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Air traffic controllers audio tape. >> they had a helicopter right there and we nearly collided with him. >> reporter: the faa and national transportation safety board are investigating the close call that happened friday afternoon. a u.s. airways flight with 73 people on board was approaching reagan national airport from the south, toward runway 33. a military helicopter based at nearby andrews air force base was in the air flying toward the plane. they were at the same altitude, about 400 feet...

Towers at smaller airports. do you think thats going to have an impact on safety? >> you know, its going to be a slight change. probably one that wouldnt even be in theed to passengered in the airplanes that theyre flying in. whats going to happen when a control tower is closed instead of having an air traffic controller to choreograph movement of the planes, instead of that you have to have the pilots on their own coordinate their own movements by stating on the radio frequency where they are, ...

So they dont run off the road like this unbelted driver who survived his rollover. todays automakers are moving toward not just protecting you from an accident, but avoiding one altogether. and its working. >> this technology is the first steps towards a car that can drive itself. >> reporter: 18 car manufacturers, chevrolet, toyota, ford, chrysler, offer optional forward collision avoidance using radar and lasers embedded in the grill to warn the driver he/she is approaching a slower or stopped...

>> reporter: new technology designed to eliminate scary car crashes and keep drivers alert so they dont run off the road like this unbelted driver who survived his rollover. todays automakers are moving toward not just protecting you from an accident, but avoiding one altogether. and its working. >> this technology is the first steps towards a car that can drive itself. >> reporter: 18 car manufacturers, chevrolet, toyota, ford, chrysler, offer optional forward collision avoidance using radar an...

be worth more than mcdonalds by happy hour tomorrow night. well keep you here as well, ali. lets bring in christine romans. >> of course. >> its very interesting. lets get to it. >> institutional investors, windows has closed for them to say they want to get in. those are the big guys. the little guys are waiting to find out what the ipo price will be and put in your limit orders. thats what i keep advocating. what price do you think you want to pay for facebook stock when it starts tr...

>> its going to land like tom cruise in mission impossible. fire rockets and rappel down with cables. bill: i hope we get a picture of that. why is this mission necessary? because man, its expensive. >> it is. look, there are a bunch of ways to frame it. you think about all the things that we spend on education, this is an unbelievable educational outreach. you think of all the different ways we try to push technology, this is the same kind of technology that is creating collision avoidance or d...

Sophisticated ships, technology-wise, in the world. to run into an oil vessel five times bigger seems there would be technology to prevent that from ever happening. i know the "fitzgerald," top brass was removed from duty here. does the navy need a top-to-bottom review here in terms of leadership and training? >> i think so. what this does, what it shows is that there are procedures that clearly are in place for years. the question is were the procedures sufficient. and if they were sufficient, ...

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