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To 5. they work all hours for clumps of days with no real schedule. that means the sleep cycles can be a mess too. today the transportation secretary ray la hood said passengers should never have to worry about things like that. >> thousands of people today boarded airplanes. and when they boarded those plames planes. they didnt think they didnt think about whether the pilot was well-trained or well-rested. they didnt think about the mechanical aspects of the plane that it was mechanically okay....

To come through in 2014 once the panama canals upgrade is complete. federal regulators are delaying the expansion in charleston means ships will head into ports in new york, baltimore, north of virginia and miami. john roberts is in atlanta for us tonight. even if this project does get the green light, john, it sounds like getting all this done is still going to take up to, what, a decade or so? >> maybe even longer than that, shep. south korea officials to get wanted to get these ships into por...

Big deal saying its as far as the government has ever gone to protect people from pilot fatigue. the new f.a.a. rules which will cost the airlines about 300 million a year require that between flights pilots get plenty of time off, including a 10-hour minimum rest period. 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, 30 consecutive hours free from duty on a weekly basis. pilots must declare themselves fit for duty before each flight segment. >> this should allow enough time for a pilot to arrive at a hotel, e...

Going to undercut kim jong un rather than help him. >> it may be that they all jockey for position we wont know who is in charge day to day and therefore who is in control of the nuclear weapons. the biological weapons and, shep, north koreas million man army. >> shepard: it makes sense that the in fighting will begin. actually a time schedule for >> yeah, there is kim jong ils funeral will take place on december 28th. then after that on december 29th, the official period of mourning will begin....

Realized. these are the revised numbers for the past four years. they show 3 million fewer home sales than first reported. peter barnes from the fox business network in washington tonight. 3 million. how are these numbers so far off the mark? >> basically, shep, the national association of realtors said that it double counted a lot of sales over that period as far as sales going forward that 4% jump in november led the top economists at the realtors who got the other numbers wrong. to predict th...

>> and those revised numbers, shep, mean that the housing crash was had 0% from the peek in 2005 instead of just 30%. shepard? >> shepard: big numbers. bankbank of america today a blok butter said to pay a huge fine related to country wide. some of its practice is on lending. >> thats right. the justice department announced a 335-million-dollar settlement with country wide which is now owned by bank of america and the largest fair lending case in history. >> these allegations represent alarming ...

Do. >> vote on it, pass it, and we can move on to discussing and figuring out a solution for the year-long extension. >> shepard: the wows also says that earlier today president obama called the house speaker john boehner and the senate majority leader harry reid asking them to end this standoff but so far there is no evidence of any progress at all. time is clearly running out once again on capitol hill. and mike emanuel is tracking developments for us. as the republicans in the house are well ...

Apparently going to be involved in this sharing of power situation? >> we know, shep, they are very skilled political operators who were very close indeed to kim jong il. the two we are talking about in particular kim jong ils sister. take a look at her in this picture. spot shadowed in the front row there. always been very close to her brother and her husband jang song tek. they will probably be the powers behind the throne. he will be nominally in charge but these two are certainly in the shor...

Persons is really a normal political tactic he claims. the case does echo a similar investigation now ongoing in indiana. thats where prosecutors are investigating allegations that signatures that put then candidates barack obama and hillary clinton on the democratic primary ballot in 2008, well a lot of those signatures allegedly forged like the new york voters those in indiana told us they never signed those petitions either. shep? >> shepard: eric shawn live tonight in new york. thank you. an...

Do the feasibility studies. president obama didnt put any in his 2012 budget. south korea republic senator lindsey gram did manage to cut a deal to put a little more than $4 million into the omnibus spending bill to keep that study going it should also be pointed out, shep, that senator graham says south h carolina is a red state, no surprise to him that the money didnt put any money in his budget to fix his harbor. >> shepard: john, thanks. i guess the kids have the christmas list made out, rig...