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Altimeter. >> its possible there are mechanical problems here as well. mark, my question to you is how do we understand the safety revolution that has happened in commercial air? i mean, it just seems to me when youre thinking about this as a problem to solve, you have so many moving parts. i dont mean the moving parts of jet airlines going at hundreds of miles an hour. i mean, you have different governments, right? a plane has to go in south africa and in germany and in buton and all sorts of d...

Water. a 17 mile straight-in final is a long way, but they had to cross a body of water. you have a greater sink rate over a body of water. >> you go down faster. >> right. you go down faster. its possible the flight got away. of course, its still possible they had problems with the altimeter. and the airspeed indicator. >> its possible there are mechanical problems here as well. mark, my question to you is how do we understand the safety revolution that has happened in commercial air? i mean, i...

90 days. this is the first occasion weve had the privilege. the most common abuse appears to be that banks are not informing people who apply for loan modifications that they have insufficient documents. for instance, the error rate for citi was 53%. would you say that we are a still long way from where we need to be on these issues? >> on these issues, absolutely. and, in fact, one of the powers that the monitor has is not only to find these problems but to add more tests where hes finding prob...

Of -- >> what is in the farm bill that could be cut. given apparently thats whats going to have to happen, something is going to have to be cut. are there other possibilities. >> i would argue theres lots of fraud, waste and abuse in the crop insurance program. we ought to go after that. i had an amendment that says you cant cut snap until the error rate of crop insurance equals that of the lower roar rate of snap. at that failed, unfortunately. there are subsidies that could be looked at. the n...

Medication error per hospital patient per day. that means that no one is immune to an error. but it also notes that error rates vary widely across facilities. cnn first covered this emerging trend of robotic pharmacies nearly two years ago. since it made its debut here in 2011, ucsf has added additional safeguards like bar coding the medicine right up to the point its administered to the patient. >> it takes the human element out of picking a drug off the shelf and sending it back to the floor w...

Up with the methodology. they didnt tell each bank how to figure out where they were errors and they basically found out there was no way you could have figured out one consistent error rate across the banks because there was no consistent methodology. it was like reverse methodology. >> an amount of -- less than the treasury department to goldman sachs, over $12 million. nobody said anything. goldman just got a check for 12 billion. all the mess and wrongful foreclosures in the country only abo...

Passed by president obama and the democrats in the house. >> so, one could argue the occ did this because they didnt want the consumer financial production barrel under elizabeth warren to be in charge of this because they have been known to be very kind to the banks. they have been known to bury the banks bodies and known to lie on behalf of the banks, which they did in this independent foreclosure review. recently, they came out with a number that said 4.2% of bow rowers had an error. >> we di...

Independents in some case -- >> as depend heents. >> a lot of folks still do it on paper? 30% are still filing paper returns. not only does that slow down their refund process but leaves more room for error. less than 1% error rate for e-filing versus 21% for filing snail mail. youre segts yourself up for potential trouble. i.r.s. knocking on your door. >> why do you have more mistakes when you do it yourself? >> goes back to the math, transferring stuff from one decimal to the next. missing stu...

Report.com. this is the government sanctioned web site, bill. those are the big three,. >> the industry isnt denying that there are mistakes. it says that once you drill down into the ftc study, the agency found that only about 2% of credit reports had a mistake that might cost the consumer more money. still, it says it is working to get the error rate even lower. >> we have new technology that will come online later this year that has to do are w. investigations. i cant quite break the news wit...

Attacks happen. it could happen through missiles, jsoc strike teams. this is by country. 2004 through 2013. around 363 strikes. in yemen, between 42 and 52. in somalia, 10 to 23 and there are others in other parts of the world. reported civilian deaths, and this brings up the error rate. this is just our moral intuitions as citizens. it seems absolutely unacceptable. like actually what the implementation looks like in terms of who is dying seems to me very important and we just dont have incredi...