number of air traffic controllers. hopefully, aiding the many facilities that are been understaffed for far too long. host: there is a lot there. what stood out in that list? guest: on air traffic controllers, senator cruz is right, we are about 3000 lower than targets, 10% fewer controllers than 2012 and despite the fact the faa is hiring a lot, 1500 this year, it's not enough to increase the number insignificant terms. it's catching up with attrition and controllers in many places are working six-day weeks in 10 hour workdays. controllers are really overstressed. host: why is there a shortage? guest: this is a long-running problem where the faa or multiple administrations did not do enough to catch up and there was a dispute over the proper number of staffing at certain facilities. this problem really has festered for years. as a result, the controllers are working to me hours the faa wants to set mandatory rest times and there are a lot of these near misses that are a result of air traffic control errors. one of the

we need to continue to train and skill the best workers and certainly that means air traffic controllers and aviation safety inspectors. we also, besides the increase for air traffic controllers to help deal with the staffing gap, we are making sure that they have the best technology to work with as well. and our colleague, senator klobuchar, duckworth, moran, thune, peters, and kelly helped us to recruit and retain the next generation of workforce. so i can't thank all my colleagues enough. as mentioned and much discussed, congress is setting for the first time in statute a refund standard for consumers to get a refund on non-refundable tickets after three hours of delay in the united states. and for six hours on an international flight. these statutory rights are a big win for consumers. passengers can just reject vouchers, alternative flights, and get a hassle-free refund. i want to thank senators markey and vance on their provision of the bill that says you cannot charge families extra dollars to sit next to each other. and the fact that they are championing, as senator markey and sc

air traffic control asks him to ident. e pilot to look down, turn his head, and push a button so that he can identify his helicopter to air traffic control. schiavo: and this is very crucial because that took his attention off of other instruments. that movement right there of moving your head to make the necessary adjustment. o'brien: and he is quickly in a situation where he has no visual reference to the outside world. with a downward acceleration, you can easily feel like you're climbing. the pilot would have realized something was terribly wrong when he was in the clouds. he was already headed into an operation that was completely illegal. and he was climbing through clouds. elam: they said on radar, they could tell that he only made it to about 2,300 feet, and then the helicopter started to descend and made a sharp left. herrmann: he was experiencing spatial disorientation. you believe that you are climbing, but, in fact, you are rapidly descending. at this moment, he lost control of the aircraft. when they broke thro

this legislation aims to relief the strain on air traffic control by directing the f.a.a. to hire the maximum number of air traffic controllers, hopefully aiding the many facilities that have been understaffed for far too long. at a time when aircraft safety seems to be in the news every other day, our bipartisan bill makes important upgrades to safety reporting. commercial aviation improved in the last several decades in part because the f.a.a. and industry have tracked trends in safety to respond in a proactive manner to safety concerns. instead of waiting until after a fatal accident has occurred. furthermore, this bill recognizes the important role that whistleblowers play and includes protection for those reporting safety concerns. this bill also makes transformative investments in airports across our country by making updates to the formula used to disperse grants for airport infrastructure project. as a result, all airports across the country will be able to rehab their runways or acquire critical safety technologies. i'm also pleased that the bill makes it easier to

today, i rise to especially acknowledge the hard work that our air traffic controllers do day in and day out to keep our skies clear and safe for all. back home in alatha, kansas, we have an air route traffic control center that is responsible for some 130,000 square miles of air space. covering that much air space is no small feat, and it takes a team of highly skilled and trained controllers to get the job done. in fact, i made a visit to that control center in alatha, and what i found was perhaps the most constant bombardment, a mentally challenging task of any job i've seen. more than anything i've seen in eight or 12 hours in an operating room in one day, more than a day in the emergency room, more than any task i've seen, the mental challenge, the constant bombardment of different conseseek whenses -- sequences ensuring every flight lands safely. there's no room for error. there's no second chances. it amazes me how, time after time, day after day, these stalwarts do their job with perfection. in years past i have been disappointed that this agency has continued to neglect hirin

all air traffic controllers. centralized training at the academy ensures operating in the national air space is seamless, from one end of the country to the other. i'm proud to represent and support the interests of this institution which gives us the safest flying in the world. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman reserves. without objection, the gentleman from washington is recognized to control the time. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. at this point i'd like to recognize for one minute the representative from georgia, representative johnson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. johnson: thank you and i rise in support of the 2024 f.a.a. re-authorization act and i commend transportation committee chair sam graves, ranking member larsen and subcommittee chair and ranking member garrett graves and steve cohen respectively for their hard work and bipartisan effort to get us to this point. one key provision that i championed in this b

let's talk about air traffic controllers staffing. thstrike because they e tired. st it's a safety question. has been a leader on this. some of the recommendations are to give folks more rest, and yet we are short air traffic controllers. once the problem in hiring? i don't mean tas compliment, buu think like a consultant so i ow y h about this aspect of the problem and i'm t the process of change here. sec. buttigieg: the bottom line is we need more controllers and are enacting -- acting to make that a reality. yófial■d year 2025 would be 2000 new controllers, up om500that pe are trying to accelerate that■xo continue the controller hiring and training surge.mí0@ we are also working to make sure we expand the pipeline. this is part of why the faa is working with colleges and universities. to supplement the cape abilities we have with our academy. the bottom line is we have to and will maintain a high standard for what it takes to become a control4jler,also seeie through the system and meet that resources to continue that. chair schatz: we have 43 more seconds, i wou

let's talk about air traffic controllers staffing. there is a balance you have to strike because they are tired. air traffic controller fatigue is not just a morale question, it's a safety question. senator shaheen has been a leader on this. some of the recommendations are to give folks more rest, and yet we are short air traffic controllers. once the problem in hiring? i don't mean this as a backhanded compliment, but you think like a consultant so i know you have thought about this aspect of the problem and i'm wondering if you can tell us about the process of change here. sec. buttigieg: the bottom line is we need more controllers and are enacting -- acting to make that a reality. fiscal year 2025 would be 2000 new controllers, up from 1500 last year. that puts us ahead of attrition but not by much which is why we are trying to accelerate that and get the resources to continue the controller hiring and training surge. we are also working to make sure we expand the pipeline. this is part of why the faa is working with colleges and un

is it air traffic controllers not paying attention or how does that happen? >> is a number of factors in the case of the southwest incidents most likely the fault of air traffic control he made a mistake and allowed the southwest plane to depart to hunt down the runway on actually in that case the ntsb is going to have a hearing soon you had to planes basically going to one another at the southwest plane taking off for the fedex plane about to land the copilot saw a single light in the fog is a result aborts in the landing. and basically avoided a massive tragedy to quick speaking of a boeing for some the front page of business and finance section of the wall street journal says of boeing has probed a new overwork 787. it says faa regulators have opened a new investigation to boeing after the jet maker recently disclosed its employees may have skipped some inspections on 787 dreamliner's falsified records the latest quality issue at the manufacturer. what's going on a boeing right now? >> like we said after the january incident involving alaska and potentially

bill going through, congress calls for maximum air traffic control hiring, but congress stopped short of passing that this week instead passing a one-week extension of the current plan. clearly, these controllers in a little bit of help, they can get from congress right now. that's an important point, pete muntean. thank you very much congress is stepping in now to try and make baby food safer, tandem legislation being introduced in the house and senate aimed at limiting the amount i've harmful heavy metals like mercury and arsenic found in baby food? >> yes. the fact that it is in there at all, i would say is noteworthy. this comes after several recent reports detailing concerning levels of these contaminants and baby food seen as mike trout has more on this, what they're trying to do and what is, what is going on here? >> yeah. i mean, this is always really scary. when we hear these reports and this specifically concerns really four of these major heavy metals, their lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury. when you hear about those things in your foods, obviously play it's pretty scary

everyone knows that these air traffic controllers are what guide us every day to the safety of our destinations. this bill recognizes that we have short-changed that investment with air traffic controllers sometimes working as much as six days a week. we need a work force that's going to continue to tackle these challenges and this bill makes the investment so that happens. we've seen the f.a.a. fall short of goals before in work force training, but this staffing model and the f.a.a. staffing committed to in this bill will help us fill that gap. i want to thank senators klobuchar, duckworth, warnock, moran, thune, peters and kelly for their work force development grant program in this legislation. it helps us grow pilots, mechanics, engineers and technical work force and streamline the job pathway for veterans who have real skill in the military and can more easily help us fill these aviation roles. our bill requires the gao who also study airport workers standards, a step toward getting our baggage and our cleaners to pay and benefits they deserve. and this bill also does something for the fir

matter this is a necessary bill with a lot of good provisions in it and particular the work on air traffic controlecruitment and training and pilot training hours i feel very good about that work that's been done. but the jest of this bill to promote air safety and there's one provision in the bill that is dramatically contrary to the thrust of this bill and reduce air safety and reduce air safety in the capitol of the united states at reagan national airport otherwise known as dca. i want to summarize quickly the arguments that i made the last couple of weeks but then i want to respond to at least three, you know, questions that folks who take a position opposite to me have raised and use some data to demonstrate that those questions honestly raised have answers and the answers actually verify uphold the position that my mail-in and virginia colleagues should not be jams flights on the business gist runway in the united states dca built a long time ago 860 acres. by -- order of comparison dallas airport is about 12,000 acres, dallas-fort worth is about 19,000 acres denver is 32,000 acres. when re

the commerce committee and it's a general matter, a necessary belt to a lot, in particular air traffic control. i feel good about the work that's been done justice to promote air safety and one president and the bill dramatically contrary it will not increase air safety, it will reduce air safety at reagan international airport, dca. newsom data to demonstrate answers and the answers that hold the position we should not be jamming lights. dca built a long time ago, 868 acres. t is about 12,000 acres, dallas-fort worth about 19,000 acres, denver 32,000 acres. when reagan national was built, it was a little bit the trend to build smaller airports near downtowns because the airplanes were smaller. they were props, with fewer passengers, and lighter and didn't need as much landing runway space to take off or land.maryland. when reagan national was built, and if you've bb there -- bb there, you -- been there, you know it can't be expanded. it was built with three runways, a primary runway and two commuter runways, and the estimate was in the 1960's, that reagan national with three runways could acc

seconds from takeoff air traffic control calling on them to abort. another plane in the path. abc's gio benitez covers aviation. >> reporter: tonight, chilling air traffic control audio capturing the drama around a close call this morning in washington, d.c. >> american 2134, cancel takeoff clearance. zero alpha alpha, go around. go around. >> rejecting the takeoff, 2134. >> zero alpha alpha, cannot go around. we are already on the ground. >> reporter: a boston-bound american airlines plane cleared for takeoff. at the same time, a king air plane was seconds from touchdown on an intersecting runway. the two planes on a collision course when air traffic controllers realized what was happening. listen again. >> american 2134, cancel takeoff clearance. zero alpha alpha, go around. go around. >> rejecting the takeoff, 2134. >> zero alpha alpha, cannot go around. we are already on the ground. >> reporter: but it was too late. that king air plane already on the ground. the two planes coming within just 1300 feet of each other. the american plane, which was rolling down that runway at

today i rise to especially acknowledge the hard work that our air traffic controllers do day in and day out to keep our skies clear and safe for all. back home in olathe, kansas we have an air route traffic control center that is responsible for some 130,000 square miles of airspace. covering that much airspace is no small thing that takes a team of highly-skilled and trained comptrollers to get the job done. i made a visit to that control center in olathe and the most constant my apartment of mentally challenging task of any job i've ever seen. for than anything i've seen in eight hours or 12 hours in an operating room and one day more than a day and emergency-room, more than any task i've seen and the mental challenge and constant bombardment of different sequences trying to make sure, not trying but ensuring that every flight landed safely. there's no room for air and no second chances and it amazes me how time after time and day after day the stalwarts do their jobs with perfection. in years past i've been disappointed at the time allocated to the faa. this agency has continued to -

airports. >> air traffic controllers are the guardians of the air. >> this morning, a new report fromgency saying it needs 3,000 additional controllers to properly operate going forward. >> we're doing the best we can, but at some point, you know, we need breaks too. >> reporter: jenny benjamin has watched over colorado skies for the last decade, butt the veteran air traffic controller says she's fell the shortage in recent years, working ten hour shifts six days a week in a high stress environment. >> reporter: is your job, your current work schedule sustainable? >> i don't think it is. you have less controllers running the same or more traffic in that area they are working in, and it's just, it's difficult to continue to do that day in and day out. and we don't compromise safety. >> reporter: the need for additional air traffic controllers highlighted by a number of recent close calls, involving planes nearly colliding due to miscommunications. adding to the problem, air traffic control training centers already at capacity like this one in oklahoma city. the faa says it's tackling t

number of air traffic controllers. fully, aiding the many facilities that are been understaffed for far too long. host: there is a lot there. what stood out in that list? guest: on air traffic controllers, senator cruz is right, we are about 3000 lower than targets, 10% fewer controllers than 2012 and despite the fact the faa is hiring a lot, 1500 this year, it's not enough to increase the number insignificant terms. it's catching up with attrition and controllers in many places are working six-day weeks in 10 hour workdays. controllers are really overstressed. host: why is there a shortage? guest: this is a long-running problem where the faa or multiple administrations did not do enough to catch up and there was a dispute over the proper number of staffing at certain facilities. this problem really has festered for years. as a result, the controllers are working to me hours the faa wants to set mandatory rest times and there are a lot of these near misses that are a result of air traffic control errors. one of the issu

you'll hear the air traffic controller order an american airlines plane to stop at 110mph during takeoff the prices aren't that bad. the new message from a top executive at mcdonald's, responding to reports of $18 big mac value meals, his message about menu prices and the new way customers can save the man nearly killed on his honeymoon by a grizzly bear, speaks out. >> it's insane how fast it all happens. >> why, this military veteran says it was the most violent thing he's ever experienced, and how his wife came to the rescue. >> a potential medical breakthrough. forget regular band-aids, these bandages could be the future of basic health care and later, what's old is new again. >> why? abercrombie and fitch is all the rage. >> once more from abc news. this is america this morning. >> good thursday morning everyone. i'm rhiannon ally and i'm andrew dymburt. >> we begin with former president trump's criminal trial. the jury is about to begin day two of deliberations. >> but before they do, they have made two requests. they have asked the judge to reread jury instructions, and they have

herrmann: contact is terminated between air traffic control and the pilot.s own. the helicopter starts descending. the pilot has experienced something that can be very deadly. herrmann: this accident did not need to happen. this accident was entirely preventable. scholes: no doubt about it, this is the most devastating day in nba history. out of an abundance of caution, kobe and vanessa tried to avoid flying in a helicopter together, thinking that if something happened to one of them, the other would be there for their kids. a simple gesture, but one they never imagined would end in tragedy. what happened in the final moments that brought down that doomed flight? next, in part two. i'm jesse l. martin. thanks for watching. goodnight.

launching a campaign urging the department of transportation and the faa to bring in more air traffic controllerse shortage at times blamed for cancelled and delayed flights, exhaustion among the working air traffic controllers, even forcing airlines to cut 10% of their flights in the new york area. the faa also dealing with at least 23 serious close calls between planes at airports nationwide last year. >> we really need the situation to be solved. >> reporter: and to try to meet this crazy demand, a lot of airlines have been flying bigger planes. get more seats, more people on board. lot of airlines, including american, have been flying more flights outside the new york area. make sure they can get everybody where they need to go. george? >> george: trevor, thanks. let's bring in the faa administrator, michael whitaker. thank you for joining us. we just heard how busy a travel weekend this is going to be. you've been facing staffing shortages. can you handle it? >> well, we're ready for this. we've planned for this. we know it's going to be a busy weekend. we're glad to see the traffic come bac

about the enstructure in this country with regard to airline and creeking and a shortage of air traffic controllerseady for an upgrade? >> there's opportunities to improve backbone of air traffic control and europe it's burning less fuel and get willing faster and so forth. but that is a big opportunity, and at the same time it doesn't negate the issue that we're about 3,000 controllers short right now. that causes when you have a weather event, causes there to be more delays and ultimately like we've seen the last few days and those delays turn into cancellations because crews time out and so forth. really like to see the staffing get fixed. the technology is probably a longer solution. >> customers are loving the new pricing. it is -- that's why we called it the new frontier. i think we had gone too far in what we charged for bags and seats and i think this opens us up to a whole new amount of cline clientele and we're exceeding expectation. ashley: there's a lot of competition with airlines and you try and save everywhere you can but it's not always possible. but you continue to smile, berry, wh

it is highlighting a national shortage in air traffic controllers around whether or not those controllerse head into a busy travel season. the faa will be investigating this incident, and american airlines will support that investigation. robin? >> robin: sounds good. all right. thank you very much, trevor. now to jimmy kimmell, back on the air last night after his 7-year-old son billy had his third heart surgery. will reeve is here with what the late night host said. good morning, will. >> good morning, robin. overnight jimmy kimmell on his show with an update on billy after he underwent his third heart surgery over memorial day weekend. take a listen. >> after an extra, extra long holiday weekend, we spent most of it at children's hospital. our son billy had an open heart surgery. he's doing very well. thank you. [ applause ] thank you for your thoughts. >> billy was diagnosed from birth with a heart defect and had his first open heart surgery when he was just 3 days old. back then jimmy saying he cries more than billy does. now here's present day billy, just days post surgery, returnin

french garbage collectors, transport workers, and police air traffic controllers made threats to go onmpic games. a bright symbol of attitude the french involvement in the upcoming games was the burning of the olympic rings at the may day demonstration. a non-governmental organization sharply criticizes the actions of city authorities who are clearing parisian streets of tents of migrants and homeless people. sergei khaloshevsky is watching the olympic escalation. while the sailboat with the olympic flame, which the greeks lit on olympus , is plowing through the mediterranean sea on its way to marseille, the french are already calculating how much the upcoming olympics will cost them. the first record seems to have already happened, the initial budget was exceeded by 6.5 billion euros, so france, according to local journalists, will not earn anything. despite the exorbitant ticket prices. france may break the record for spending on preparing for the olympics. france competes with greece and great britain for the title. cities, evicting homeless people and beggars 101 km away, then a gr

air traffic is flowing. and the threats of severe weather that could cause those disruptions. the agency is about 3000 air traffic controllers short though they hired 1500 last year, but the goal of another 1800 this year an estimated 38.4. 0 people will dry nationally gas prices are just a few cents higher. than last year and aaa expects the worst time to drive for the holiday will be from now until 7:00 tonight and then sunday and monday from 32. to 7 p.m.. okay. first alert weather right now. the forecast is on everyone's mind with the holiday weekend. look at this beautiful shuffle on the creek is that fog is just rolling in over the hills. meteorologist jessica birch is tracking our conditions. it was a little taste of bottles. rock and now napa tonight. headline. the 1 and only stevie nicks. also taking the stage tonight. megan, the stallion, nellie st vincent and baby rexha. tomorrow you can catch pearl jam, amana sunday will wrap up with ed sharon and queens of the stone age. you can find more details on the festival and on our website at kpix. we're just 2 days away from 2 floats, right? right through the mission fo

one big threat this summer, the faa is still short 3,000 air traffic controllers despite pushing through big classes at the air traffic control academy. >> all right, tom joins us live. tom, let's pick up right there. i feel like we've been dealing with this issue for a couple of years. right? why is staffing still such a problem for the faa? >> reporter: yeah, a few issues. first of all, mandatory retirement age of 56 for controllers. 30% of the folks in the academy, they wash out, and another 30% quit once they get on the job, and they realize how difficult the job is, and that has meant flight cancellations, cutting back flights in new york last summer. the concern is that could happen again. >> tom costello, thanks for leading us off. >>> the risk of severe storms complicating the travel picture this weekend. after a stunning 26 reported tornadoes touched down across the great plains and midwest. here's maggie vespa. hail hammering the >> oh, my gosh, dude. >> yeah, it's a big tornado. >> reporter: jaw-dropping video painting a familiar picture. an apparent monster twister tearing th

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about 3000 were short, about 3000 air traffic controllers across this country. how would this bill, if it becomes law, speed up the hiring process to get more controllers trained and on the job? >> i have every expectation that the president is going to sign it that will reconcile it. the little differences between the senate and the house version. a big thing is we put $106 billion into the faa budget for the next five years and a requirement for the faa director to fill those 3000 positions with discretion so that we can raise the pay and recruit people. and we put another almost billion dollars into the national transportation safety board. so significant investment, both monetarily, but also in the expectation that technology and our resources will grow on the human side. >> what about accountability for the faa? because we all know that it is under scrutiny for its oversight of boeing. after that door plug blow out earlier this year, we also had the two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019. so how is this bill going to change the way that faa monitors manufacture

that this is going to improve, a lot of the things that have been troubling you mentioned air traffic controllersre is still a major shortage of them, about 3000 controllers short. what does this legislation do in an effort to try to help fill that gap? >> so part of the $105 billion is to fund the recruitment and training and raise raise the wages, in the benefits of air traffic controllers in a way that still has to be collectively bargained, but we know will attract people into the field, particularly in areas like san francisco and new york, washington, la, where the cost of living is so high. so we know that's part of the problem with attracting people into the field . >> and you also mentioned technology, but something that you really fought to include in this bill is to increase cockpit voice recording. talk a little bit more about that. yeah >> so the international standard was much higher than the us, we were three hours. this bill was a compromise to 25 hours. so it won't be recorded over too soon so that the national transportation safety board and the faa will have time to make sure t

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next week, plus the faa is expanding the list of acceptable antidepressants for pilots and air traffic controllers. >> while many in the industry say it is a major step in the right direction universities across the us and our rate using security concerns that their campuses as they prepare for graduation ceremonies of course, this comes after weeks of pro-palestinian protests these protesters who interrupted commencement ceremonies at the university of michigan of music theater and dance and the demonstration lasted for a few minutes before police arrived and took those protesters away. >> now the university of southern california says, it will hold a small family graduate celebration last week, the school cancel well, the main graduation ceremony that would have brought in as many as 65,000 attendees. the school has also started the disciplinary process for student protesters ucla says campus operations will resume and full monday with increased security or than 200 people were arrested thursday stay after refusing to leave and he can't on campus. we're also getting new details about the major p

pilots in air traffic control can often detect and avoid turbulence.t seems to have happened here? miles: in some cases, they can. if you see some storm systems ahead, towering cumulus clouds which generate thunderstorms and perhaps worse, prudent pilots and air traffic control will change the course of the aircraft to thread their way around it. it is still unsettled air, however so there can be a lot of turbulence in a region, particularly if you are trying to thread your way through those big buildups there is another category of turbulence which could be at play here which is called clear air turbulence which really does come quite literally out of the blue and this can occur when you have rivers of air. the jet stream is kind of like a river of air except that it is wind at sometimes hundreds of miles per hour. oftentimes, when the atmosphere is unsettled, as it is more frequently in the world of climate change, you can get sudden changes in the direction of those rivers of air and that is what we call windshear. that is why you get that sudden up

the faa is adding three new medications of pilots and air traffic controllers can take and still be allowed to work report that showed that some pilots have been hiding depression, so they don't lose the ability to fly. cnn's pete muntean is in washington with the latest year in part of this, pete is about removing the stigma of depression that's right, john, you know, this is a huge advancement for pilots who are stuck in this backward system. >> an outspoken aviation doctor put it to me like this. >> would you rather have a pilot who's depressed and getting treatment or a pilot who is depressed and not getting treatment and lying to keep flying. that's the reality of these very rigid faa rules. falls pilots who disclose mental health issues to the faa risk losing their ability to fly plain and simple, that problem thrust into the limelight ever the case of joseph emerson, the off-duty alaska airlines pilot, who had a mental breakdown on a full flight last october, he admitted to trying to shut off the plane's engines as he was writing in the cockpit jumps seat. now, most of the charges ag

general matter this is a necessary bill with a lot of good provisions in particular the work on air traffic control recruiting and training and pilot training hours. i feel very good about that work that's been done. but the gist of this bill is to promote air safety and there is one provision in the bill that is dramatically contrary to the bill. will increase their safety. it will reduce air safety and/or reduce air safety in the capital of the united states at reagan international airport. i'm going to summarize quickly argument i made the last couple of weeks and then i want to respond to at least three, you know, questions that folks who take a position opposite to me have raised and use some data to demonstrate that those questions though autosave odyssee answers and answers actually verify and uphold the position that my maryland and virginia and i collect take that we should not be jamming more flights onto the business from in the united states. reagan national airport, dca, although taboo, , a postage sta, 860 acres. by order of comparison does airport is about 12,000 acres. dallas-fort w

just different parts of the this bipartisan bill at first, the increasing the number of the air traffic controllers. >> it's the goal is to close the gap of 3,000 vacancies and we've heard so much about these shortages in the fatigue that the traffic controllers have been facing as you've been watching, a lot of near collisions are close calls on the runways happen a lot, but more than more than we want to see how quickly david do you think we'll see some of these shortages alleviated take quite some time. >> i mean, it's selecting to get 3,000 people. they're going to have to go through about 9,000 candidates. the washout rate for air traffic controllers is about 30% or excuse me, more like 60% so it's not easy to find that many people to fill those positions okay. >> and what about this technology to prevent collisions? there's additional runway technology that will be installed by the faa. what can you tell us about this technology and how it helps prevent collisions with the idea is that it's more autonomous, that it's going to watch these things automatically, which is long overdue, that shoul

on the revolution square and... here are cadets from the navigator training faculty and the air traffic control aviation combat command faculty. employees of the main directorate of the ministry of internal affairs of the russian federation for the chelyabinsk region are marching in a ceremonial march; the main directorate is headed by police lieutenant general mikhail ivanovich skogor. the cadets are in parade formation. employees of the ministry of emergency situations, students of the chelyabinsk vocational college, director of the college elena gennadievna vasilyaovskina. the ceremonial crew is commanded by college student ivan vyacheslavovich kolisnikov. the military training center at the south ural state university enters the square. the center is commanded by colonel nikolai. karpov, a combat veteran, was awarded the order of military merit and the suvorov medal. the staff of the center was awarded certificates of honor from the deputy minister of defense, the minister of education of the russian federation and the commander of the troops of the central military district. on the square

needs for air traffic control. this particular bill encourages maximizing as many people as possible actually getting through air traffic control training. the academy in oklahoma city is well prepared to step up to the challenge of that. they have space, they have great trainers that come in from all over the country to do the training there, they are fully capable and have had a great curriculum that they have been able to train folks that serve our nation every single day. the faa reauthorization bill expands that capacity in oklahoma city rightfully so and they are fully able to do it. they set a new minimum hiring target for the air traffic controllers so the maximum number of individuals go through the academy. advanced air mobility is another element that is there at the mike monroney aeronautical center. while a lot of folks talk about the future, research is happening on the ground in oklahoma city. there are a lot of aspects of this bill that continues to be able to make our airspace the safest airspace in

the air traffic controller did not identify any suspicious aspects either.ship was moving along the route from. off the coast of taiwan, the second day of military exercises of the people's liberation army of china began; large-scale maneuvers started three days after the inauguration of the new head of taiwan, who, as soon as he took office, declared support for the independence of the island and thereby calling into question the principle of one china, which is important for beijing. the seriousness of these exercises is evidenced by the fact that for the first time the armed forces of the prc entered the waters near taiwan. at the same time, the island’s administration, with the support of its main ally, the united states, continues to prepare for war with the prc. ksenia nekrasova will tell you whether taipei island will decide to take more radical steps. upon an alarm signal, warships and aircraft of the prc army move to the area specified by the command. taiwan strait, surrounding the island north, south and east, chinese. beijing immediately involved

i'm obsessed with this because whether it's air traffic controllers or mechanics or the like, what's going to happen if we don't invest? >> i'm sorry, the question was investing on the pipeline for training in aviation safety? >> yes, yes. >> that's, streamly important particularly -- and thanks for that question. right now one of the issues that we are facing is the workforce attrition. there have been a lot of retirement and exodus from boeing and other places. and the issue of training is becoming very important and workforce development. in fact, this thing for the safety critical system in the case of aviation being air traffic controller and pilots and engineers and machinists and also in other industries i've been just two weeks ago at the border, the workforce development for the energy system in the gulf of mexico is also another issue particularly with coming with the new technologies like wind turbine. in this particular case, one solution is basically joining forces with technical colleges and universities and develop interstate program for the students to get the trainin