fortunately the faa right now is being run by acting administrator billy nolan who unlike mr. has decades of aviation experience. mr. nolan has worked as a pilot, he's a seasoned aviation executive and he's been in senior leadership roles at the faa. at the nomination hearing and the hearing that followed the next week with acting administrator nolan. i suggested an obvious solution. president biden already named and acting administrator who was qualified and knows how to do the job. for thoseed that are concerned about racial diversity, both mre both african-american. the difference is mr. nolan has decades of experience in aviation safety and mr. washington has none. mr. president, you surf with me on the commerce committee and you are the newest member. welcome. we are glad to have you. i m don't believe mr. washingtos nomination is going to go forward successfully. i do not believe the votes are there. i would suggest to you and to every democrat on the committee and in this chamber if you agree withll me, pick up the phone and call the white house. a say look, don't spend

acting administration, means she is telling a lie, in other words she is lying, if she is lying on thisen she is lying. maybe this is everything in both. and that's when the american theory begins. domino she can not be trusted, in anything not in this, not in that, and not in the fifth question. here is that rather dangerous game that, from my point of view , the administration has started, where it will lead it is very difficult to say. but this once again emphasizes that the situation is really very such. well, i would say tense in the sense that the administration is playing for broke. this is what you need understand, since we are talking about the prospects of biden's nomination as a democratic party candidate for a second term, then here she is, standing there or gone. if he is, as they say, you can believe, or he is at least such a determined guy. well, let's get this guy extended from the white house. and if he lies all the way, everything to the end, let him lie in his castle in the state. we also have a special surprise. for you, stay with us immediately after advertising. a

let's bring in billy nolan, the acting administrator for the federal aviation administration.m washington. billy, thank you for joining us today. you were joining us before you have a meeting later today airlines, airports, unions, general aviation, you're all talking about ways to ease congestion in new york city. i have to be honest with you, i flew in yesterday. i told people i was going to be talking with you everybody said i'm not looking forward to the summer in new york, i think it's going to be a nightmare. what do you say to those people? >> let me just say our goal for the summer is to make sure it's safe and as efficient as we can make it while minimizing the disruption for the flying public, and that's why we called a summit this afternoon and that's what we're looking forward to discussing. >> one of the things that you guys announced just within the last couple of weeks has been bringing down the slot restrictions for the three largest airlines, bring down their schedules about 10%. in doing so you said, look, we just don't have enough air traffic controllers to

i also want to thank you billy our current acting administrator.s a man who grew from humble beginnings of public housing on the south side chicago i am honored and humbled by this nomination. i will pledge to work diligently to support the extraordinary team at the faa. i grew up poor as an only son of a family of six children. my mother was a single parent she worked 12 hours a day to put food on the table for all of us. she took me too listen and learn from the >> leaders who lived in and visited in the city of chicago in the 60s and 70s. this is where i realized my purpose and desire to serve and be a public servant. i began my public service and leadership journey nearly 45 years ago. ultimately served for nearly 25 years earning the highest military enlisted rank. to my military career i serve, lead, motivated men and women from every corner of this great land. i honorably retired from the us army some 22 years ago as a military veteran and leader of the three large transportation organizations my broad transportation safety knowledge and rea

think administrative there on —- acting administrator dix on air there is foot stomping now it's quitehing to show them that means and showed them the fatal to executive thank you for your question i have never flown a plane administrator dixon under biden —- was the executive had to be the share mind but with the industry aviation executives and the vivid was 24 read and serving as the president of the labor union for pilots. those are people who knowwos something about aviation and safety progress in the care record aca record where you have experience with buses and trains' different is this there is a lot of the discussion quite frankly of the 737 max that took 346 souls. >> how many are there on the 737 max. >> i believe two of them. >> distance it is responsible for the crashes that issuei do believe you mr. washington but at the end of the day that's the fundamental problem. for this administration but the faa administrator is a specialized physician. i am not qualified. i have no idea how to file but having a greater focus on safety and anyy rule is in comparable. each has a ro

i look at prior faa administrators, current acting faa administrator billy nolan was commercial airlineilot pretty worked at multiple airlines he has certificates in aviation safety from three different institutions the u.s. army, safety center the u.s. naval postgraduate school. it is under president biden. and mr. steve dixon are both biden and trump was an air force fighter pilot 40 years of aviation experience. acting administrator was an air force combat pilot, commercial airline pilot, senior faa official aviation industry executive. administrator randy babbitt was commercial airline pilot for 25 years served as the president of a labor union for pilots. those are all people who know something about aviationn safet. as i look at your record to see record you got experience with buses pretty got experience with trains, buses and trains in very different from planes. my understanding assisted ministration previously considered you for the board of amtrak. that could well have been a position you qualified for. you might have well received bipartisan support to serve in pothat role.

>> well, you know, the secretary and the administrator, the acting administrator, were largely talkingtudes this morning. the only person that went forward with specific steps to be taken today to make the skies safer was jennifer homandi from the ntsb. as mr. cohen pointed out there are seven open recommendations on runway incursions that go back years. the faa needs to either act on these recommendations or identify why they're not. secondly, she pointed out that the most important step was extending the reporting time of the cockpit voice recorders from two hours to 25 hours. they don't have the information to decipher and determine what happened at these events because the recorders only record two hours and they don't catch the event because they record over them. those two steps alone can advance safety today if they were implemented. >> those are action items, right? things that people can do, be held accountable if they do not. but they're recommendations. why can't they become regulations especially that regardless of party people don't want their airplanes clipping one anothe

i could call you acting administrator but i think jeifer is most appropriate. i appreciate all of ur dedication to safety and the secretaries. lame robert. he trains me. i don't know whato tell you. with that, i do think the u.s. has a lot to be proud of. i'm going to adjust this. i think it's probably hard to hear. we are currently enjoying a record lel of aviation safety. that doesn't happen overnight. it certainly doesn't happen by chance. a safety record like ours is the result of years, decades of intentional effort. the critical efforts of everyone in this roomfrom operators, manufacturers, labor unions to private aircraft owners, pilots. the faa, the ntsb, and the media. you've all contribut to our reputation as the global gol standard. we can't take that for granted. i agree with the secretary and billy when he says that. i often hear, intent of the last 12 years, there have been no airline passenger fatalits. that's true. but the absence of a fatality or an accident doesn't mean the presence of safety. let me state that again. the absence of a fatality

so the acting administrator came before the senate panel last month after the system outages. now he's there again. what are you expecting? >> law makes have the chance to press him here. ahead of the safety summit that the faa auns noed next week, look at the time line here. we're averaging one of these incidents every ten days. we heard of another one on monday. jfk, honolulu, austin, sayer tota, burbank, boston. this is the chance where lawmakers could really ask what is the issue here? it is a problem with the faa? or is it a problem at the airlines? i want you to listen now. he said we just cannot become complaisant in the aviation system because so much is on the line. >> i can say without reservation that the aviation professionals who compromise the american airspace industry are part of the safety record. we all know that complicacy has no place in air transportation. whether it is on the flight deck, control tower, ramp or the dispatch center. >> i was told this just symptomatic of all the problems of the aviation system has seen lately with so many retirement ands n

i want you to listen to the acting administrator of the faa now. >> safety is always a journey, we areoing to declare victory and if there's something to learn we're going to look for ways and opportunities to learn it. >> reporter: senator ted cruz is one of the ranking members on that senate commerce committee that learned heard from nolan today and he said the issues are concerning. we will see if there is any commonality between them, that is the big question now. >> it very much is. obviously a close call is not an actual, you know, coa , collisit it is very concerning for people who are on those planes. pete muntean, thank you very much for all of that. >>> and right now the two americans who survived that deadly kidnapping in mexico, they are recovering at a hospital in texas. one of the survivors recounted watching her two friends die in that horrible attack. new details next. so no matter what the market's doing, he's r ready. and that's... how you collect coins. your money nevever stops workig for you with merrill, a bank of america company. what does it mean to be ever bette

. >> in an exclusive interview, the faa acting administrator said flying is safe but warning of complacencyt's stop, are we missing anything, is there anything that we should be doing different and remind ourselves, always, always, that we can never become complacent and take the incredible safety record for granted. >> joining me lindseyreiser wh has been following the faa and former faa administrator randy babbitt. lin lindsey, it's not just planes we saw that incredible passenger where somebody died what is the faa hoping to accomplish with the summit >> they're calling this a call for vigilance, a wake-up call here you can see why, when you look at incidents, we've had six near-misses, chris, including the one you mentioned. planes on runways, one not having clearance to be on it and landing as an example. what you mentioned a business jet, they had really bad turbulence, someone died on southwest lufthansa, and the cell phone video from the flight of which a man used it in a makeshift way for flight attendants the experts have point the out the system is strapped because of covid, a lo

. >> feet of each other faa acting administrator billy nolen assure passengers that it is safe to flyere's no question. >> that aviation is amazingly safe and says he called wednesday's summit to identify any patterns between the incidents. so the industry can reevaluate its safety standards to prevent another near miss from happening. concrete steps that we can take. >> in the new year, midterm. to make the world safe. is transportation system even safer? >> nolan also raised questions on whether the increased demand in air travel is contributing to these incidents or if the industry is prioritizing efficiency over safety. for now in washington, i'm anna wiernicki. back to you. >> from 0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds were taking a test drive of the lucid air ev in te >> there is a new luxury electric vehicle with more range than the competition like the range. rich demuro is here now to tell us about his lucent ev test drive in tonight's tech smart. >> right foot. all the way down in the mix. elevator, this blue. there's going to pop up. >> well, that's the feeling of 0 to 60 in about 3.4 sec

acting administrator daniel outwell was an air force combat pilot, senior faa official in the industrystrator randy babbitt was commercial airline pilot for 20 years and served as president of a labor union for pilots. those are all people who know something about aviation and safety. as i look at your record i see a record where you've got experience with buses, trains, buses and trains are very different from planes. my understanding is this administration previously considered you for the board of amtrak, that could have been a position you were qualified for and you might well have received bipartisan support to serve in that role. a lot of discussion quite rightly is focused on the horrific crashes of the 737 max that took 346 souls from us. let me ask you, mr. washington, what is an angle of attack sensor? >> the angle of attack sensor is the sensor that is on the front of the plane that controls the tilt and altitude of a plane. >> how many of them are there on a 737 max? >> two. >> what systems are there if there are contradictory signals from the angle of attack sensor? >> wha

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earlier today, lawmakers demanded answers from the acting faa administrator. safe are we when we step on a plane? here's abc's transportation correspondent gio benitez. >> i'm taking over this plane! >> reporter: this is the moment a routine flight turned terrifying. >> i will kill every man on this plane! >> reporter: united flight 2609, los angeles to boston -- >> it's going to be a bloodbath. >> reporter: authorities say a passenger tried to open an emergency exit. soon after, the suspect is seen rushing down the aisle, holding this metal spoon which investigators say he turned into a weapon while in the bathroom. in another incident on monday, a brawl breaking out between two men on a southwest flight before it took off from dallas to phoenix. other passengers attempting to separate them. one of the men trying to explain. >> he approached me aggressively with my family. te tell them what happened. >> reporter: both men were removed from the plane. these incidents and more the latest in a string of alarming events in the skies leaving some passengers anxiou

actually, three years ago today as the acting administrator of the drug enforcement administration, ition called project python where we arrested over 600 cjnj members here in the united states with over 350 indictments. we demonstrated then that we can attack the drug cartels right here in the united states, and we need to see more operations like that to take out the command and control structures right here in our country. pete: makes sense to me. secure the border and then go at the cartels already inside our country. is there a component of going on the offense as well inside mexico? that's late, recently been discussed. >> absolutely. look, the mexican government over the last few years has really damaged our ability, dea's ability, to operate in mexico. just a few examples, a few years ago the mexican legislature passed legislation that required law enforcement, foreign law enforcement officers, to tell mexican law enforcement everything they were doing. with the corruption in mexico, that's the equivalent of requiring dea to tell the cartels about every one of their operations

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acting administrator billy nolan will testify before a senate panel about aircraft safety and oversight. the hearing follows a violent confrontation on a flight from los angeles to boston earlier this week. the suspect is now accused of trying to attack his jail guards. francisco torres was restrained by passengers after allegedly trying to open an emergency exit and attack a flight attendant with a broken spoon. the justice department it is suing to stop the merger between jetblue and spirit airlines, claiming it would hurt competition and raised prices. jetblue has claimed the deal would create a stronger competitor to challenge the bigger airlines. now to your money. it's about to get more expensive to borrow cash. that's because the fed is promising steeper interest rate hikes, and one senator is especially not happy about it. do you verbal fireworks on capitol hill as federal reserve chairman jerome powell faced off with senator elizabeth warren chair people, you are gambling with people's lives, said the central bank is now prepared to raise interest rates higher and more frequent

the changes that could come out of today's summit as the acting faa administrator works to regain the confidence of fliers. >> is flying safe right now? >> lester, i can say to you, to your audience, to the american people that say flooiing is absolutely safe. >> we'll have more on that including my conversations with flight attendants. >>> but we begin with the latest turmoil in the global banking industry senior analyst is keeping an eye on the markets for us. justice correspondent ken dilanian has the latest on the probes into silicon valley bank. i'm also joined by andrew wiesman, former jl counsel, who also served as director of the fbi's enron task force ron, let's start with the tanking stock price. what's going on here and how does it fit into the larger story involving silicon valley bank >> well, we're worried that this problem in the banking sector, which was local with respect to silicon valley bank and regional banks had exposure to specific industries they had assets that were declining in value as the federal reserve raised interest rates rapidly over the last year now

fortunately the faa right now is being run by acting administrator billy nolan, who unlike mr. washington, has decades of aviation experience. mr. nolan has worked as a pilot. he's a seasoned aviation safety executive, and he's been in senior leadership roles at the faa. at the nomination hearing, and at the hearing that followed the next week with acting administrator nolan, i suggested an obvious solution. president biden has already named an acting administrator who is qualified and knows how to do the job. for those that are concerned about racial diversity, both mr. washington and mr. nolan are both african american. the difference is mr. nolan has decades of experience in aviation safety and mr. washington has none. mr. president, you serve with me on the commerce committee. you're the newest member to join the committee. welcome to the committee. we're glad to have you. i don't believe mr. washington's nomination is going to go forward successfully. i do not believe the votes are there. i would suggest, mr. president, to you and to every democrat on the committee and in

. >>> meanwhile, in a different senate hearing, acting administrator of the faa is just moments away from testifying after weeks of disturbing headlines from the not so friendly skies, including a united passenger recently caught on camera attacking a flight attendant and threatening to, quote, kill every man on this plane. why has air travel gotten so fraught, and what's being done about it? >>> the two survivors of that terrifying kidnapping in mexico are back in the u.s. in a south texas hospital, and their families are speaking out after days of anxiety. >> that was very hard. you just want answers, it's a lot of anxiety. >> reporter: the big question now how could this have happened? the latest on the investigation. >>> and bipartisan blowback to fox news's fire brand tucker carlson. the host taking heat from democrats and republicans for airing cherry picked portions of january 6th footage and falsely characterizing the deadly riot as, quote, mostly peaceful chaos. >> i think it's bull [ bleep ]. >> that it was not just some rowdy peaceful protest of boy scouts. >> it was a mis

i think the safety summit is an excellent first step by acting administrator nolan it's the ability to put together leadership from the airlines, airports and the labor unions together in one room. and reaffirm. their dedication towards aviation safety and then established next steps. how to not only maintain that level of safety, but to increase it. ok? well the hearing is now in its second hour, we'll we'll monitor it through the day professor michael mccormick from embry riddle aeronautical university. i appreciate your time and your expertise. thank you. thank you still to come here on the nine snow and rain, causing major issues for people in the sierra by some homes and buildings are now off limits unsafe to go inside. first in the u. s military says a russian fighter jets struck a u. s drone, forcing it down over the black sea by top officials fear an escalation between those two countries. the doctor will be in to see you shortly. ♪ hi. [ chuckles ] when you see things differently, you can be the difference. capella university looks at education differently. our flexpath learni

. >> to the unfriendly skies the acting faa administrator appearing on capitol hill today testifying air. this comes amid a strike -- spike in near misses, aborted takeoff and unruly passengers. reporter: acting faa administrator billy testified before capitol hill after nearly 350 died in two fatal 737 crashes. they say the faa had grossly insufficient oversight. >> we believe everyone is entitled to a level safety no matter where in the world they fly. >> we are recruiting a workforce to meet the demands of the future. reporter: the faa is wrapping up oversight of bowing and adding 300 employees -- ramping up oversight of bowing and adding newly 300 employees. lawmakers grilled him about a series of near misses and violent and disturbing incidences in the air. on sunday, terrifying moments aboard an l.a. flight to boston. 35-year-old is accused of threatening passengers and trying to stab a flight attendant several times in the neck with a broken metal spoon. >> what is going on in air travel? >> we have a zero-tolerance policy around unruly passengers. it is simply not allowed. >>

the acting administrator of the faa is facing lawmakers ahead of a safety summit next week.controllable sobbing. that's what michelle obama said in the moments after the inauguration of former president donald trump. the former first lady revealed how she really felt on that day, and leaving the white house and a new podcast. >> there were tears. there is that emotion. but then to sit on that stage and watched the opposite of what we represented on display. there was no diversity. there is no color on that stage. there was no reflection of the broader sense of america. i cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable sobbing. >> obama also spoke about the size of the crown of the integration, countering claims made by trump. take a listen. >> you get on marine one and you take air last flight off, flying over the capital, where there weren't that many people there, we saw. it by the way. >> the podcast audio is part of the former first ladies tour for her new book, the light we carry. and thank you so much for a company. i'm rosemary church. i'll be back with more cnn newsroo

still an acting administrator. ion has put their nominee to lead the faa phil washington and he's going through his senate confirmation hearing. the big issue that senators have is that he doesn't really have aviation safety experience. he's led to denver airports and he was in the military. i want you to listen now to phil washington and how he describes his experience. >> i believe that what i'm doing now and what i have done for the last 40 years to include my military career is directly transferable. >> there are a lot of issues facing the faa right now. not only a big reform which is comes to aircraft certification after the 737 max issues and it caused a nationwide ground stop earlier this year and now we have the runway incursions that keep happening over and over again. the ntsb has not said it will investigate this issue just yet although it has investigated those four other previous issues, kate. >> and as you lay out, pete, the new faa administrator has quite a job on his hands. >> no doubt. >> thank you

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meanwhile the job of safety must continue, and that is why the acting administrator called a safety summito in the following days and weeks to come, there will be a series of teams and activities that will be undertaken to look for solutions that implement these kinds of solutions so we don't see these things happening again. >> yeah, we don't want any more near misses or want any near misses to turn into accidents. incidents are okay for now. >>> coming up t mother of a 14-year-old boy who died after falling off an amusement park last year in orlando speaks to cnn about the horrific accident and what caused it. the story is next. n" day... mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" " day.. - mm. [ chuckles ] - ...a "love my new teteeth" da. bebecause your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu. a clearchoice day changes every day. schedule a free consultation. only at vanguard, you' more than just an investor—you're an owner. we got this, babe. that means that your dreams are ours too. and our financial planning tools can help you rea

acting administrator billy nolin billy nolen -- told -- use every means at its disposal to crack down on unruly passengers. he says agencies looking into the runway close calls but he says safety is always a work in progress. >> safety is always a journey. we are never going to declare victory. and if there is something to learn, we have got to look for ways and opportunities to learn. >> billy nolen also says the faa will ask hard questions about the runway near collisions at a meeting next week. >> the ceo of the embattled railway norfolk southern will be grilled by u.s. senators on thursday. his testimony will follow the companies to freight train derailment in ohio that took place in the span of little over a month. that includes this incident in east palestine in early february, where chemicals were released and residents fear the long term toxic contamination. ceo alan shaw wrote in the washington post on wednesday that norfolk southern is firmly committed to helping the affected communities. another railway company says there is no danger to the public after a separate derailme

. >> it was the latest grilling for faa acting administrator billy nolan who insisted to lawmakers andexamine which mitigations are working and while others appear to not be as effective as they once were. >> the faa absolutely has a grasp on this situation and it's something that we look at every day. >> also in the meeting, representatives from airline unions. american airlines captain says no meeting is necessary to know airlines are stressed to the max still struggling to bounce back from the pandemic. >> the data is behind me. it's happening. these incidents and things that we've been talking about well over a year ago are starting to show up on the flight deck and in operations. >> so far the faa sees no apparent common cause for the incident, a top concern for the national transportation safety board. >> just because we are the safest in the world doesn't mean that we'll continue. it only takes one. one serious tragedy to change all of that. >> our thanks again to pete muntean for that reporting and an important programming note, tomorrow night, rather, on cnn prime time, kate b

joining us with more is sarah feinberg who is the acting administrator for the railroad. thank you for coming in, and i know that you were listening to the hearing as it was getting under way as well, and what we heard from alan shaw, and similar to what we heard before, and he laid out the explanation in an opinion piece ahead of the hearing, what do you think of what he is say, the explanation? do you think that this rail company, norfolk southern can course correct? >> well, he is saying the right things now, and you four or five weeks after a tragic derailment, and it has gotten an enormous amount of media attention, and congressional attention now, and he is in the hot seat now, and we are hearing the right things. it is about what are they doing in the future, and three months from now, and six months from now, and so on, and not just the railway industry, but congress, and what are they going to do. >> it is not only as easy as blame is going to land in one place, and i was going to say, who dropped the ball? the company? the administration? congress? >> the real s

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the acting administrator even writing last month the u.s. is experiencing the safest period in aviation history. others fear trouble could come at any time. the past president of the airline pilot's association has a new op-ed out in the "the washington post" in which he says the recent string of incidents, however, is different. number and nature of potential tragedy of results involved are concerning. we heard from fellow experts who say it's unclear what tomorrow's summit is really going to publish. >> i think we're not going to see changes or proposed changes that might be implemented until months and months down the road the ntsb and air traffic coal controller's group expected to be at the summit. urged to find out whether or not staffing shortages are playing a role because they are worried whether or not there is enough controllers in the towers. >> bret: aging infrastructure is a big deal. we will follow it tomorrow. thanks, mark. >> thanks, bret. >> bret: the secretary of transportation facing criticism from other lawmakers asking

last month the faa's acting administrator told congress that recent events remind us we must not being complaisant and voued a sweeping safety review. >> there is a lot of pressure right now in our airspace. we need to make sure that our regulatory system is as safe as it can be. that the aviation system is safe as it can be. >> the faa tells me it will determine how close these flights actually came to one another. let's put this in context, don. 560 feet, we're talking less than two football fields. the ntsb not investigating this just yet. got news here is that the safety system did work. the controller noticed that problem. averted that collision. averting disaster. don? >> wow. pete, thank you. >>> also this morning, the biden administration is maintaining it does have the power to forgive student loan debt. this is during oral arguments at a high stakes heearing before te supreme court yesterday. several justices appeared skeptical of the government's authority to be able to discharge millions of dollars in loans. the conservative justices seem very skeptical that the biden admin

last month the faa's acting administrator told congress that recent events remind us we must not becomeplacent and vowed a sweeping safety review. >> there's a lot of pressure right now on our air space so we need to make sure that our regulatory system is as safe as it can be, that the aviation system is as safe as it can be. >> reporter: the ntsb is not investigating this incident just yet but we do have preliminary data from flight radar 24. it says at these plane's closest they were 565 feet away from one another. put that into context, that's about two football fields, not even, jim and erica. so, so close in this close call. the good news here is the safety system worked but the disturbing part is this has happened so many times, something likely to come up in the biden administration's nominee to lead the faa phil washington. he's having his senate confirmation hearing this morning. >> 565 feet at that speed, that's nothing. >> yeah. >> pete muntean, thanks so much. >>> coming up next, we are live in southern california where, if you can believe t they're digging out from yet ano

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their little lot of people go there, and acting administrator billy nolan says fewer flights during thendemic may have led to a drop in technical skills. forced a lot of professionals into retirement hard to get them back and re certified. cnn aviation correspondent pete mountain has more jim jessica, we're talking about complacency caused by the pandemic. it's something we've heard about from pilots from labor groups from captain sully sullenberger during our prime time special on aviation safety earlier this month, and now we're hearing about it from the acting head of the faa, he says , essentially, that the air travel rebound is happening faster than aviation workers can handle. billy nolan, the acting head of the faa, made these remarks during an internal faa meeting in baltimore just yesterday but was interesting here is that this was also echoed by transportation. asian secretary pete buddha judge during my exclusive interview with him earlier this month. there would be one thing if we found a certain piece of technology in the cockpit or a certain control tower where there were

no doubt it will come up tomorrow during a senate hearing with the acting administrator of the faa. another safety incident on america's runways. >> thank you. >>> and joining us now is lisa olsen who was the passenger on that los angeles to boston flight. she actually captured the video that we have been showing you this morning. lisa, first off, my goodness and we are so glad you are okay because, obviously, this could have gone terribly and we are grateful that you can join us this morning. what was it even like to be on this flight? >> the first five hours of the flight was uneventful, quiet, normal flight. i was on with my husband and my daughter. and, you it no he, about 30 minutes before we were landing i heard a commotion, he was getting louder. he was about two rows diagonally in back of me and he started rambling about, you know, his father's dracula, the nazis, just a lot of rambling, and weighs getting louder and louder. a up couple of passengers tried to talk to him to calm him down and was only making him more agitated. a woman tried to approach him and say that, you k

today the faa is acting administrator had an interesting explanation. no one says quote.air travel is coming back in a big way since the pandemic, but the long layoff coupled with the increased technical nature of our systems might have caused some professionals to lose some of that muscle memory. on top of that were contending with the loss of experience as the pandemic forced many seasoned professionals into retirement. data from the bureau of transportation shows that after dipping at the beginning of covid, the pandemic airline passengers bounced back by mid 2021. but despite the return of passengers, the data shows a different story for airline jobs . airline employment is still struggling to get back to pre pandemic levels. my panel is back with me may soon is the faa basically throwing pilots under the plane here by saying like they just don't know how to operate. the new systems have gotten rusty. their muscle memory has gone. not only are they throwing pilots under the plane, they are terrifying. touring people like me like i don't need their muscle memory gone.

. >> it was the latest grilling for faa acting administrator billy nolen who insisted that flying is in announcing the summit, n o. len said the faa will scam unwhich mitigations are working and why others are not as effective as they once were. >> the fay a has a grasp on thi situation. >> also in the meeting, represent representatives from airline unions. airlines are stressed to the max, still struggling to bounce back from the pandemic. >> it is happening out. there things we've been talking about well over a year ago are starting to show up on the flight deck and in operations. >> so far, the faa see noes apparent common cause of the incidents, a top concern for the national transportation safety board. >> just because we're the safest in the world doesn't mean that we'll continue. it only takes one -- one serious tragedy to change all of that. >> the ntsb says it is aware but not yet launching an investigation into this latest incident at reagan national airport. the transportation secretary just sent a letter to all participants of today's meeting saying we must identify the k

. >> pressure in the system is what he is calling it the acting administrator for the faa.ay actually with a lot of airline executives and pilots and industry -- just to figure out what is going on. there is a couple things happening. first, you have this rush back to travel from the flying public. that's created. >> steve: people want to get out. >> cheryl: people want to get out and get on planes. they need to focus more on the technology for the air traffic control system. they talked about that. they don't -- you know, we have the safest system in the world. i felt completely safe flying on planes. you have got to do updates to that. that's a piece of it. the hiring issues for air traffic controllers, it is a very high stress job. took about the incidents, the jfk incident and quick-thinking air traffic controller caught that that was america and delta plane. basically had delta plane almost t-boned american aircraft. that was in january. the hawaii incident with the united plane that dropped altitude very fast. there is a lot of talk about that issue. and that was -- d

billy nolan is the acting administrator of the agent. he be nominated for a five year term to lead it? after steve dixon resigned as the head of the administration? last year. big questions, though a lot of big questions about phil washington's background, he didn't have the experience, according to the right. he wasn't an aviation safety experts. so will the nominee. be a pilot? or at least have an aviation safety background? that is the big question now is amazing. how long some of these appointments take these days. people wonton thanks so much. coming up next. when it comes to sports, everyone loves a cinderella story now with every single number one seed out bunch of number twos and others as well story this tournament, a lot of cinderella stories coming up. and i've got a conference age is just a number and mine's unlisted boost high protein with 20 g g of protein for muscle health versus 16 g and ensure high protein boost high protein now available in cinnabon. bakery inspired flavor lea more boostcom slash tv started brig star ca

in the administration's view, the heroes act does. >> is the administration already thinking about thesengs? >> they are not telling me. [laughter] i've been asking a whole lot. they keep saying that they are very confident that the heroes act gives them the authority needed to make sure that this program will go forward and they are confident that the supreme court will agree. certainly after today's arguments, locks of fouts -- lots of fouts -- folks don't take that optimistic a view. but there is not a plan publicly being discussed if the plan is struck down by the court. >> thank you both very much. ♪ stephanie: i'm stephanie sy with newshour west. here are the latest headlines. nonstop winter storms coast-to-coast. new blizzards in nevada with snow piling up around lake tahoe. the storm brought more snow to parts of southern california. in the northeast, snowfall melted into slusher in new york, but schools closed in parts of new england. thousands of people in michigan spent a six day with no power after last week's ice storm. chicagoans went to the polls to vote for mayor today. t