babbitt is a b big city, but the is something to do every day. every day there is something i new. >> turkey has changed. in many ways, the ci resembles a big western city. this nurse never felt truly accepted in germany. >> people were friendlier, more cordial. the most important factor was to judge a person by their heart, not their name or ethnic origin. that is very important. if they had done that right, i might have reconsidered. >> she still has to improve her turkish and studies grammar with her husband. she often thinks and dreams in german and says she still has a lot of german characteristics. >> like punctuality. if i make an appointment, for example, by temperament is german. what else? >> i have a fantastic exale regarding punctuality. ingermany, they displayed the schedule at the bus stops. but says the boss is coming at 11:00 a.m., for example. in turkey, we do not have such sites. suddenly she says, it's at 11:00 a.m. and i have been waiting here 15 minutes. it is 11:15 and the boss is still not here. things like that. >> this pe

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i broke atory about bruce babbitt was the interior secretary and he had been involved in approving a license for an indian casino and the lobbyist invold in that had been a college friend and it was a big story at the time and in the end i'm not sure i took fair account of the entirety ofis washington career. that i don't thi he was someone on the scale of influence peddling in washington probably belong flooer the top and i spent an awful long time writing stories about that. >> rose: where do you worry abouin terms of the "times"? for example, some people ask about... there's increasing amount of opinion in the paper. do you worry about that? >> you know, i'm mindful of it and we have columns in the news pages. quite a few of them biz day, quite a few columnist in and, you know, i asked i sometimes read before those columns are published but we have drilled in the editors that there is a line between opinion and urging a specific action and deep analysis and i prefer to be on the side of deep analysis. >> rose: when you see a great writer, you just stand up and salute? >> i guess f

babbitt has been hard for them, but we just kind of carried on and it kept our happy face and we didther, a d.c. police officer, suggested the family moved to d.c. to find work. it worked, and she also apply to marymount university nursing program. she got a full scholarship and graduated in two years. >> when they called my name, i was happy. it my kids were very happy. >> now her husband also has a full scholarship to study art and she is living her dream to follow in her mother's footsteps as a nurse. she hopes her example of perseverance will encourage her boys, now 7 and 12, to always work hard. >> you can do anything. if you want it badly enough. i wanted it badly. >> for next challenge is to go to medical school and become a doctor. alison starling, abc 7 news. >>> she will go all the way. coming up next, this maryland want is fighting to become a facebook sensation at the age of 102. how you could help her. >> enjoying a day off from school >>> d.c. students had the day off from school today, but some sot bill spent quality time with their teachers. >> anacostia high school t

the police chief, who is currently just a temporary police chief because a anthony babbitt quit his jobpe that if people do not disperse they would use chemical weapons because they were in violation of penal code 409. >> i want you to listen to what the interim police chief had to say after the event. >> at that point, we were in a position where we had to deploy gas in order to stop the crowd of people from pelting us with bottle and rocks. >> did you see people throwing bottles and rocks at the police before they used those tactics? >> um, yes. yes, people were doing that. >> what do you think the police response should have been to that? >> i think that the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and flash grenades are a completely inappropriate response tobott bottles being thrown at rioter here. i don't think they should have used any chemical weapons. >> the police say they didn't use rubber bullets. can you help us with that dispute or the question whether rubber bullets was used? >> yeah. we actually had two people over here earlier who had found the rubber bullets in the street. this

i broke atory about bruce babbitt was the interior secretary and he had been involved in approving a license for an indian casino and the lobbyist invold in that had been a college friend and it was a big story at the time and in the end i'm not sure i took fair account of the entirety ofis washington career. that i don't thi he was someone on the scale of influence peddling in washington probably belong flooer the top and i spent an awful long time writing stories about that. >> rose: where do you worry abouin terms of the "times"? for example, some people ask about... there's increasing amount of opinion in the paper. do you worry about that? >> you know, i'm mindful of it and we have columns in the news pages. quite a few of them biz day, quite a few columnist in and, you know, i asked i sometimes read before those columns are published but we have drilled in the editors that there is a line between opinion and urging a specific action and deep analysis and i prefer to be on the side of deep analysis. >> rose: when you see a great writer, you just stand up and salute? >> i guess f

. >> reporter: at the training center at jfk airport, faa chief randy babbitt says modern simulators are now giving controllers a much better hands-on experience before they deal with a real scenario. >> when we get a controller into the real tower, he or she has been exposed to everything. we've given them every problem they could have seen. >> reporter: and the skies are crowded. here at jfk, they handle 80 flights per hour, typically on three runways. but that could increase in the afternoon and the evening push. and while minor runways close calls increased, the number of serious close calls has dropped, from 34 involving commercial aircraft in 2000 to just three in 2010. >> there is some kind of communications problem. >> reporter: as the nation's controllers keep a daily vigil on safety. for "today," tom costello, new york, new york. >> now here is amy. >>> now to the troubling new report on vitamins and the health risk they may cause. for adult women, taking supplements could lead to unhealthy levels of vitamines and minerales and result in an early death. dr. lamb, good morni

i want to start by saluting the leadership of secretary lohud and administrator babbitt and michael to and your whole team for what you are doing. this is incredibly complicated and incredibly difficult, but i also want to make a word of comment. i have been into the tech center on numerous occasions and the men and women of the tech center have a dedication to excellence and a passion for success that makes it much more than a job for them. they understand their part of history. they are putting their heart and soul into this everyday and i think this is going to yield great benefits as we move forward. we have heard a little bit about the certainty or uncertainty. i think one of the biggest things we can do to provide certainty as to provide a long-term faa bill. the faa itself needed to be able to plan. i can't imagine how you can plan six months at a time and have to spend so much time and resources worrying about shutting down or not shutting down. i was out at the conference, which is ongoing now, on monday. almost every private sector company that i talked to mentioned the certa

right after the colgan air crash, our administrator randy babbitt, the faa administrator, travel the country on listening sessions. he met with the airlines. he met with the pilots. he met with flight attendants. he met with everybody in the industry. randy and i have met with the families on a number of occasions. we really tried to figure out what was necessary to make regional jets and flying on regional jets the safest bet he could possibly be. if you look at what the ntsb said, there was fatigue but there was also for training for these pilots. they did exactly the wrong thing when their plane started icing up and they were descending into buffalo. so, what we have tried to do is to put together a rule that addresses pilot training, fatigue, safety, training, and shortly we will be announcing what that is. >> under your leadership, dts focus on airline passenger protection want any of your predecessors. that's one less will make in that realm that d.o.t. has promised dealing with price transparency. do you think the public and expect in a row to come out before the next election