CNN CNN Newsroom March 10, 2013 20:24:00
You are looking at 170 facilities of closing down. the scope and breadth is dented. >> reporter: closing towers will hurt community interests, supporters say. it punctures the lurngs knocks the air out of your economic engine. >> reporter: in concord, north carolina, officials say close the tower could hurt nascar operations. >> over 60% of our business is nascar around they fly all over the united states. >> reporter: the individual airports can submit their reasons to the faa by e-mail, fax or even a phone call. the faa will announce the finalized list of closures on march 20th. until then...