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Street and the new york stock exchange. there is lots of technical glitches everywhere and happen every day and shows how reliant we are on the technologies and how fragile they are and how back up systems are not in place to take care of situations like this. >> do you think that once vulnerabilities like this are exposed, there is the work done behind the scenes to ensure these things dont happen again? how much ahead of the ball can we get in this world with technology? >> i dont think t all....

Glitch. no further law enforcement action is needed at this time. the fbi will continue to monitor the situation. let me bring in pete williams our justice correspondent. pete, youve also reported earlier no connection between united and nyse just could be a bad coincidence and a reminder of our technical vulnerabilities. >> reporter: well, lets review what we know. united airlines says it was not a cyber attack. they say it was a router that failed this morning that had several applications run...

Is that computer network under some form of a breach from outside, from a foreign power, from organized crime and from just individual hackers so they immediately look at the worst case scenario and then dial it back as they determine that it wasnt that and thats whats happened in these cases so far is that once these issues were looked at it was pretty much determined so far to not be the result of an outside attack. >> right, and just for context for those of you watching that happened in the ...

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...

"the wall street journals" home page went dark today. when you hear this happening, same day at about the same time it raised suspicions. >> no question. i had that question. the reason i called the department of homeland security -- this was serious enough that the president was briefed on the outage at the stock exchange. the longest there in several years. the fbi was investigating. dhs was able to determine very quickly, at least in its initial assessment assessment there was no malicious ac...

This show man, the spotlight still shines. he was executive producing hbos the brink at the time of his death. and has a remake of tarzan coming out this year. as rich cohen wrote this morning, the neon lights will be blazing above the pearly gates tonight. jerry weintraub presents. >> thats it for "the lead" im jake tapper. we turn you over to jim scuito. filling in for wolf blitzer. a cnn exclusive. >> people should and do trust me. i have every confidence that will be the outcome of this el...

Counterterrorism official. also terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. thank you for being with us. we have so much to talk about here. lets go to what the president just said. he said "we have to step up our game against lone wolves." phil how do you do that? i imagine social media would be a key component in that fight. >> its got to be because if you look at traditional intelligence operations for example, intercepting communications from a core al qaeda group to operators in europe and the unit...

We become aware of their existence, some of the plans and some of the vulnerabilities. that is where we try to bring justice. >> i want to ask you the other breaking news the fact that this top isis leader, he was killed in coalition air strikes. he was known as the emir of suicide bombings. tell us from your perspective how significant is this? >> it is certainly significant were able to reach out and touch the leadership of isis. they control a great portion of the territory of syria and iraq....

Cells and the inmate per say. this is one of my good inmates, per say. and if theyre on the honor role or honor segment of the jail, that means theyre good inmates and i really dont have to be as thorough with them and the inmate knows that and took advantage of that. especially being able to go out and come back in without the guards checking. >> took advantage of a lot of people. and vulnerabilities. the reason were getting these details, eric, is because david sweat is talking. >> a lot. >> p...

Strong one here. i think chris christie by going out there and showing his, frankly, vulnerabilities, if you will of going out there and telling it like it is and being level with the american people. i think theres a request for a certain level of authenticity thats often missing in politics today. when you contrast that to the other side of the aisle where secretary clinton gives limited press availability i think with chris christie and several other republicans in the field going out there a...