profiling. that tears apart our on system. they were suggesting this power is more or less absolute. it s not absolute. it is not absolute. it would negate other parts of the constitution. hey, law enforcement, you can ignore parts of the constitution and if you do, i ll pardon you. signs you may have a crowd complex in thing one, thing two, next. i have spent years taking over-the-counter products
actor, he said they know less about the wall street journal than new york stock exchange and united airlines. we ll be getting that for you and turning it around for you as soon as we can. while we do that i want to go back to our business correspondent alison kosik who, again, is on the floor of the new york stock exchange right now which, as we said, is not trading and hasn t been for almost two hours. alison you have a guest there, tell us who you have and what s happening there? reporter: okay dana. we re here with keith bliss. he is a trader on the new york stock exchange floor. i wanted to bring him in to get a little more idea about whether or not you saw any indication of any kind of technical glitch before the halt. not right before the halt. the music just stopped playing and we had to redirect and call customers and do other things but we did have a technical malfunction before the open which is not that uncommon. we see that every now and then there may be a module in
well, what they ll be doing, dana is it s more than just the fbi making a phone call and saying are you guys okay? thanks. we re here never mind. they closely monitor and work very closely with these institutions and industries because they re part of the u.s. national critical structure. we re talking aviation, we re talking our financial markets, we re talking mass communications with newspapers. and what they re looking gnat cases like that is trying to determine if it was any kind of an external attack in any way of on system which is even could just be a test pink by anotherg by another country or an organized crime group for a prelude to war or extortion where they re testing to see if they can shut it down if they can get into the system or was it just a piece of hardware internally, a router went bad or something else happened and it s ees s coincidental. this isn t just casual phone calls over to these companies so
see what happened. they are closely investigating. and what is your i m going to put you on the spot here. what is your sense. is your job to be as skeptical as we are as reporters? the fact that all of these big, big, big organizations had glitches at pretty much the same time? does that make you think that it was just a coincidence or maybe something? i ll put it this way, my job as an investigator and supervisor of informations is to not form an opinion too early because then subconsciously you ll try to prove yourself right. so we don t have enough information to say yes it looks like how can it be this coincidental but i think it s too early. let s look at these system what happened internally with each of these companies and their it systems to determine what happened. and, tom, i want to go back to a point elise was making an
you have crew members that may have timed out. it s one big mess. i did get some information from a source who says that their investigators have looked into what caused this system wide breakdown here this system wide shutdown as far as their computer systems and they determined that it is not the work of hackers. they say it s not connected to what happened at the new york stock exchange either. they have determined it s solely a technical glitch relate to that faulty router not enabling their computer systems to talk to one another. so this source knocking down this idea that perhaps this was a vulnerability, a cyber attack saying it s not at that at this point. at this point. that s the key. renne rene stand by. i want to go to the white house where jim acosta is. jim, i don t think you have to be that skeptical of a report y ere to say wait a minute, the united airlines, the stock