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17 minutes in the flight which did not engender a lot of confidence in the folks on that express jet. we don't know whether it was a computer issue and germane to that one plane. but when these things happen it does make you wonder whether or not we are indeed in financial terms where our entire financial system now has effectively gone digital. and in real terms in life whether we're too dependent on the technology that we've created and whether some of it is so complex that we ourselves can't necessarily understand the implications of what we created. when you talk about the people who are k...

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 i'm actually just a regular passenger. none of us are moving. there has been a ticket agent, a trainee i'm told -- at least that's how she described herself. she came out and said they're having computer issues. if this is a national computer issue, which i haven't been told as a passenger here that's certainly going to be a more persistent problem. when you're sta...

Happens, it could take hours and hours before it corrects itself. >> >> do we know how many passengers this could affect today? >> we're talking about thousands and thousands and thousands of passengers. i don't have an exact count. but when you think about it united airlines flights across the nation you have over 100 passengers on board an aircraft we're talking about a lot of people who are impacted. and then of course that impacts the connecting flights. so you see what we're talking about with this domino effect. it's a mess at the airports to have a system go down and you not able to all...

United. i imagine you'll see a lot of passengers there. >> the airplane is saying quote, we experienced a network connectivity issue this morning. we are working to resolve this and apologize to customers for any inconvenience. so that is it. the airline now acknowledging there is a computer issue, but of course it still does not answer the question of what caused this computer issue. i'm sure they're working to try and figure that out. what could have caused something so widespread that every flight nationwide had to be grounded, it is unclear at this point. but this is the first statement we...

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 there's 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 failure, enusually. >> everything back to normal? >> for the most part. flights are still taking off at t...