This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im erika pitzi. Were following two big stories today involving computer glitches, affecting thousands of americans. United airlines jets are flying again after technical issues lead to a ground stop earlier in the day. But right now all trading has stopped at the New York Stock Exchange. Traders say it has been a bumpy day in general, and they had some technical problems even before opening. The department of Homeland Security says so far there are no signs of a cyber attack. Lisa stark has more there washington. Reporter a travel nightmare for united passengers about 8 45 eastern this morning. The airline had to ground all of its planes. It experienced some major computer problem. The network called it annette work connective issue, whatever you call it it was chaos for those depending on flying on United Airlines today. It affected the mainline carrier and its regional jets. The United Express flights resumed quite quickly, but it t
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im bisi onileere. Were following two stories involving computer problems effecting thousands of americans. United airlines jets are flying again after technical issues led to a ground stop earlier. And at this hour all trading has temperature rarely stopped at the New York Stock Exchange because of an parent technical issue. Traders say that it has been a bumpy day in general and theyve had technical problems even before opening. The department of Homeland Security said that so far there are no signs of a cyberattack. United airline is blaming a computer problem oh forcing the company to ground all of its planes this morning. Lisa stark has more from washington. A travel nightmare for united managers. The airline had to ground all of its planes. It experienced some major computer problem. The airline called it a connectivity issue. Whatever you call t it was chaos for those who were depending on flying on United Airlines today. Initia
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Challenging day of technical glitches for the worlds large effort Stock Exchange, and one of the worlds large effort airlines. Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was suspended for several hours and United Airlines had to ground flights for a short time because of computer problems. Leaselisa stark joins us from washington and what do we know about these glitches . Well, tony, as you can expect the first concern is was this some sort of coordinated cyber attack . Thankfully, it was not and it was internal problems with the Computer Systems and that was the word today from the secretary of homeland security, who was speaking on a forum on Cyber Security. Ive spoken to the ceo of united, and it appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions and united and the Stock Exchange were not the result of any nefarious actor. We know less about the wall street journal at this point but their their system. And madge the the wall street journal, their system was off for a while. A
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