calls for principled evidence based policy making on other issues. eugene robinson, our own eugene, writes about the president s approach to congress saying, looking and sounding like the one reasonable man on a ship of fools is good for obama s political standings. i suppose. but he s no longer running for anything. somehow he has to govern until january 2017. what do you mean by that, eugene? he does. clearly he had a bad week, right? you know, we do a feature every sunday who had the worst week in washington. it might be the president this week. not his best week. he has a long time yet in office and there will be certainly be better weeks. my column was specifically about the faa bill, the airport congestion and how he said we wae
enacted in april 2010. the rule states if a domestic flight is held on the tarmac more than three hours the plane must return to the gate or provide passengers with another safe means of getting off. on international flights the delay max is four hours. american eagle as you mentioned is the first airline to be fined under the new rule. the airline blames the may delays on weather-related airport congestion. the tarmac delay rule was prompted by several incidents includedding one on valentine s day, 2007. that day snow and ice let to jetblue airways stranding hundreds of passengers on 10 planes on the tarmac at new york s jfk airport for up to 10 1/2 hours. airlines opposed to the new rule say they now cancel more flights rather than risk bumping up against that limit. jon? jon: patti anne brown. thank you. jenna: turn to international news now. a deadly day in afghanistan as security forced gun down would-be homicide bomber. the the frightening scene
race. but just minutes from now, cnn s elizabeth cohen will join me now live right here with the high cost of not ensuring everybody. the pennsylvania charity founded by the former penn state assistant football coach accused of child rape needs a new ceo. the long-time head of the second mile has resigned in hopes he says of restoring faith in the organization s volunteers and staff. the group put a top to jerry sandusky s involvement with children in 2008 when he told them of one allegation. it s also come out that the judge who freed sandusky on $100,000 bail against the wishes of prosecutors has herself been a second mile volunteer. cnn has tried to ask her some questions but she has not responded. today the occupy movement is a lot less occupy, a lot more movement. police in oakland, california are carrying out an vic order handed down saturday after somebody ended up shot to death allegedly by a resident of the occupy campsite. tents are being cleared, demonstrators
and a half hours late on friday. the reason wasn t weather nor was it airport congestion. you see flight 5452 was late because two muslim men were onboard. their names? masandor rahman and also mohamed zaglu. they are religious leaders. both respected in their community. they were flying from memphis to charlotte, north carolina, to attend a conference on antimuslim prejudice. here s what they say happened. before boarding the two men went through typical security screenings just like anybody else at the airport. the tsa cleared them. of course that wasn t enough. the men dressed in traditional muslim garb were screened again at the gate and boarded the plane. the plane left the gate but soon turned back. the men were then asked to get
passengers aboard a delta connection flight 5452 arrived at their destination nearly two and a half hours late on friday. the reason wasn t weather nor was it airport congestion. you see flight 5452 was late because two muslim men were onboard. their names? masandor rahman and also mohamed zaglu. they are religious leaders. both respected in their community. they were flying from memphis to charlotte, north carolina, to attend a conference on antimuslim prejudice. here s what they say happened. before boarding the two men went through typical security screenings just like anybody else at the airport. the tsa cleared them.