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Not enough federal tax money to keep the tower open. miles o'brien is an aviation expert for pbs and paul renaulty is the president of the national air traffic controller's association. welcome to you both. >> good morning, carol. >> paul, i'll start with you. so, which is it? do we need those air traffic control towers at these smaller airports or don't we? >> we absolutely need those towers at those -- the air traffic controllers in those towers. it's the safety of the system. we have the safest, most efficient system in the world. and sequestration is basically dibs mant dismantling it, one...

Should be allowed to keep their control tower open. then a week from tomorrow, fred, we will get the final list of which airports will be closed. >> all right, lisa -- >> i'm sorry, which control towers will be closed. the airports may be able to stay open without the control towers. >> thanks so much for that clarification. appreciate it, lisa, in washington. overseas now, in afghanistan, president hamid karzai say cushion the united states and the taliban of working together to scar the afghan people. karzai said both sides want to convince afghans that things will worsen if foreign troops...

>> yukon 35, that's approved. >> reporter: the airport is arguing in part that is location near the presidential retreat justifies keeping its control tower open. >> when we have the president or a vip that would happen to come into the airport, they definitely would use the services of the air traffic control tower. >> reporter: faa has set the bar high in deciding which towers to keep open. talking points obtained by cnn say negative impact on the national interest is the only cite tear yin the faa will use. the faa is unable to consider local community impact that does not affect the nation...

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