on saturday. hundreds of flights were canceled. aviation officials say the glitch has been fixed but the damage has been done. we captured this photo of stranded passengers at ronald reagan airport in washington, d.c. the problem was made worse by a failure of backup systems. the real root problem is going to be when that power shuts off, there s supposed to be a back up system like you buy those battery systems for those systems at home to make sure when the power goes out you still have power. that s the uninterruptible power supply. these are hundreds of million of products that need to be there to make sure that these computers don t have to reboot every time there s a loss of power and it appears that system didn t work here and that s an essential system that has to be up and running and so there s going to be some heads rolling on this one. this is a really big deal.
with it and actually caused a fire in a control center. i remember that. how does something like this happen? it happens here this is something that i believe in early reports shows that there s a power shutdown at the washington air traffic control center, at the air root traffic control center. that sets off so many different problems. but the real root problems is going to be that when that power shuts off, there s supposed to be a back-up system like you buy those battery systems for your systems at home that makes sure when your power goes out, you have continuous power. and these are millions of dollars worth of products that make sure the systems don t have to reboot every time there s a loss of power. it appears that system didn t work here. and that s an essential system that has to be up and running.