this was the second time in two months that united flights were grounded by computer problems and the company stock was taking a nose dive on wall street, and that ended abruptly when they halted all trading at 11:00 this morning the exchange blamed technical issues blaming stocks from other exchanges that was not effected. it ended just after 3:00 this afternoon while that was going on, the wall street journal s home page went off line, the glitches came one after another, and leading some to speculate that the economy could be under cyber attack and president obama is monitoring the situation and there is no sign of outside interference united certainly interfered with travel plans for a lot of people. people are so dependant on technology that we condition get the flights going without it we should have been able to leave. frustrating day? yes very frustrating. a frustrating day for a lot of folks whose lives are ruled by computers, we are all relying on them but
this storm. 16 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes, you hear the thunder you have to get inside. there is no safe place outside during a thunderstorm. this is the storm timeline the far western suburbs really under the gun for the next hour, the i-95 metro area including philadelphia wilmington and trenton, that line moving between 7:00 and 9:00 and central delaware and southern new jersey between 9:00 and 11:00 tonight, if you are down the shore most of the evening should be fine the problem with these storms that there is a lot of juice with them. we are looking at abundant lightning and quick heavy downpours and strong winds and wind gusts up to 16 miles per hour and a low threat of large hail and the wind profile shows north and west of philadelphia, there is a bit of sheer and change of direction, that means there is a low risk of tornadoes, we ll talk about the timing of the storms coming up in the full accuweather forecast. stay ahead of severe weather with the
for 17-year-old taylor white of jackson, mississippi people have it on their houses. it s everywhere. reporter: and rose kenney i don t know of any other, you know any other place when you have a war and the loser gets to fly their flag. reporter: witnessing this historic fall of the confederate flag over south carolina s capitol is a moment they will forever embrace. even watching it on a tv screen from the pennsylvania convention center. i had a great great uncle who was lynched under the flag and my great grandmother had to take care of him. reporter: kenny and his sister are united having felt the divide and hatred they say associated with the symbolic battle flag in their native north carolina. even running into the woods from the ku klux klan. people used to throw things at us and use the n word go home and we were only third and fourth graders at the time. reporter: as young girls they crossed the railroad tracks among the first black students to
reused. teacher linda johnson saved some of her curtains vowing to use them in her next classroom. her husband who also works here his goal to fix the stars and stripes to the school s storm bent flag pole. we re going to come back and we re going to rebuild and that was we need something like a tissue to wipe the tears and i felt the american flag was that. reporter: well, cleanup has begun. the building appears to be a total loss at this point. classes will reopen in the fall in borrowed space at a nearby sister school and in case you re wondering why was the principal here at 6:30 in the evening on a summer evening, she tells us what she was doing was a few last minute details before she was going to leave this morning on a vacation to wisconsin. needless to say that plan now on hold. live in tilden township, john rawlins channel6 action news. sharrie. it s rick. thank you, john. quite a story. this storm also caused severe damage in delaware. a viewer captured
worked overtime in there. if you see the rubble you will know that he truly worked overtime for rachel. i thank god for that. reporter: staffers and volunteers collected books and other items that could be reused today. teacher linda johnson saved some curtains vowing to use them in the future. when we rebuild they will be in my new room. they will be proof that we have survived reporter: her husband an army vet who volunteers here part of a team that affixed the stars and stripes to the school s storm damaged flag pole. despite no one being hurt he says there has been shock and tears over what occurred. i just felt we needed something like a tissue to wipe the tears and i felt the american flag was that. reporter: back live right now. cleanup is winding down for the day. the folks are planning to return here tomorrow and again on sunday. as for classes, they are supposed to begin next month. the hope is they will be able to hold them at a sister school that literally