NY unemployment claim systems back up after crash

New York's unemployment claims systems are back up and running after it crashed earlier Tuesday, overwhelmed by tens of thousands of jobless New Yorkers trying to call or log in at once ahead of this week's filing deadline.

State labor department officials say the problem started Monday and caused the phone banks at the state's toll-free claims center to shut down, followed by the online filing system. Leo Rosales, an agency spokesman, says as many as 10,000 people per hour were trying to log into the system.

Technicians brought the systems back online Tuesday afternoon, Rosales told CBS 6's Liz Bishop.

Rosales says the system failure shouldn't delay newly unemployed workers from getting benefits because they have until the weekend to file claims.