nolan says fewer flights during the pandemic may have led to a drop in technical skills. forced a lot of professionals into retirement hard to get them back and re certified. cnn aviation correspondent pete mountain has more jim jessica, we re talking about complacency caused by the pandemic. it s something we ve heard about from pilots from labor groups from captain sully sullenberger during our prime time special on aviation safety earlier this month, and now we re hearing about it from the acting head of the faa, he says , essentially, that the air travel rebound is happening faster than aviation workers can handle. billy nolan, the acting head of the faa, made these remarks during an internal faa meeting in baltimore just yesterday but was interesting here is that this was also echoed by transportation. asian secretary pete buddha judge during my exclusive interview with him earlier this month. there would be one thing if we found a certain piece of technology in the cockpit or a c
it also upset environmentalists, let s go to nbc s gary, who is with the president, in wilmington, delaware gary, what are we hearing from officials? how much do you think this i being about right now within the administration hey, there, alex, this woul be a really significan development, it would go, to put plainly, in direct contradiction, as you mentioned, to a biden campaign promise, there would be no new drilling on federal lands if he i elected. well, he was elected, and no it appears if this does go through there will be not only drilling on federal land, ther will be the largest oi operation in u.s. history. it would be the equivalent o 60 coal burning power plants that is how much carbon woul be released into the atmosphere, according to experts here. i ll gore, the former vice president, environmentalist, called this recklessly irresponsible. there is labor groups, the alaska congressional delegatio thinks this is a great idea, does want this plan to proceed they think i
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congress. it s a big deal that democrats are fighting amongst each other over this. there was significant opposition to hector lasalle going into yesterday s hearing, where he was voted against. and labor groups, progressive democrats, even some moderate democrats made it clear to the governor they were not going to support her nomination. and that is where this failure of sort of flikts 101 comes in. if you don t have the votes, don t send it up for a vote. but that is exactly what she did. she pulled ahead and asked about what she plans to do now. here s what she had to say just a short while ago. we have a chance to see also what shapes his decisions based on his many years of experience running the largest appellate court in the country. so i thought he did an extraordinary job and we re certainly looking at all of our options. reporter: now, all of her options could potentially include a lawsuit, a lawsuit
everyone is expecting joe biden to run again for re-election, and the only thing that could really stop him is his health or jill biden s health or saying he shouldn t run but they are kind of hoping that where they will be in 2024 with the economy means that americans will recognize that, you know, biden has done his best at keeping them employed and keeping them, you know trying to get ahold of inflation, which was fueled by covid and the supply chain shortages. i want to ask you about another news item. the president often known at union joe was very pro-labor when a senator. he signed a bill this week, though, that averted a railroad strike that could have hurt the economy but imposed terms on rail unions they did not agree to. do you think that might hurt the president s standing among labor