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The overnight shift. the faa now says controllers need an extra hour off between shifts. and the problems aren't limited to sleeping. the faa spended a controller in cleveland for watching a movie on the job. and an air force plane carrying michelle obama was allowed to get too close to a cargo plane in maryland. the faa now wants a supervisor standing behind the controller handling all flights involving the first lady or the vice president. cnn's jeanne meserve has more on how the faa is addressing the problems. >> reporter: countless times a day, air traffic controllers and pilots converse. ...

They now want a supervisor standing behind the controller handling a flight involving the first lady or the vice president. >> we want talk more with mary sciavo. welcome. >> good morning, carol. >> the faa has changed the rules as to how many hours controllers can work from one day to the next. you heard they changed the rules as far as planes carrying the vice president and the first lady. so is the faa doing the right thing to protect all of us here? >> well, they are tweaking around the edges. when i was inspector general, i investigated many situations like this and more. increasing the r...