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Accidents in u.s., and fatalities, that are because of human error, that is really the future that google is trying to push forward, idea that with more driverless cars you will have perhaps less fatalities. john: i would say, we have a hundred deaths per day in cars driven by humans and human error is main reasons. computer, certainly can do better? >> that is the right? john: and regulator all of us worry about something, senator rock fell are said, what about cyberattacks could a 14-year-old ...

Other failures that could have occurred. >> the mexican cal failures and human error? >> the security failures at the airport, too. >> absolutely. clive irving, thank you so much. always a pleasure. and coming up, the supreme court sure knows how to take its time, some might say procrastinate. the end of the term is days away, which means this week should be chock full of controversial rulings, including hobby lobby. how will they rule? well discuss. plus, say it airport so. are you one of t...

Malaysias handling of the probe april london newspaper reporting that perhaps the captain may be behind the disaster. there are a lot of ifs in the report. it were human error, perhaps its the captain. so they them carefully. but what are your thoughts? >> this is all part of a pattern weve seen going on over the last months in the story where the malaysians keep coming back to the idea of blaming the pilot, someone, we dont know who. where do the stories originate from? theyre obscurely sourced...

I guess with the situation in iraq, how is the president handling it. is this really an apt debate right now? should we be going back and forth whose fault it is? >> whether we should or shouldnt, we are. eb invasion of iraq was a huge strategic and human error. this president probably didnt help matters by letting the syria problem fester too long. im not sure if he had interv e intervened had would have done any good. prime minister maliki by refusing to open his government continued to the ot...

Storm system still very warm in the upper 80s in houston and new orleans. dell rio 99 degrees, 100 if yis your temperature forecast. it will be a hot one. you factor in the humidity it will be hotter than that. parts of the east coast feeling warm as well. 89 in atlanta 89 for the high in raleigh, north carolina. >> is 1 hins befo-- 11 minutes before the top of the hour. a woman has her house broken into and on-line gamers come to her rescue. >> looking out of the window to see the big piece mis...

Upcoming runoff elections for this weekend, but that is not even clear at this point, but what is clear is that they came in under a heavy and fierce attack under taliban forces and returned fire, but the taliban kept on relentlessly so that the americans had to call in an airstrike. a b-1 stealth bomber, and then came up upon the scene, and launched a precision-guided bomb that fell on what they thought was the taliban target, but unfortunately, killed the five americans and kill the one taliba...

Really wrong. a lot of things that can happen like human error from the person on the ground to the people in the air putting in those coordinates and there could also be something thats less likely but a malfunction of the bomb itself. according to the department of defense, it was a b-1 bomber strike and not a tactical jet like i flew. not an aircraft suited for this time of work. the b-1 will drop gps guided bombs and they put coordinates of the target into their system and then the bomb esse...

>> as we follow up on that, since i have you, i would love to ask you here about these multiple close calls back here at home with planes in the sky. investigators say they asked the flight to perform a go around to avoid the collision but both planes ended up veering in the same direction coming within a quarter mile. what can the faa do about that. >> the faa can start to get more intent that the atrophy of the controllers. the more that people rely on automake, they have done a lot to improv ...

Problem here? is it normally human error like they go left instead of right? >> pretty much. i mean, as long as we have z and this probably isnt going to make people feel incredibly safe but the system is relatively safe. it is. but as long as you have pilots that are humans and air traffic controllers that are humans, people are going to make mistakes. and luckily this one got caught before it got completely out of hand. but it was close. >> yeah. i noticed one of the airports said okay. we are...

This kind of stuff happen, because were hearing more and more about these close calls. >> the numbers on this would belie that. there were 132 million flight operations last year. 41 incidents that made it into the record books as a close call. >> thats 41 too many. >> that is 41 too many. the system worked, but in this case, the pilot, the controller told the plane to turn in the wrong direction. >> so it was a human error by the air traffic controller. >> it was a human error. thats what it ap...