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Overnight, law marks and advocates emerged victorious after a bill to remove the confederate battle flag was approved. I am 44 years old. I never thought id see this moment. Reporter the decision comes after weeks of protests and days of heated debate over the flags future in the wake of last months massacre at the emanuel ame chrch. Nine people were killed including senator clementa pinckney. We cannot be happy that we no longer have a symbol of Division Standing on our state house grounds. Reporter for 14 tense and emotional hours, lawmakers debated. Republicans opposed to the flags removal proposed over 60 amendments meant to slow down any decision. History is not always pleasant. History is not always roses. But its our history. Its our collective history. Reporter but each amendment was beaten back by bipartisan support to take down the controversial symbol. I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds. Reporter in a statement, South Carolina governor nikki haley applauded the vote. It is a new day in South Carolina. A day that truly brings us all together as we continue to heal. I think we have a true chance to really go forward in South Carolina. Reporter South Carolinas Lieutenant Governor still has to sign the bill before it hases to nikki haleys desk. Once its signed the flag has to be removed within 24 hours. Omar villafranca, thanks. Other parts of the state are debating their civil war symbols. One alabama symbol may drop the rebel man, its High School Mascot. Well go there ahead on cbs this morning. A tech failure affecting three major u. S. Companies on wednesday was not a coordinated cyberattack. Thats whats Officials Say after a string of problems affecting millions of people. Technical glitches grounded dozens of United Airlines flights, shut down the New York Stock Exchange and crashed the wall street journal website. Jeff glor is at the Stock Exchange where investors hope for a better day in the market than wednesday. Reporter good morning. It was already set to be a rough wednesday here given the debt crisis in greece and the market mess in china. Then this glitch hand and the exchange ground to a halt. Officials suspended all trading at 11 32 a. M. For nearly four hours the normally raucous floor of the New York Stock Exchange was quiet. Some 700,000 orders in the system had to be cancelled as they worked to fix a technical issue. The best thing to protect people is to shut the market down. President obama was briefed by members of his National Security team. Theres no indication malicious actors are involved in these technology issues. Reporter the troubles surfaced just hours after United Airlines experienced a Network Connectivity issue. We have a major situation with United Airlines. At 8 00 a. M. The airline grounded all of its flights after a faulty router knocked out many of its computer systems. The outage affected 4900 aircraft and about 400,000 frustrated passengers. They send us over here and this is telling us to go back to the computer checkin. Were just running around in circle. Reporter then around noon the wall street journals home page crashed. Viewers were directed to another page until it returned. Three socalled coincidences today. I dont believe in coincidence. I believe its an event we dont have a reason for. The wall street journal piece is connected to people flooding their website in response to the New York Stock Exchange. Most people on wall street took the disruptions in stride. Few gave credence to the conspiracy theories that hackers were behind it. Its an embarrassment for the institution, but things break and they fixed it and things will break again. Reporter united dealt with a different snafu last month that also ground flights. Here at the Exchange Even though halting was traded it dud continue on other exchanges. Both Companies Say there is no indication of a cyberattack and the dow jones is off to a very strong start. Jeff thank you so much. The computer problems highlight the down side of our dependence on technology. Dan ackerman with cnet is with us. A lot of people are saying this is more than a glitch. Where is the backup . Where is the redundancy. Is this a wakeup call . It is. We spend a lot of time and effort and attention and money protecting against hacking and cyberterror and cyberespionage. But the less glamorous part is the regular everyday i. T. Work that keeps these systems up and running that were so dependent on. Three Different Cases where three different fairly basic bread and butter issues fell down. When Something Like this happens, if you can have internal problems like this, would that make these more vulnerable to external attacks . We dont pay enough attention to the internal systems. You can have a router that goes don and they didnt have another piece of hardware. Youre down for an hour or so and the airlines are so tightly packed that has a Ripple Effect around the world. Software update overnight. They find problems they have to get the backup and reinstall that. I read an article where Security Experts said every company should expect to be compromised. Its how they handle that once it happens. What are hackers capable given all the interconnectivity we talked about . If these were malicious attacks they could have gone a lot further. What weve seen of hacking attacks, its not something you see immediately. Things like the sony hack and government personnel files hacked. Things that happened months ago that you dont find out for a long time and it drips out piece by piece. If a light switch goes off, thats more likely to be an i. T. Issue. Were going to have 25 billion devices connected to the internet. How vulnerable are we . Were vulnerable to deliberate actions but were also vulnerable to the systems not working the way they should. They are so complicated. A mix of old and new. Just getting everyone in the company on the same operating system is a huge challenge. The dow is higher after this mornings open on wall street despite jitters over yesterdays shutdown. Chinese police and regulators are cracking down on regulators accused of driving down shares with malicious short selling. Seth doane is in beijing where the communist government is treating the turmoil as a major threat. Good morning. Reporter a bit of good news in china. Stocks have rebounded a bit after the government feverishly tried to stem those losses. Still about half of all listed companies here in china have suspended trading. Thats about 2. 8 trillion worth of stock frozen. Despite the up swing there were no sighs of relief and no smiles at this beijing trading hall as investors gazed at savings lost or in limbo. This is what everyone is watching. The companys names are in chinese. How they are doing is in this column. These patches are green zeros are companies that have suspended trading. Chinas government has banned major shareholders and executives from selling shares. And a 19 billion Market Stabilization Fund was set up to buy stocks. I would call this a major stock market catastrophe this man told us. Weve never seen anything like this. Hes a retired electrician we met at this trading hall. Here smalltime investors buy and sell stocks. More than 80 of the 90 millionplus chinese in the market are average citizens. Many here are covering their faces with newspapers and shawls. They dont want to talk. The reasons are quite clear. They simply lost so much money. Some tell us theyve lost from 30 to 70 of their savings. One man told us his heart was broken. Many were urged by the government to get into the stock market. Peng li shin is retired. That is real money. Those are real fortunes being lost in there. He believes the government had done all it could to try to stem losses but added it remained to be seen whether it was enough to work. Of course thats a view shared by many economists too. Seth doane, thank you. Passengers on a southwest flight arrived in boston after a scary start to their journey. The plane aborted its takeoff after an apparent engine fire. One person captured video of the sparks and flames as the plane sped down the runway. They boarded another flight to boston. Jeb bush is clarifying controversial comments about americans and work hours. The republican president ial candidate faced intense criticism from democrats for telling a New Hampshire newspaper that americans need to work longer hours. Critics say it shows hes out of touch. In an interview with the union leader wednesday, bush said we have to be more productive. Workforce participation has to rise from its alltime modern lows. People need to work longer hours and through their productive ut gain more income for their families. You can take it out of context. Highsustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours and that by our success, they have money, disposable income for their families to decide how to spend it rather than getting in line and being dependent upon government. Nearly 7 million americans who work part time should have the opportunity to work more hours. There is a new proposal to enhance end of life treatment for people on medicare. The federal program ensures 55 million americans about 80 of deaths each year come from that group. Major garrett is at the white house with the plan that would pay doctors for having end of life discussions with their patients. Reporter good morning. This move falls into the category of socalled death panels. If medicare reimbursed for end of life discussions pressure to keep Government Health care costs down could lead bureaucrats to make those decisions or interfere in the decisionmaking process. Washington and oregon allow physicianassisted suicide for terminally ill patients. In this case all these end of life discussions will be voluntary. The goal according to the government is to make these traumatic decisions easier to cope with and reduce costs by giving individuals and families time to plan ahead on drug therapy, hospice options and using extraordinary means to keep a loved one alive. The administration is giving it a new name. Medicare will not reimbrs for end of life discussions. Instead for advanced care planning. Major, thank you so much. Baltimore police have a new leader. The citys mayor fired anthony bass yesterday. They needed a change after a recent spike in homicide. A report blasted the handling of riots sparked by the death of freddie gray. Chip reid is outside the baltimore headquarters. Reporter commissioner bass had been scheduled to hold a press conference yesterday about that critical review of his department. When the time came he was nowhere in sight and they were directed to the mayors big announcement. This was not an easy decision, but it is one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. Reporter baltimore maor Stephanie Rawlings blake praised anthony bass work but admitted growing questions about his leadership were distracting from the fight against crime. Too many continue to die on our streets. Families are tired of feeling this pain and so am i. Reporter it comes 2 1 2 months after riots following the death of freddie gray while in police custody. The officers characterize the Baltimore Police department as unprepared politically motivated and uncaring. Reporter in a scathing review the police union claims the violence could have been avoided ponting to officers who said they lacked basic riot equipment, training and direction from leadership. The cops are going the opposite direction. Reporter as protests spiraled ot of control, officers were told not to intervene or wear protective gear. One officer felt like a sitting duck while another said bass led us quote, to slaughter. I want to tell you guys that i think i let you guys down. And i say that with a humble heart. A significant percentage of officers are considering retiring or leaving within the next two years. Reporter last night batts released a short statement to the Baltimore Sun saying ive been honored to serve the citizens and residents of baltimore and proud to be a Police Officer for this city. Chip, thanks. Pope francis is in bolivia this morning. The second nation of his south american tour. His motorcade rolled through santa cruz a short time ago. Hes celebrating an outdoor mass for a huge crowd in the city center. Francis spent a few Hours Wednesday in the capital la paz. Bolivias socialist president gave him gifts, including a crucifix. He urged him to pucksfix his atmosphere of inequality. A republican warns donald trump to dial it back. Ahead what the president ial candidate is say announcer this National Weather report sponsored by danon oikos greek nonfat yogurt. Possibly the perfect snack. Fatfree yogurt, possibly the best snack. There are still Unanswered Questions surrounding the doctors who treated patients with unnecessary dancer drugs. 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