united airlines has grounded planes nationwide. at the new york stock exchange trading has been halted. this is what you see when you go to the wall street journal website. united airlines grounding its fleet worldwide planes at stand still for more than an hour. and trading halted at the new york stock exchange. the epicenter of the financial universe issuing a statement. we re currently experiencing a technical issue that we re working to resolve as quickly as possible. by noon, the wall street journal online had a problem. a 504 error message greeted people visiting the page. at the present moment we have no indication that any of the glitches are connected. reporter: the department of homeland security says that there are no signs of malicious
economy and social issues they all said jeb bush though. that goes in his favor. hillary clinton still very much with a commanding lead 57%. that s down a little bit from may. but remember there s a margin of error here. bernie sanders up 4%. he s capturing that excitement. there is some desire for an alternative to hillary clinton. look at the match-up. he is still 13 points behind. check out donald trump trailing hillary clinton by 25 points. in between that you have marco rubio and chris christie all trailing hillary clinton pretty severely. it s of course very interesting to see how they match up noo
the pentagon says the employees did not seek reimbursement for the charges. they paid them out of pocket, i guess, hoping no one would notice. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. it was 70 years ago today that world war ii ended in europe. two minutes of silence are planned today in london followed by a weekend of festivities. but the anniversary of v.e. or victory in europe day will also be celebrated in the u.s. veterans getting together with old comrades and vintage airplanes, like you see there, will fly over the national mall in washington today. in 1945, there were major celebrations in u.s. cities and most famously in new york s times square. a new fact from the cdc about baby deliveries. comes in time for mother s day. 8:00 in the morning, that s the most popular, at least one of the most popular delivery times. that s usually because c-sections are scheduled at that time. noon also a popular time. tuesday, the busiest day of the week, sunday the least busy.
my iphone all winter has said flash, i mean every day. winter storm watch for southern connecticut, and we re getting it. i know. right now it s just a rainstorm. tomorrow is the day with the snow in the northeast and mid atlantic. right now just rain. we can deal with the rain and the flowers and knock down some of the poll enlevels. 7:00 a.m. tomorrow snow breaking out washington d.c. through hagerstown and back to central pennsylvania. by noon, a lot of this is taking place during the daylight hours in march. usually the sun angle gets a little bit through the clouds so the pavement may be wet in some areas in d.c. but we should be seeing the heaviest snow to accumulate in new york city. we may have some early dismissals and cancellations too. it s crazy. how much snow in as we go throughout the storm it looks
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