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Atlantic in 2009, killing 228. that same year, regional airline colgan air flight 447 crashed in buffalo, killing 50. >> colgan air was a watershed event for aviation safety, in particular, bringing the regional carriers up to standards with the major carriers. >> reporter: the safety culture is spreading. accident rates are dropping in russia, africa, latin america, the caribbean, and asia. despite the dramatic improvement experts say theres danger here. just when you start to think, it cant ha...

That same year, regional airline colgan air flight 3407 crashed in buffalo, killing 50. >> colgan air was a watershed event for aviation safety, in particular, bringing the regional carriers up to standards with the major carriers. >> reporter: the safety culture is spreading. accident rates are dropping in russia, africa, latin america, the caribbean, and asia. despite the dramatic improvement in safety, experts say theres a real danger here. just when you start to think, it cant happen again, ...

Theyre not part of the sequester. so its unclear why they would be part of the bargain. and its not social security this would hit, it would hit veterans and spouses of soldiers who died in combat. so if thats the way congress thinks it ought to balance the budget, by cutting the pensions for widows of soldiers, thats where we are now. >> chris, i respectfully disagree with ryan here. yes, theres a lot of pessimism among reporters here, but at the end of the day, when you talk to staffers in dem...

Little fictions and treat things in a straight-forward way. well spend this and if we do you have this much tack tax to pay it. higher tax for the middle class almost certainly but one thing to keep in mind is the real difference between the united states and most european countries. >> reporter: canada isnt that we tax the rich so lightly. we tax the rich fairly high here compared with those countries but we tax the middle class lightly. no one will win elections saying if we want a long-term s...

Banned the sale of all shark suit. in california you can no longer use dogs to chase down by pairs and the humane society says its bad for the bears and bobcats and the dogs. and computer-driven vehicles are now okay. as long as there is a human in the passenger seat in case the computer takes over come you have someone to grab control of the car. by the way, do you think the gridlock in washington dc is not? in kentucky they have taken pensions off the books. pensions for confederate soldiers. ...

Other countries in the world in places like australia, great britain, other places who have been able to stem it? enough is enough. we need to have sensible gun -- sensible gun control legislation. we can find ways to harm nice it with the second amendment which i believe in. we can do this, but we have to act now. >> as you know, when there are negotiations between the teachers unions and state governments and during budget crises, oftentimes the first things that get cut when it comes to publi...

Generation who knew what it meant, you know, you work, your put your time in, theres going to be something there for you at the end of the day. it was guaranteed. you didnt worry about it. and now -- >> and the fact that public employees still have fixed pensions is the thing, i think -- the single thing that distinguishes them from so many private sector places which has added to this mistrust of these too generous public employee pension things that the rest of us who no longer have fixed pens...

The social exact as it existed between world war ii and 1980 was sort of changed without people knowing it over the last 30 years, i think. and suddenly were waking up and there are no more pensions as there used to be, fixed pensions. this idea that social security is sack rrosanct. >> when i was a teenager. >> i have a question. youre a writer, obviously. and im wondering how you see the main characters in this drama which i guess would be president obama and speaker boehner. how would you pai...

Should go the direction steve was saying. >> this would be wowhy the federal governments involvement in legal things leads to disaster. >> people would elect more carefully locally if they knew it was theirs rather than to be paid for by everybody else. >> have a very merry christmas at mickey ds. this big mac maker fair or a grinch? first right here, new fears of another taxpayer bailout . millions was workers may need you to pony up before pensions goes pust u bust. well explain next.

What stopped bank robberies in america was not armed guards. it was video cameras and automatic locking saves that cannot be opened no matter how much you scare a teller with a gun. im not just talking about small town banks that i go into. new york city banks do not have armed guards anymore. he went on to cite an 18--year-old movie and a 12-year-old movie that were not exactly blockbusters as the reasons why children are being shot and killed. killed in an elementary school last week. he talke...