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Maintenance facilities and of course, the top crash fire and rescue there because it's been an airport for a major airplane, t.w.a. and hubs there, no question a great decision to go there. >> megyn: at this point would you assume that they know exactly how many passengers are on board this plane and what the flight plan was and they're in constant communication, you would assume, with the pilot. >> sure, in an emergency situation the pilot is going to give souls on board, fuel endurance, and they have a whole laundry list of items you have to give to air traffic control in an emergency situat...

>> a terrifying sight to see with the airway covered with foam. i have jon scott, an anchor and pilot himself, but looks like the plane may be landing momentarily. >> the rear gear is down and obviously great news, because it takes the bulk of the impact. even if the front gear has a problem they'll be able to decelerate on the runway and bleed off a lot of the energy before the front gear touches down and whether it collapses or doesn't, they'll get a lot of braking down with the deceleration after that main gear comes down. >> megyn: what's the danger to the rear gear when the front gear is ...

And in this situation, maybe you won't have a nose gear, so, they'll go ahead and deal with that situation then. but sometimes you just can't rectify it in the air, but as long as you're not on fire and working hydraulics, and the engines are running fine, it's a perfectly good airplane and come to a very well-- well thought-out solution, they're going to be okay, no problem. >> megyn: from your lips to god's ear we hope and pray you're right. we're told that the aircraft has now turned and lining up for a landing. we believe this aircraft will attempt touchdown or at least the fly-by momentar...

Do you know who they are? they're the teachers and we need to fund those schools and we need to fund education. and that funding should not be coming from the federal government. >> megyn: you look at the number of people. the strain on the system right now, according to our brain room, the year 2000 the number of people who turned 65, and already 2012, 66 each year. 9100. they're coming in by hugely increasing numbers every day, and the problem is, who is going to help pay for them? it's not just the social security. >> first of all, who said that we have to pay for somebody? listen. >> megyn...

Miners out there who care, but for very much of the country, cheap or relatively cheap by western standards, electricity is dependent on coal and the energy industry says without this, energy costs for everybody are going to go up and the reliability of america's energy grid that the power does that you don't get brownouts and everybody cranks the air conditioning up is dependent on coal. so everybody has a stake in the game to that degree. but the other thing is this, and you said that congress blocked the president's global warming strategy and that's true. democrats in congress blocked the ...