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Operational impact, but ironically, before the start of the shift, all controllers had been given a briefing on professionalism and the importance of reporting to work fit for duty. the instance reported to the manager by another controller. there have been other incidents in washington, seattle, lubbock. in many of those cases, the controller was alone on the midnight case. that was not the case here. there were 12 controllers and 2 managers on duty at this facility. the head of the faa says he...

Welcome back to "american morning." a string of problems at airports across the country. safety in our skies is important but a pat-down of a 6-year-old some say the tsa is taking it too far. >> you may need to continue this because kiran and i are continuing our argument from the break. air traffic controllers, not arguing about this, sleeping on the job. a problem thats happening all it too often. here to weigh in on these issues, legal analyst sunny hostin, aviation security expert billy vinc...

Chi china. a weak u.s. dollar also contributed to the rally. this is "world business today." the federal official in charge of air traffic controllers is resigning after yet reports of another controller falling asleep on duty. the latest incident came on wednesday morning at the reno tahoe international airport in nevada. a medical flight carrying a patient was trying to lands. transportation secretary ray lahood calls the trend absolutely unacceptable. aviation officials have assigned an ext...

And in lubbock, texas and government said they put more people in the towers but in reno there was only one. that one was asleep. are the skies safe? >> well, the skies are absolutely safe and let me start off by saying any controller in the tower is an indefensible situation. but that doesnt represent the 10,000 controllers working their tails off to get people from point a to point b. you look up at the crash in 2009 and three million operations, 1.5 operations. safety in the sky falling, that...

Jenna: a fox news alert for you now, an unusually busy day this friday on capitol hill. we showed you earlier, the republicans talking about paul ryans budget proposal that is going to be voted on in the house today. that was nancy pelosi, these are the democrats responding to it as well. again, a very busy day in the house. there are going to be two alternative budgets voted on. were going to monitor these developments as they happen throughout our show and bring you new developments as they ha...

And the unemployment rate shooting up for the first time in three weeks, an additional 27,000 people filing for jobless benefits in the past week. but the unemployment rate is at a two-year low of 8.8%. now back to "on the record." for your latest headlines, go to foxnews.com. you are watching the most powerful name in news, fox newschannel. you get paid to sleep at work? that answer could be yes if you happen to work in a control tower at the airport. not accuse all air traffic controllers. the...

Need two traffic controllers at the towers. check your local listings. speaking of the sleeping air traffic controller we have new developments today to tell you about, a former controller says had problem is nothing new. most work several long shifts in a row including overnight, over a few days and take 3 1/2 days off, like chris was talking about and he says the industry has been very reluctant to change. >> specifically does not want it and the controllers do not want it because it gives the...

The controller slept. on thursday, the man who ran the faas air traffic control operations, hank krakowski, lost his job. >> what happened in these control towers with controllers sleeping is outrageous, it hes the kind of behavior that we will not tolerate. >> reporter: the faa has since ordered at least two controllers in every tower thats open for business overnight. but for the flying public its been three weeks of unsettling news about aviation safety. from the sleeping controllers to the 7...

Three flights land during that midnight shift. were talking about three flights, two controller, jon. jon: i guess in this era of belt tightening, thats not going over well with republicans. >> not going over very well at all. we spoke with house transportation committee chairman john mica who pointed out how much money these controllers make. >> we have 15,700 air traffic controllers across the nation making an average $163,000 apiece. they have plenty of air traffic controllers, theyre well pa...

At the airport in reno, nevada early wednesday morning, this when the lone air traffic controller in the tower dozed off on the job. lets talk about it with steven rather wallace, former director of the faa office of accident investigations. so is this idea of putting a second controller on the job, first of all, its going to cost money, but is it the best solution? >> well, fatigue in all aspects of transportation is -- in transportation is a huge and complex issue, and i think that this is a g...