over the top of each other. that's what it looked like from my perspective. i have no idea what was going up there in the tower but it was pretty narly looking. >> reporter: this is the third incident in recent weeks where passengers planes got too close for comfort. a similar incident over newark airport and another one over the pacific ocean near hawaii all involving passenger planes. carol, you know, in order to know if this is a trend from year to year, we would need 2013 numbers but the faa -- we've asked them for it. they say they're not ready yet. we have 2012 numbers to go off of. those numbers show that planes came too close nearly 4,400 times a year. that's more than 12 times a day. we should point out 41 of those were considered high risk. carol? >> rene marsh reporting live from washington this morning. looking at some other top stories this morning at 29 minutes past. he's overseeing the military for two presidents but starting in