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>> residents are warned to brace for extreme heat. temperatures expects to soar to 115 degrees. lets check in with adam klotz for the fox weather forecast. what do you have for us? >> adam: wild weather across the country. eastern half of the country, something similar today. you see every afternoon storms explode, expect to see something this afternoon. the rain continuing to linger across new england, at times fairly heavy. that takes heat of the day. rain from mississippi and georgi...

Transport pilot certificate. here you have a young man at 21 years old, he goes through burnout, takes a hiatus and now hes back in his training program into the cockpit of a commercial airliner. i know that he has met supposedly all the rigors of training and passed his check rides, but does he have really the maturity one, to make the decisions that are necessary, but two, its obvious there were some psychological and possibly physiological conditions that he wasnt being forthcoming with the a...

Mechanism, a self-reporting and confidential reporting mechanism by other people that they can report if they are concerned about it. that to me seems to be a far more satisfactory solution. yes, there will be lets be clear, there will be the occasion, the lone wolf the rogue case that comes out of it but you will not solve that i guarantee you, with setting up some massive structure of constant psychological screening. >> you can bet these companies -- >> to go along with what richards saying i...

Nothing. it could be him wanting to prepare for future check rides, training events, things like that, its something interesting, yet i wouldnt put a lot of faith on to something earth shattering at this point yet. >> what do you think, as a tsa investigator do you believe the same thing? >> i believe the key lesson from 9/11, we have to protect the integrity of the cockpit at all costs. it seems in this case, something went awry in the cockpit. we have an aircraft that has gone off its assigned...

Weve also seen certainly issues regarding the pilot background check. he had failed repeated check rides, but his employer, colgan air, didnt know about all those failures, so the faa has been pushing for the airlines to make all the background information clear. two-thirds of the airlines have agreed to do so thus far. the faa is pushing for a new law in that regard. >> besides that, what else is the faa doing in light of all of this? >> reporter: well, they have had a committee looking into th...

The ntsb has a good laundry list of what contributed to this crash, pilot fatigue, perhaps low pay and poor training and real mistakes in the cockpit. but these regional airlines fly the colors and the logos of the big carriers, but theyre not the big carriers. in fact, the regionals have been involved in every single fatal accident in this country since 2001. 400,000 of us fly them every day. so the focus now is to ensure this never happens again. nearly a year after continental connection flig...

And this is a fox news alert, investigators are desperately trying to solve the mystery of what happened to the missing malaysian plane. joining me with analysis on what they think may have happened to the jet. former deputy administrator tom blank and d.j. frost. welcome to the program. let me start with you and ask, first of all, if investigators find on this captains simulator, they find, for example, the five practice runways in the indian ocean what does that tell you, does that raise suspi...

Appear to what would in buffalo, when colgan air went down and the pilot failed check rides, he had not been trained properly. a whole host of things we found out about the cockpit crew that were disturbing. here, the headlines from the faa -- under theç proposals the fligh crew must demonstrate not just learn critical skills in real-world training scenarios. for example, theyre going to require the pilots be taught how to recognize and recover from stalls. you may remember that that crew at c...