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Here's part of the statement from the national air traffic controllers association. quote, we have a growing concern for the safety and security of our members, our airlines and the traveling public due to the government shutdown. in our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. it is unprecedented. that letter was also signed by pilots and flight attendant groups who are responsible for the 43,000 flights each day. joining me now from d.c. is paul renaldi, president of the national air traff...

Still, very controversial figure. and i think that people will probably come to their conclusions about him and stick to whatever their opinion is to be frank, brooke. >> barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you. and today, markets if you have taken a look at the numbers, they are ugly. take a look. down all of the way around. we are coming up on the closing bell, and the dow is down and s&p is down, and we may be seeing the biggest one-day loss. let's go to the managing editor of cnn money, and paul, a down day, what is the reason? >> well, yeah, this can really all be blamed on the standar...

Credit rating yet, but it could mean that there is a credit rating cut in the future, and they are worried about the fiscal problems we are facing as a nation, and the lack of resolution between congress and the president in the next few years. mary miller, the assistant secretary of the treasury took issue with the report and said that s&p's outlook does not look at the ability of the nation to come together to face the fiscal outlook. and clearly, they are worried about it and reflected on the street. >> yes, and when we see something else going down and instead of that it is going up. natio...

Head of the faa feel any better. so bruce babbitt started in peachtree city, georgia, because it is one of the busiest air spaces in the world, and our correspondent jeanne meserve is there. jeanne? >> reporter: air traffic controllerings tell us that fatigue is part of the job and always will be, and the question, they say, is how to mitigate it. the head of the faa randy babbitt and paul renaldi came here for the first stop in a series of stops to get ideas from the air traffic controll controllers, and they have a message saying most of you are great and doing a professional job, but the se...