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The pilot was forced to land without help from the tower. take a listen. >> so you're aware, the tower is apparently not manned. we've made a few phone calls. nobody's answering. two airplanes went in in the past ten or 15 minutes. >> reporter: that's not the situation you want to have. the faa says it has changed scheduling practices in 2012 to control these fatigue issues and that controllers are allowed to self-declare if they feel like they're too tired to work. but the faa does acknowledge that fatigue will always be an issue in a 24/7 operation. still to come in the "newsroom," could t...

In 2011 where the pilot was forced to land a plane on his own without help from the tower. take a listen. >> 1900, the tower is apparently not manned. we have made a few phone calls. nobody is answering. two airplanes went in about ten-10 minutes. >> one in five controllers said they made some sort of operational error. faa was forced to release this after someone got a copy. the agency says they changed scheduling practices in 2012 to control fatigue. they say now controllers can declare if they are too tired to work. back to you. >> big issue. try to stay on it. news out of the white house. ...

I looked at workers, particularly these jobs dominated by women. retail sector as well the restaurant sector is one where employers are mother nature going abusive scheduling practices where they don't tell fwhoerk advance what their schedules are going to be. the woman in question is working for many hours but doesn't know when. and earning very little money. she's -- she has to call in on the day of -- she thinks she might be working. she might find out she's got to work, in which case what to do with the children. she might find out she doesn't have to work in which case what to do about no...

Congress today did a check-up of the troubled va system. you know, cnn first reported how veterans were waiting months and months and months to see a doctor. the new secretary of veterans affairs told us in a committee in the last two months that va has contacted 160,000 veterans to get them off those long waiting lists and conducted 543,000 referrals for vets to be seen by private doctors. and, he says, he is reforming the scheduling system. >> we're putting place a comprehensive external audit of scheduling practices across the entire vha system. we are building a more robust, continuing sys...

Restructuring, making operations more efficient and effective. in short, he's about delivering better results. >> the new choice to run the va, robert mcdonald, he did go to west west point, spent five years as captain in the army, then he spent 33 years working for procter & gamble. is that kind of very big business expertise what the va needs at the very top in order to fix its problems? its problems are still considerable. the report came in friday from the assistant to the president, who the white house sent to the va to basically ride herd on them trying to fix this problem, his assessmen...