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Whitehouse.gov, right now, against the new knife policy this this being pushed by unions representing some 90,000 flight attendants. you can see right there it has just over 17,000 signatures. now flight attendants are worried about their personal safety and not of individual passengers but tsa says the agency's doing this is prioritize things that can bring down an entire plane, like bombs and things like that. they say hunting for small knives could get in the way of that i spoke with the tsa spokeswoman, frederica, a few hours ago and i asked if the agency is can reconsidering their policy....

>> 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...

Criterion the faa will use. the faa is unable to consider local community impact. the control towers at 238 small to medium-sized airports on the potential chopping block. nearly every state in the country faces control tower shutdowns in one or more airports. describe to me what next month will look like. >> it's unchartered territory. over the past couple of decades, the faa has closed only a handful of towers and literally overnight on april 7th you're looking at more than 170 facilities closing down. the scope and breadth of that is unprecedented. >> closing towers will hurt local communit...