environmental groups. listen here. i m concerned about another bp disaster. i m also concerned that these ongoing disasters, the thousands we have every year will just keep on happening and it will be business as usual around here. in fact, there was a spill in the gulf of mexico just last month, shepard. it impacted grand isle about a mile or so where the shoreline there, the same area that was impacted, you guessed it, by the bp oil spill as well, shep. shepard: kris gutierrez live houma, louisiana. thanks. oil prices were you present again today to settle above $111 in trading. wow. investors blame a weakened dollar. typically the two trade in opposite directions. so far prices at the pump appear to be holding steadily at least lately. according to triple a the national average for a gallon of unledside $3.84 the same as yesterday. americans are cutting way back on driving which, in theory, should cut demand to lower prices but they point out it s happening as refineries switc
that, shep. i spoke to somebody who has studied wake turbulence extensively today. he said she s kind of incursions where the planes get too close to one another on final approach happen anywhere from 40 to 50 times a year at airports like laguardia and here at reagan international airport where there is only a one runway. he says it can be dangerous because off times what happens when a pilot encounters wake turbulence is that they overreact. that was the case in november of 2001 in queens, new york, when the pilot of an american airlines a eye 300 encountered wake turbulence. it caused the vertical stabilizer of that plane to rip off a lot of people died in that crash. because of the danger, the f.a.a. has taken new steps now, just as when the president flies and a manager, a supervisor watches over an air traffic controller, they say the f.a.a. says, quote, as of today, we are making the same supervisor oversight requirements for the vice president and first lady in the d.c. area an
city of miss rat attachment david lee with the news streaming live from tripoli, libya. what else do we know about the events that led to his killing. well, hetherton was a consummate professional. he used his twitter account to send a message it said in quote in besieged city of misurata, indesvictim that the shelling of qaddafi forces. no sign of nato. last message he tweeted was two months ago was about his appearance at the oscars, shep? shepard: tim gave shining light on conflicts in the world. misurata now one of them. that s right. it is extremely difficult to cover misurata especially for the press corps here in tripoli. at all times the press is escorted. we recently went to misurata on a journalist junket. we were on board a bus with two dozen other journalists.
shepard: crowley also noted it s more difficult to call out other countries if the u.s. is doing exactly the same thing. he said we have now corrected the mistake by moving private manning to the military correctional complex at fort leavenworth. catherine herridge works intelligence for us live in washington tonight. what s he in for tonight? well, shep, after his initial assessment, manning will have regular access to a psychiatrist, psychologist, and a licensed social worker. is he likely to get three hours a day of recreation time and less time in solitary. the move was described by crowley today as a needed change. a level of solitary confinement and orderrous nature of his treatment was inconsistent with how we normally handle, you know, soldiers or inmates in a pre-trial situation. they have now, you know, corrected that with his movement to kansas. so it s the right step to take. the defense department s top
incarceration, shep? shepard: catherine herridge live in d.c. craft, thank you. the government agency that investigates plane crashes is looking into an incident in which the first lady s michelle obama s jet had to abort a landing. last night.which we learned the first lady was flying back from new york on monday. on approach to andrews air force base her plane came within three miles of a cargo jet in front of it regulators require at least five miles of separation to avoid turbulence in the larger plane s wake. the pilots made a series of turns to try to fall farther behind the cargo jet. air traffic controllers feared there wouldn t be enough time for the cargo plane to clear the runway. they ordered the first lady s jet to circle the airport instead. it landed safely. the first lady is fine. the national transportation safety board announces it has opened an investigation into what went wrong. doug mckelway live with us even as the investigation begins here, doug, the feds are a