A Black man was stopped by 10 cops at gunpoint after a 'glitch' at Hertz reported the rental car he was driving as stolen. More than 100 other customers are filing a lawsuit against the company with similar stories.
| Updated: March 2, 2021, 12:15 a.m.
Word began to spread Friday on social media and in personal messages and conversations: The state of Utah was supposedly having trouble filling appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations and vaccines may be going to waste.
So thousands of Utahns went to the new system at vaccinate.utah.gov. Due to a mistake by the state Department of Technology Services, the state acknowledges, the website allowed them to schedule appointments despite not having the specific health conditions or being old enough to meet current criteria.
So while the flawed website led these Utahns to believe the empty slots and wider access existed, they didn’t and now 7,200 people have either had their appointments canceled or canceled on their own, and some are facing attacks on social media.
reporter: despite that website glitch that kept many people from shopping in the first few hours of prime day amazon still says sales in the us where the biggest ever. according to e-commerce operating system, amazon pooled about $3.4 billion in goods by yesterday afternoon. i expect that number to go much higher. amazon doesn t always give out the exact number of items in dollars they make but we will see. they haven t said what caused that glitch but people will take advantage of those deals. rob: the congressman is not alice hastings. i apologize for using a woman s name for the gentleman. it is national hotdog day. it is. a lot of places you can celebrate, 7-11 you can get one dollar big bite hotdogs, sonic, one dollar chili cheese dog,
ignorance. rob: crime day disaster. jillian: tracy carrasco with our amazon s version of black friday fell flat. reporter: thanks to a website glitch, shoppers had a tough time as prime day got underway yesterday afternoon, many experiencing outages, couldn t place their order but met with an error page, amazon standard error page. amazon said they are working on the problem. they also said customers order more items compared to the first hour last year this year so there were a lot of people shopping. there were issues yesterday, prime day goes on until the end of today. rob: i think i did you probably did. they are offering prime day discounts to people.