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And we saw some signs that looked promising, but theres noindno indication this issue is close to being 100% resolved. we did see passengers were starting to receive boarding passes being printed out. so thats obviously a good sign as far as maybe the computer system at that particular airport. but again this is a nationwide problem. so we dont know whether this is 20% solved 30% resolved. we dont know that how far along theyre getting in solving whatever the issue is. so people need to prepare ...

Travelers, the company confirming a major glitch with its computer system affecting it across the globe. with new details on the breaking news. united says 3500 flights affected our colleagues at cnbc also working the story. we are hearing from individuals, friends of ours who are on board planes around the world. one of them just tweeted a moment ago, the pilot came on her plane and said the computers are starting to come back up. but officially from united we dont have any word on how long...

Challenge. even once the computer system is back up and functional the backlog and effect will take probably all day to work out. >> talk to me -- just astounding to see all those planes halted grounded there at chicago olair. how about those united planes that need to land at this point? how will they go about in dealing with those planes? >> they should -- those planes normally. if you were an inbound plane into chicago ohare and youll see, some planes are on the ramp and theyre moving. i cant...

This. other the last ten years the new york stock exchange has suffered a lot of job losses. a lot of men and women who worked on the floor. ive been going there for more than 15 years. they have lost their job as electronics have invaded the capital markets. and keeping that floor open always part of the story had been this. because we had the women and men there, weve got that last fail-safe. as were seeing from our video, when the computer system has now gone down the men and women have also ...

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...

May be affected? >> you probably will not have a problem. if youre flying jetblue or frontier or southwest or american today or delta, chances are your flight is going to be operating as it should today. there may be some minor delays that you are caught up in just because if you have a serious congestion problem out on the ramp, the ground controllers are trying to navigate planes around. that could impact your flight even though your computer system at jetblue or southwest is not affected. jus...

United you can get the kind of chaos we saw. >> sometimes passengers have a matter of minutes to catch their flights. when flights are held that can cascade through the entire system. >> reporter: just hours later trading came to a halt at the new york stock exchange as a separate computer system failed. at the offices of the "wall street journal," the home page stopped functioning, though that site is now back up. government officials quickly tried to reassure the public these were not maliciou...

New bayer pro ultra omega-3. keeping a close eye on the breaking news were following regarding united airlines. the company confirming a major glitch with the computer system affecting flights worldwide, and according to cnbc 3500 flights are affected across the globe. the subcarries such as united express, the regional smaller planes, they are able to fly, but the ground stop affecting many of those at united flights nationwide and across the globe, as we is see, not so many crowds in denver ...

Viewers and your viewers that back in august 2013 the nasdaq suffered a three-hour outage as well. so to your earlier guests point about computer system issues this is not just an nyse problem. we have seen this now twice in two years, both with the nasdaq and now with the nyse. >> yeah and brian, its interesting as well that you point the information or the limited information that were receiving from the new york stock exchange, as you put it keeping us in the dark here. were also at this very...

The issue is truly now, there are too many planes on the ground probably not enough gates in some of these airports. some of the pilots may have run out of time which means they wont be able to take you on your flight. they have to get a new pilot or new flight crew. so this snowball effect that rene was talking about is now well in effect. this is going to go on for many hours to get these people back on the planes they hoped to be on even if the computer system is back up. we dont know that fo...