>> and kelly, the f.a.a.as one of highest rates of whistle blowing filings of any executive branch agencies. >> there have been 178 whistleblower filings since 2007. 9 of them were tied to aviation safety and now the u.s. office of special council protects whistleblowers, too many complaints he department of transportation, pay attention to the seven most recent. and first helicopter improperly retrofitted and air traffic contollers sleeping in the control room and using personal electronic devices and small planes from new jersey's teterboro airports flying too close to big jets from newark airport and the delta's maintenance program specifically with fuel tanks and unauthorized air traffic flying into air space near pouerto rico, faulty wind instruments at detroit airport. and the whistleblowers had to make multiple disclosures because the f.a.a. didn't do enough to fix things right away and nout office of special council says the public expects zero tolerance for unnecessary risk. preventive measures could

and assigns the f.a.a. the task of coming up with plans to make this all happen and just last week the f.a.a. announced a new set of rules essentially they're saying they're going to make it easier and faster for government entities to obtain a certificate of authorisation i'll just read you one line from the f.a.a. website it says of the f.a.a. disapproves assia way the agency quickly addresses the questions from the applicant and tries to provide alternative solutions that will lead to approval so the bottom line is they're here to stay but what will they be used for and to what extent will privacy be taken into consideration when some of these local governments sign up for permission to use drones in their jurisdictions as an activist with the electronic frontier foundation and hopefully will all of us answer some of these questions hey there trevor i know you just wrote about this and you found that there's actually some local governments stepping in trying to ensure that these drones will be used simpl

funding to the f.a.a. and assigns the f.a.a. the task of coming up with a plan to make this all happen well then just last week the f.a.a. announced a new set of rules as mentally they're saying they're going to make it easier and faster for government entities to obtain a certificated authorization and i'll just read you one line from the f.a.a. web site it says if the f.a.a. disapproves of c.e.o. way the agency then will quickly address questions from the applicant and try to provide alternative solutions that will lead to approval so the bottom line here is the drones are here to stay but what will they be used for and to what extent will privacy be taken into consideration when some of these local governments sign up for permission to use drones in their jurisdictions joining me now is jefferson morley stuff writer for salon and also author of the book snow storm in august. hey there jefferson i want to talk to you about this talk to me a little bit about the purpose of surveillance drones and also some of in your opinion th

what the f.a.a. and aviation department officials are saying at o'hare international airport, the larger jet's wing hit the rudder of the regional jet. it is a bad wednesday, you are flying a plane and you hit another plane. no injuries reported in this. the passengers have been evacuated off the regional jet. we are told with american eagle they will be on their way with no delays. obviously those two planes, though, are still in place and that plane that was about to take off to alaska, the bigger 747, still in the middle of the screen. i would say that is highly delayed but back to you. >>trace: who planes going nowhere. thank you from new york. >> the foam hacker and founder of wikileaks is now a step closer to facing rape charges in sweden. a british court ruled in favor of his extradition today. two women in sweden accused him of rape and sexual assault almost two years ago. but he is refusing to leave the u.k. saying he is the victim of a political smear campaign because of his website. course

>>neil: the f.a.a.n the letter to you and is as strong a wording as you can get saying your failure to comply with the obviouses during a critical fades of the plight and aircraft emergency could have affected the safety outcome of the flight. i would like your reaction but you are on a list, now, that when you go flying, you are going to be pulled aside. >>guest: what does this mean do me? my business will be interrupted? i have extra time at the airports? a cavity search? what does it mean? i would like to know that. >>neil: i know, i was with a guy who accidentally ended up on these lists and they just make your life hell. they drag you aside, they go through your belong ensure, and with exhaustive detail, and if i were you i would arrive at the airport about five days before you take off. >>guest: thank you for that. the reality is, look, if this is going to get ugly for one person that admitted he used a phone and if the f.a.a. feels that strongly about this, what are theyment telling us? what are

but the special counsel says that the f.a.a.ke inadequate steps to correct the concerns of their employees saying that helicopters don't have night vision equipment and that f.a.a. flights in new york are sleeping. and teeterboro airport us allowing more planes to fly near planes, that there are inconsistent rules for operations on parallel runways and that the detroit metropolitan airport uses faulty wind instruments. four of those seven things needed to be reported more than once and the u.s. special council says that the preventive measures could be more safe if the department listen toitsd employee. >> if it really gets bad again, you're going to have a situation where you start looking at canada or australia who have privatized their air traffic control system and they work fine. >> the d.o.t. says that they take all whistle blower complaints seriously n washington, peter doesey, fox news. >>> just ahead, we have the mother's day forecast and a high school senior scores the prom date of a lifetime. how she got an nfl star f

abroad for counterterrorism purposes but let's not forget that the president recently signed a new f.a.a. bill that's going to allow for domestic drone use and the coming years drones are going to be used for commercial purposes by law enforcement for agricultural purposes by media organizations possibilities are really endless and universities are catching on in fact the f.a.a. has already approved twenty five universities to have drones some of r.t. created degree's an unmanned aviation walls an exciting front here that could create new jobs in the future to be concerned but the military defense contractors are the ones funding much of this research here to discuss with me is jeff morley writer for salon and author of the forthcoming book snow storm in august washington city francis scott key and the forgotten race riot of eighteen thirty five thanks so much for joining us so what can we say here right how did we even find out i know that you. helped put some pressure on it but you know how do we find out exactly what it was only from the freedom of information lawsuit that they filed

and i would definitely definitely hope so i mean the congress before they ordered the f.a.a. to do this held no hearings on privacy and what kind of privacy. regulations might be written into the new drone technologies that's what we need to do is our law and our ethics need to catch up with the technology do you think that the universities in any way should be held responsible or should try to jump into the debate if they're getting so much fun and money to fund research in this sense i think it is that is any of the power in their hands of course because they're teaching the young people and i think they're doing a good job of teaching the technology and i think this is going to spread and that's a good thing but they should be teaching the law of privacy we should be teaching the foreign policy implications of this we should be talking about civil liberties but that's all part of the discussion it's not just attacking a great new technology we're in america we fall in love with our technology and we think it's great and we wanted to do everything for us but we need to have

the f.a.a. is now launching a full scale investigation into this incident.have actually been out to the parachute center in northern california. they have talked to the it owner about what happened. and in the next couple of days, they plan to talk to laverne everett. the woman who jumped out of the plane as well as her tandem instructor to see exactly what was going on. we should note the f.a.a. has a very long history with this company the parachute center. they have proposed more than $900,000 in fines against this company for a series of violations that have nothing to do with this incident right here. but because they can't come to terms on a settlement agreement. now the f.a.a. has turned this whole thing over to the u.s. attorney's office and the u.s. attorney will launch another investigation. harris. >> harris: and it's interesting because this woman's family put this out but she had quite a bit to say, too. >> yeah. i mean she did. and she does not blame the company. she said, look, i have been looking forward to this jump for 10 years. you could t

the f.a.a.estigating whether air traffic controllers in honolulu covered up a close call in the air. it happened in january. two jets-- a japan airlines 767 and a u.p.s. m.d. 11 were coming in for a landing when they were mistakenly put on a collision course. listen, now, as the tower instructs them to separate. >> pelley: the planes were less than two miles apart when they separated. officials in honolulu did not initially report the incident to federal authorities. the manager of the honolulu office retired after the f.a.a. began investigating. we got our first good look today at a deadly boat accident that happened two years ago. new video shows the moment a barge slammed into a tour boat in >> ifill: . thphiladelphia. the larger vessel drove right over it as you see there. two tourists from hungry were killed. their families released the video. they are now suing the companies that were involved. a world-famous work of art. and now one of the most expensive. putting a price on "the scream."

the electronic frontier foundation has been looking into this for a while they found that the f.a.a. the federal aviation administration has already approved twenty five universities to fly drones in its airspace it also appears some universities have already purchased those drones and the u.s. may be fitting the bill earlier i asked this very question to amy's tapan of it with the electronic privacy information center and take a listen to her answer. it is actually there are grants from the department of defense the department of homeland security that are being used and being given not only to universities but the private companies into law enforcement to encourage them and enable them to purchase drones that they might not have been able to afford on their own in order to experiment to see what they can do with them to provide surveillance and to look into their capabilities and hopefully in the future i think the goal is to get them to buy their own and to proliferate the system the economy i want to for a second look at the bigger picture here i mean it was just a few decades ag

this is happening right now and that's why we're here that's why ethics here is where petition the f.a.a. were asking for rules for really being proactive and trying to get these restrictions put into place before they're rolled out because you find out that once the program's already in place it's hard to go back and say wait a second we should have done this before let's stop for a second and go back to our right and is to kind of it's legal counsel with the electronic privacy information center appreciate you come on show you so much. all right well that's going to do it for the news tonight but don't change the channel the big picture is coming up at the top of the hour and tonight host tom hartman will tell you why the libertarian one world notion of so-called free trade and free markets is dead and then later tom will take on a panel of conservative experts to battle it out over the retrial of citizens united and economic inequality in the u.s. that's all new and out. and for more on the stories we covered go to you tube dot com slash r t america or check out our website our team d

airport saying he's being targeted at the f.a.a. because he made the feds look bad. the f.a.a.pping him with an official letter saying he took the video illegally because his ipad should have been turned off during takeoff. interesting. it is time to get you all scrambled up. gretchen carlson is here to help us out. >> good morning, gretchen. >> no, steve doocy can't jump in. >> the only thing i have on my mind because i wasn't here yesterday. barry manilow. that's where i was. i have no idea. sorry. there you go. >> heather, you win today. >> second time i've won. >> all right. congratulations. >> have a great day. see you tomorrow. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good mornin

recollaboration with the f.a.a. and nasa and integrating uas in the national air space system. an amendment by mr. wilson to ask the controller general 20 determine the effects of titanium purchase restrictions on domestic manufacturers of aircraft components who contract with the dod. and a technical amendment by mr. turner. is there further debate from the on block amendment? the amendment is agreed to. a roll call vote was orderered. amendment number 085. the question now -- the question now occurs on the amendment offered by mr. >> mr. smith? mr. smith votes aye. mr. bartlett? votes in. . >> mr. thornbury votes no. ms. sanchez? >> aye. >> ms. sanchez votes aye. >> mr. jones? mr. mcindire. mr. mcintyre. mr. aken votes no. mr. brady. mr. brady votes aye. mr. forbes, mr. forbes votes no. mr. andrews. mr. andrews votes aye. mr. miller? no. >> mr. miller votes no. 34rs davis? mrs. davis votes a ye. mr. wilson votes no. mr. larson votes aye. e. mr. turner votes no. mr. cooper votes aye. mr. klein. >> no. >> mr. klein votes no. mr. ronlers. mr. rogers? mr. courtney mr. courtney vo

airport saying he's being targeted at the f.a.a. because he made the feds look bad. the f.a.a.ing him with an official letter saying he took the video illegally because his ipad should have been turned off during takeoff. interesting. it is time to get you all scrambled up.

babbitt says he does not regret resigning from the f.a.a.nd that he has no plans to try to get his job back. the fugitive accused of killing two people and kidnapping two sisters believes he is those two sisters' father. that's from the suspect's own mother-in-law giving the first hint of a possible motive. here is the guy cops desperately want to find. he is now at the very top of the fbi's most wanted list. and officials say he could be now anywhere in the united states. cops say they believe he is still holding the 8 and 12-year-old sisters after abducting the family last month in tennessee. investigators say they found the girl's mother and old oar sister buried at the suspect's home in northern mississippi. the suspect is charged with their murders. today, his mother-in-law gave an emotional plea. here. >> please, you have destroyed one family. you are destroying my family. you took my daughter from me. please, turn yourself in. don't hurt anybody else. >> shepard: she says her daughter, the suspect's wife, was tired of her husband clai

that's what has the f.a.a. and f.c.c. -- they are still investigating that. i talked to the f.a.a.trator about whether we'll see a relaxation. everybody wants to use the phone. they are looking at it, studying it. >> yes, we do. >> everybody's holding meetings. they know customers want it. it will be a while. >> another time we'll talk about what to do with a super loud talker in air when he won't stop talking on the cell phone. the new problem. air rage. thank you for the report. >>> on a more serious note, much more serious. a warning for drivers on mississippi highways. there is a killer who may be posing as a cop pulling drivers over, then shooting them to death. authorities say it happened twice last week. they are telling drivers in the area to be alert. next time they see flashing lights in the rear-view mirror. >> mississippi officials don't want people to paic but they want to alert people. two deaths occurred last week on an isolated stretch of highway. the first was a 74-year-old nebraska man on i-55 around 1:30 in the morning. his body was found inside his pickup truck.

they are promulgating rules. >> congress ordered the f.a.a.two-track. first track is public safety agencies have an expedited process to get approval to fly drones. >> that's what the faa announced last week. that's going to go into effect and they will announce -- pleat the rules probably by the end of this year. >> uh-huh. >> we should expect to see, i think we will see a lot more law enforcement agencies. the next part is to complete that, to open up the air space to civil purposes, which would be commercialized drones by mid 2015. at that time, there should be an expedited process for anybody who shows they are capable of flying a thrown to be able to do that. this thing this phenomenon is coming fast. we can expect within three years that unmanned aviation if our national air space will be much more common. >> will citizens of any city let's say you mentioned miami dade or the city in colorado those of us who live in washington, d.c., will we have any opportunity to oppose this at a local level? >> yeah. i think because congress is kind o

sorry the f.a.a. has been has been mandated to roll out guidelines for drones in civilian air base this year the defense authorization was mandated to roll out up to six test sites so that defense. sites would have drones operating in civilian airspace so we're beginning to see that we're beginning to test this out and there really hasn't been a discussion about what appropriate protections on this data collection should be there hasn't been really enough discussion about the safety i think i think domestic pilots have have a real good reason to be concerned here and we haven't really even i mean we just we just talked about this we don't know what the sensors are collecting so i don't think we have a really good sense of what we need what civil libertarians domestically need to be concerned about but the potential is certainly there all right very interesting mary thank you for coming on the show that was marcy wheeler author and blogger at mt weil dot net think. oh wiretapping the internet that's th

this is happening right now and that's why we're here that's why ethics here is where petition the f.a.a. were asking for rules for really being proactive and trying to get these restrictions put into place before they're rolled out because you find out that once the program's already in place it's hard to go back and say wait a second we should have done this before let's stop for a second and go back to our aim is to kind of it's legal counsel with the electronic privacy information center appreciate you coming on shank you so much. once again our one of the world's best known media moguls robert murdoch the owner of fox news channel the wall street journal and so much more has been modest recently across the pond in britain long after his news of the world shut down after a phone hacking scandal and many more company wide practices deemed outrageous here's a recent decision read aloud by the british parliament we find news corp carried out an extensive coverage of its rampant law breaking its most senior executives repeatedly misled parliament and the two men at the top rupert and jam

congressmen wrote a let torte f.a.a. expressing that drones could violate the ban on reasonable searches and other are speaking out as well. >> what did i say, bill? first gay marriage. >> no proof have you given me i don't celebrate. >> this is a bold new world. >> joe, lawyer that you are, is this a reasonable concern? >> it is. well, you can say, they are going to be able to lower the crime rate with all of the great things they will do. the first time you see a drone in your window looking at you, i don't know anyone that would tall rate that. tolerate that. >> i think when you see the drone the first thing you say is cool! that is so awesome. >> we already have helicopters, satellites, cameras everywhere and looking at everything we do. not to mention just everybody with their cell phones recording you and putting you on youtube. screw the jones. world star hip hop, why o! what's up hip hop? look at us. >> that is better than any drone at 30,000 feet. >> i can't do that impression, but they have exposed so many crim

actually happened on the ground and we've been talking a lot about drones lately but as you know the f.a.a. has already approved drone use for twenty five universities we're going to talk about the new career opportunities and the drone age it could bring as well as the privacy concerns that come with it we're going to all of that market and i include ing a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look what the mainstream media decided to miss. so there was some breaking news this afternoon as we found out that president obama took a surprise trip to afghanistan we have breaking news at this very moment we understand that the president is in afghanistan and one year to the day since u.s. special forces killed the world's most wanted terrorist the president of the united states is on the ground in afghanistan i'm hearing now president obama has made a surprise visit to afghanistan president obama arrived in afghanistan in kabul at two thirty nine pm our time this is new video we're just getting in of the president's arrival in afghanistan not that long ago you see on the cover of darkness

there's a new report by a government watch dog putting the f.a.a. in the

the f.a.a. is investigating. >>> a springfield, virginia, family is mourning the loss of a loved one in afghanistan. chief warrant officer john pratt was one of two people killed in a helicopter crash on memorial day. fox 5's tom fitzgerald talked to some of his fellow coworkers. >> reporter: john pratt used to work at the haley company, a real estate developing firm in silver spring. he flew helicopters for the company going to various companies. but he said he announced it was time to leave them and serve his country. >> reporter: john pratt was 51 years old, a warrant chief officer, a son, father, husband, a good guy who loved to fly. >> he was a good american. he cared about america. he cared about people >> reporter: steven fleischmann is a vice president at the haley company in silver spring. for 15 years, john pratt through this helicopter to the company. he stayed on the reserve but decided to go on active duty after september 11th, 2001. >> in his mind, he was probably thinking, what ca

. >> according to the statement posted on the website, the f.a.a.eamlining" the process for public agencies to fly unmanned aerial surveillance system including drones inside the u.s.. even before monday's decision to make it easier for public agencies like police department to get licenses for drones there was concern on capitol hill. >> we have to make sure that the protection built in up front, rather than having privacy tsunami hit our country. >> in the letter to the faa, democratic congressman and republican congressman joe martin for potential for total trone state when used in conjunction with the behavioral recognition, behavioral analysis, license plate recognition or any other system to identify and track individuals. >> the fourth amendment to the constitution, under the original bill of rights protects the american public from unreasonable serge. >> case of a north dakota man is testing legality of drones. a local swat team borrowing a drone from the homeland security department to make sure it's safe to arrest him. >> this is to provid

the f.a.a. estimated 30,000 of these things in the air over the years.e you walk out your front door you have to wonder whether an invisible eye in the sky is tracking your every move. the lenses are getting stronger, the ability to track people in vehicles or on the streets as they move around. the intelligence. so we need to put in some good privacy principles here to protect our values. >> it is interesting. you just jogged my memory. years ago i was flying with an unnamed i won't mention it here, police force in their helicopter over the greater washington area. i was going along for a media ride and they took me over a nudist camp for a new laughs. happened to be winter time and nobody was outside at the time. raises the point you are trying to make here. illustrates the point i should sea. >> you might be in your back yard and have a 10-foot tall fence and trees and none of your neighbors can see you and you should have privacy. if there is a robotic flying video camera hovering over your house, you you know, you have no protection against that. th

>>jonathan: a growing number already but according to the experts and the f.a.a., there could be as many as 30,000 of these drones, 30,000 of these drones flying overhead in the next decade. now, obviously law enforcement agencies love the drones and they will be able to save lives in hostage situations or search-and-rescue operations but obviously, the privacy concerns are huge. because they will in effect bring every single backyard in america into the authority's view. you have had an expectation of private any your backyard, but you will not any longer. there is essentially no real legislation currently written to curtail where they can go to limit what they can see. that's the obvious concern. >>shepard: the language on the document, incidentally getting video of americans doing something. what does this mean? >>jonathan: one of the drones is, say, headed to the united states and mexican border or looking over a traffic incident in downtown chicago. but if they are on their way flying to either of those incidents and they look down and it records in your backyard footage of a bunch

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