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Germany were closed as a precaution. almost 500 flights, mostly in northern britain, were canceled yesterday. fewer flight disruptions predicted for today. the head of the faa revealed two more cases of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job. he told a senate committee that both incidents took place in january at major airports. a napping controller in los angeles was suspended. and another in ft. worth was reprimanded. and that brings the total instances of sleeping controllers to seven just this year alone. a government watchdog says that the surge in controller errors is real n...

Family and his fiancee as they receive this difficult news and are preparing to bring chris back to his family and friends in the united states. he will be sorely missed. coming up in 25 minutes we'll be speaking to free lance journalist greg campbell. he traveled to libya with chris hondros. he's been friends with him since they were teenagers. dangerous incidents involving air traffic controller. the faa firing two for sleeping on the job. one worked at the miami air traffic center. the other was caught sleeping while on duty at mcghee tyson airport in knoxville, tennessee, back in febru...

Staying the same. another air traffic controller suspended along with his manager, this time because he was watching a movie on the job. it happened in cleveland, ohio, over the weekend. and right after the incident of sleeping controllers in washington, in knoxville, tennessee, seattle, reno, nevada and miami. the controller was watching the movie "the cleaner" starring samuel l. jackson but inadvertently left his mike on sending the movie's soundtrack over the radio for three minutes. the faa released the statement -- this comes as top faa officials are touring airport across the country o...

Controller was watching a movie on a dvd player on the job. the incident happened sunday in cleveland. it comes just one day after a miami controller was suspended for falling asleep at work. the white house this morning will announce new safety measures aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse in america. it's a problem that has become more and more prevalent among teens and young adults. and more protests in syria this morning. thousands of demonstrators have reportedly flooded a major city square and they say they will not leave until they bring the government down. today's gathering c...

There at kriv fox 26 in houston were saying wonder if they legalize where is he and what this neighborhood is all about. clearly if you take a left down a street with a cul-de-sac at the end, you probably don't know a whole lot. guns a drawn, weapons are pointed at the vehicle. somebody is getting out of that vehicle. and now the police are hot on and that's probably the end of this, if this person doesn't do anything ridiculous. so it's a car chase going down southwest houston there is a lot of news tonight as this wraps up. we will let you know if there are any high jinx ahead. no official n...