To todays outage suffered by the wall street journal site and by united airlines. More on both of those in a bit. Sources tell cnbc that the New York Stock Exchange problem may have been the result of an overnight Software Upgrade and traders got a little bit of warning because before the exchange opened this morning there was a bulletin sent out, we have got some kind of a technical problem. So, when it actually struck about 11 30 there wasnt panic there wasnt a big selloff, because there still was trading. These stocks that couldnt be traded on the New York Stock Exchange could be traded on the internet on something called bats. So, in summary, problem fixed, not a hack attack and no official word on what caused the worst technical outage ever to strike the New York Stock Exchange. Steve handelsman, thanks steve. Now to the other big computer glitch thats still causing a Summer Travel nightmare for thousands of people. United airlines was forced to ground some 3500 flights across the
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
The lyon sisters. Newly unsealed warrants reveal some of the evidence against the suspect lloyd welch. Welch cousin says he helped him get two large duffel bags from the trunk of a car in 1975. Each weighed about 60 pounds had red stains and smelled of death. The bags were then set on fire. We have more from wheaton, where the girls vanished. Reporter police and prosecutors are clear the investigation into the murder of the lyon sisters is ongoing. And more people could be charged. In the Montgomery Police and all of our partners will work to hold every individual responsible who was involved with the abduction and murder of the lyon sisters as well as the ongoing conspiracy to conceal these crimes. Reporter prosecutors said they are also investigating the possibility that lloyd welch may have been involved in other child abductions across the country. So they are retracing all of his steps, starting 40 years ago. Tracked welchs activities from the time that this abduction occurred thr
Lynch. The the relationship between police and community is the civil rights issue of this generation. Reporter the d. O. J. Has opened an investigation into freddie grays death. Charges against officers are possible but senator Barbara Mikulski says it should go further. The broken window resulted in broken trust. One solution is pull the purse strings. Federal grants should be made for body armor and extra officers contingent on the Officers Training in civil rights protections. The civil rights of this young men were apparently violated in the manner of his arrest and the manner of his treatment thereafter. You couldnt have a more classic kind of civil rights violation. The ability to create accountability across the country, starting with baltimore and makes us a model and using her power to prosecute and to hold officers that do things wrong accountable. That goes across the nation and so they know that the federal government is watching and will not stand by while this stuff happ