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>> hes real close. >> reporter: the rules of separation in the skies breached. the faas latest numbers show planes came too close nearly 4,400 times in one year. 41 of them deemed high-risk events. >> they are scary. theyre unacceptable. theyre worked on. but theres a backup system and people are safe. >> reporter: its an air traffic system under stress. increasing air traffic and a potential shortage of controllers. thousands more need to be hired and trained over the next seven years. some exp...

Security chief, janet napolitano, today is warning of longer lines at the nations airports especially in customs. >> as sequestration goes into effect over the next weeks and months, average wait times to clear customs can increase by a significant percentage, up to 50%, and at our busiest airports like newark and jfk, lax and ohare, peak wait times which even now is too long, peak wait times at some of these airports can approach two hours, could actually grow to almost four hours. were trying ...

Covering up the fact that their air traffic control system a mess. it is mismanaged at top. there is no fix in process. they have been doing this 20 year and giving excuses. it is only hard work by controllers keeping us safe. as a result of that controllers get the brunt of a lot of controller errors are due to equipment, not necessarily the controllers themselves. jon: there have been some recent, you know, fairly notable problems at that particular airport, at reagan national. you had an airl...

Germany were closed as a precaution. almost 500 flights, mostly in northern britain, were canceled yesterday. fewer flight disruptions predicted for today. the head of the faa revealed two more cases of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job. he told a senate committee that both incidents took place in january at major airports. a napping controller in los angeles was suspended. and another in ft. worth was reprimanded. and that brings the total instances of sleeping controllers to ...

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Can you really say with confidence that it happens all the time? >> we know errors are happening all the time. we know controller errors are up this year over last year. thats what theyve reported. and if you go back and look at the shan nan anyone begnan nann they report airs we have problems that need to be fixed. airplanes bumping into each other is a serious matter. >> the faa just implemented this new set of rules. do you think theres been a widespread lack of professionalism in the towers ...

Figure out why they are making so many dangerous errors. there have been a half dozen incidents where airlines came close to crashing with other planes. in some cases pilots made last second changes in direction when cockpit alarms went off. joining me no is mary xeef vo. whats the problem out there? >> in the washington, d.c. area, theres a lot of focus between the air traffic control facilities, reagan national airport and dulles airport. they have been directing traffic into each others areas...