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Control towers, next generation is a software that will allow us to get off radar and get into the next generation of flying planes. you'll have so much more efficiency in the air, more capacity if the faa can finally push out to the people who own these airports this technology. >> deny mcnicole, thanks for joining us today. >> thank you for having me. >> thanks for watching today. join "am joy" next, the intimidation spreading throughout the country since election day. she's going to talk about what it will take to stop it. leve pm. the only one to combine a sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain r...

>> didn't get it updated weather report. i'm motte sure it's always related to fatigue. that's the big issue today. they are routinely forced to work six day weeks because there aren't enough controllers to staff the control towers. >> the kind of controllers that you need today that are hands on type a personalities that tell us where to go, they are going to be a little bit obsolete with this observation today.

The chinese are building. huge islands, hundreds of miles off the chinese coast, that you can see, showing our viewers pictures there are bases there, air strips control towers. the u.s. is very much opposed to this. what's your take on what's going on? >> great reporting by cnn. i support what president obama and secretary of defense ash carter have done here. china's claims have no legal basis. these manmade islands are hundreds of miles away from their coast. these are international waters. and they're building these islands not only to develop heli pads or even aircraft landing zones so th...

>> i spoke with one passenger who described the feeling of the plane sliding. two planes actually lafrndnded shortly before this. the pilots didn't have problems. what was going on? >> a couple things to think about. weather, of course is extremely dynamic. it can change by the minute. we were at that point in time the wind was shifting around. the rain was turning to freezing rain eventually into snow. so what happens between just a couple of minutes can be very different. each aircraft can be different. each crew might have a different technique and approach or experience level dealing with ...

More widespread use. >> alison kosik is joining me now. we just heard that last person in your piece says it's economical. even though it seems like a high price. >> cost is a reality. the reality is that these carriers operate on thin margins, not so anxious to jump in and put these satellite communications services on the planes. also there's got to be political will. i'm talking from the faa. they don't seem so fast to jump on the band wagon to get this kind of communication on to the airplanes. i spoke with a person from the faa today saying look there are the black box. she told me they w...