we fight for what we want. even for the things that were once a given. going to college. buying a home. and not being in debt for it for the rest of our lives. but we re only as strong as our community. who inspires and pushes us to go further than we could ever go alone. sofi. get there sooner. tonight we re looking into the mysterious appearance of dozens of small ships that have come from north korea. most carry passengers when they wash up on the japanese shores but are those passengers refugees fleeing kim jong-un or
ability to pick it up at a great distance. i understand you also brought some models along of something called the fly by wire cockpit and a touch screen on the 777, which is something new for an airplane. show me what you mean. right. this is a fly-by wire or glasscock pit. the 777 is the first plane to use it in commercial carriers, airplanes that carry passengers. it s been in some of the smaller planes sooner. but this is the first production model carrier that ever used flyby wire. you touch the screen and get everything you need to see. in the old version, you had 32 of these instruments at least across the cockpit. you had to monitor them all at the same time. so it makes it easier to have one screen dial up what you need. it makes it much easier. thank you so much for bringing along the visuals. it s so helpful. hopefully they ll be able to
reporter: the chair of house transportation committee put out a statement today saying that rule dozen improve aviation safety but says pilots must take personal responsibility for coming to work rested and fit for duty, the government cannot put a chocolate on each pillow and tuck them in at night. airlines have two years to comply. shepard: two years before the rules go into effect? and they don t apply to all pilots. guest: they only apply to commercial airlines and pilots. cargo companies fought the new rules saying they fly mainly at night and don t carry passengers so they won. so they are exempt. the f.a.a. argued saying you may fly overnight and you may not have passengers but you could crash into someone s house but the f.a.a. said it would be too costly for the cargo companies, think ups or fedex to adopt this and the secretary of transportation will encourage them to adopt the rules
jon. jon: jenna, we have long known that usama bin laden liked to use airplanes in his terror plots, he did so successfully unfortunately on 9/11 but there were indications from what was found in his compound that his next attack would involve trains in the united states. go to our happening now show page, if you scroll to the bottom of the page here, you ll see this train picture, and we ve got an interactive map of the train lines around the country that carry passengers. check out your part of the country. how safe are you, is there the possibility that al-qaeda could yet pull off an attack on the train system? that s ahead, happening now .
confirm. but that aside, the fact it is widely believed the scanners will not, first of all, the underwear bomber did not get on the plane in the united states, we cannot force this on people outside the country. guest: right. an issue we face with the t.s.a. is they are doing nothing about by their own admission many planes in the united states that carry passengers the cargo is not scanned. so that is really troublesome. t.s.a. should be worried more about scanning packages under planes than scanning packages under your pants. shepard: the head of security of el al will with be us in a . it is as efficient as anything i have seen anywhere. guest: i think the problem is t.s.a. engages in theater so i have encouraged the port authority of new york to drop t.s.a. as they re allowed by