[00:00.00]A technical glitch on the Nasdaq exchange shut down trading for three hours this afternoon. 
[00:05.65]The problem wasn't fully resolved until just before 3:30 p.m. The freeze in Nasdaq trading didn't shut down other markets.
[00:13.50]The Dow Jones industrial average gained 66 points to close above 14963. In the end, the Nasdaq closed up -- closed up 38 points at 3638.
[00:27.06]Jia Lynn Yang covers the financial markets for The Washington Post and has been following the Nasdaq story today.
[00:33.09]Jia Lynn, thank you.
[00:34.88]What is known at this point about what happened to cause this freeze in trading on Nasdaq?
[00:41.09]Nasdaq is basically blaming a computer error that they discovered earlier in the day that basically made 
[00:47.42]it difficult to figure out what prices stocks should be quoted at.
[00:50.86]And so once they figured that out, they halted trading immediately of all Nasdaq-listed companies. 
[00:56.55]So we're talking big companies, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, not just on Nasdaq, but also U.S. exchanges. 
[01:02.78]It took them about a half-hour to get that computer glitch figured out. 
[01:05.91]Then they spent the next two-and-a-half-hours trying to coordinate to make sure that when they got the stock market back up, things would run smoothly.
[01:12.39]Jia Lynn, there was a so-called flash crash some years ago, and then Goldman Sachs had difficulty with its computers more recently.
[01:21.34]Is this something people -- 401(k) holders should be concerned about?
[01:25.26]This -- this thing today is at a new -- sort of a new magnitude we're talking, 
[01:30.47]because the flash crash that you referred to, you know, for those who don't remember, this happened in 2010.
[01:36.01]And, basically, stocks just dove for a few minutes, and then shot right back up in just a few minutes of trading. 
[01:43.76]And that startled everyone, and there's also been, you know, as you mentioned, a couple other incidents that affect -- Facebook had an issue when it had an initial public offering.
[01:53.82]There have been these scattered moments, but today was really just a whole different set of problems, 
[01:59.10]because you were talking about trading completely halting on the second biggest stock exchange in the country, 
[02:05.16]and these are stocks that are owned by most investors. 
[02:07.90]If you have a 401(k), if you invest in mutual funds, these are stocks that you own a piece of, and the fact that there was no trading allowed for hours -- 
[02:16.59]basically, the whole afternoon was off -- this raises questions about the stability of the markets, given how complicated they are and how much technology is behind them now.
[02:25.45]Very good.
[02:26.47]Jia Lynn Yang of The Washington Post, thank you very much.
[02:28.88]Thank you.
[02:31.16]A wildfire raging near California's Yosemite National Park more than tripled in size overnight. 
[02:36.67]The blaze has scorched some 84 square miles of forest west of Yosemite. But the park remains open. 
[02:43.37]Firefighters are working on the unruly fire, but it's only 2 percent contained. It threatened some 2,500 homes, hotels, and camp buildings.
[02:52.73]The U.S. soldier who gunned down 16 Afghan civilians in two villages apologized in a military court today. 
[03:00.07]Staff Sergeant Robert Bales has admitted he shot the villagers in 2012. 
[03:04.89]Today, at his sentencing hearing in Washington, he told family members of the victims it was an act of cowardice. 
[03:11.72]A military jury will decide if his life sentence should offer the chance of parole.
[03:16.94]Army Private 1st Class Bradley Manning has requested hormone therapy so he can live as a woman. 
[03:23.46]The soldier responsible for the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history was sentenced to 35 years in military prison yesterday. 
[03:32.01]Today, Manning gave a statement to NBC's Today Show saying he now wants to be known as Chelsea Manning. 
[03:38.33]The Army doesn't provide hormone treatment or sex-change surgery.
[03:42.89]Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was released from prison today. 
[03:47.25]State television broadcast video of a helicopter with the ailing 85-year-old aboard flying to a military hospital near Cairo. 
[03:55.94]He is to remain under house arrest. Photos showed him being transferred on a gurney to an ambulance amid heavy security. 
[04:03.37]Mubarak still faces charges of failing to prevent the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising that removed him from power. 
[04:11.45]He has a court appearance scheduled next week.
[04:14.38]A disgraced Chinese politician strongly contested the charges against him in his bribery trial today. 
[04:21.41]Bo Xilai denied he'd taken more than $3 million in bribes from businessmen. 
[04:26.78]His fall from grace began early last year when his wife killed a British businessman and Bo allegedly tried to cover it up.
[04:35.38]We have a report from Angus Walker of Independent Television News.
[04:38.67]Judgment day for a man who was once one of China's powerful party leaders in the most politically driven trial for a generation.
[04:48.95]The court heard Bo Xilai had taken bribes and tried to cover up his wife's involvement in the killing of a British business consultant, Neil Heywood. 
[04:59.57]But the disgraced politician angrily rejected key evidence, claiming he'd been forced to confess. If this is a show trial, Bo Xilai hasn't read the script.
[05:12.75]Until his arrest last year, Bo Xilai was a charismatic, popular figure. Among the crowds outside the court, a show of support. It lasted seconds.
[05:30.41]After the Bo Xilai trial, where will China go politically? Will we have more human rights?
[05:39.83]Listening in, the police have heard enough.
[05:43.17]Well, we were just talking to this man, but because he was showing some support for Bo Xilai and criticizing the trial, he's been taken away by the police.
[05:51.84]As one of China's most senior leaders faces what the government insists is open justice, the police were trying to control protests against injustice. 
[06:06.11]A pensioner grabbed his chance to make a stand. His house had been demolished by the government, he shouted. They pulled him down, too, and he was taken away.
[06:19.26]And how the mighty fall. Bo Xilai is also in the hands of the state, a historic day, when China's political system is also on trial.
[06:30.58]The trial went into recess after about eight hours of testimony and was due to resume Friday morning.
[06:36.47]Those are some of the day's major stories.