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out of control ahead of the july 4th weekend. rich, great to be with you. >> wonderful to be with you, i'm in for john roberts, rich edson. millions are expected to travel for the holiday. aaa predicts 3.5 million will fly, but staffing shortage, pricey fares, and some pilots threatening to strike causing turbulence for the friendly skies. >> gillian: thousands are being canceled, delayed, experts are fearing an influx of new holiday travelers starting today is set to make matters even worse. listen. >> all of it is coming to a head, we are seeing the cancellations. we just need more...

Especially when the airport looks like this. it's actually pretty packed right now. >> if we could just get there, the flight on american was delayed because of crew, so we are going to miss our connection. >> now major unions representing airline workers say at least 15% of the flight carriers originally planned for june through august had to be dropped because there isn't enough staff to operate those planes. so, to recap, more passengers, fewer flights, fewer workers, there are bound to be some fireworks of a different kind at some of the airports this weekend. back to you. >> gillian: than...

This is a new plane sort of. it's 737 has been around since 1967 so it shouldn't have new plane problems. john, you have been quoted as saying it's a no-brainer. no u.s. flag carrier in the united states nor the faa nor ntsb can definitely say why this crash occurred until there is a definitive answer from the voice and data recorder, which tom says are going to germany. so why is the united states the only major country that is not doing this? why is the faa and the airlines that are flying it not taking a position? why don't we be rather safe than sorry? >> first, it is a no-brainer. what we...

Carriers overseas in certain circumstances. but i really don't know any particular about this airline. i know israel does for sure. >> yeah. >> and a lot of people actually are asking on twitter -- asking this. if on star can remotely unlock doors, why can't faa aircraft controllers do the same? >> well it's not a bad question. but remember we have this door situation set up to solve another problem, which was a terrorism act. and we reinforced kevlar made the latches secure we set up a system to open the door. so now we're going to in a way have to reengineer this technology. so it's -- it is...

Accommodative to business because the attack targeted the airport international arrival's gate killing 35 people and wounding about 100 other people. some of those who were killed and injured are foreign nationals, nonrussians. there have been arriving on foreign flag carriers. flight carriers. no claim of responsibility yet. law enforcement sources told moscow media that at least two bombers were involved. president medvedev says that airport management should be held accountable but the security is now very much being tightened up. >> translator: first of all we need to enforce special eregi...