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Amazing piece, "trump made federal workers and other citizens who depend on government services into sacrificial lambs whose blood is an offering to the trumpist base. negotiations about a solution are at a standstill because trumps self-proclaimed negotiation prowess comes down to taunts and tweets. the next time you take a flight, hope the agents who inspected passengers luggage and the traffic controllers who guide pilots through the sky are thinking about their work. not worrying about how t...

Families of all types who are just now having to go home at night, sit down with their families and try and figure out where they can go. >> any stories here in 30 seconds here where there have been concerns about job performance not being up to par because of this pressure, the stress with not having pay? >> i dont think theres any pressure of performance. just a couple years ago we had a situation in san francisco that required, you know, quick reactions and great responses by the men and wome...

Number of planes in the air, the number of people in the air, the separation of 9,000 planes at any given time falls upon people who are professionals who work really, really hard, who get blamed every time something happens, and then you add the stress of not being able to pay bills, maybe missing a mortgage payment, ruining your credit rating, the tension that causes in your house. this is not somewhere that most americans are going to want extra stressed people doing the job. >> thats exactly...

Its been a month since the crash killed 189 passengers and crew. and this preliminary report coming from indonesian authorities reveals a lot about the final terrifying moments aboard that plane. basically the same aircraft had a recurring problem with some of its sensors that were supposed to measure altitude and speed leading some aviation experts to see this plane should have been grounded before the final deadly flight. when the flight actually happened, it flew for a total of 11 minutes, an...

Who he was in a press release. he was a faithful husband, loving son and a good friend. reporter: we know the fbi has 30 to 40 people here on the ground and ntsb is supporting none with any. they are working to get the black box and that could shed some more light on how this all happened and what exactly happened during the very dangerous joy ride. they have released statements thinking air traffic controllers in traffic controllers and the pilots who they say did an incredible job. liz appeare...

In the end, a radio glitch caused a hijacking code to be sent to air traffic controllers. whew! a half naked man disruptintd a delta flight. >> that is more than half naked. im just saying. >> three-quarters make i.d.? >> he jumped onto the wing, pounded on the windows. imagine being in that seat as someone is pounding on the window. the man is identified as jared jones. he scaled a fence at the airport before making his way onto the taxiway. he is 19. he was arrested in minutes. as for the wh...

The country. airlines are reporting fewer delays due to a new program that switches from traffic controllers and smartphone sec technology. we have the story. >> reporter: youve got bad weather here in charlotte which to you means flight delays. >> yeah, flight delays that are coming from our archaic system. >> reporter: as head of flight operations for american airlines in north carolina, bernie davis job is to get passengers in and out as quickly as possible. unfortunately, the faa has been re...

At times up to 600 yards per hour. a snails pace for a person but lightning fast for lava. >> you can clearly see that theres movement. >> reporter: movement that virtually nothing can stop. not homes, cars or even entire forests. >> trees dont do much to slow lava. >> if the volume is there, theres not much that will. >> reporter: scott mclean, cnn, h pahoa, hawaii. a birds-eye view of a bird. >> its perched itself on a security camera. take a look at that. this camera over a roadway in austr...

Rising interest rates mean inflation. why are interest rates going up? the answer is the fed is raising rates so they get to a more normal level now we are out of the crisis but only talking about raising it 3% because they dont see a lot of inflation. it is that simple. wages are growing at their most rapid pace in years, 2.9%. productivity growth gives you inflation of less than 2% which is the feds target, nothing to worry about on the inflation front and again investors like to have news. >>...

79 putin. president putin has also benefitted from being seemingly erratic. with president prudent, it appears to be coming from a place of strategy. what does the president mean, how unhappy will be, also? >> reagan also had that. i think it was -- in the case of reagan, it was strategic, but there was a sense that he was this loose canon, this cowboy, whether it was firing the traffic controllers early on or saying were going to bomb russia in five minutes. i think it worked out well for reaga...