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Lady, that is 101, and that should never have happened. the white house says the first lady and jill biden were in "no imminent danger." >>shepard: the f.a.a. is chairing why it fired two air traffic controllers. >>reporter: transportation secretary lahood initially said one air traffic controller in knoxville was fired for sleeping on the job and one in miami, florida, was fired for not routing a 737 jet correctly but today the f.a.a. is saying, no, in both cases the controllers were fired for ...

Are up in the air. under the new rules, flights carrying michelle obama or joe biden will be handled by an air traffic supervisor rather than a controller. a controllers error earlier this week put mrs. obamas plane dangerously close to a military cargo plane. the president is in san francisco this morning where he will attend a fund-raising luncheon. yesterday mr. obama hosted a town hall meeting at the facebook headquarters. david lui from our san francisco station kgo reports now from palo ...

Apparent in british hitting, waiting for 59 years. prince charles who is 62 has waited lonr than his great, great grandfather king edward viith who set the record previously. and now you are looking live at flight tracker and thousands of planes in the sky right now over the united states. on the ground, hundreds of air traffic controllers responsible for keeping them all straight keeping them apart and yes, and yes, keeping them safe. it almost always goes exactly the way it is supposed to, b...

The window, and they are land on different runways and well separate and not a problem there. go-arounds are fairly routine and it is not a big deal or dangerous whatsoever, but it is a little bit annoying to the the pilot of the go-around aircraft, because you are prepared to land and want to get the passengers on the ground, but in this particular case, we have a series of flaws as i see it. we had one where the controller who was handling the presidents wife plane knew that the airplane was c...

Threatening parts of the country. this is incredible new video of a tornado that ripped through illinois. that massive storm dumping plenty of rain and hail. take a look at this, another massive twister. this one touching down in missouri. nearly 30 tornadoes were reported in that area, luckily and unbelievably, nobody was hurt. theres renewed hope in the search for a missing miner in idaho. 53-year-old larry merrick has been trapped more than a mile underground since last friday. rescuers have ...

Allows cops to take your cell phone and get all of your personal information from it. they dont have to charge you with anything. you dont have to be suspected of anything. text messages, pictures, the whole nine yards. there is a debate on it. that is ahead. and in box three, today, brand new housing numbers. yes, today, a sign of progress. a live report. unless breaking news changes everything. this is "studio b" and first from fox at 3:00, the feds are opening a formal investigation into the ...

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 ...

Mcdonalds will also hire managers, and it tells us they can make up to $50,000 a year. in contrast, the mcdonalds chief executive reportedly made just under $10 million in salary and bonuses last year. another day, another p.r. nightmare for the faa. an air traffic controller and a manager suspended this time in cleveland, ohio. the controller wasnt sleeping, he was watching a dvd on the job. the faa released this statement, "the controllers microphone was inadvertently activated, transmitting...

It may have started in the public mind, but this has been going on for a while. why wasnt it addressed sooner? >> well, i just found out about it, candy, when i found out about it i was outraged. i called it ridiculous behavior. as soon as we found out about it, the first one was washington national airport. the controller was suspended and we put another controller in the control tower and weve done that in other control towers. ive been on this job two and a half years. as soon as i heard abou...

And the words you emphasized, the aircraft were never in any danger. whats the issue is why they were too close together. "the washington post" is reporting it was a controller at a regional facility that put these planes too close together. didnt separate them. they just say it was controllers at an draws who said, go around, go around quickly. we have talked to kelly nantel, who is a spokeswoman for the ntsb. she tells me the ntsb is at the very early stages here of assessing what happened. th...