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The aircraft in those last moments. these were air traffic control recordings between the control towers and the cockpit of the aircraft. we know on the ground that it was the first officer who would have been talking during the pushback and the taxiing of the aircraft to the control tower. who then was speaking while the aircraft was in the air? it could have been either of those two men. however, what we have now learned from officials here is they still, despite these friends and colleagues listening to those recordings trying to figure out who is speaking, they say they still cannot determ...

Career. all right. we begin with the competition in sochi because it has just begun. snowboarding to be exact. the u.s. warning airlines flying to russia for the games that terrorists could try to smuggle explosives on board concealed in tubes of toothpaste or other cosmetics containers. the opening ceremonies, remember, justaway. and breaking over night, the faa will inspect lightning protection systems at control towers. this comes after a lightning strike injured an air traffic controller in september. the faa says that incident was the first of its kind. so is there a deal with iran ...

To go along with supporting this resolution. the votes are very much up in the air now. we expect senators mccain and graham to use this meeting to make the case. they both want to see a clear plan and a strategy for how military action in syria will work and what the goal is they want to accomplish. they've been pushing for the president to go further. they want military strikes to take out bashar al-assad's control towers and military targets with the goal of shoplifting the balance of power against bashar al-assad. the white house has said the goal is not regime change. it's to punish assad...

With the live in oshkosh, wisconsin. mike, there is the sequester latest impact on air traffic controllers, right? >> reporter: rick, pilots and aviation enthusiasts spend their years, some years waiting to make the pilgrimage to oshkosh, a private pilot's mecca. with all the planes that come and go, airshows, tourist flights, private planes that come here, this becomes for the duration of the show, the busiest airport in the word. eaa, permanental aircraft association was told 7 days out the air traffic controller who would staff the control towers here would fall the way of sequester cuts. i...

Governor, yoeç think that's why the approval ratings for both are slipping and fast? >> i don't think it's just the baseball game. the old phrase comes to mean, near row -- nero fidsles while rome burns. this is the a president about to embark on hack african excellent adventure that the "washington post" estimates would cost between $160 million and they can go enjoy the scenery of africa. >> not a cheap place to go. >> no, especially when you have to chart in hundreds of agents because they're going dangerous plays. well, with sequestration we can't run control towers at the airports but we...