Airline Computer System News Today

i am alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. breaking news. a cnn exclusive. mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff or donald trump, has been subpoenaed by the special counsel. meadows was in the room for most of the key events on january 6th and the days before. so, more on that in a moment. plus, what is going on with that ohio toxic train derailment? the railroad officials behind that toxic train derailment just backed out of a town hall meeting tonight because of what...

Then, there was the near miss in -- where a fedex plane almost landed on top of a southwest flight. and of course, last month, thousands of americans were stuck in the airport when the vast airline computer system crashed and that led to the first nationwide stoppage of flight since the september 11th attacks. its no wonder the acting head of the federal aviation administration faced a bipartisan drilling on capitol hill today. >> we have a backup redundant system. why couldnt we just go to that...

That russia has done these things. so we now know that this isnt speculation. this is the real world. and the two intelligence services participated, and that the only way that could happen was either at the request of or the approval of president putin. so it makes it very important for the administration to sit down with president putin at some point and effect an agreement where the stops. and it should stop on behalf of all other nations. nations should not be doing this to each other. becau...

This morning, today is that this particular issue was involving the entire airline, the entire operation domestically as well as internationally, so thats more than just an isolated flight to belfast. this is a major inconvenience. and last point here tamron this is going to cost united airlines a boatload of money today when they have planes sitting on the ramp like this for so long. >> and it will cost passengers as well those business travels, other people who have planned vacations and other...

Here tamron about what may or may not have happened. listen, things do happen. a couple of years ago there was a trading firm called night trading group out of new york city. they basically blew themselves up with a bad software installation, caused their whole systems to go haywire. all these bad trades went through and the firm went under because of that. we dont know exactly what happened here but i think your point about united and the new york stock exchange is well taken. regardless if the...