with the fbi. today we have special agent in charge dan mullens from the fbi that has concentrated efforts to help mississippi and tennessee law enforcement officers. the highway special ops, the department of public safety, bureau of narcotics, guntown police department, union countier is sheriff s department, desorto, and mississippi highway patrol, troopers who have to take up the responsibility when these members of the team are off doing this important work. as i said, the bureau of narcotics wild life fisheries and parks and tennessee bureau of investigation, the federal bureau of investigation, u.s. marshals service and the united states attorneys office. i want to particularly thank again the department of public safety. commissioner santa cruz and i talked frequently throughout the last week and this was a case that we knew had national implications and concerns. we knew also that two victims, 31-year-old jo ann bain and 14-year-old adrienne bain s lives had been los
egyptian desert. a world war ii fighter plane almost perfectly preserved. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we re getting new details from a news conference that has just begun. a dramatic case in mississippi and let s go live to jackson, mississippi. the department of wild life, fisheries and parks and special agents response team conducting searches of the area, thoroughly combing heavily wooded areas. it was the diligent effort of these men working in conjunction with the fbi. today we have special agent in charge dan mullens from the fbi that has concentrated efforts to help mississippi and tennessee law enforcement officers. the highway special ops, the department of public safety, bureau of narcotics, guntown police department, union countier is sheriff s department, desorto, and mississippi highway patrol, troopers who have to take up the responsibility when these members of the team are off doing this important w
chatting, texting, watching videos, and playing solitaire rather than watching the planes. these allegations made by a manager within that air traffic control center and were made just three days before a terrifying near miss between a passenger plane with 259 people on board and two military jets over new york city. joining me know, peter gold, former managing director of the ntsb. and scott brenner, former flight aviation administration senior official. scott, peter, thank you for being here. this is terrifying to me. this guy comes out. his name is evan sealy, frontline manager of air traffic controller. he comes out and raises the concerns before, before the near miss. he gets demoted. they said it was retalitory.
obtained by abc news, evan sealy alleges controllers working just three hours out of an eight-hour shift. work slowdowns to drive up overtime and attempts to take breaks and potentially create dangerous situations where one controller was working too many aircraft. the union calls these wild, baseless allegations. and says the controllers put safety as their top priority at all times. both the whistleblower allegation and the near miss remain under investigation. but the faa points out that extremely close calls are rare, there were 44 of them last year. that s out of more than 100 million operations. lisa stark, abc news, reagan national airport. way too close a call there. the axe is falling on 500 workers at continental airlines. former headquarters in houston. the layoff had been anticipated since the merger between continental and united airlines. many managers and clerical workers are losing their job in houston. after the merger, the airlines
workers at continental airlines. the layoff had been anticipated since the merger between continental and united airlines. many managerers and clerical workers are losing their job in houston. the airlines headquarters will be in chicago. two brothers from a los angeles area are facing charges in connection with a major counterfeiting ring. their arrests came after police seized phoney ipods, iphones and other electronics worth millions of dollars. the counterfeit devices arrived in parts and were apparently assembled and packaged in l.a. warehouses. the suspects have not pleaded guilty. the nfl season just ended but planning for next year s super bowl in indianapolis is already well under way. in some ways super bowl xlvi can t be better than sunday s edition. particularly for hundreds of fans who had tickets but no seats. john hen done with the latest. reporter: an 1100 -mile drive from dallas to green bay, 1200 coming from pittsburgh. imagine driving all that way