And how that may be a factor. also, if you re really going to think about it is there anything beyond that? could it be anything like somebody tampering with the system? the fact that they seem to be regaining some of their connectivity to me would rule out the possibility of a serious hack. let s hope that s not happening here. united and continental, as we said, have struggled over the last couple years to merge their systems, but they ve really done that over the course of the last year. they have they had another connectivity problem or computer glitch about a month and a half ago but they seemed to work out those problems in the merger between united and continental. the fact you have another significant setback like this, i suspect, is going to raise a lot of eyebrows certainly with the company. you can bet the ceos and execs
Communicate with the faa, electronically file a flight plan. within that flight plan has to be a dispatch time a time of arrival, the route of the flight and weight and balance information of the aircraft, the fuel on the aircraft and other sundry information required for safe flight and proper flow management of traffic by the faa. this could be a computer bug in the software of united or the continental systems. it could be a third party connectivity problem. it could be a very low probability of a hack or a combination of all three that became a cascading problem. but i have to tell you, simply because the problem has been resolved the issues that are going to be run into by the airlines concerning delays and other airlines and the passenger
Inconvenience is not over. what we have in the united states right now developing is a major and massive weather system in the midwest extending from texas through illinois which is just firing up into large thunderstorms and will intensify as the afternoon goes on and that is moving eastward. we also have a weather system developing north of charlotte extending into the northeast, moving east now, that will also intensify. this is all going to complicate this computer glitch or this connectivity problem and result in massive delays today, perhaps through tomorrow. i m glad you brought that up because we haven t even talked about the weather factor as we re watching this united flight right now. it is moving. good news as we ve seen so many of them just grounded there. the gates, this is lax, but again a sight that many of those
What obama does not have, unfortunately, is a connectivity with american people. i think we saw that with obamacare, with the rollout, a lot of americans said wait a minute here, this doesn t make sense here. you said one thing, but now obamacare is doing something different in terms of cancelling something that s very important to me. so what president obama needs to do is connect with the audience. has nothing to do with m ares, has everything to do with his vision and connecting that with the american people. is it a connectivity problem, not speaking about the internet here, angela? no, i don t think it s a problem connecting with the american people. the president does his best when he s out giving a speech. the challenges, ancillary nature of the white house, which brings me to my point, being able to articulate and relate to a body of people trying to protest you makes it difficult to accomplish anything. once again, the president today, they ve rolled out today some mental