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We appreciate all of our viewers contributing. gregg: right now top officials with the faa and national air traffic controllers association are talking about these new regulations, after at least seven controllers were caught sleeping on the job. in a fox news sunday exclusive ray lahood laid out how he plans to tackle the problem. >> more rest times, more managers on-duty, and making sure that controllers are not looking out for their own schedule, rather than the safety schedule that we think needs to be put in place. we are not going paying controllers to be napping. we are not going to do ...

Solved. gregg: is this going to be enough i guess is the big question, right? >> reporter: you know i got off the phone a little while ago with a nationally recognized sleep expert, dr. russell rosenberg. he said, i think it's inadequate, just scratching the surface with these rule changes an lastly said some people can never adapt to a nighttime schedule, can never adapt to it. he says that human beings were not meant to stay awake in the wee hours of the morning, they were not meant to sleep during daylight hours. it's the national circadian kreurhythms. whether the faa is going far enough, ...

Members of congress of both parties, who have gone to syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer. >> i referenced opinions of others. that was -- i was not speaking either for myself or for the administration. we deplore the crackdown that is occuring in syria, and we call on syria as we have throughout the last months to respect the rights of its citizens. >> reporter: fox news reached out to the syrian embassy here in washington. no comment from them just yet. gregg. gregg: all right, james rosen live at the state department, thank you very much, james. top pentagon lead...

Off that air traffic controllers have to take, that is up from eight hours. there is no swapping your shift without at least having nine hours off and acquiring that new shift, and no midnight shifts allowed to be worked after having a day off. managers are also altering their shifts so they can cover the morning hours and evening hours both sufficiently. we are talking to some sleeping experts who basically say this only begins to scratch the surface of getting at the problem of regular sleep hours and this may be an insufficient response, this is after the faa had mandated that there were tw...

Phone to ask if he was okay, he said yeah, i'm at the emergency room, why, the neighbor said you don't have a house to come back to. as we speak, governor beverly pur due is touring bertie county, the county manager is zee lam. what came out of the meeting with the governor? >> she just wanted to reassure the citizens of the county that the state would be here to help us, and she also had the congressman butlefield with her and she was just trying to reassure us that there would be help along the way. >> reporter: we have dramatic home video i'd like to show you, this was shot by andrew brabbe...