air traffic controller caught sleeping at the knoxville, tennessee, airport this year. the faa suspended 27-year-old jonathan poindexter. now, officials say he s on p probation for an incident last year where he allegedly threatened his girlfriend with a gun. he was given an administrative position and then reintated a month later. a search for a serial killer in new york is intensifying after police discovered what appears to be a human skull near a long island beach. it could be the ninth victim of a suspected serial killer. jason carroll joins us with the latest developments. this thing has been up folding for months. now victims so far, possibly ten. investigators did find more remains late yesterday afternoon near a bird sanctuary in a remote beach area. police found the remains after spending the day searching for the brush along a parkway for more victims of a possible serial killer.
can tell you all about that. big bumper planes at jfk. we begin in japan where officials have declared the crisis at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant a major accident. the threat level has been raised from a category 5 to a 7. the maximum on the international scale. that s on par with the chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. the accident at pennsylvania s three mile island in 1979, it was a level 5. meantime there s been a new round of aftershocks in japan. cnn s paula hancocks is live in tokyo. this continues to be just nerve shattering for people who are there in the country and now the latest news about the nuclear crisis and the level there. what s the latest? christine, certainly have been a bit of a shock for many people in japan hearing that change in number. this tuesday morning, they were on a level five and then all of a sud then skipped a level. there was no 6, they went to the highest level there could be, the level 7 which constitutes a major accident. it con