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Frederica buts here the thing. senator schumer says that if the tsa does not reverse this itscy on its own, he will file a bill to force them to do it. >> okay. meantime, lisa, there's something else impact air control towers. what is going on with that? >> reporter: i don't know how often you fly out of small airport, one in columbus, georgia, for example, a metropolitan airport that may have to close its control tower because of the forced budget cuts. here is another one we are looking at in this video, an airport in hagerstown, maryland. as a lot of folks know, tsa is going to have to furl...

The faa says it doesn't have enough money to man all these control towers. so these airports, and there's one right there, hagerstown, maryland, on the list, they have until wednesday, don, to make their case that they should stay open. closures would start april 7th, and i want to point out that this doesn't necessarily mean the airports would have to close, just the tower. pilots could fly in without talking to a control tower if you believe that or not, and then they also could talk to a nearby tower instead. now, would this affect a lot of people? the faa says these towers that are slated ...

>> yukon 35, that's approved. >> reporter: the airport is arguing in part that is location near the presidential retreat justifies keeping its control tower open. >> when we have the president or a vip that would happen to come into the airport, they definitely would use the services of the air traffic control tower. >> reporter: faa has set the bar high in deciding which towers to keep open. talking points obtained by cnn say negative impact on the national interest is the only cite tear yin the faa will use. the faa is unable to consider local community impact that does not affect the nation...

Criterion the faa will use. the faa is unable to consider local community impact. the control towers at 238 small to medium-sized airports on the potential chopping block. nearly every state in the country faces control tower shutdowns in one or more airports. describe to me what next month will look like. >> it's unchartered territory. over the past couple of decades, the faa has closed only a handful of towers and literally overnight on april 7th you're looking at more than 170 facilities closing down. the scope and breadth of that is unprecedented. >> closing towers will hurt local communit...

Well, those harsh spending cuts set to kick in a week from today? they will unless the president and lawmakers can reach a deal and it would be ease you for them to dot that they'll have to do is say, never mind. but, no, department of transportation secretary ray la hood earned the cuts could trigger flight cancellations, even named some airports that may have to shut down control towers. including vacation destinations like boca raton, hilton hed, south carolina, and others. many republicans say with the clock ticking the president needs to spend more time at the bargaining table. >> wendell...