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All that smoke from the Canadian wildfires that's forcing millions of people to stay indoors. It's also causing major flight delays. The FAA delayed flights in and out of airports in New York and Philadelphia. The agency says flights, laguardia were delayed on average two hours and flights from Newark were delayed. An average of 82 minutes, no delays were showing at the city's other major airports J F K in particular as of this afternoon. And in a statement, United Airlines says it's monitoring the situation closely and looking out for the safety of our employees who work outside and adjusting our schedule where needed. The website flight aware shows as of three PM eastern time, more than 2000 flights were delayed across the country and Google is telling its east coast employees to work from home because of the hazardous air quality in the region due to wildfires in Quebec Canada. In addition, the tech giant closed its campuses in New York City as it advises employees to limit exposure to outdoor air. New York's Department of Environmental Protection is saying the air quality is unhealthy with major mayor Eric Adams telling residents stay inside and there's going to be one less thing to watch on TV. Tonight. The Yankees announced on Twitter that the game that was scheduled for tonight is being postponed due to the poor air quality from that smoke in the Canadian wildfires. You can see in the images that the haze has been blanketing New York City also taking over Yankee Stadium. The MLB team was supposed to compete against the Chicago White Sox at the stadium but the game will be rescheduled tomorrow at four PM. We're going to keep you updated as more issues develop some other need to know headlines that we're following right now. Some big news from the sports world, Lionel Messi is taking his talents to the MLS. The soccer superstar confirms he's joining the US soccer leagues into Miami C F. That's David Beckham's co own team. Messi recently left the French soccer club, Paris Saint Germain Messi made the announcement in an interview with the Spanish publication mundo de and sport. And a lot of people thought Messi would return to Barcelona or join a club in Saudi Arabia. This 35 year olds. MLS deal is expected to be the most significant signing in the league's history, comparable only to Beckham signing in 2007.