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Today at the new york stock exchange, united airlines and the wall street journal, u.s. officials tell nbc news there is no indication that computer problems were related and no signs it was a cyber attack. they also said the technical issues were not the result of a cyber breech. as trading was halted over three hours on the exchange. president obama was briefed at the white house. the white house, treasury and the fbi are monitoring the situation. joining me now is executive director of recode...

Problem that they experienced. this affected their operations worldwide. so not just here in the united states but beyond. we do also know -- i spoke with a pilot just a short time ago. united airlines pilot, who said that theyve received a bulletin from the airline essentially telling them that their schedules may need to be changed because perhaps some crews as a result of the delays because of these computer problems, the crews may have run out of hours. so alerting these pilots that their sc...

Point, that it doesnt look like it was anything other than a nasty coincidence. >> and this is happening today and highlighting this issue of is it infrastructure. we know a lot of people have been clamoring on capitol hill between cyber security concerns and infrastructure concerns. its hard to believe that the new york stock exchange doesnt use the most up to date software. it doesnt feel like that would be pan infrastructure issue. united, on the other hand, weve got plenty of reporting that ...

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...

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Welcome back, im ashleigh banfield. i want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. major glitch, you might say, on the new york stock exchange, for over one hour halted trading. numbers have barely moved because of some kind of computer glitch at the exchange. they say theyre working to fix the problem, but ultimately it came at a time when there were two other major glitches affecting other major organizations in america. united airlines downing thousands of its pl...

Air space in europe. its going to be a mess. my colleague can probably talk more about this. they had major computer problems since going online. >> thats right. they have problems they thought they managed to get over most of the issues. itting loose like its a power outage. after covering it over many years its unclear what the cause is. theyll try to figure it out for themselves. if what youre reporting there is right just in simple math tells me it means theyre expecting it to continue for t...

A white house that was late to the game on the fixes for obamacare, didnt see the computer problems, the website problems coming. late to the game on the v.a. problem. you know, it was a continuous problem that people were warning about, but it didnt get to the president. is the white house to insuler, is cabinet government not working? what is going on here? >> apparently, its a pattern im seeing here. we saw that with the v.a. with this humanitarian crisis, it didnt happen overnight. if you lo...

Congress are invigorated to go after this in part because they feel like the white house has not been honest with them in the past about other issues, whether has to do with some of the testimony eric holder has given in the past. whether it has to do with benghazi emails. there is whole litany of issues here where republicans see overreach by administration unwillingness to be overseen by congress. with this case in the irs, with technical issues byron was talk about there is legitimate ways an...

>> i want to tease so we can go on the next thing. >> what are the odds that seven employees under investigation at irs would all have computer problems that wipes out evidence that congress wants to look at. greg has those numbers next. eanh fresh with beneful healthy smile food. with special crunchy kibbles and great taste, its a happy way to a healthy smile. beneful healthy smile food and snacks. smoking with chantix. for 33 years i chose to keep smoking... ...because it was easier to smoke t...