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Incoming aircraft. what's unclear is whether this is started to happen all of a sudden or if these incidents were happening all along and we didn't happen to find out about it. we're trying to get to the bottom of that. >> there are some airports where folks told us they don't have anybody in the control towers late at night. how important is it to have somebody directing traffic, if you will, from a tower? >> it depends how big the airport is, how busy it is, how complex the airspace is. there are some airports that don't have any air traffic control facility whatsoever. the pilots from the p...

Sleeping on the job in reno, seattle, no,ville and washington, d.c. early wednesday morning, medical transport plane was trying to land at 2:00 a.m. in reno but the sole air traffic controller was asleep. the pilot contacted a northern california tower. >> yeah, we're going to need to land. >> landing at your own risk. last reported wind was calm. >> reporter: the pilot landed safely. today, hank who led the air traffic control system for the f.a.a. abruptly resigned. an industry analyst suggested it wasn't voluntary and more should follow. >> we're moving in the right direction. it just hope ...

Concern that president obama doesn't have a lot of specifics on his defense cuts. we want to -- actually, we are going to talk to the president number's man, jack lue, the director of the white house budget. he is not there yet, but he is coming your way and when he gets in place, we will talk to jack lue. checking our top stories now there are new developments in the case of the long island serial killer. detectives are going up in planes and helicopters, hunting for clues. eight sets of human remains have been found in the area since december. and it's happened again, another air traffic...

To do. ray lahood sa hoohood said it's unacceptable and announced changes. >> it's ridiculous. it's outrageous it the behavior we will not stand for at the department of transportation. the controller has been suspended. we're conducting an investigation. and i have said that immediately there will be two controllers in 27 control towers around the country that control planes between 12:00 midnight and the early morning hours. >> that's a solution right now. so many cases of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job, let's be specific, the sixth incident this year. we wondered, what's ...

Control towers with controllers sleeping is outrag outrageous, e kind of behavior we will not tolerate at the faa, not tal rate in control towers. safety is always your number one priority. we will not rest until every control tower in this country has controllers that are doing their job and we're sure they are doing their job, and we want to assure the flying public that we are going to work 24-7 to make sure that safety considerations are always the first priority for the flying public. martha: you heard him. they said they will not rest until this is done. unfortunately there have been too...