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Hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london and 9:00 p.m. in moscow. thank you for joining us. we begin in london where a major disruption of flights out of the british capital threatens flights far beyond the united kingdom. a technical failure at a key airport control center has been fixed but at the height of this disruption, flights at all five london airports were affected. it's expected to be tomorrow before things return to normal. let's go to london. jim, what happened and caused this technical failure? what's going on? >> reporter: we learned about 2 1/2...

Them fairly no matter who they are. republicans, democrats, whatever organization they belong to. >> at the heart of the scandal are two years of missing e-mails from this woman, lois learner, who used to run the tax exempt division at the irs. those e-mails were lost in a computer crash. he revealed yesterday irs computers have experienced 2,000 hard drive crashes just this year. he also said 24,000 of learner's missing e-mails have been recovered. so far, none indicate any communication with the white house or the treasury department. when i asked him if the irs would accept a computer failu...

Toward the will of the people. here is the tension now, if they pass this to the house today, what does john boehner and kevin mccarthy do if he doesn't feel he has the majority of the votes? does he come back with his own plan and are we dealing with this again tomorrow at this time? >> one of the other provisions is it looks like the two sides are going to get together and try to come up with a broader framework, maybe it includes the medical device thing, by middle of december. so they have kicked the can, crisis averted. in the meantime and we've been talking here on the program, if it wer...

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Were abandoned for the major work when workers go door to door to follow up with people who don't return their questionnaires. the computer failure has increased. the census bureau's reliance on its paper-based operations. and there in part because of that computer failure, federal auditors are finding major problems. the inspector general reported to congress that the testing is revealing more and more critical defects as it progresses. testing continues to be compressed. the ig continues, a short fall in testing portends significant technical problems in the future. >> i just talked to our f...