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Superior. midair collisions are a thing of past. collisions in the ground, we have ground avoidance collision systems that are spectacular. we have airports that pick out a wind shear and pilots can avoid them. we have the makings of a very good system going forward but it needs help. >>shepard: there are roadways or interstate highways for planes in the air and they is long talked about doing away with this because of computers and technology so it is not really necessary but they cannot get th...

Lets go to politico. >> keyword weve been using, we employed the word four or five times in the last two minutes. we guess, we guess. we dont know. >> politico. >> they wont say. >> the chief white house correspondent is mike allen and he has a look at the playbook. hey, mike. the lead story on politico this morning angst grows amongst obama supporters. who are we talking about here? >> were looking at the wind shear and opinion of democrats, people who all of a sudden are in a panic mode after ...

First officer, who was the pilot handling the radios, told them they could no longer make boston. and that very significant statement was lost on air traffic control. >> at 9:22 pm, avianca flight 52 is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. >> nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if that word had been used, they would have given them immedi...

were bringing you the news from a to z. its nasty out there. tropical storm debby just stalled over floridas panhandle. its smacking that sunshine state it with high winds and heavy rain. look at the pictures. boats getting smashed around and its going to get worse before it gets any better. forecasters are saying the sl - slow-moving storm could dump another foot of rain on florida over the next couple of days and then spawn more tornadoes as well. that storm is already blamed for one...

This is coming right at the ballpark again with this cell. >> talk to us about how the conditions are ripe to keep producing altogether of the super cells. >> well, we have first a lot of low level wind shear in the atmosphere and a strong system that has a lot of cold air associated with it and that is what is favoring the formation of very large heal. you come bean that with the fact we have a lot of low level rotation and a lot of the thunderstorms are exhibiting rotation. just because they s...

Hail that is coming out of this cloud. the most dangerous of storms. the rotating storms are on the north side of dallas. theres a whole series of storms coming into the south survived dallas. and with those, we will get some wind and some hail. thats exactly what were at. that dark area is where the hail and the rain is dumping out of the base of that cloud. weve gotten a number of reports of large hail. weve heard about the damage from the tornadoes. now those two tornadic storms, those rotati...

Their alternate was, which was filed for boston action but the first officer, who was the pilot handling the radios, told them they could no longer make boston. that very significant statement was also lost on air traffic kr08. >> at 9:212 p.m., the flight is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. >> nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if t...

Was lost on air traffic control. >> at 9:22 p.m., avianca flight 52 is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. >> nowhere did the first ever use the word "emergency." if that word had been used, there would have been immediate priority to get them on the ground. >> at 9:34 p.m., flight 52 runs out of fuel. the engines flame out. the passenger remembers the horribl...

When fast-moving layer of air slides on top of a slower thicker and layer and drags its surface like breaking waves. isnt that cool? jon: i imagined that is a little bit like wind shear when you get right to that altitude where the tops are being cut off, huh? >> youre just the smart guy. youre just a smart man. jon: i learned it in pilot school. >> youre a pilot. and youre handsome and just the best. jon: oh, janice dean. jenna: the two of you, really? we have a commercial here? >> my husband k...

Minutes. around 8:20 p.m. they have 14,000 tons of fuel left, enough for another hour in the air. >> thats when the flight engineer should have made sure that the fuel levels were fine. >> ovianca, heavy. ill turn you back to the approach. is that fine with you and your fuel? >> i guess so. thank you very much. >> they inquired with air traffic controllers about how much longer its going to be. they were complaining about their fuel levels and air control asked where the alternate was, which was...