the incident happened on a sunday afternoon last june at the gulfport-biloxi airport in mississippi. a single-engine cessna with two people aboard was cleared for takeoff on a short north-south runway. ntsb investigators say just 16 seconds later, the same controller who was handling the cessna, cleared a continental united express regional jet to begin rollings on an intersecting diagonal runway. both planes climbed over the airfield on a collision course, getting closer and closer together before the faster commuter jet with 53 people aboard streaked in front of the slower, private plane. investigators say at their near estpoint, the planes were at the exact same altitude and only 300 feet apart. according to the ntsb report, the captain of the continental jet remarked to his copilot, wow, that was close." investigators say the controller told them he never really anticipated a problem because he thought the cessna would be long gone before the regional jet got airborne. the f.a.a. says that controller was suspended but later retrained and, scott, he's now back on the job. >> pelle

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it happened at gulfport airport in mississippi. they have two runways, you can see how they are crossing here. they are numbered after the compass, 148 degrees, 140 degrees. he gave them permission to take off at the same time. they are racing down the runway a hundred-plus miles per hour. they miss each other by 300 feet, that is the blink of an eye when you're talking about airplanes taking off. the ntsb has learned into the air traffic controller and it turns out he's had a number of problems, in fact he was disciplined and suspended for driving under the influence, for missing work, for being late to work, and for being not in the tower when he should have been in the tower. his other controllers also warned him during this near miss that it was the wrong thing to do and the report says he ignored them. the faa issued a statement, they say they made management changes at gulfport tpolgt incident in june and suspended and dessert tpaoeud the alcoho decertified the controller involved. this might be the final saw that could lead

salangi used to run the aquarium in gulfport, mississippi. is that was destroyed by hurricane katrina. many dolphins ended up in the gulf of mexico. most of those dolphins now are at the atlantis resort in the bahamas. >> a superb period of time when it comes to dl dpins, as you know. he says with a dolphin -- when you go for an ultrasound he says that is what a dolphin can see. that is literally the kind of x-ray vision that they have. the u.s. navy is training these dolphins. now, it's interesting to see how would they transport them? >> how do they get them to the strait of hormuz? >> they can be there in 72 hours. they can transport them into circular giant pools. they would put them on a c-130 and then airlift them to the ship. dolphins have been used since the gulf war. >> that's an amazing story. thank you very much. hopefully we won't have to use them do on that, but it's nice to know that the u.s. has the dolphins on its side. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >>> new york city police and the pentagon are teaming up to make the big apple