Good morning, this is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. United airlines had to ground its fleet for more than an hour this morning. Planes are starting to move again now, but passengers across the country were stuck while the airline worked through the prom. Lets go to lisa stark with the latest. Reporter apparently about 8 45 eastern, there was a major computer problem that united started experiencing. Whatever you call it it was chaos for the airline and its passengers. They had to stop all of their flights. Mainline united and United Express flight although those regional flights resumed fairly quickly, but for over an hour united was stuck on the ground. Long lines began forming and are still forming at the airports especially the airlines hubs. United said it was working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue, and in fact stephanie they did get it resolved fairly quickly. It lasted for just over an hour thankfully. But now they have to unravel the m
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That isis is using encrypted messaging, going dark in the uncharted reaches of the internet to pose a direct threat. We have new information about syrias plots. Subway symbol jared, the pitchman may have dropped 245 pounds by eating sandwiches now subway is suddenly dropping him. Whats it all about . Wolf blitzer is offer. Im brianna keilar, youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. We have following breaking news. Its been announced the mayor is replacing the Police Commissioner. And also developic, two vital parts of the u. S. Economy struggling to recover from massive computer problems. One failure grounded United Airlines passengers from coast to coast. Then another computer breakdown caused the New York Stock Exchange to halt trading for nearly 3 1 2 hours today. Are these really separate unrelated problems . Or are they a cyberattack . And it came just as congress was getting a dire warning about a new threat posed by isis yew encrypted communication. Listen to this