control del tráfico aéreo del país.