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Could be used as a weapon against them. israel is under a heightened state of alert taking extreme measures to keep the air space safe. nick robertson is in jerusalem with the story. >> kate, as a direct response to the missing flight, israel has put air traffic controllers on a higher state of alert the international airport, the center of air traffic control, they are effectively the country's first line of defense against a rogue civilian passenger y passenger jet. we understand they're going to closely, rigorously. they say procedures are not changing. they're going to look at detail and f...

We were set to the start the process to start hiring again this week. we're not going to be able to do that. so the hiring freeze from the sequester cuts roll right into the shutdown and we don't have anybody in the pipeline to replace the 3,000 air traffic controllers eligible to retire right now out of 12,000. that is a lot of numbers. >> are there safety issues? >> every day that this continues, it starts to tear away at the margins of safety we have in place. it's not just the air traffic controllers that make the air space safe. it's everybody with them as a team. so day after day, those ...

Faa process that doesn't give us information and did not give us information upon which we could plan. more importantly, the greatest concern is, these furloughs are unnecessary. they're unwise. and we believe they are illegal. never in the history, in our history have air traffic controllers been furloughed. the reason is simple. they not only keep the air space safe. they keep it moving. that is a matter for commerce, business travelers, leisure travelers and for shipping goods. those parties are all going to be affected. and the economy will be affected. >> all right. thank you very much. p...