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The process of withdrawal is continuing, but for securitien reasons, they are not going to tell us exactly how thats going to play out. but they will focus on b how they can do it in the safest way possible for the troops on the ground. >> thank you both. coming up, a reality check. the government shutdown hitting home for hundreds of thousands of federal workers missing their first paycheck today. "nbc nightly news" lester holt spoke with a group of workers inclouding this training instructor a...

But it sucks i cant really play catch, especially everyone thinks of fathers day. fathers day is when youre out in the backyard playing catch with your dad, and i really cant do that. he throws it back at me but throws it at my feet so i can stop and then i pick it up and throw it back at him. i think thats probably the hardest part out of anything since my injury. >> im sure that game of catch is pretty special, even if its not what you want it to be. you have reenlisted and youre now serving a...

You think of the 16-year-olds on their way home from a school trip and how frightening it must have been for all these people. lets bring in our next guest. kathleen bangs is a former pilot and training instructor. as this sunk in what goes through your mind? >> just horrific. what goes through my mind is 10 years ago i wrote pane article called "the pilots that shouldnt be." it was to encourage airlines and pilots to start self-reporting. whatever company you go to there are always nut jobs. bu...

Breaking news of delta flight 1086 that skidded off the runway at laguardia roughly around 11:10 this morning. 131 people on board, 127 passengers, 5 crew. all safely arriving off that flight. some did have to be taken to the hospital for medical attention. anthony roman, whos a certified pilot and training instructor has been with us through our coverage this morning. anthony, as we learned that the ntsb is on its way and may have arrived since that 1:30 port authority briefing the one thing th...

Crew. the training is remarkably -- >> universal? >> universal and excellent. what we have now is we have simulators that look exactly like an airplane sitting on moveable hydraulic rac actuatos and when you fly the simulator it is exactly like flying the airplane. what can happen in training is that the training instructor who is running the simulator can put the pilot in the the most extreme situations and train them to get out of it. so the training is phenomenal. >> we want to play a clip of...

What happens more often than not is they get nonjudicial punishment. they stay in the military. and they can continue with their behavior. >> earlier this year i spoke with virginia messiker, an air force recruit who was raped by her training instructor. she told me how difficult the investigation process was for her. listen. >> one of the investigators got very hostile with me. and he threw a piece of paper and a pen down and told me that if i wrote a statement, that he would leave me alone. i ...

>> they believe all 31 of female victims are still in the air force but basic training instructor, twel of them are involved. one of twel men, an air force staff sergeant is facing 28 charges, ranging from aggravated sexual conduct to rape. its where all air force recruits have to report for basic training. leon panetta recruits are very vulnerable during the training and military leadership has to make sure instructors, quote, dont take advantage of that situation. >> the command structure from...