democratic proposal on the floor of the republican senate got more votes than the republican plan did. so we don t know whether or not, for example, this air traffic control situation put any additional pressure on. but how much pressure has there been and how much has the president been feeling it? the air traffic controllers certainly did put pressure on senators and the president according to our reporting, the reporting of my colleagues, spent the morning talking to mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, about what he would accept in terms of funding for some border security that s not necessarily the wall in exchange for talking about the wall and debating it on the senate floor in the next three weeks. and if he would reopen the government. so he s been getting pressure from republican senators. he s been getting pressure for a while now, from a lot of white house officials who want to find a way out of this. their hope is that moderate democrats they seem to believe th
think he s aware of what i m doing. if he was going to kill himself, he didn t have to wait until he got in a plane with 149 passengers involved. how thorough are the screening processes in the united states when it comes to pie will thes? would screenings here picked up the problems this co-pilot went through? jake at last a good question. i think the screening process is well done. most of it focuses on stress and that in and of itself if you could deal with a given stress through those particular tests, you can certainly qualify. one of the tests, one of the phases i remember is listening to an air traffic control situation with reference to an air traffic control situation. we were suppose to do gee am try and math problems while listening to the tape and then ask questions what did you hear the controllers say and so on. that s a stressful time and were
getting these things done. we ll see the benefits hopefully in the coming years or two. my dad was a pilot out of o hare. i heard about the difficulties of landing there and the air traffic control situation. thank you for being with us. bob s book is called secrets from the tower. thank you. thank you. eliot and i will be right back. [ male announcer ] unrestrained. unexpected. and unlike any hybrid you have ever known. introducing the most fuel-efficient luxury car available. the radically new, 42 mile per gallon ct hybrid from lexus. welcome to the darker side of green.
domestic dispute apparently drove her minivan loaded with all four of her children into the hudson river. the woman and three children drowned, the fourth child, a 10-year-old boy, escaped through the window of the van, swam to shore, ran to a local fire department and alerted authorities, but it was too late to save his mother and his siblings. an update on the breaking news, we first told you about earlier this hour, nbc s tom costello live with details. talking about reno, nevada and the air traffic control situation. air traffic controller asleep in the tower for 16 minutes overnight as a medevac plane was trying to make an emergency landing or a landing with a patient on board who required attention. unable to raise the tower. now the faa has just said effective immediately the faa will require no fewer than two controllers in the tower at 27 airports that up until now have been dealing with lone controllers in the overnight hours. the faa administrator says he s outraged by t
other rare but serious side effects may occur. martha: we re just learning on the wires, all flights are basically shut down over northern europe, in the area of frankfurt airport. they are having an air traffic control problem at frankfurt airport that literally halted all flights in and out of there, two and from northern europe, the second biggest airport in europe after charles de gaulle and could affect a lot of people trying to get around the world now and we want to get the information out to you and we ll hear more about the origin of this and what is wrong with the air traffic control situation and we ll let you know. gregg: a family is now in mourning, after tragic news, their son died while on vacation