why do you think he decided to tell this? that s what i want to know. you know, i saw your intrepid reporting. because josh is an excellent reporter. we have to leave it there. all righty. already planning your trip to new york for jimmy fallon s debut on the tonight show? not so fast. the mayor of sunny burbank is not so happy and he is putting up a fight. that s our pop lead and it s next. (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities.
concern to us. all right. thanks so much for joining us. those are just two of the affected airports. there are 147 others throughout the country that also have to power down. starting ape 7. tom foreman is standing by to explain the impact it might have on you. you know, jake, they are absolutely right when they say it is a safety matter. there are really communities all over this country that have small airports like that and all day long they handle thousands of planes that come in and out. they track their movements as they come in. they keep tra of what is going on on the runway. there are vehicles on the runway, other planes cleared. all sorts of things going on here. if you take the air towers away, if the airport is still there, is this plane flying blind? no. it is not. because exactly what the mayor was alluding to. othe airports will then be in charge of tracking or communicating with this plane in most cases.
there are redundancies to keep track of the plane. it isn t like the planes will be drifting all over the country with no one watching them. there will be people watching them but the mayor is correct it puts more weight, more burden upon the other facilities to pick up that extra load. tom foreman in the virtual room. spring is here but you may have to take the calendar s word for it. this weekend forecasters showing more snow for the nation s mid section possibly building to a nor easter by monday. probably like you i am more than ready to banish our family snow shovels to the basement, but nature just does not cooperate. march came in like a lion. the snow is still piled high as tall as i am. 12 to 18 inches of snowfall. don t forget to add in gusty winds. but it will not stop roaring. seriously, snowy. just when spring should have brought relief came more than a foot of snow in parts of the northeast and hail like a meteor
collision between two u.s. forest service planes that killed three people. that was the motivation by building the tower, and getting the tower staffed by the faa. this is a foolish move by the faa and the federal government. and it is a great example of how the feds can t get the budget act together. this is a public safety issue. this puts at risk the citizens, over 3 million people in the region, that depend on the ramona airport for their safety in the event of a wildfire or any other kind of disaster. we have had some big ones. 2003, 2007. what the feds are doing, because they cannot put are not able to put public safety first and protect the people by closing these airport towers is a disaster in the making. mayor, the faa said that they will work with local governments to mitigate the impact.
it is what it is. does it make it more difficult? i am single after all. from time to time. but look, i love my job. i m not complaining. it s been a good run to the city i love i couldn t be prouder to have been mayor and to have been given this opportunity. while the mayor was coy about a future in washington, after his term expires in june, he has not been shy about a possible run for governor of california in 2014. landscapes, dogs, and the classic fruit in a bowl are all among a list of newly released paintings created by former president george w. bush. the paintings were taken from the bush family s hacked e-mail account. since they came from a hacker, cnn has decided not to show them, but we did get our hands on this work of art courtesy of the office of the former president, a painting of the former family dog barney. may he rest in peace. as it turns out barney is not the only four-legged news for the former president.