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Maintenance facilities and of course, the top crash fire and rescue there because its been an airport for a major airplane, t.w.a. and hubs there, no question a great decision to go there. >> megyn: at this point would you assume that they know exactly how many passengers are on board this plane and what the flight plan was and theyre in constant communication, you would assume, with the pilot. >> sure, in an emergency situation the pilot is going to give souls on board, fuel endurance, and they...

>> a terrifying sight to see with the airway covered with foam. i have jon scott, an anchor and pilot himself, but looks like the plane may be landing momentarily. >> the rear gear is down and obviously great news, because it takes the bulk of the impact. even if the front gear has a problem theyll be able to decelerate on the runway and bleed off a lot of the energy before the front gear touches down and whether it collapses or doesnt, theyll get a lot of braking down with the deceleration afte...

And in this situation, maybe you wont have a nose gear, so, theyll go ahead and deal with that situation then. but sometimes you just cant rectify it in the air, but as long as youre not on fire and working hydraulics, and the engines are running fine, its a perfectly good airplane and come to a very well-- well thought-out solution, theyre going to be okay, no problem. >> megyn: from your lips to gods ear we hope and pray youre right. were told that the aircraft has now turned and lining up for...

Do you know who they are? theyre the teachers and we need to fund those schools and we need to fund education. and that funding should not be coming from the federal government. >> megyn: you look at the number of people. the strain on the system right now, according to our brain room, the year 2000 the number of people who turned 65, and already 2012, 66 each year. 9100. theyre coming in by hugely increasing numbers every day, and the problem is, who is going to help pay for them? its not just ...

Miners out there who care, but for very much of the country, cheap or relatively cheap by western standards, electricity is dependent on coal and the energy industry says without this, energy costs for everybody are going to go up and the reliability of americas energy grid that the power does that you dont get brownouts and everybody cranks the air conditioning up is dependent on coal. so everybody has a stake in the game to that degree. but the other thing is this, and you said that congress b...

Because when youre coming in at that speed. its actually your tail doing most of the steering for you. obviously having a tweaked, a sideways front wheel isnt going to help you, but the air rushing past your tail is really whats going to keep that plane lined up down the runway at those speeds. >> megyn: and so what he was saying is what your you were saying. trying to keep the belly, the nose of the plane up just to kill the speed and then, how fast will the plane be going when they try to touc...

The population when youre talking about a landing gear problem as opposed to something that might happen to the plane in flight? >> no, what theyre going to do, theyre going to get on a very long final, they might be having 30 mile straight in final to the airport. air traffic control is going to clear the area, clear the traffic because theyre going to get the airplane priority handling and get on their speed and configured almost for like a normal landing and they have two main gear, as long a...

Having the co-pilot doing the circle and thats crm, cockpit resource management they call it, one person assigns a role to each of the crew members and thats what theyll work from. >> megyn: i dont want to give people a false sense of security or fear as we watch this. dj is a commercial airline pilot and feels confident and said repeatedly theyre probably going to be okay. we hope thats what happens. and you feel the same? and given your expertise in the area. >> we may see the nose gear collap...

>> megyn: all right. >> let me tell you something, here is the presidents big s thing. they repassed the budget control act. and whats the excuse for the president to be on the road campaigning when he hasnt submitted a budget to congress? theres three things that the president needs to do with that budget. how much we are he going to spend and how much revenue were coming into and how much the deficit is going to be increased. he hasnt done any of that. how are we supposed to move on to self-in...

Something happens and you tweak at that plane one way or the other the pilot has a little more room to work. >> megyn: were going to listen to the chopper pilot again. >> even close to lambert at this stage of the game and we may or may not have success with that. we want to let you know that. if you see the helicopter turn circles here, youll understand why. but in terms of just manpower, yes, there would easily be, im sure four or five times the amount of equipment at lambert than there would ...