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Injuries. again, lets go back to fredricka whitfield, who is in atlanta. fredricka covered this story right when it broke on the air, and tom sader is there as well in the cnn severe weather center. tom, we heard there from jim tillmon who is also a meteorologist, he said the conditions were perfect. >> yeah. >> the conditions were fine. so, what gives here? >> you know, were going to put this to rest as fredricka and i talked about earlier, don, obviously theyre going to put this in the reports...

The storm is extremely large. 400 miles wide, and if youd like to take a look at our map here, that is -- if you were to drive from san francisco to los angeles, thats how wide this storm is. so there you have it. weve actually mapped it out for you. that is how big. so this is going to take up a lot of gulf coast real estate, not just a new orleans storm but all along the coast of mississippi, alabama and the florida panhandle. again, its been trying to get its act together for some time now. b...

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...

And there is still a lot of near collisions where people are following visual flight rules. for example, everyone remembers the mid air over new york with the helicopter and fix the wing over the hudson. they were following visual flight rules. meaning they were seeing avoiding. that doesnt work. the airport is still most dangerous part. but once youre in the open skies, there is a lot of room for our nations 239,000 airplanes. the problem is they try to funnel into 460 airports that are commerc...

Flight level, up to at least 18,000 feet now. so when it gets into the upper levels of the atmosphere the higher the eruption the greater problems that youll have. if you do have travel plans overseas into europe the next couple of days, even into middle to latter part of next week, make sure you check those flights before you take off. okay. if youre traveling around the u.s. today, domestically, we do have airport delays. theyre not pretty, unfortunately. more than two hours now at jfk. newark...

Watts. this l.e.d. bulb from ge is only 9 watts. youre saving at 30 watts of energy every hour that you operate it. >> saving, youve given us an estimate of 75 bucks, thats over the life of the bulb? >> yeah. the savings of energy alone will more than pay for the bulb over the life. >> when is that going to be available? >> it will be available later this year. i have a demonstration here i can show you, it looks very much like a true incandescent light bulb. at 40 watts its giving out the same ...

>> hey alex we continue to monitor the weather conditions that were in play when air asia flight 8501 was last heard from moving over the java sea. the weather a big factor across this portion of the world. its flying through the area that we shorthand call the itcz. we talk about this during the summer months in the u.s., where we would look for tropical storm or hurricane development. but year round, it is a portion of the world infamous for huge thunderstorms. and these bright red colors are ...

The time that this was going on. what do you mean by that and what does it mean? >> well, certainly it means that the airplane was at a, whats known as a flight level. that would be considered pretty normal for a commercial aircraft. so anywhere between about 30,000 and 42,000 feet. we dont know specifically where it was, but thats typically where aircraft spend most of their time in cruise. as thats unfolding over the ocean, you can glean from the information thats being retrieved from the sate...

Union membership as a portion of the labor force has declined, but the one place where it has gotten a foothold is in government and state workers. if these eupian rules go through, the new nonnegotiating rules go through, which in effect remove the unions ability to negotiate anything significant, it limits them to a cost of flight level, that sort of thing, and in reality, it seems to encourage the lack of a union. theyre controlled to do exactly the same thing around the country. if state wor...