Forces homeowners to dramatically cut back. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. A lot of us got that uneasy feeling today when within hours of each other separate computer outages grounded all United Airlines flights and halted trading on the new york Stock Exchange. It turns out they were unrepresent unrelated glitches but they quickly got at tension of Homeland Security officials, who determined there was no cyber attack. And while that gave us a reason to breathe easier it didnt make the day any better for grounded and delayed passengers or stock traders. And it reminded us all once again of what a razorthin Digital Thread we all hang by. We have two reports. First Stephanie Gosk on the Stock Exchange breakdown. Stephanie, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. The new york Stock Exchange is one of the worlds largest. So when something goes wrong here on wall street the c
And you can see theres a line of showers, this is all ahead of an approaching frontal boundary that is going to continue driving to the east today. And by later this afternoon we will start to see the development of some showers and perhaps a thunderstorm and any storm that forms could produce drenching downpours in this humid air mass. As we take a look at temperatures this morning 79 degrees in philadelphia already. 71, a little better in allentown, 76 in reading, 74 in trenton. Down the shore middle 70s on the boardwalks early and once again today, we are expecting dewpoints to be up around the 70degree mark so it does feel oppressive out there once again. As we go through the day. Heading out the door to catch the bus or just get the car started 76 by 6 oclock, 81 by 8 oclock, warm and humid to begin and through the day its going to be another one of those fairly cooking humid days. 81 degrees by 8 oclock, 85 by noon. And by 3 oclock 89 degrees. That is going to be your high today
Safe. Lights out at a local highrise tonight. No power no air conditioning. The red cross working to help up to a thousand people. And the cosby controversy hits home at a smithsonian museum. New tonight, why its not ending a local art display. News4 at 11 starts now. First tonight, a mothers voice still shaking hours after gunshots in a playground full of children. Parents ran for cover this morning scooping up children along the way at the Columbia Heights Community Center on gerard street. Police are still looking for the guy who started shooting. News4s Jackie Bensen is live in northwest with reaction. Jackie . Reporter doreen, nothing describes the terror of this better than the woman youre about to hear from. She was at this playground with her 1yearold and her 3yearold. Were not showing her face. This is somewhere happy place, not somewhere where youre running, shielding children from bullets. Reporter it was just before noon and the newly remodelled playground at the Columbia H
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