Good morning, this is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. United airlines had to ground its fleet for more than an hour this morning. Planes are starting to move again now, but passengers across the country were stuck while the airline worked through the prom. Lets go to lisa stark with the latest. Reporter apparently about 8 45 eastern, there was a major computer problem that united started experiencing. Whatever you call it it was chaos for the airline and its passengers. They had to stop all of their flights. Mainline united and United Express flight although those regional flights resumed fairly quickly, but for over an hour united was stuck on the ground. Long lines began forming and are still forming at the airports especially the airlines hubs. United said it was working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue, and in fact stephanie they did get it resolved fairly quickly. It lasted for just over an hour thankfully. But now they have to unravel the m
Challenging day of technical glitches for the worlds large effort Stock Exchange, and one of the worlds large effort airlines. Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was suspended for several hours and United Airlines had to ground flights for a short time because of computer problems. Leaselisa stark joins us from washington and what do we know about these glitches . Well, tony, as you can expect the first concern is was this some sort of coordinated cyber attack . Thankfully, it was not and it was internal problems with the Computer Systems and that was the word today from the secretary of homeland security, who was speaking on a forum on Cyber Security. Ive spoken to the ceo of united, and it appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions and united and the Stock Exchange were not the result of any nefarious actor. We know less about the wall street journal at this point but their their system. And madge the the wall street journal, their system was off for a while. A
We begin in South Carolina for the Confederate Flag flies one more night over the complex. And it will come down tomorrow morning. It is days after the Charleston Shooting reignited the debate over the flags meaning. Governor haynes assigned the bill. And what do we know about how the removal happened . We dont know how the removal is going to take place but we know its going to come down tomorrow at 10 . This is a historic day for South Carolina, and less than 24 hours ago it looked like the flag might not come down any time soon. With the stroke of a pen, nikki haley made history removing the Confederate Flag from the state grounds after half a century. When the emotion starts to fade, the history of the action by everyone in South Carolina to get us to this moment is one that we can all be proud of. The law removing the flag was passed after a contentious andhour debate in the house of representatives, pitting supporters against opponents. I cannot believe that we doen have the hear
Ali ali velshi joins us live. Fracking poses a substantial threat to our health our air, our water and our climate. What scientists now say about the controversial drilling method. [ music ] plus nina simone unique and uncompromising and always surprising. Tonight her daughter talks with us about her mothers extraordinary life and legacy. Its been a fixture in South Carolina for five decades. That will change exactly 14 hours from now. This is a live picture of the confederate battle flag. Today governor nikki haley signed a bill into law calling for the removal from the Capitol Grounds. This flag is scheduled to come down tomorrow morning. In signing the bill Governor Haley said its time to remove the divisive symbol. With her were members of the victims families. The push to take it down intensified last month after the shooting deaths of nine people in a black church in charleston. It was improved late last night after a fiery plea by jenny horne, a distant relative of jefferson dav
G. O. P. Field. We begin with hour with a massive debt deal reached today by european leaders who were trying to help greece avoid a financial collapse. The agreement came after a contention allnight negotiating session. It calls for changes in greece and monitoring by e. U. Authorities and it will mean more sacrifice by the greek people. And the your greek Prime Minister has agreed to push parts of the deal through the Greek Parliament by wednesday. Jacky rowland has the details from brussels. Reporter a deal at least. After talks that lasted all night, euro zone leaders emerged to announce they avoided a greek exit from the euro. Today we had only one objective to reach an agreement after 17 hours of negotiations we have finally reached it. Someone can say that we have anning agreekment. Reporter its no laughing matter for the greeks. They need to adopt a large package of reforms in the next two days and sell off 50 billion euros of assets. The Prime Minister tried to put the best gl