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
But it is one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. Baltimores top cop is dismiss. Fm and mr. Popularity, Bernie Sanders. Is he more than just a wakeup call for Hillary Clinton . Plus hes got rhythm. Grammy winner Terrence Blanchard opens up about the life in jazz and what lies ahead. We begin this hour with a technical glitches and sudden malfunctions that caused a lot of havoc for traders and airline passengers. Long lines lots of headaches and planned of unanswered questions. United airlines and then the snawctsnewyork Stock Exchange shut down because of computer problems. Lisa stark is in washington with more. Least lisa. David imagine one major Computer System goes down then another. Was something suspicious going on . All the Computer Systems back up and running thousand but it was a scramble for United Airlines and the Stock Exchange as the operations ground to a halt. It pushed back another hour traveling with two small kids. The company scrambled to ground i
Why the fishing boats if thailand are not allowed out to sea. We begin with breaking news out of gaza. Israelis say two citizens are held in the strip, one by hamas one disappeared last year. Details are coming out now, 10 months after a gag order was lifted. Well cross live to gaza and imtiaz tyab in a moment first to paul brennan in ashkelon the home of one of the missing mens families. Paul what do we know of the missing men, how did they disappear. The first was a bedouin from the desered and appears to have entered gaza of his own volition and gone missing. Very little is known about him. Thats pretty much as much as we are told. The second man from ashkelon a coastal city 56 files from the fence that separates israel from gaza along the beach. He disappeared on 7th september. It has been known in the community about his appearance. There was a gagging order placed on it by the authorities, it was released thursday as a result of a challenge by an israeli newspaper. Circumstances
Hold mass in bolivia. We will go live to santa cruz. Israel says two of its citizens are being held in the gaza strip, at least one of them by hamas. One of the missing men disappeared last year, the details are only come out now, because a judge has lifted a gag order. This is what we know. He is believed to have crossed the border fence into the gaza strip in september of last year. He is described of being of ethiopian dissent. This information is coming from the Israeli Ministry of defense. According to israeli sources he is being held against his will by hamas. Hamas says it doesnt know anything about it. Benjamin netenyahu says on twitter that his government is working to return him from gaza and his brother has called on the International Community to find him. Translator my brother has been missing for the last ten months. It looks like he crossed the border into gaza and then disappeared. Were talking about a humanitarian case because my brother is not well. On our familys beh
Them substantial opportunity to determine their own destiny within the territory that they control. That is what multisectarianism in iraq would mean. As you indicate, its a lot tougher in syria. But thats the objective that we have to have sunnis i would like to see the sunni tribal leaders that you met with be as successful as the kurds are. We would welcome that. Thats what were trying to stimulate. And were willing to do more as the chairman indicated and i indicated when we have a capable ground force that we can support the way we did support over the weekend the kurds in the north with air power. Thank you mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, i also want to agree with the line of your questioning earlier. I think it would be absolutely foolish for us not to clarify the rules of engagement for the syrian trained folks inserted back into the field to make clear that the u. S. Will support them if they come under attack by assad regime. For them to go in without protection, we would lose all cred