Caused the accident . Reporter im told that maryland state trooper was making a routine traffic stop on i95 when he and the vehicle that he stopped in the shoulder were hit by a car. We do have a chopper video of sky 9 of this afternoons crash scene which caused quite a big back up on i95 near 32 in Howard County. Maryland state police say the trooper was walking to the vehicle that he pulled over in the southbound shoulder of 95 when another vehicle left its lane hitting the Police Cruiser and then the trooper and then the other car that he pulled over. Theres no word yet on what caused that driver to leave her lane or how fast she was going. It is i95. You know that vehicle s travel fast. Afternoon traffic tends to cause congestion, slow traffic down a bit. Thats something were working on figuring out. The trooper who im told has been with Maryland State Police for about a year and a half was rushed to baltimore shock trauma. Hes in stable condition. The other two drivers who were al
The computers died. The New York Stock Exchange went dark for the longest period since 9 11. And united air lanes was forced to ground its fleet when its computers failed. But Homeland Security says theres no evidence of anything criminal. Trading on the big board resumed late in the day and the dow ended with a loss of 2 of 1 points. Anthony mason begins our coverage. Reporter the first glitches in the system began to appear soon after the opening bell when orders for some smaller stocks failed to go through says trader peter tuckman. In the midst of trying to fix those problems they laid out some kind of a new program to prevent this from happening and that may have caused the further technical glitch. Reporter a little after 11 30 the nyse sut down the entire exchange to sort out the problem and cancelled some 700,000 orders in the system. But as the wall street Trading Floor went silent trades could still be executed on other exchanges. The markets didnt panic. Were not seeing over
He pulled over in the southbound shoulder of i95, when another vehicle that was traveling in the southbound lanes left its lane hitting the police cruiser, then the trooper and the other car that he pulled over. Again, the trooper was rushed to baltimore shock trauma. The other two were taken to Howard County hospital. Still unclear what caused that driver to leave her lane or how fast she was going but state police say all of this highlights the dangers of their job. Its always dangerous out there. One of the most Dangerous Things we do every day is when we get out of the vehicle conducting traffic stops. One of the reason some laws have been passed and kind of give us that barrier protection. Again, we want to continue to reiterate to the public as they are driving up to keep an eye out for us. Know we are out there trying to do our jobs. Reporter im told the state trooper who was injured has been with the Maryland State Police department for about a year and a half. Live in Howard C
Government. More than 21 Million People inside and outside the government likely have their personal information stolen. 21 million. Jennifer donnelly joins us live with the details. Thats a lot more than they originally thought. Jennifer thats a lot more than they originally thought, jonathan. We are getting information from abc news that the number is even higher, that its actually 25 Million People who had their personal information stolen. That again is according to sources to abc news. That number more than six times larger than what the office of Personnel Management announced a month ago when they first said they had a breach and released that. At the time, opm had only said about 4. 2 Million People current and warmer federal employees, had and compromised their information possibly compromised. This number more than 25 million is a huge number. Its a scary number for many people across our viewing area. The director of the fbi told a senate panel yesterday that this is a huge
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