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Anti-government demonstrations a few weeks ago, and mubarak is under investigation for corruption allegations. big, big changes at several u.s. airports. here is the head's up. moments ago the faa said it is placing additional air traffic controllers and 27 different control towers across the country on midnight shifts. these towers are only staffed with one controller at that time, and keep in mind, they are doing it because it is coming after an incident at reno airport where a controller fell asleep while a medical flight carrying an ill patient was trying to land, and that flight did lan...

But 90% of the airports in the country do not have control towers, but they treated it where the air traffic control tower was closed and landed. the risk to the passengers here was very, very low. >> why boilwould you say that, because we would assume that the controller in that tower would help both of those pilots to know that the run way was clear to land. >> there are 170 airports who do not have control towers, so there's procedures to do that and they're done safely every day. >> explain to us, help us understand that, this is not just any airport, this is reagan national, it's five mil...

The pilot, would you be worried? >> i wouldn't be worried. clearly procedurally something weren't wong herong here. investigators will get to the bottom of that. but 90% of the airports in the country don't have control towers. many airports have part-time control towers. so what the pilot did at the instruction of the controller was treated at an airport where the tower had closed. the risk to the passengers here was very, very low. >> why do you say that? because we would assume that the control tower, the guy in the control tower, would help both of those pilots know that the runways were c...

Control tower operating at all and many control towers close down at 10:00 at night. heather: you make it sound like it is no big deal and the secretary of transportation said as a result of what happened, they are going to put a second air traffic controller in the tower starting asap. >> well, it's not that it is no big deal. there was a procedure i think that probably was not followed, correctly. i would just say that to keep it in proper perspective i don't think the passengers were at risk at all. heather: i think a lot of 0 folks there are nervous about flying as it is, and when they hea...

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