Trouble accessing some sites today April 10, 2012

I woke up this morning at 5:30 AM to discover I could not access my FIOS Internet. After about an hour on hold with Verizon Support I realized I could suddenly access some sites, but not all. For example, I can search on Google but cannot access any sites that pop up in the search results. I can access my local news web site, but not CNN. Very odd. This impacts all of my devices, both Ethernet and wireless connected. I am in PA zip code 19006. FIOS TV is working. Anyone else having this problem?

It's not likely a DNS issue since I use OpenDNS servers from my Ubuntu Linux desktop.  This has to be a routing issue.  I can access Yahoo, Google (and Gmail) and Verizon.com but none of the ads or other links from the searches are accessible.  Can't acecess Facebook, Speedtest, Engadget with direct IP addresses.

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