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More stunning situations involving faa towers, sleeping controllers, you had the man in charge of it at all on this morning. >> thats right. the secretary of transportation ray lahood, and on our show he announced new work rules. they said theyd have a study, but then saturday morning another controller fell asleep in miami just after a lecture at the control tower about, you know, professionalism, not falling asleep on the job. so we can see how well that worked. theyll change the schedule, but...

Traffic, the number of planes that are in the air at any given moment. whats fascinating is to think that there hasnt been some sort of real -- or scheduling that takes all this into consideration, seems like perhaps were just finding out something thats been a long time coming, really. >> deb, according to the faa, they staff those control towers based on volume. air traffic volume. thats why you heard of these midnight shifts being very poorly manned. in some cases one air traffic controller i...

That doesnt mean there isnt going to be griping down at the local level. >> shannon: if you were a pilot trying to come in for a landing and cannot get in touch with a controller as happened in some of the cases, the pilots decided to go ahead and land on their own. how dangerous is proposition is that? >> i am a commercial pilot, too, as a matter of fact. we dont need the to youer to land. we can land the airplane absolutely fine without them. but the one safety issue that does creep in is that...

Tower was suspended for sleeping on the job, another has been busted in miami. it is the seventh incident just this year. thats according to the federal aviation administration. the head of the controllers union said he agrees with the faa that fatigue and scheduling must be addressed. new orleans police arrested actor nicholas cage late friday night. police charged the 47-year-old cage with domestic abuse, battery, disturbing the peace, and public drunkenness. police tell us cage got into an ...

Woman was killed and 50 injured, tourists ten to travel here. -- continue to travel here. the jewish holiday of passover begins tomorrow night. and israel remains on heightened alert as is usually the case. this year slightly different. they issued an extensive travel warning in anticipation of possible terror attacks on israelis. >> shannon: new rules just announced to help make sure that air traffic controllers stay away on their shift. one pilot who is also a former controller says they are n...

Are interested in corrective action for safety issues is when the public report media become aware of it. >> geraldo: we are definitely aware of it now. let me ask the pilot and former member of the national air traffic controller association, robert mark. robert, thank you, too, for being on the program. if this was wartime and a century who fell asleep, he would be shot. we dont advocate that kind of draconian punishment for are air traffic controllers. the pay is $170,000 a year extra, all ta...

Ntsb is investigating and well see what they come up with and it is clear, human error was certainly a factor there. >> chris: do you think it was human error at -- of the pilot or the controller. >> i dont want to speculate on that until we get into the interviews and weeds on it. >> chris: while all of this is going on at airports, the tsa, transportation security administration, another piece of tape, decided to pat-down a 6-year-old girl in new orleans, a few days ago and she got very upset,...

Are interested in corrective action for safety issues is when the public report media become aware of it. >> geraldo: we are definitely aware of it now. let me ask the pilot and former member of the national air traffic controller association, robert mark. robert, thank you, too, for being on the program. if this was wartime and a century who fell asleep, he would be shot. we dont advocate that kind of draconian punishment for are air traffic controllers. the pay is $170,000 a year extra, all ta...

Things in the daytime, and government regulations and all places require you to show up for work ready to work. the miami incident was helpful, because it was not somebody working alone but somebody who has had a problem many times. >> let say you are with friends and going from new york to florida and driving through the night, you do take driving shifts. you let some people sleep while others are driving. has there been a consideration to that? in europe sometimes they employ that philosophy? ...

Week with easter sunday coming one week from today. and nicolas cage has been bailed out of jail by his good friend duane dog chapman who was arrested after an alleged drunken argument with his wife in new orleans are. >> peter thank you very much for the top headlines. the new changes to the schedule of air traffic controllers after another controller found sleeping on the job in miami yesterday. and now the faa says preliminary reviews shows the controller did not miss any calls from incom...