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>> and i'm john berman. huge crowds at chick fill a's all across the country. they weigh in about the national debate about gay marriage and free speech. >> some people wanted a sandwich. another thrilling finish leads to gold for team u.s.a. this is cnn breaking news. breaking overnight a frighteningly close call in the skies. three commuter jets came within seconds of a mid-air collision. we're talk 12g seconds after confused air traffic controllers dealing with bad weather launched two flights at another plane that was coming in for another landing. the two closest plains were...

fi five. >> >> we have to get on the ground pretty quick. >> everybody stand by. we have a couple of opposite direction arrivals. it is going to be a little delay on your departures. >> according to the "washington post" the federal official who reviewed the incident blamed a basic communication breakdown, blamed sloppy procedures and said it was a big screw up for a big airport. let's get right to athena jones live in washington, d.c. this morning. walk me through exactly what happened. you can hear the chaos in the radio transmission. what was at the root cause of it? >> good morni...

breaking class ceilings at work. for now, i'll just say the key is the boss' wife. we begin with the government trying to figure out why three planes at washington's reagan airport came close to crashing right into each other in mid-air. the incident occurred tuesday when air traffic controllers were making adjustments for landinand departing aircraft because of bad weather. athena jones at reagan national for us. so, how close of a call was this? >> good morning, kyra. it was a pretty close call. we're talking about seconds here. one of the airplane as was about half as far away a...