we will bring him the speech live, and plus should the rich shoulder the tax burden or should it be spread evenly among all americans? well, that is the battle today as president obama calls out romney on the tax plan. i want to get right to it. three commercial airlines nearly collided in midair over reagan international airport when air traffic controllers were making adjustments in stormy weather and caused what officials call a miscommunication. the faa is looking into exactly what happened. house republicans taking their turn in the back and forth of the bush era tax cuts and they passed a gop plan to extend the tax cuts for everyone for one year, and most democrats want to extend them only for families making $250 a year. well sh well, a senate minority leader nancy pelosi and house speaker john boehner went before the cameras a short time ago and neither sign showing a sign of budging. on september 15th, 2010, president obama said that preventing the tax hikes wa
fi five. we have to get on the ground pretty quick. everybody stand by. we have a couple of opposite direction arrivals. it is going to be a little delay on your departures. according to the washington post the federal official who reviewed the incident blamed a basic communication breakdown, blamed sloppy procedures and said it was a big screw up for a big airport. let s get right to athena jones live in washington, d.c. this morning. walk me through exactly what happened. you can hear the chaos in the radio transmission. what was at the root cause of it? good morning, soledad. you saw from that graphic, that s what it looked like. this happened just about after 2 p.m. tuesday. it was during a heavy rain storm, driving rain that cause the the air traffic controllers to want to change how planes were coming in and taking off. planes had been landing and departing on runway 1 going from south to north. they wanted to switch that in the rain. they wanted to switch i