to 5. they work all hours for clumps of days with no real schedule. that means the sleep cycles can be a mess too. today the transportation secretary ray la hood said passengers should never have to worry about things like that. thousands of people today boarded airplanes. and when they boarded those plame s planes. they didn t think they didn t think about whether the pilot was well-trained or well-rested. they didn t think about the mechanical aspects of the plane that it was mechanically okay. they didn t think about safety. that s our job. that s what we get up every day and think about. shepard: the new guidelines largely in response to a deadly plane crash in buffalo back in 2009. investigators found that the pilots had not had an adequate amount of sleep and the crash killed 50 people. jim angle on fox top story tonight live in washington. jim, what are the new rules and why don t they go into effect for two years? there is always a hitch, shep. secretary la hood calls thi
to come through in 2014 once the panama canal s upgrade is complete. federal regulators are delaying the expansion in charleston means ships will head into ports in new york, baltimore, north of virginia and miami. john roberts is in atlanta for us tonight. even if this project does get the green light, john, it sounds like getting all this done is still going to take up to, what, a decade or so? maybe even longer than that, shep. south korea officials to get wanted to get these ships into port as soon as possible. they were stunned to hear it may not happen until 2024. the government says it needs up to 8 years to study the idea. keep in mind charleston just went through all those studies in another deepening project that was completed six years ago. the charleston s mayor told me the longer this takes, the more the ships continue to bypass charleston, the less come competitive the southeast is going to be.
big deal saying it s as far as the government has ever gone to protect people from pilot fatigue. the new f.a.a. rules which will cost the airlines about 300 million a year require that between flights pilots get plenty of time off, including a 10-hour minimum rest period. 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep, 30 consecutive hours free from duty on a weekly basis. pilots must declare themselves fit for duty before each flight segment. this should allow enough time for a pilot to arrive at a hotel, eat, and have an opportunity for 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. now, the rules would also limit the maximum time a pilot can be on duty, including wait time before flights to between 9:00 and 14 hours. depending on the time of day they begin and the number of time zones crossed. shep? shepard: it was that tragedy in buffalo that finally forced the changes, right? that s right, shep. secretary la hood says people have been debating changes for 25 years or so but that they became a lot more
going to undercut kim jong un rather than help him. it may be that they all jockey for position we won t know who is in charge day to day and therefore who is in control of the nuclear weapons. the biological weapons and, shep, north korea s million man army. shepard: it makes sense that the in fighting will begin. actually a time schedule for yeah, there is kim jong il s funeral will take place on december 28th. then after that on december 29th, the official period of mourning will begin. and the experts say that that s when the real battle for power will start. political intrigue that may well rival the worst of the roman. back stabbing even murder. only the strongst likely to survive. it s going to be very interesting and extremely critical for the world to watch, shep. shepard: i say it will. jonathan hunt great to see you. thank you. if you can t take the heat, you better watch out. it s getting hotter. strong words from a g.o.p.
realized. these are the revised numbers for the past four years. they show 3 million fewer home sales than first reported. peter barnes from the fox business network in washington tonight. 3 million. how are these numbers so far off the mark? basically, shep, the national association of realtors said that it double counted a lot of sales over that period as far as sales going forward that 4% jump in november led the top economists at the realtors who got the other numbers wrong. to predict that an upturn could start next year which wind critics up even more. we know that the realtors by nature want to be optimistic and rave about home sales are up. they are elevated. everything is rosy. you need to buy a home and get in there now. in other words, they have an incentive to do. this there should have been a watchdog at the nar going through the data saying are we sure about this?