and dozens of airport inspectors are being asked to work for free. i m joined by former investigator at the national transportation safety board. greg, this stalemate could continue all the way through labor day, which means the government would lose roughly about a billion dollars on tax revenues on airline ticket sales. explain to everybody out there that s just getting hooked in on this, how catastrophic is this scenario to the faa s future and airline travel for the country as a whole? well i think when you look at the 4,000 quote noninitial employees at the faa what don t have a job, they are nonessential it may be administrative people, when it affects the projects of improving airports, building new generation towers and of course the air traffic control system, that affects air travel, those improvements are designed for not only fishsy, but safety. it will have a long-term effect the longer this goes on because of the scheduling. let s talk about security. can airports sti