Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night and we begin with the chaos and confusion that had a whole nation holding its breath today. Two computer scares and a meltdown at airports across the country. Thousands of flights cancelled or delayed, stranding passengers from california all the way east to boston. United airlines now apologizing, blaming computers. Later today worries on wall street, the New York Stock Exchange paralyzed for hours, blaming a computer glitch. For a time real concern, could they possibly be connected . Tonight we know they were not but those computer malfunctions sent many scrambling. We begin with abcs jim avila at Reagan National airport tonight. Reporter gates overflowing, ticket counters jammed, checkin kiosks dark, delay boards bleeding red, some totally blank as lines of passengers snake across the United Airlines curbsides. When we came in we could barely get into the door because the lines were so long. Reporter the nightm
The heavy rain we have seen the last one to three hours here. Flash Flood Warning for Arlington County until 8 00 tonight and for Prince Georges County and southeast d. C. Until 7 30. Once again, looks like a water rescue going on right now through Prince Georges County. Please, i cannot say this enough do not drive through flooded roadways even pictures of it on my twitter and Facebook Pages this evening, dont let it happen tough. More rain coming through once again, following that same line, we call this training. As a result of a train, just like train tracks, the rain is moving over the same tracks well. Continue to keep you posted. Thank you, doug. Now to the technical glitches that captured headlines much of the day today from the impact on wall street to airports around the world. We have Team Coverage on all this begin with chris lawrence. He is at the live desk now. Chris . Jim, flights are still delayed on United Airlines and the dow jones lost more than 260 points by the clo
Devastating Drought Forces homeowners to dramatically cut back. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A lot of us got that uneasy feeling today when within hours of each other separate computer outages grounded all United Airlines flights and halted trading on the new york Stock Exchange. It turns out they were unrelated glitches but they quickly got the attention of Homeland Security officials who determined there was no cyber attack. And while that gave us a reason to breathe easier it didnt make the day any better for grounded and delayed passengers or stock traders. And it reminded us all once again of what a razorthin digital threat we all hang by. We have two reports. First Stephanie Gosk on the Stock Exchange breakdown. Stephanie, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. Well the new york Stock Exchange is one of the worlds largest. So when something goes wrong here on wa
Caused the accident . Reporter im told that maryland state trooper was making a routine traffic stop on i95 when he and the vehicle that he stopped in the shoulder were hit by a car. We do have a chopper video of sky 9 of this afternoons crash scene which caused quite a big back up on i95 near 32 in Howard County. Maryland state police say the trooper was walking to the vehicle that he pulled over in the southbound shoulder of 95 when another vehicle left its lane hitting the Police Cruiser and then the trooper and then the other car that he pulled over. Theres no word yet on what caused that driver to leave her lane or how fast she was going. It is i95. You know that vehicle s travel fast. Afternoon traffic tends to cause congestion, slow traffic down a bit. Thats something were working on figuring out. The trooper who im told has been with Maryland State Police for about a year and a half was rushed to baltimore shock trauma. Hes in stable condition. The other two drivers who were al
The computers died. The New York Stock Exchange went dark for the longest period since 9 11. And united air lanes was forced to ground its fleet when its computers failed. But Homeland Security says theres no evidence of anything criminal. Trading on the big board resumed late in the day and the dow ended with a loss of 2 of 1 points. Anthony mason begins our coverage. Reporter the first glitches in the system began to appear soon after the opening bell when orders for some smaller stocks failed to go through says trader peter tuckman. In the midst of trying to fix those problems they laid out some kind of a new program to prevent this from happening and that may have caused the further technical glitch. Reporter a little after 11 30 the nyse sut down the entire exchange to sort out the problem and cancelled some 700,000 orders in the system. But as the wall street Trading Floor went silent trades could still be executed on other exchanges. The markets didnt panic. Were not seeing over