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>> residents are warned to brace for extreme heat. temperatures expects to soar to 115 degrees. let's check in with adam klotz for the fox weather forecast. what do you have for us? >> adam: wild weather across the country. eastern half of the country, something similar today. you see every afternoon storms explode, expect to see something this afternoon. the rain continuing to linger across new england, at times fairly heavy. that takes heat of the day. rain from mississippi and georgia to the carolinas. potential for severe weather today, including areas like charlotte, norfolk, dc...

Transport pilot certificate. here you have a young man at 21 years old, he goes through burnout, takes a hiatus and now he's back in his training program into the cockpit of a commercial airliner. i know that he has met supposedly all the rigors of training and passed his check rides, but does he have really the maturity one, to make the decisions that are necessary, but two, it's obvious there were some psychological and possibly physiological conditions that he wasn't being forthcoming with the airline that he was flying for. >> what do you think of claudio's question of opportunity. maybe h...

Mechanism, a self-reporting and confidential reporting mechanism by other people that they can report if they are concerned about it. that to me seems to be a far more satisfactory solution. yes, there will be let's be clear, there will be the occasion, the lone wolf the rogue case that comes out of it but you will not solve that i guarantee you, with setting up some massive structure of constant psychological screening. >> you can bet these companies -- >> to go along with what richard's saying is that i do agree that i came from the navy. by the time a person gets to be a commercial airline ...

Nothing. it could be him wanting to prepare for future check rides, training events, things like that, it's something interesting, yet i wouldn't put a lot of faith on to something earth shattering at this point yet. >> what do you think, as a tsa investigator do you believe the same thing? >> i believe the key lesson from 9/11, we have to protect the integrity of the cockpit at all costs. it seems in this case, something went awry in the cockpit. we have an aircraft that has gone off its assigned course. we have controls that have been manually turned off, it appears, that tells us in this pa...

We've also seen certainly issues regarding the pilot background check. he had failed repeated check rides, but his employer, colgan air, didn't know about all those failures, so the faa has been pushing for the airlines to make all the background information clear. two-thirds of the airlines have agreed to do so thus far. the faa is pushing for a new law in that regard. >> besides that, what else is the faa doing in light of all of this? >> reporter: well, they have had a committee looking into the issue of pilot fatigue. remember the pilot had been seen, the captain had been seen napping in t...