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Issued a ground stop for three of the nation's largest airports. let's go straight to our aviation correspondent renee march issue. where are we talking about and why? >> we still don't know many details about the why. we know this is a function of computer issues and that's about all the detail we're getting from american airlines. the airports affected some very busy ones. dfw, miami, and chicago's o'hare. talk about just high traffic, high volume airports. those are not the airports where you want to have a situation where there's no traffic going in or out. we got the alert from the faa an...

We're following the breaking news. i want to show you some live picture from the airport in dallas, texas. one of several airports where american airlines has just announced a ground stop on all flights. cnn's renee marsh is joining us from washington. tell us what we know. >> well, wolf, this alert coming from the faa. we know the american airlines requested a ground stop for all of their traffic in and out of very specific airports. dfw and dallas, chicago o'hare, as well as miami international airport. and that is all because of computer issues. however, the airline not giving much more det...

Cause of these computer issues and we haven't gotten that from american airlines, but we see the long lines. we have producers at some of these airports. so it's been slow moving. a lot of frustrated fliers. we know that some reports that some of the computers are starting to make their way back on. that's the latest here. we just saw this in july from united. they had a similar situation that proved to be a hardware issue. >> what a mess. you're not taking it home to miami, are you? >> i'm taking it to new york. is it affecting flights to other airports? >> renee, thank you so much. keep us p...

>> this is systemwide, this computer failure throughout the united system which means nobody is going nowhere. >> reporter: by 9:30, lines are growing and united tweets, we're working to resolve and apologize for any inconvenience. but not until an hour later does a united spokesman confirm the computers are back, but not completely. >> it's probably the longest line i've seen at the airport. >> reporter: united tweeted a video apology, promising to wave change fees. >> thank you so much for your loyalty and business. we're continuing to work hard to earn it. we again apologize for the inconve...

These flights are taking off. there's still thousands of passengers out there who are dealing with delays and crews that have to be swapped around because they may have run out of hours, so the problems haven't ended yet, though they have resolved the computer issues. >> renee, stand by. alison kosik back to you at the new york stock exchange. i'm looking at my clock. i have 2:01 eastern time right, so this is when things really start picking up especially the final hour final half hour nothing so far. my question would be if it doesn't resume by the end of the trading day today, then what? >>...