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>>guest: the last 3 1/2 years have been extraordinary. we have a good system in place. but there are still a lot of challenges. >>shepard: specifically, what kind? >>guest: well, for instance, probably the most dangerous part of the flight is when you are on the runway. runway incursions or runway congestion is still a very serious problem and tracking planes on the runways presents all sorts of issues. we are not building new runways, enough of them, and we not building new airports so it will only get more crowded at each airport. >>shepard: computer systems we have heard about for as long a...

Looks like the time is now. >> we could know as early as monday morning whether the justices voted to take up either of the same sex marriage cases, shannon, thank you. >> in japan, people on alert in tokyo, as a powerful and destructive typhoon has its way. the storm injured dozens of people and left many without electricity. ground traffic paralyzed there and along the northwestern coast lien. thousands have been evacuated over the fear of flooding. the typhoon at one point packing winds of 78 miles per hour and that force captured by an american marine on the southern island of okinawa. the...

If there was ground traffic or a security prop. but they were told they folled prer rodus. >>asheanr crew? no. i think they were completely safe. >> the issue of whether there should be lone controllers in the air towers when they're open, they remind us of the lexington, kentucky, towers. it took off from a wrong runway, crashed, and killed 49 people. he didn't even know that the plane had lined up on a closed runway. >> thank you. appreciate that. cream is really what makes it. i think you'll find it's the vegetables. the crunch... the texture. deliciously rich. delicious. fantastic! flavorf...

Can see the white house. you can see capitol hill. you can see the pentagon. of course this is in a post-9/11 world. why would you put a single controller in that tower at night? of course there were two planes coming in for a landing who were unable to talk to the tower. they went through a series of procedures that allowed them to announce their locations as they descended and landed at the airport. they did follow proper procedures in terms of what a pilot should do in that kind of a situation, for a closed airport. but the trouble is, a lot of air traffic controllers are saying they should...