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Scha change, the governments backlash gets bloodier. they call it the harvard of the sky where air traffic control students learn the ropes. we take you inside. a buckingham palace guard insulting kate middleton on facebook, and he pays the price. the faa fires a third air traffic controller for sleeping on the job. the agency says the controller at seattles boeing field fell asleep twice. in january and again in april. the firings are in response to highly publicized incidents of controll...

While in downtown st. louis the banks of the mississippi continue to rise. arkansas officials confirm add at least five people are dead after more than a dozen reported tornadoes knocked out power and toppled trees throughout the region last night. heavy rain pelted parts of the midwest from northeast texas all the way to kentucky, where firefighters just outside of louisville rescued a man confined to a wheelchair from a flooded home. nbc meteorologist bill karins will have much more coming up ...

There. its difficult for her to walk and communication skills are difficult at this point. >> but, she is still gabby. >> yeah, absolutely. 100%. >> kelly adds even he played a game of scramble with his wife. giffords extraordinary progress is one of the main reasons kelly decided to carry on as commander of the space shuttle "endeavour" on friday, which, again, she is scheduled to attend. a third air traffic controller has been fired after he was found sleeping on the job. the faa reports the...

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>> now i want to get to the controllers. new rules for them say that nine hours is the minimum between shifts, up from eight. is that good enough for you for the air traffic controllers? >> that does something very good. very clever. because what controllers could do in the past is put two shifts in one day. they could work their eight-hour shift, get their eight hours off and work another eight-hour shift, then have a four-day work week so they can compress their five days of work into four. by...

Following distance behind the car in front of you. similar rules apply to the sky. they were broken this week when the first ladys 737 got too close to a cargo plane and they werent close enough to collide. that big plane creates a lot of wake tush which can lead to trouble if safe following distance to breached, which it was. the c-17 one of the biggest planes in the sky. it needs everyone else to stay back at least five miles. the first ladys pilot told by a controller he was only four miles a...

Transportation safety board, peter. >> the pilot of the first lady 737 thought he was a safe distance behind the military cargo plane. but he wasnt because air traffic control tower gave him bad info. the big plane creates wake turbulence and the little plane needs to be five miles away. the controller they were four miles behind and they need to get space. they kept getting closer and closer until were 2.94 miles apart. the heavy jet was told to come in for a landing and the first ladys plane t...

The ntsb says the planes came within a 10th of a mile from each other, three miles is the normal limit. they were only about 100 feet apart in altitude. turns tout pilot of the smaller plane was fine and both planes landed safely, but the controller and the southwest pilot have been suspended pending an investigation. has donald trump exaggerated his death worth? he is responding to an investigation by cnn in the arena. >>. >> heres a question i have knorr you, what is your network? why dont you...

Schedule. sometimes they want these back to back schedules to have an extra day off. ray lahood was pretty clever by putting nine-hour break periods in, you cant get two shifts in with one 24-hour period. thats were already the rules. you are not allowed to sleep on the job, on any federal job have the the separation for the first ladys plane was very dangerous. >> everybody is blowing it off, it isnt that big of a deal. it still happened with a plane carrying the first lady much the controller ...

Every day, theres another reaction. today -- i mean, most people would have thought that theres not that many presidential, vice presidential flights. most people would have thought an air traffic control supervisor would have an eye on a controller guiding that flight. so were changing the rules. were talking about no sleeping. it doesnt deal with the heart of the problem. you said it, eliot, the heart of the problem is there are not enough controllers. theres a backlog of trainees and they can...