South carolinas house approves the removal of the Confederate Flag. We canneot b happy that we no longer have a symbol on our st ate house grounds. Computer glitches affecting one of the worlds Biggest Airlines and the New York Stock Exchange. Obviouslyt thagh caut my attention. In my business you dont love coincidences but it does appear theres not a cyber intrusion involved. Chinas market crashed this morning. Baltimores belief chief abrupted willly fired after a spike in crime. Southwest forced to make an Emergency Landing as one of the planes engines burst on television. You dont know what youre talking about. Donald trump as brash and defiant as ever. She was theor wst sec of state in the history of the united states. A daujer and father caught in dangerous rip current. Luckily they were both able to escape. The tornado struck several buildings. An 11yearold girl overcoming with gratitude when taylor swift donated 50,000 to help her battle leukemia. I think im going to pass out. And were so fragile. Stephen colbert had fun with wall streets turmoil. Worship me. On cbs this morning. Come cons. Theyre hear to latest on all things entertainment. Come con is the only play where you can meet superman whose kryptonite is a nut allergy. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs new mexico were going to begin this morning with a historymaking vote in South Carolina. The Legislature Passed a bill overnight to remove the Confederate Flag from a police of honor in the state capitol. Governor nikki haley celebrated after the house voted 9420 to lower the banner. The flag could come down later today. Omar, good morning. Reporter good morning. After a long day of debating this confederate battle flag will be removed from state grounds where its flown for more than 50 years. A movement sparked by the Deadly Church shooting that led to what many thought would never happen. Overnight lawmakers and advocates emerged from the South Carolina state house after a request to remove the Confederate Flag from the grounds was approved. The decision comes after weeks of protest and days of heated debate in the wave of last months massacre at a emanuel a middle east e church. Nine people were killed including state senator clementa pinckney. All of those people the martyrs who sat in that church and worshipped. Reporter for 14 tense and emotional hours lawmakers debated the bill. Republicans opposed to the flags removal led by Michael Pitts proposed over 60 amendments meant to slow down any decision. Historys not always pleasant. Historys not always roses. But its our history. Its our collective history. Reporter but each amendment was beaten back bibi partisan support to take down the controversial symbol. I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol that is hate off these grounds. Reporter in a statement South Carolina governor nikki haley applauded the vote. It is a new day in South Carolina, she said day that truly brings us all together as we continue to heal. I think we have a true chance to really go forward in South Carolina. Reporter South Carolinas Lieutenant Governor still has to sign the bill before it goes to nikki haleys desk and once its signed, the flag has to be remved within 24 hours. Anthony . Omar villafranca. Thanks, omar. One alabama suburb may drop the rebel man, its High School Mascot. Well go there ahead on cbs this morning. A tech failure affecting three major u. S. Organizations on wednesday was not a coordinated cyber attack. Thats what officials and Security Experts say this morning after a string of problems affected millions of people. Technical glitches grounded dozens of airline flights, shut down the New York Stock Exchange and crashed the wall street journal website. Jeff glor is at the New York Stock Exchange where theyre hoping to bounce back from a 251point loss. Jeff good morning. Vinita good morning. There was a debt crisis in greece and market mess in china. Then this glitch happened and traded grounded to a halt. For nearly four hours the nearly raucous floor of the New York Stock Exchange was quiet. Some 700,000 orders in the system had to be canceled as they work to fix a technical issue. They decided the best thing to do to protect people is to shut the market down. Reporter president obama was briefed by members of his National Security team that at this point theres no indication that malicious actors are involved in these technical issues. Reporter the troubles surfaced just hours after United Airlines experienced what they called a connectivity issue. At 8 00 a. M. The airline had grounded all of its flights. The outage lasting nearly two hours affected 4,900 aircraft and about 400,000 frustrated passengers. They send us over here and now this is telling us to go back to the computer checkin. So were just running around inn the wall street journals home page crashed. Readers were redirected to a temporary page. We have three ho sewcalled coincidences today. I dont believe in coincidences. I believe its an event we dont have an explanation for. I think the wall street journal piece is people flooding their website. Most took it in stride. Few gave creedence to the theory that hackers were behind the mess. Its an embarrassment for the institution, which is a shame, but things break and they fix it and things will break again. Another snafu grounded flights last month as well. Well trading did continue on other exchanges, both Companies Say theyre not the victim of another cyber attack and right now were looking at a slightly higher opening. These computer problems highlight the downside. Dan ackerman and our editor with c anytime is with us. Good morning. Where is the backup. Where is the redundancy . I mean is this a wakeup call . This is a wakeup call that we spend a lot of time effort and protection and money. These are all very important things, but the less glamorous part of it is the regular everyday i. T. Work that keeps the systems up and running. I saw yesterday three Different Cases where different bread and butter issues fell down and thats why we had three problems on the same day. You ask yourself if Something Like this happens, if you have internal problems does that make these systems more vulnerable to external attacks . I think were so focused that maybe we dont pay enough attention to tin term systems and thats what happened here. If you can have a router and they didnt have another piece of hardware, youre down for hours and the airlines are so tight ly tightly packed and it has a ripple around the world. Thats where you do Software Updates and they find problems and have to get the backups and reinstall that. A while back i read an article where Security Experts said every company said they can expect to be compromise. Its how they handle that. What do you think theyre capable of . If any of these were malicious attacks they could have gone further. Its not something that happens right away like we saw yesterday like the sony hack and the government personnel files harks things that happened months ago. It slowly kind of drips out piece by piece. If its something where a light switch goes off and all of a sudden they cant trade stocks thats no longer an issue. By 2020 we going to have 25 billion pieces connected to the internet. How vulnerable are we . Were vulnerable to deliberate actions and to the systems not working the way they should. Theyre so complicated. Getting everyone on the same operating system is a huge challenge. Dan ackerman, thanks so much for being with us this morning. Stock futures as jeff glor pointed out are on despite the shutdown. Theyre cracking down on investors accused of describing down shares with quote, malicious short selling. Seth doane is in beijing where theyre treating the constant turmoil as a threat. Good morning. Good morning. The stocks have rebounded after the government feevsly tried to stem the losses. Still half of all the Companies Listed here in china have suspended trading. Thats about 2. 8 million worth of stock frozen. Despite the upswing, there were no signs of relief and smiles as investors gazed at savings lost or in limbo. This is what even is watching of course. The companys names are here in chinese. How theyre doing is in this column. And in these patches of green zeros, those are companies that have suspended trading. A 19 billion Stabilization Fund was set up to buy stocks. I would call this a major stockmarket catastrophe we were told. Weve never seen anything like this. We met jong a retired electrician, at this trading hall which resembles a dingy gambling parlor. Here smalltime investors buy and sell stocks. More than 80 of the 90 millionplus chinese in the market are average citizens. Many are covering their faces with newspaper and shawls. They dont want to talk. The reasons are clear. Theyve lost so much money. Off camera some have lost 30 to 70 of their savings. One man told us his heart was broken. Many were urged by the government to get into the market. Just win one month the situation came to this. Those are real money, real fortunes being lost in there. Ping told us he believes the government tried to do all it could to stem losses but added it remained to be seen if it worked. Thats a view shared by many economists. Passengers on a southwest flight arrived in boston overnight after a scary start to their journey. The plane aboarded its takeoff at midways airport after an apparent engine fire. The plane sped down a runway. The 143 passengers boarded another flied to boston. This morning jeb bush is speaking. The republican candidate faced intense criticism from democrats for telling a New Hampshire newspaper that americans need to work longer hours. Critics say hes auto of touch. In an interview on wednesday he said, quote, we have to be more productive. Work participation has to work harder. People have to work longer hours, gain more income for their families. Bush says critics are twisting his words. You can take it out of context all you want. They have to decide how to spend it rather than getting in line and depending on government. Bush says nearly 70 million americans who work parttime should have the opportunity to work more hours. Theres a new proposal this morning. It insurance 55 million american ms. About 80ch of deaths each year come from that group. Major garrett is at the white house. Good morning. Good morning. This falls into the toxic political category of socalled death panels. Pressures could lead bureaucrats to interfere. All conversations of this kind will be voluntary. They were, however, tucked somewhat unobtrusively into a larger stack of medicare regulations released yesterday. The goal according to the government, is to make these traumatic decisions easier to cope with and hope families plan ahead on decisions like using extraordinary means to keep someone alive, drug therapy and options. They praised the move. Even though theyre giving it a new name. Medicare will not approve end of life discussions but advance care planning. Baltimore has a new leader. The mayor fired him yesterday. The movie came hours after a report blasted the department after the riots after the death of freddie gray. When the time came he was nowhere in sight and reporters were directed to the mayors big announcement. This was not an easy decision but it is one that is in the best interest of the people of baltimore. Baltimore mayor stephly rawlingsblake parades him but questioned growing questions on his leadership to fight crime. Too many are continuing to die. Families are tired of feeling this pain and so am i. Batts dismissal comes after the death of freddie gray. Unprepared plitt it lick motivated and uncaring. Reporter in a 32page review baltimores police union claims the violence could have been avoided claiming the officers lack basic rioting, equipment. As protests spiraled out of control, officers reported being told not to intervene or wear protective gear. One officer said he felt like a sitting duck while he said quote, batts offered us to slaughter. Hi apologized in a closed door meeting. I want to come here and tell you guys i think i let you down. Say that with a humble heart. A significant percentage of the officers are considering retiring or leaving within the next two years. Reporter last night he said quote, ive been honored to serve the citizens and residents of baltimore. 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