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Today was the day the computers died. The New York Stock Exchange went dark for the longest period since 9 11. And United Airlines 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 261 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 n. Y. S. E. Shut down the entire exchange to sort out the problem and canceled 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 pani

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