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Well rested and make sure in the workplace there is the ability for them to do their job, and were not going to be paying controllers to be napping. >> the traffic controllers, involved in five recent sleeping incidents, the latest, early yesterday in miami, a new study is expected to recommend controllers should be allowed to sleep during their breaks, on the midnight shift. but lahood says he is opposed to that idea. and the faa administrator, randy babbitt will start a tour of air traffic con...

Need two traffic controllers at the towers. check your local listings. speaking of the sleeping air traffic controller we have new developments today to tell you about, a former controller says had problem is nothing new. most work several long shifts in a row including overnight, over a few days and take 3 1/2 days off, like chris was talking about and he says the industry has been very reluctant to change. >> specifically does not want it and the controllers do not want it because it gives the...

Important speeches. sleep disorder experts know that sometimes sleep wins out, no matter what the consequences. they say that whatever solution one proposes, fatigue risk management should be a part of it and that is something a lot of private companies who have workers on important shift work do. i put in a call to the faa to ask if they have any kind of fatigue risk management in place, no response as of yet jon. jon: doug mckelway in washington, where it looks like the window washers are abou...

Critical mishaps. thats how we start a brand-new hour of america live, im martha maccallum in for megyn. a medical flight forced to land without any help from the tower because the only controller who was on-duty was sleeping on the job, and yes this is not a repeat story, this is actually the second time that that has happened this week. >> i guarantee the flying public we will not sleep until we can guarantee that there is good safety in the control towers when these planes are coming in and o...

When i was a pilot. they are life-saving, sal yuval. we love our have a traffic controllers but not when they are asleep on the job. 13,000 did a great job. we have a couple bad apples. >> i like that. mary see after voe, many thanks as usually. a 1966 shelby mustang in pristine condition. we will check it out next.

Capital, but to answer the question in the u.s., no, its not acceptable for washington, d.c. because the controller has other duties. the controller does have national security duties to keep a lookout as well as make sure the plane knows where they are in the lineup to land. >> you said it is what we do, if not what we should do. so why do we do it? >> money. the bottom line is, it comes down to money. we have about 13,000 air traffic controllers, and the faa saves money on the graveyard shifts...

You and i wouldnt get a pass. >> no. i was just going to say that and ask you about the faa. what is the deal with them? why arent they handing down harsher punishments? >> well, the problem with the faa -- this has been a problem, you know, for decades -- they do tend to circle the wagons. when somebody gets in trouble they tend to promote them up or out of the situation and then try to deal with the situation later. they have many instances. this is one of the things i investigated when i was ...

Hi, everybody. im thomas roberts. in miami at the international airport there, still experiencing delays after a massive fire broke out in a fuel storage area last night. it took over 100 firefighters almost three hours to contain the massive sky high blaze and crews are working to restore normal operations. adding to the flight backlog, a suspicious package that shut down a terminal early this morning. federal officials are trying to figure out why an air traffic controller at reagan internatio...

Change it. it didnt happen. because the federal government well knows, as you know, that it cant be held hostage because, federal government would shut down if the workers went on strike. that what happened to the traffic controllers under regulate on an. >> reagan had the answer in 1981 as he just fired them, 11,000 of them, it really put an end to the turmoil among the federal workers. they realized, hey, you got a tough president. he is not going to fool around. what is interesting watching t...

Wondered how tough the guy really is. within a few weeks we learned a lesson. thats when the nations air traffic controllers threatened to go on strike. they wavenlted huge -- wanted huge raises at a time when he had budget problems. >> a group of air traffic controllers were deeply in this thing. i kept telling the traffic controllers terrific strategy if carter had gotten re-elected. they are going to be fired. >> they are in violation of the law and if they do not report to work within 48-hou...