Device when they land at sfo. Thats because the faa is concerned that foreign pilots arent trained well enough for the landing. In an abundance of caution, i think the faa is realizing that theyre seeing a spike in go arounds from foreign carriers. Reporter jay rollins is a retired American Airlines pilot and Flight Instructor in south florida. He says that reports of asianas slight flight records go arounds are six to eight times higher. If you have been in the simulators, practicing year after year doing instrument approaches, where everything is set at a, act way to do it. And then youre thrust into an environment where you have to do a visual approach that you dont do regularly, youll make errors. Reporter were not saying that thats what happened. That fatal crash is under investigation. Still, the gps simulator is a great tool to use when teaching pilots how to fly. I also learned today that some pilots believe using gps for landing could become universal. Reporting live in haywar
Today, thursday, august 1, 2013. Good morning. Welcome to today. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. We will take you live to cleveland in just a moment. But first, Edward Snowden almost a year after receiving asylum in russia. Good morning to you. Well, Edward Snowden was expecting a permit to leave the airport and get some space really while he waited months, he thought, for a possible temporary asylum. But he got something much better than that. An official tast track passport. This is Edward Joseph snowdens terrific to freedom. His new passport, granting him temporary asylum for one year. Snowdenstranded for more than five weeks while russian authorities reviewed his asylum request. And within minutes of the news, snowdens lawyer confirmed that snowden with passport in hand left the airport. But citing security reasons, the lawyer refused to say where snowden was going. Snowdens release comes just y days after eric holder sent a letter to russia au
Good evening. Tonight our lead story comes from the world of medicine. Its about cancer, and its about changing how we refer to it, changing our definition of it. In part, its about the minor stuff, the comparatively smaller things that are discovered during screenings, giving them different names, making them a lot less scary. A panel of this nations top doctors now says even the word cancer is often misused. They warn not all cancers are alike, not all are deadly so they shouldnt be treated or talked about the same way. In plain english, they want to stop wasting time, money and worry and concentrate on whats important. Its where we begin here tonight with our medical editor dr. Nancy snyderman. This is important stuff. It is, good evening, brian. For many in the cancer world todays step is long overdue in making the diagnosis and treatment of cancer smarter and more cost effective. Turn the page of any dictionary, land on the letter c and find one of the most frightening words no on
Area at the blue rhino blaplant tavares near orlando. There were 15,000 propane cylinders like you use on your gas grill. The tanks caught fire one after the other. Thats wild. Its amazing to watch. For hours, 15 employees were missing but they were eventually found, said to be doing okay. Emergency responders say theres no longer any danger. The flames burned late into the night. New this morning north carolinas governor signed a law with new requirements on abortions, the law requires doctors have admitting privileges at hospitals and be present when the procedure is performed and bans Government Health programs for paying for most abortions and lets state officials designate new Safety Standards for clinics. The bill presented a tough middle ground for republican governor pat mccrory. During a debate in october of 2012 mccrory was asked what further restrictions on abortion would he agree to sign his answer none. He says the government does not restrict action to abortions but criti
Im free free falling if the public official used their Office Equipment to engage in the kind of pasttime that Anthony Weiners been involved in in the last couple years would you fire them . I think the answer is yes. If you had to vote for mayor right now, who would you vote for . I would vote but its a great question answer the question. Show youre different. Show youre different than most politicians. Youre not going to vote for Anthony Weiner. You dont think he should be mayor of new york . Fair point. That is correct. He should not be mayor of new york . That is correct. All righty. Good morning, everyone. It is tuesday, july 30th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have the chairman of deutsch incorporated, Donny Deutsch, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters on the set with us in new york, nice to see you, msnbcs thomas roberts, i feel like its been forever. Its been a while. Youve been on vacation some. On safari. Nice someone gets a vacation . Washington, nbc chief For