fi five. we have to get on the ground pretty quick. everybody stand by. we have a couple of opposite direction arrivals. it is going to be a little delay on your departures. according to the washington post the federal official who reviewed the incident blamed a basic communication breakdown, blamed sloppy procedures and said it was a big screw up for a big airport. let s get right to athena jones live in washington, d.c. this morning. walk me through exactly what happened. you can hear the chaos in the radio transmission. what was at the root cause of it? good morning, soledad. you saw from that graphic, that s what it looked like. this happened just about after 2 p.m. tuesday. it was during a heavy rain storm, driving rain that cause the the air traffic controllers to want to change how planes were coming in and taking off. planes had been landing and departing on runway 1 going from south to north. they wanted to switch that in the rain. they wanted to switch i
now, mitt has promised a 20% tax cut to everyone. so whose math adds up mitt s or the tax policy center s? it s sort of like an olympic boxing match. today, the romney camp threw a punch fast and early, pointing out that one of the authors was a former aide to president obama. as the romney campaign wrote to us, that is, quote, hardly objective. true, one round to mitt. but for the romney campaign, we checked the other two names on the report, and one author was a former aide to george h.w. bush, the final one worked for both bush and obama. round two to barack. let s lay out the substantive charge. the report says if mit romney s plan becomes reality, tax revenue, because he s going to be cutting marginal tax rates, will drop by $360 billion in the first year alone. that means if it s revenue-neutral, someone must pay $360 billion more. again, that s if it s revenue-neutral, which is something mitt romney specifically promised in february. romney s economic honcho, glenn h
breaking class ceilings at work. for now, i ll just say the key is the boss wife. we begin with the government trying to figure out why three planes at washington s reagan airport came close to crashing right into each other in mid-air. the incident occurred tuesday when air traffic controllers were making adjustments for landinand departing aircraft because of bad weather. athena jones at reagan national for us. so, how close of a call was this? good morning, kyra. it was a pretty close call. we re talking about seconds here. one of the airplane as was about half as far away as it should have been, the other one was a little bit further from that third plane. this all happened on otuesday afternoon after about 2:00 p.m. there was a heavy rain storm and air traffic controllers decided to change the direction of the planes were taking off and landing. they were taking off and landing on runway one and going from south to north and decide to take off and land on runway 19
romney s tax plan would raise taxes on 95% of americans. now, mitt has promised a 20% tax cut to everyone. so whose math adds up mitt s or the tax policy center s? it s sort of like an olympic boxing match. today, the romney camp threw a punch fast and early, pointing out that one of the authors was a former aide to president obama. as the romney campaign wrote to us, that is, quote, hardly objective. true, one round to mitt. but for the romney campaign, we checked the other two names on the report, and one author was a former aide to george h.w. bush, the final one worked for both bush and obama. round two to barack. let s lay out the substantive charge f. report says if mitt romney s plan becomes reality, tax revenue, because he s going to be cutting marginal tax rates, will drop by $360 billion in the first year alone. that means if it s revenue-neutral, someone must pay $360 billion more. again, that s if it s revenue-neutral, which is something mitt romney specifically
. such an emotional morning here in aurora, colorado, as we re continuing to learn the names of those that were lost and the survivors still question why they were the lucky ones to get out alive. we ll continue to follow this. we ll be live here from aurora, colorado, once again tomorrow morning on cnn sunday morning. thanks for watching. cnn newsroom continues now. all right. thanks so much. great reporting there. of course, the rest of our team still in place there aurora. we ll be checking in with a number of our colleagues there. hello, everyone. so right now let s bring you up to speed on all that s taking place. live images right now. bomb squads in colorado are surrounding that booby trapped apartment belonging to the suspect in that deadly shooting rampage at the movie theater in aurora. a live report from the scene is it just moments away. ground images now as well as they continue to put up tape around that cordoned off area. police are revealing more distur