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What youre saying and what the airlines are saying? >> i dont think they have the information were presenting today. i dont know what they used for that, jim. i think when they see the kind of cutbacks that are going to be made at some of these towers, theyre going to have no choice but to really look at the fact that there are going to be delays and there are going to have to be some cutbacks on some of these flights. >> what is going to be the effect on faa inspectors? are you also going to fu...

Busiest shopping day of the year. now the reason for the surge in the sales in guns? some gun shop owners attribute it to politics and mother nature. lawmakers might soon enact gun control laws. across the northeast residents want to protect thems following superstorm sandy. >> since the election you have had the perfect storm. you had hurricane sandy. you had re-election of barack obama. you have people realizing not only is it their second amendment right but they may be in a situation where t...

>> bret: the border patrol is announcing new national strategy. for two decades it relied on blanketing heavily trafficed corridors. now it will target repeat offenders and will try to determine why they keep coming. the patrol says illegal crossings of the mexico border are at a 40-year low. got watchdog says -- government watchdog says the federal aviation needs stronger oversight because it drags its feet on whistle blower complaint about safety programs and problems, rather. the special coun...

Want to do, we wont watch, that nearly collapsed this countrys economy. we need some serious people working on this in a serious way. the ryan plan simply is not serious. its tired and its old. >> karen finney, do you want to pile on in some creative new way? >> heres my question. a couple things i found startling, there are not a lot of details in this budget despite the numerous pages. but, you know, it certainly looks like it relies on cost shifting to seniors, which is a problem, cost shifti...

hammered with angry questions. egyptians take security into their own hands. even some children are armed with illegal guns. the revolution giving way to a wild west mentality. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the united states is another day closer to a possible default on its debts. 19 days before the deadline theres no sign that political leaders are any closer to preventen an unprecedented and frightening train wreck. right now members of congress are in the fift...

Im very happy later this afternoon, in matter of hours, we will be voting to save the american people $6 trillion, 6.go t6. $6.2 trillion over what the president expects to spend in our path to prosperity budget to create jobs and save our social net safety programs to put us on a path to reduce the national debt and all united in support of paul ryan. >> we have now context from the president in his own words in terms of how he approached this situation, budget battle. it was what he thought, t...

From cheerios to lucky charms, theres whole grain in every box. make sure to look for the white check. time for the take down on the ed show tonight. democrats want to increase funding to the federal aviation administration for improved safety programs and they want to build this new satellite based air traffic control network. you know, stuff that would help protect americans and only a million and a half american passengers per day in the airline industry. kind of important dont you think? h...

Deal with over 900 of these planes, these models of planes that are in service around the world. i believe in the u.s. theres roughly about 200 in service. kevin, when we talk about the fact that this service bulletin can come out, what do you think its going to do to the type of planes that really are used by southwest and by other airlines in this country? >> well, i think especially for me thats a little bit hard to predict that whole thing. i think the general comment here though as we talk ...

Contractor and the leased company both have participated in this. >> interestingly, we had doug sutles on, who was the bp spokesperson and we asked him that question, where is the blame here, he said he didnt know, he wasnt sure about that. there were some concerns in the early days of this disaster that maybe the government didnt respond quickly enough, but you claim, in a letter that youd written, that the coast guard had been misled by bp. is that, is that the case? >> i didnt, i dont think i...

Commercials or through the workers, but they dont follow their safety programs at all. theyre fairly inept at it. its a lot of miscommunications that seems to me when i was up there, anyway, a lot of the workers thought so, too. >> and as for the cheating on the blow out preventer test, why would bp and others want to cheat? why would they not want to do whats right to keep the gulf and other regions safe spills like this? time is money, like i said, its a culture been around, it not only during...