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Have stood up once again and let their opinions be known and stefano survives again. he ousts pia and paul mcdonald. >> theres something to do with the way stefano looks. hes hot. teenage girls that are voting and i think he has a fantastic voice, by the way, as well. >> why is pia out? >> good point. >> exactly. >> because women are more into looks than men? >> no, apparently more young girls are voting than boys. >> well, brians vote should count equal the amount these young girls. >> thats tr...

Faa theyre wondering do they have a systemic problem they have to deal with. at the heart of the controversy over air traffic controllers, falling asleep on the job, the schedules they work. many controllers report working an eight-hour shift, then off eight, then right back to work for another eight. captain john cox, an airline safety expert, says that can lead to exhaustion. and it is time for a total review of controller scheduling. >> how to develop a fatigue mitigation program and to not h...

40 degrees in fargo. and 47 in omaha. minneapolis and detroit will reach 51. 54 in indianapolis. 57 here in new york. 75 in dallas and atlanta. and 84 in new orleans. 86 in miami. theres a rare sight at the st. petersburgs zoo in russia right now. >> i love this. three newborn -- oh my goodness -- baby jaguars. take a look at this. two baby boys and a bouncing baby girl. my gosh they are so cute. these cats dont normally breed in captivity so the zoo is celebrating the births, but listen to th...

Hope to job and how to fix it today. >> american, 1900, you are aware, the tower is apparently not manned. ive made a few phone calls, and nobody is answering. you can expect to go in, as a self-control. >> any reason it is not manned. >> ill take a guess, and, say the controller walked out. -- got locked out. [ male announcer ] millions of men 45 and older

Mike, peggy? >> all right, thank you. well, imagine looking out your office window and seeing this. baltimore firefighters were called in after a window-washer got stuck outside of a tenth floor window. just hanging there like that. >> whoa. >> this is why i have never done that job. he was taken to a maryland shock trauma center, as you can imagine. his injuries were not life-threatening. but what an ordeal to be dangling there, ten stories up in the sky. >> yeah. gets a call from his buddies...

Sleeping on the job has caused one very big head to roll. the head of the u.s. air traffic system resigned yesterday, a resignation quickly accepted by the federal aviation chief who vowed a major shake-up of the system to win back public trust. the departure came just hours after the latest case of a dozing controller surfaced in nevada where the pilot of a plane with a critically ill passenger couldnt get in touch with the controller while trying to land. according to the associated press, con...

Controller fell asleep on the job. this time it happened at 2:00 in the morning as a medical flight carrying a sick patient tried landing at the reno tahoe international airport. the pilot radios the control tower over and over again and no answer. finally, this. >> were going to need to land. >> and landing at your own risk, that is from the former air traffic controller he had been speaking to, not even the one at the reno airport. they had tried to contact that person, missing in action, asle...

Because it happens all the time. >> when we talk about increasing the staffing and you said reno is one of those airports where they had one person on overnight and hopefully that will change, do we have people being trained? are they trained at a fast enough clip so you can replace people when they go or bring in as many people as you seem to need right now? >> well, in the last two years weve definitely been very generous about getting a lot of trainees in because thats previous to that we did...

Back out of river, but didnt make it. >> ford expanding a recall of their stop selling f-150 pick-up truck pressured by the government to repair an electrical short that can cause air bags to inflight without a crash, injuring drivers. the recall covers more than one million of those trucks. now back to on the record. >> greta: do 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 numbers ca...

Welcome to "american morning." >> a lot of budget stuff to talk b a big decision what will affect all of you, have more this hour. >> also the faa. hard to believe it happened once, but seeing it all over again, air traffic controllers falling asleep while on duty. the latest incident happened at the reno tah tahoe internationa airport. the controller was sleeping when a flight with a sick patient was trying to land there here is some of the conversation with the faa in california. >> the plane ...