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And we all get by pretty well with that. and you can do that in aviation, but sometimes you need a traffic cop, when there's a lot of traffic, in midtown manhattan. and some of these airports, even though they're not, you know, it's not like atlanta hartsfield, have enough traffic that you need that traffic cop. >> and also, paul, the faa says that will be safe, and nobody needs worry, but somebody's got to handle the traffic at these smaller airports, where these air traffic control towers will go dark. >> that's exactly right. safety is always our top priority. but this is going to have a de...

Not. the argument these cuts had to come, a number of these towers were slated to close anyway. some were taken off the list and new ones added. bottom line, how is it going to affect us? >> well, it's not going to affect the passengers on a commercial flight. nat going to affect the regular fare paying passenger. there are 513 control towers in the country and 250 contract towers. the reason they're contract tower is because they're very low activity towers towers and a contractor could run. the contractors ran the tower at one-fourth the cost of an faa tower and had far less mistakes. these ...

Better job of looking at people and their behaviors. and not only searching to find things, however, i think in this case they are missing the mark. i think that a lot of harm can still be done with a blade that's even 2.36 inches long and puts cabin crew, flight attendants and passengers at some additioning rink. >> do you think they have a point when they talk about the fact they got bigger fish to friday, other matters, heavy security issued to deal with? >> they have many threats to deal with. they've come out saying that we have recovered all kinds of weapons. but i don't think in this ca...

Across the country. >> the sequester is going to shut down control towers at smaller airports. >> 173 are slated to close across the country. >> employees are without jobs after being laid off. federal sequestration is to blame and more budget cuts may come. >> sequester cuts will eliminate $400,000 for public health in louisiana and that means that disaster relief could take a hit. >> have republicans in congress stopped watching their local news? have they stopped reading the paper? i think it's time they caught up with current events and tuned in to what the american people actually care ab...

Should be allowed to keep their control tower open. then a week from tomorrow, fred, we will get the final list of which airports will be closed. >> all right, lisa -- >> i'm sorry, which control towers will be closed. the airports may be able to stay open without the control towers. >> thanks so much for that clarification. appreciate it, lisa, in washington. overseas now, in afghanistan, president hamid karzai say cushion the united states and the taliban of working together to scar the afghan people. karzai said both sides want to convince afghans that things will worsen if foreign troops...