17 News @ Sunrise 07/19/2024

Some of today's top storiesBreaking overnight... and right now..    Flights worldwide are grounded due to a global microsoft outage. An outage with microsoft causing massive problems at airports, banks and broadcasters all across the world.The disruptions are still ongoing hours after the technology company said it was quote, investigating an issue affecting access to microsoft 365 apps and services. According to microsoft 365's admin center - the outage started just before 3 p-m pacific time thursday.      The f-a-a says united, american, delta and allegiant flights have been grounded across the country.    Cyber security experts with "Crowdstrike" say this is not the result of a security breach or cyber attack.The f-a-a instructed air traffic controllers to inform  pilots of the communication issues.    Airlines are currently grounded worldwide..    The extent of the issue remains unclear...     At this time we do not know how long this will last.a police chase in east Bakersfield ended with one person dead. This happened around 11 p.m. last night.    Details are few at this time...    But this is video of Bakersfield Police officers on the scene on Pacific Drive near Camino Primavera.    We do not know why that person was being pursued by police... or how he or she died.     We will bring you updates as we know more.17 News is your local election headquarters...    On the final night of the republican national convention --    Former president trump formally accepted his party's gop presidential nomination.    With his family looking on --the former president taking a more somber tone -- thanking those who saved him and describing in detail the assassination attempt that could have ended his life just five days earlier.    Nbc's alice barr is in milwaukee with the latest.Meantime, leaders of the Democratic Party here at home are at odds over  president biden's political future.     Political analyst Neel Sannappa says that if he were to exit the race, Vice President Kamala Harris would be the Democrats best bet.    civil Rights icon and DNC delegate Dolores Huerta approves of the presidents job performance.    But Christian Romo, Chair of Democratic Committee of Kern Dems, says the party needs someone who can beat Trump, and that someone is not Biden. We also reached out to Rudy Salas's office, but they declined to comment.    Leticia Perez's office also declined to comment.In your 17 Court watch...13 years in a Russian penal colony.      That's the ruling from a Russian judge in the case of a Bakersfield native on trial in Moscow.     17's Robert Price spoke with the family of Travis Leake and filed this report.