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Leaving the forest service and states at a loss for helicopters and manpower, prompting officials for the first time in nine years to mobilize 200 soldiers to fight fire. >> going through classroom training on wednesday and then through some field training later this week, and then by sunday they will be up, be with actually working on the line as firefighters. so we expect that to be 20 crews. >> reporter: more than 3,000 remain evacuated. fire fighting costs roughly $30 million a day. losses will be in the billions. ranches, farmland, homes and businesses will be destroyed, thousands of resi...

On autopilot. >> i see mary nodding her head in agreement there. you think pilots are too reliant on technology now? >> i do. and that's part of the training. and i also put some of that blame on their carriers. i mean, for example, i worked on the colgan crash. on that one it was very surprising they got very short amounts of training and some of it was just classroom training including some of their upset training occurred in a classroom. so they just relied upon the computer too much and the carrier was in agreement with that. they said a simulator was okay for some of these things and i th...

In on the l.a.x. shooting. i want you to listen to what he said. >> close-up of the tsa is to insure that people can board planes safely. take flights safely. the responsibility for protecting airport security is not a tsa function. but something that i think we need to certainly examine, given ha happened in los angeles. >> so tom, he's referring to the potential here, the notion that some are suggesting arming the tsa. do you think that's a good idea? >> the only question about doing that. the tens of thousands of tsa employees. if you start trying to train every one of them, that's going to...

>> yes. effective july 1, dog walkers need to get a license. they can either be grandfathered in if they've been a dog walker for three years or more or underdog 20 hours of classroom training or 40 hours of an apprenticeship. they need to pay for a dog walker license and there are rules governing how they walk dogs. you can have between four to eight. six is recommended. if you drive the dogs around in a car, your car has to be inspected. you have to have insurance, et cetera. >> tucker: it says here, safety equipment must be readily available. what kind of safety equipment is required to wal...

Things i enjoyed the most at the airline a period when i was a supervisory captain and instructor. we were hiring new pilot, and i got to fly with pilots who had gone through the classroom training. they had several thousands of flight experience before they came to the airline. and i got to fly with them on passenger flights and sign them off as being completely qualified to fly with regular line captains. i also got to fly with captains who were new who had been first officers who had been through all the training to become a captain. i would be flying in the right seat supervising them as t...