We begin with the deepening war in yemen and new signs that al qaeda is taking advantage of the chaos there. Military Officials Say that the group has seized a major airport, a seaport and an oil terminal in southern yemen as the new Vice President called on Houthi Rebels to end their offensive. We must give them a chance, which will be united behind our project, to achieve the [ unintelligible ] stop destroying the country. But the fighting goes on. On the offensive pushing forward, fighters loyal to the president continued to make gains. They managed to capture a tank used by the houthis and destroyed another. The gains made by what are known as popular resistent communities, with soldiers formally loyal and ally to the houthis. Opponents to the houthis have also suffered losses. Many of their fighters were killed at the airport. They have emerged from residential areas. And homes in the air of adan were destroyed. The Saudi Arabian Coalition Continues to pound the houthis and their
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House continue to strongly support the faa Contract Tower Program on a bipartisan basis and request you to comment on the record about any recommendation recommendations faa may have for reauthorization bill to insure that this program is enhanced and protected. Thank you. Madam chair. Thank you, senator wicker. I think certainly after our hearing last week, its important, many members of the committee share the support for the Contract Tower Program so i look forward to the answer to senator wickers question. Thank you. Now i would like to call on senator klobuchar. Thank you very much. A lot of interest in the hearing. Im pretending those are lines of people trying to get in that you just heard. Thank you so much, and i also wanted to welcome the colgan flight people who are here today. Members of the families. We worked with you, especially on the bill on pilot fatigue. And captain sullenberger, i want to thank you for your continued attention to improving the fatigue standards, and
The FAA says an Alaska Airlines pilot flying in the jumpseat of an Embraer E175 on Sunday tried to disable the engines on the aircraft by attempting to set off the fire extinguishers on both.
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