it s called stick time and being able to fly the airplane yourself. i think pilots like to do this. this report is going to be profitable for safety because the pilots will say, now we know what to do. so it s a positive thing this came out. should somebody getting on a plane going to granny s for the thanksgiving weekend be worried? no just be worried you ll be stuck in the middle seat. otherren that you ll be safe. or travel though northeast. we just got a gridlock warning for wednesday next week, the northeast corridor is a mess next week. on that front, are we in a situation where the air traffic control systems are outdated or a volume problem or what? there s less airplanes in the sky over the thanksgiving holiday and less people. there will be a crush on the freeways but know the skies. the reality is our air traffic control system you re just as
house. it s okay for us. anywhe anywhere, we ll sleep anywhere. but food. we need food. reporter: in tacloban, bodies still lay in the streets. the stench of death is everywhere. just really death and devastation everywhere. people need help. reporter: health officials fear in these conditions disease will spread quickly. we have no water here and we just doing all of the resources, collecting rain water just for the use of emergency cases. reporter: relief operations are underway, but the process is ridden with problems. the airport in tacloban still has no radar or working air traffic control systems. planes carrying much-needed relief circle in the air space above, taking turns using the runway and when the supplies finally arrive, they are stuck because the roads are too damaged or flooded. as the situation becomes more dire, desperate people are taking matters in to their own hands. hundreds rushing in to this supermarket, stealing whatever
he s a senior partner at flashpoint global partners and shane harris is a senior writer on cyber security at foreign policy magazine. evan, let me start with you. in broad terms, are we at all overplaying the political and terror threat that s being posed by these shadow wi online groups or is our concern legitimate? depends what you mean. are there cases where there are individuals who claim or suggest they re going to carry out a far-reaching attack and it doesn t pan out? yeah, it happens all the time. a guy the other day called him the al qaeda electronic army who threatened to take out air traffic control systems and didn t come close. for every one or two of these guys, there s a range of other actors who are capable and interested in doing this. we re seeing an escalation. we saw an iranian-backed group launching service attacks. now more sophisticated attacks
they re now seated in 8d and 8g. they would be joined by three more. the plane made its ascent. american airlines 11 emerged as a blip on the faa s air traffic control systems. 1-1 thousand to 1-4 thousand. terry biggio was overseeing flight operations for the faa s boston center. normal routine day. we were working the morning push, and we were set up for a routine day. had he spent the last weekend celebrating his 4 th birthday with his family in the city. spent a weekend in manhattan, and that was my son s first
know something is wrong. can you hear boston center? acknowledge. i don t think you immediately thought hijacking. absolutely not. i have been in the agency at the time about 20 years. had never seen a hijack. we thought, okay, we have a catastrophic failure of some sort with the aircraft. they can t talk to us. we ll clear the airspace away from them and let them fly to wherever they re going to fly. as the plane turned south, the 9/11 commission report believes the hijackers tried to talk with passengers on board but did not know how to use the intercom. instead the messages in middle eastern accents began transmitting to air traffic control. american 11, are you trying to call? we had a series of three transmissions. first one about 8:25, and the transmission was the first portion was not intel jibl to the controller. biggio asks a specialist named robert jones to pull the