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the federal aviation administration shut down all air traffic nationwide.his country has been mobilized in terms of air travel today. we don't know where it goes from here. >> i later said that to get through that morning and that day and all the days that followed took everything that i knew as a journalist, as a husband, as father, as a human being. >> that is, of course, tom brokaw recalling what it was like to report the news on that morning of september 11th, 2001. today is the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 civilians and resulted in the united states fighting in two wars in the middle east. tell your friends 6,570 members of the united states military, most of them under the age of 30 have died fighting in the wars of iraq and afghanistan in addition to the lives lost including civilians, the financial costs of the wars to the united states is staggering, amounting to almost $4 trillion. in the hours after the collapse of the world trade center, news outlets reported the story among firefighters. an emergency room d

the federal aviation administration says it plans to do a better job with wild life control. >>> pep co says it restored electricity. now neighbors want to solve the problem. heavy rain sunday flooded homes and forced dirty water through the toilets and drains. experts are recommending this back-flow valve. d.c. water is holding a public meeting on thursday to tell people how to get rebates to cover the costs of the valves. >>> the technology world is buzzing that one week from tomorrow apple may review a new iphone. today apple released this cryptic invitation to a news conference and reads it is almost here. the shadow from the 12 is actually a five. that leads many to speculate that apple's announcement will be an iphone 5. industry experts expect the new device would have a faster process and bigger screen. >> anything cryptic on your weather map? >> you are going to have to wait and see. i have two of them hidden. >> we'll be looking. >> it will tell you exactly when the rain will hit your house tomorrow. if you figure it out you wait. this is what you can expect. we are going t

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the federal aviation administration has issued flight restrictions from 8:30 until 10:30 this morning. the restrictions will prevent most planes from taking off or landing while the shuttle is in the area. if you are traveling today or expecting someone, you are urged to check with your airline for specifics on delays. >>> if you happen to catch "endeavour" on camera as it flies over your neck of the woods, we'd love to see it. on instagram use #nbcbay dsh area or e-mail us, or tweet us your photos @nbcbayarea or upload it to our facebook page. >> we will have complete coverage all morning long and don't forget we'll be breaking into regular programming to bring you the shuttle's flyover live around 9:30. we will also stream it live on n nbcbayarea.com. >>> we have new details on a police shooting that sparked a late-night protest and some vandalism in san francisco. we do have a look of some pictures of the damage at the mission police station on valencia street. several dozen protesters gathered there around 10:00 last night after a police officer shot and wounded a suspected gang m

the federal aviation administration is promising to review this recommendation. >>> they say things areexas, and apparently they're also faster. texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country. they have approved an 85-mile- an-hour speed limit on a new toll road. it runs between austin and san antonio. the officials say that drivers can safely travel on the highway at those speeds. right now the top speed is a mere 80 miles an hour. >> wow. 85. all right. let's talk about our weather now. >>> the weekend is just around the corner here. looks like it's heating up. >> i was just going back to the 70's where we were going 55. >> that's nothing now. >> things are starting to warm up just a little bit. you'll notice a little bit of warming tomorrow. along the coast, no fog. right now there's very few areas of patchy fog, so there's a lot of sunshine. we can go out to the avenues, daly city and pacifica. we've got nice, sunny conditions out there. the highs from today, and the highs tomorrow will come up a couple of degrees. so 85 in antioch today. we'll

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the federal aviation administration's ability to oversee and manage a nation's airspace and air traffic control would be reduced. hope you don't have to fly anywhere. the department ofagriculture's efforts would be curtailed. hope you don't have to eat anything. environmental protection agecy would be degraded. hope you don't have to drink anything. the national institutes of health could have to halt or curtail scientific research including needed research into cancer and childhood diseases. the federal emergency management agency's ability to respond to incidents of terrorism and other catastrophic events would also be undermined and critical housing programs and food assistance for low-income families would be cut. now, let's be very clear. the only thing congress would need to do to prevent these big, dumb cuts that no one wants would be to agree on an equivalently sized deficit reduction package they prefer of smarter cuts. but thus far, because they're congress and they are terrible at their jobs, that has not happened. let's turn now to bob greenstein, executive director of the c

the federal aviation administration says a fire shut down flights at the washington area's three main airports. this fire happened at a regional air traffic control facility in an office refrigerator. because the office had to be evacuated, flights in and out of reagan, dulles and bwi were stopped for 25 minutes. fortunately this happened yesterday morning. it affected less than 20 flights and had this happened during the week, hundreds of flights could have been held up. >>> chevy volt sales hit a record high in august. general motors reports sales for the plug-in hybrid topped 2,500 last month. it makes 35% increase over july sales and more than 700% jump from a year ago. industry experts say dealerships' offers and incentives have helped to move these cars. >>> you might think a $300 million theft would involve jewelry or maybe a high-tech piece of merchandise, but in canada, some sticky fingers thieves made off with a massive haul of maple syrup. the stolen syrup could have filled two olympic side swimming pools. the theft was discovered during a routine inventory check at a huge

>> we have had a tremendous amount of help from the federal government through the federal aviation administrationnd our efforts to expand our airport. through the department of transportation as we build on our trucking assets and work with our bus system. and through the department of housing and urban development in our efforts to deal with our abandoned buildings and our public housing. and so, yes, we want to hear about jobs. we are interested in training and education for displaced workers. but we have been great beneficiaries of president obama's plans. >> you know, madame mayor, i guess the question of the week is, are you better off than you were four years ago or that's how some in the country and some in the gop have phrased the referendum on this election. is gary's economy better off than it was four years ago? and specifically, what about unemployment? compared with this time in the fall of 2008, where did unemployment stand then compared with the roughly 14% today? >> well, our unemployment has always been exceptionally high. it was probably even higher then and why it says 14.8%, w

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federal regulations. judge napolitano: nothing wrong legally because congress has created these administrative agencies like the epa or federal aviationation. constitutionally there is dispute whether congress can delegate its core function which is to make what because these regulations once they are promulgated in the federal register which means a bureaucrat has written that and the white house signed off on them once they appear in federal register for 30 days if they are not vetoed by both house of congress they become law. stuart: what you are saying is congress should pass a law which is absolutely full, no rules and regulations to be written separately. it is right there and that is what you vote on. judge napolitano: for constitution says all, i am emphasizing the word all legislative authority hearing granted shall be vested in a congress. justice scalia has argued that means congress cannot give away to some other body legislative authority which is the ability to write law so when the epa comes up with regulation about how many articles per billion can be harmful or when the faa says if you spill oil on tarmac at an airpor

there is an entity in the united states that runs our airspace and that is called the federal aviation administrationthey have the mandate to look out for the safety of our airspace. they take that mandate seriously, which is why they've been very relaxed yet to give out willy-nilly permits to be using drugs in the united states because they've done something most americans don't know, which is that drones crashed a lot. they crash all the time. the air force has admitted a third of their drones crashed. there is a huge event as global hawks just crash last month and it crashed in the swamp and didn't kill anybody, but could've very well killed people in the crash. and so the essay i have given not just a couple hundred permits. now unfortunately they haven't wanted to let the american public know who has these permits. it was thanks to lawsuits and the freedom of information act request that we are starting to get information that there are about 300 that there are about 300 that there are about 300 a drill agencies like homeland hundred a drill agencies like homeland security, fbi, border patrol is

>> what we know is that senior officials at the federal aviation administration went to a seattle regionalffice during may 23, 2012 and told employees there that if they wanted to keep their jobs and keep the budget flat, they had to vote for democrats, come november. >> shannon: you had a whistleblower who initially alerted you to this. you gotture hand on emails from employees. what was the reaction? >> the workers were concerned that number 1, this looks like a potential hatch act violation. that's a law that was passed specifically to keep a distinction between politics and policies. you wanted federal agencies focused on policies, you don't want officials going to federal buildings and building meetings and saying things that look like campaign activity. that's what we saw here. and the emails indicated that a number of faa employees felt threatened that if they didn't vote a certain way in november that they might lose their jobs. >> shannon: the faa says it takes hatch act violations very seriously and will cooperate fully with any review of the alleges. i understand their office ha

because the federal aviation administration projects that in 20 years there will be 1.3 billion peoplehout the united states. now the international air transport association is hoping that by then, people will be able to get their boarding pass through a fingerprint or retinal scan and then breeze through the checkpoint. they're hoping that to use advanced technology can make the checkpoint process more passive than it is today. airport checkpoints as easy as walking down a hall like this. >> in seven to ten years we think it can be, yes. >> how would it work if it's going to be as easy as walking down a hallway like this? >> well, you can have standoff screening equipment that's under development now that's going to be quite a bit more capable than what exists today. and so that's how -- that's how it works. right now, we're limited by the technology, by the setup that we have. >> now the technology isn't quite there yet but the group is hoping that by 2020, that it will be. so for right now the tsa does have to rely on those complex, high-tech body scanners and those high-tech x-ray

accomplishments include helping the -- to pass four national highway investment bills, seven federal aviation administration bills and helping secure funds for a new mississippi river bridge for the residents of illinois and missouri. he has a great reputation for delivering for his district. a couple of examples include helping prevent the closure of scott air force base the largest employer south of springfield, and helping extend metrolinks to st. clair county, providing public transportation to many thousands of people hetch received recognition as a leading advocate for farmers and many other causes, including the arts and for multiple sclerosis. his dedication to an effective transportation network in the u.s. remained steadfast throughout his keer. as mr. altmire mentioned a perfect example of this is his drafting and passing of the pilot training improvement act of 2009. in response to a tragic plane crash in 2009 in new york that killed 51 due to lack of rest for the pilots, jerry wrote a bill that made requirements for pilot rest much more strain gent this legislation resulted in safer travel for

and the federal aviation administration is projecting the number of air travelers will grow from 8000 years. the challenge really for airports is to handle the load of passengers and find a better way to get them through security. this is what air travelers are used to now. shoes off, laptops and liquids out, and hands up for the body scan. in roughly seven years, the international air transport association says airport security checkpoints could almost be hassle free. >> working to make travel more convenient for passengers. >> reporter: with the help of fingerprint or retinal scans, passengers could get their boarding passes and then breeze through the checkpoint. so is this going to be the future of airport checkpoints? as easy as walking down a hall like this? >> in seven to ten years, we think it can be, yes. >> reporter: it sounds too good to be true. how do you make sure that people are safe, then? >> well, by moving to a risk-based system, which we have to move to, because we can't accommodate the volume of passengers that are going to grow over the next few years with the cu

the f.a.a., which is a -- an administration, the federal aviation administration, which gets funded through appropriations annually has a bub bunch of projects in play. according to scott's calculations, he was looking at a particular airport that is in arkansas. this airport is probably going to have to close because they won't be able to fund their air traffic control staff which is paid for through the budget appropriations, and they have to have -- i don't know, they would have to cut -- proportion a-- proportionally, they have to have 10 people doing air traffic control, they would have to close. they can't reduce their services, they would have to close. that's obviously quite disruptive. that's just one -- that's the way it plays out in the real world. on the defense side, there has been a lot of hand wringing about contracting, government contractors. we do about a half a trillion in government contracting every year. there are a lot of businesses that depend on government contracting. i have found it bemusing to watch members of congress that go around saying, cagy economics doesn'

. >> the federal aviation administration is planning on ground-based radar to transition to gps.he subject of nextgen was discussed at a house subcommittee hearing. this will be two hours. >> the hearing will commence. my colleague is here shortly. but i will begin with my opening statement and i suspect that by the time i finished, we will be able to benefit from that as well. today, the subcommittee will hear from governments in the aviation industry stakeholders on the faa's management and progress toward transforming our nations air-traffic control system. this program, known as nextgen, is the largest and most ambitious public works project in our nations history. successful implementation is critical to the future of our air transportation system and u.s. competitiveness in the global marketplace. today, air traffic control system is very inefficient. in order to accommodate roughly 730 million passengers each year and 70,000 lives each day. we need to modernize our system. nextgen will transform air transportation by transitioning to a satellite-based surveillance system,

the federal aviation administration shut down all air traffic nationwide. this country has been i am mobilized by these terrorist attacks in terms of air travel today and we don't know where it goes from here. we ask that you stay with us as we get hard information we can share that with you. there will be a lot of speculation. the president described this apparently as a terrorist attack. the fbi has confirmed that an american airlines flight boston to los angeles was hijacked, the first plane that went into the twin trade towers. >> let's go to james, the former director of the fbi here in new york. i am sure you have never seen anything like this. do you have any information that might be helpful to us? >> well, not particular information on this tragedy. certainly what an incredible tragedy, and all of us in law enforcement and prior in law enforcement have talked for years and the public has seen the hatred in the world and seen the bombing of the world trade center and the conspiracy to blow up the tunnels in the united nations and the fbi building ba

the faa, which is an agency that gets administration federal aviation administration that gets funded through appropriations annually. has a bunch of projects in play according to scott's calculations he a took a particular airport in arkansas it's going to have to close, probably. they won't be able to fund their air traffic controller staff. they have to cut they have to country one. there's a rule that says you have to a certain number of the people doing air traffic controller. they have to close. they can't reduce that the services. they have to close. it's a obviously disruptive. so that's one that's the kind of way this plays out in the real world on the defense side, terrorist been a lot of hang ringing about government contracts. we do about a hatch of trillion in government contracting every years. there's a lot of businesses that depend on it. i, by the way, as an economist found it benewsing with if that's the word to watch the members much congress who go around saying the economics doesn't work. it doesn't create jobs and all the sudden with the automatic spending cut th

we saw the f.a.a., the federal aviation administration, the aeronautics administration impacted again by delays that games that were being played because they need the full loaf or they want it their way. there's no sense of consensus that is driving these outcomes and so we delayed for months the f.a.a. outcome which challenged, put at risk hundreds of projects, tens of thousands of construction jobs that were going to speak to safety at our airports. we saw with student loans. you were so actively involved with that. you were outspoken in your criticism of perhaps doubling our students' loan interests on their loans and they again inserted poison pills, we waited until the midnight hour to get something done, with a lot of unpredictability again, we saw it with the payroll tax relief that we were trying to do for middle income america and small businesses. couldn't get it done, waited until the last minute. poison pills that delayed progress. this is a recurring theme, is it not? mr. courtney: it is, of course. and again another example of a measure that really is just teed up and r