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Not enough federal tax money to keep the tower open. miles obrien is an aviation expert for pbs and paul renaulty is the president of the national air traffic controllers association. welcome to you both. >> good morning, carol. >> paul, ill start with you. so, which is it? do we need those air traffic control towers at these smaller airports or dont we? >> we absolutely need those towers at those -- the air traffic controllers in those towers. its the safety of the system. we have the safest, m...

Should be allowed to keep their control tower open. then a week from tomorrow, fred, we will get the final list of which airports will be closed. >> all right, lisa -- >> im sorry, which control towers will be closed. the airports may be able to stay open without the control towers. >> thanks so much for that clarification. appreciate it, lisa, in washington. overseas now, in afghanistan, president hamid karzai say cushion the united states and the taliban of working together to scar the afgha...

>> yukon 35, thats approved. >> reporter: the airport is arguing in part that is location near the presidential retreat justifies keeping its control tower open. >> when we have the president or a vip that would happen to come into the airport, they definitely would use the services of the air traffic control tower. >> reporter: faa has set the bar high in deciding which towers to keep open. talking points obtained by cnn say negative impact on the national interest is the only cite tear yin the...

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