(NECN/ABC) - If you tried to get anywhere by air this morning, chances are you didn't make it on time. Computer problems at the Federal Aviation Administration threw off air travel nationwide. The FAA says they are back in action now, but the flight delays will likely take hours to clear up.

The problem started early this morning, shortly after 5:00 a.m. The glitch impacted mostly flight plans, but also traffic management.

During the outage, dispatchers had to send flight plans to controllers, who then had to manually enter them into computers.

(NECN: Los Angeles, Calif.) - According to the Los Angeles Police Department, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's daughter, Alexandra Forbes Kerry, was arrested this morning for a misdemeanor DUI.

36-year-old Kerry was pulled over for a traffic stop in Hollywood, California, around 12:40 a.m. and she was booked around 2:00 a.m.

She has since been released after posting $5,000 bail.

Alexandra Kerry is the eldest daughter of the Massachusetts senator, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee.

Jodi Seth, spokesperson for Sen. Kerry released the following statement:

ATLANTA (AP) - Widespread flight cancellations and delays nationwide because of a problem with the FAA system that collects airlines' flight plans.

FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says she doesn't know how many flights are being affected or when the problem will be resolved.

An AirTran Airways spokesman says Thursday there's no danger to flights in the air, and flights are still taking off and landing.

However, spokesman Christopher White says flight plans are having to be inputted manually because of a malfunction with the automated system.

(NECN/ABC) - More than a dozen people were arrested Wednesday outside a meeting where the University of California regents approved a massive fee increase for students starting next semester.

The meeting got so unruly that campus police had to be called in, but that just made things worse.

The protest got ugly just outside the entrance to the auditorium where the UC regents were meeting.

University police were dodging water bottles, sticks and vinegar soaked rags. The students are angry at a 32-percent increase at UCLA and the other nine UC campuses.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval late Wednesday ruled in favor of residents who alleged the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish.

Many in Katrina have argued that Katrina, which struck the region Aug. 29, 2005, was a manmade disaster caused by the Army

(NECN/ABC) - North Carolina authorities confirmed Tuesday that the body of a child found the day before was that of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis.

Shaniya's body had been dumped in a thickly wooded area.

"It's not the result I wanted. It's not the result any father or family would want," her father Bradley Lockhart said.

Shaniya spent most of her life with her father who had only recently allowed her to live with her mother, 25-year-old Antoinette Davis.

Davis, who is pregnant, already faces charges of providing her five-year-old daughter for sex trafficking.

(NECN/WFTS: Venice, Fla.) - At least six hostages were bound by gunmen at a TJ Maxx store late Tuesday night, but were safe after managing to free themselves with the help of a SWAT unit.

Witnesses told authorities that two masked gunmen stormed the store.

A crowd of about 100 people, some who had relatives inside the store, gathered in the parking lot to watch.

SWAT members pulled the victims out of the store, with only one person suffering reported minor injuries. The suspects had fled the store before the SWAT team entered.

(NECN: Washington, D.C.) - Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder explained the U.S. Prosecution strategy against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of being the mastermind behind the Sept. 11th attacks.

Holder elected to put Mohammed on trial in the U.S. Civilian legal system, sending the case to Federal Court in lower Manhattan. Four other detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will also be put on trial there.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service says a police advance car working ahead of Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade was involved in a traffic accident Tuesday evening in New York.

The car wasn't part of the motorcade and the vice president was unhurt. New York City police say two police officers and a livery cab driver were hospitalized with minor injuries.

Secret Service spokesman Darrin Blackford says the motorcade continued on its route.

In another accident involving the vice president this week, a

(NECN: Washington) - The Army is still struggling to determine the reason so many soldiers take their own lives. At a news conference at the Pentagon this morning, Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli said however, they are making progress by implementing some new programs.

So far this year, 140 soldiers have committed suicide, and the new Army report estimates, that at the current rate, more soldiers will take their lives this year, than last.

Verbatim from Chiarelli:

"I also believe that it is important to put these numbers in context, and to