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To your safety when you fly even more outrageous. jeanne is following this story for us. >> tonight, another episode of air traffic controllers we have another case of air traffic controllers misbehaving. >> why did you call in. >> i dont know. i called in to the wrong person and suddenly im the one that goes missing. >> reporter: for more than three minutes, audio from a movie is transmitted by an air traffic controller at a regional facility in ohio. he inadvertently activated his microphone w...

Guess, with this line of work, you said theyre dedicated men and women, and other people who have to be up all night. police officers have to work night shifts, hospital staff. lives are on the line. even pilots, they also have to do this. are we just hearing about it more with air traffic controllers? >> i think that highly operational people who perform missions where theres precision involved, have a harder time when theres not a lot of traffic. its harder for a controller who has five or six...

>> reporter: and didnt stop him? >> and didnt stop it. >> reporter: he calls it ridiculous, outrageous, and intolerable. right now the leader of the controllers union are barn storming around the country to spread the gospel of professionalism to the rank and file. but stories of controllers keep piling up, with incidents in washington, knoxville, reno, seattle, lubbock, miami, and now ohio, making some air travelers worry about safety. >> they are there to do a job and they are there to control...

Jessica? we have breaking report from the washington post reporting that a plane carrying mrs. obama had to abort a landing as she was coming into andrew air force base because her plane got too close to another jet and this was the mistake of an air traffic controller. jeanne, this is just coming in as youre sitting here. im sure you dont have any more detail. >> i cant confirm the story at this point but i point out that it was likely a military air traffic controller as opposed to a faa con...

Staying the same. another air traffic controller suspended along with his manager, this time because he was watching a movie on the job. it happened in cleveland, ohio, over the weekend. and right after the incident of sleeping controllers in washington, in knoxville, tennessee, seattle, reno, nevada and miami. the controller was watching the movie "the cleaner" starring samuel l. jackson but inadvertently left his mike on sending the movies soundtrack over the radio for three minutes. the faa...

Faa. a miami controller caught sleeping during his midnight shift. and prior to the start of that particular shift the controllers were given a lecture about professionalism, we we assume included dont sleep on the job, especially sense you have thousands of lives in your hands. >> and now the transportation reporter for the washington secretary of post. i understand we have news out of ohio tonight. >> we do. sunday morning a controller was watching a movie, a bad movie, called "cleaner" and he...

Paying enough attention to his job. this time the controller was watching a movie on dvds instead of monitoring aircraft. even more embarrassing the controllers mike was accidentally activated so the movie was actually broadcast for three minutes to all planes in that airspace. his supervisor was also suspended. >> how scary are those stories? ugh. and now to the desperate search for a missing tennessee college student, holly bobo. the sheriff says no one has been ruled out as a suspect in her...

How do would he know that, samuel jacksons movie, the cleaner was broadcast over air space. the controllers microphone stuck in the on position, and that didnt allow incoming radio calls from those planes. steve centanni live in washington with this. steve, what details do we have on this thing? >> reporter: it happened early sunday on a radar center outside of cleveland where controllers monitor aircraft flying at high altitudes. the troerl was watching that movie and accidentally left his mike...

Did you hear? another air traffic controller suspended but not for sleeping on the job. you see this controller in cleveland got caught watching a movie on a portable dvd player. a pilot reported this incident after he heard audio from the 2007 film "cleaner" starring samuel jackson to this contr controller left the microphone on, and thus putting the sound track over the airwaves for more than three minutes. he is suspended by the faa. and a conference wrapped up today and look at who made a ...

Alcohol. >> and no college students can carry these guns on campus. >> there we go. two vetoes. >> how about that? ginger rouge, thank you. and it is not often that you see fidel castro out with his brother raul. and why the surprise appearance? we will take you live to cuba next. also, another air traffic controller is suspended, but not in time for sleeping. we will tell you what movie, the controller is accused of watching on the job. and their brightest ideas together. it helps the large...