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17 minutes in the flight which did not engender a lot of confidence in the folks on that express jet. we dont know whether it was a computer issue and germane to that one plane. but when these things happen it does make you wonder whether or not we are indeed in financial terms where our entire financial system now has effectively gone digital. and in real terms in life whether were too dependent on the technology that weve created and whether some of it is so complex that we ourselves cant nece...

Breaking news to tell you about right now. the faa just confirming for us all united airlines flights have now been grounded because of computer problems. i want to get out to kyung law who is at the burbank airport. >> this morning im actually just a regular passenger. none of us are moving. there has been a ticket agent, a trainee im told -- at least thats how she described herself. she came out and said theyre having computer issues. if this is a national computer issue, which i havent been t...

Happens, it could take hours and hours before it corrects itself. >> >> do we know how many passengers this could affect today? >> were talking about thousands and thousands and thousands of passengers. i dont have an exact count. but when you think about it united airlines flights across the nation you have over 100 passengers on board an aircraft were talking about a lot of people who are impacted. and then of course that impacts the connecting flights. so you see what were talking about with ...

United. i imagine youll see a lot of passengers there. >> the airplane is saying quote, we experienced a network connectivity issue this morning. we are working to resolve this and apologize to customers for any inconvenience. so that is it. the airline now acknowledging there is a computer issue, but of course it still does not answer the question of what caused this computer issue. im sure theyre working to try and figure that out. what could have caused something so widespread that every flig...

States all of them had to be grounded before they were able to get the. ises back online and now we know from united that there was an issue that degraded the network connectivity. how their computers were communicating with each other. we know the makeup of these systems that theres several computers that have to talk to one another in order for certain information to make its way from the pilots, from the cockpit back to the ground and so there are a lot of potential vulnerabilities for failur...

John berman is on assignment today. lets begin with this developing story. united airlines was forced to shut down all flights nationwide this morning because of a systemwide computer issue. just last hour, the ground stop was lifted but still thousands of passengers are impacted by the delays and the ripple effect lingers. lets discuss. cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh is in washington tracking that. meteorologist chad myers is in atlanta. and cnn aviation analyst miles obrien is in boston...

Navys will be working through bad weather to pinpoint, isolate as best they can the fuselage of the down the aircraft. it vael areally is a forensics investigation, try to determine where on the bottom of the sea they can find the major pieces of the fusefuselage where might they find the cockpit, the main cabin section as they collect all of the evidence floating on the surface. but ultimately this tale will really be told through the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. the fli...

Passengers with united airlines say theyre being stranded at airports across the country because of a computer problem. the a.p. saying passengers were told by pilots and airport agents that the computer system is down and they dont know when it will come back. united tweeted there is a computer issue affecting some of the flights and its working to fix that problem. well watch that for you. china is unveiling new leadership. this was announced as a communist partys new secretary today. xis apoi...

Courts and, rahm emanuel gets it, unfortunately, unfortunately, for the white house, theyll rely -- they relied on eric holder and the president abdicated responsibility to him which was a terrible mistake, by him as commander-in-chief. bill: peter king, thanks for your time and thanks for hustling and getting up early and we had a computer issue but everything is okay now. >> thank you, glad to help out. bill: appreciate it. uma: a big scare involving vice president bidens motorcade at winter o...

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