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The union is pushing for specific naps. they are in the calling them "naps," but "fatigue prevention techniques," and now we hear this. >> if you have never worked the graveyard shift do not judge the people. when it is not busy and hurt only one on duty it is difficult to stay awake. >> i have worked the graveyards shift. dave you pretty much have it now. >> i was a deejay from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. but her point is, if it is quiet, and you are a deejay and anchoring, talking, and you need to ...

Dedicated group of people who they are working the graveyard shift and thats your job. you know, police in philadelphia have tried with a variety of different rotations, and they just came to the conclusion that im articulating, which is you need to have a number of officers who know this is your shift, get used to it. >> yeah, yeah, it is interesting. when you have lives that could be at risk because of your negligence or whatever you choose to call it, it is obviously a big story, about you th...

And last reported, winds were calm. jon: transportation secretary ray la hood reacted to the reports calling the behavior of these sleeping controllers outrageous and ri lick dous. -- ridiculous. mike boyd is an aviation security analyst. so now the guy in charge of air traffic at the faa, mike, has resigned. is that going to be enough? >> reporter: well, if its just a political move to throw him under the bus, but if its the faa administrator starting to clean house which desperately needs to b...

What do you make of this move? >> well, i think the world of this new faa administrator, but if this is a real change, thats good, where we clean out the air traffic control system more than just him. it will be great. if its a political move to throw a guy under the bus, nothing will happen. >> whats your suspicion here? >> ill give him the benefit of the doubt and hope this is the first of many resignations hes going to accept, because air traffic control system is ablazing mess. >> lets talk ...

Two fukushima workers are hospitalized with radiation poisoning. new safety and security questions today at reagan international. early this morning, two commercial jet liners waiting to land got no answer from the control tower. >> the tower is apparently unmanned. we called on the phone and nobodys answers so the aircraft went in uncontrolled at the airport. >> the pilots talked themselves down and landed the plane safely. just one controller is on duty for the graveyard shift at reagan nati...

For example, reagan there are only two flights that would land in that overnighttime span, i believe around 11:00 p.m. eastern time, there about. >> its a caretaker job. its a graveyard shift. now nobody less than lahood wants to get to how do you staff the graveyard shift? we have an employee who failed. that employee should be fired not suspended, fired. its like a century who leaves his post during war. lahoods saying lets put there there. thats not good management. thats not going to fix the...

Faa. >> you refer to the new faa administrator, babbitt. as a former airline pilot, im personally outraged the controller did not meet his responsibility to help land those two planes. at no point was either plane out of the radar contact and our backup system kicked in to ensure the safe landing of both planes. you mentioned, ray lahood, transportation secretary, calling for two individuals to be there instead of one controller. how -- i hate to look at worst case scenarios -- but put in perspe...

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Directed off of course. >> if youre an air traffic controller and your plane makes a turn like that, are you going to tell me the air traffic controller is not being proactive and saying where the heck are you going? 12 minutes later they say all right, good night. he makes the turn, then says all right, good night. the other side of the dialogue, the guy with the microphone says where the heck are you going? >> that information would have been, according to our experts, transmitted to the acars...