will he ever learn? we ll talk a little bit about what happened. this welfare protest actually a middle school field trip. it s part of the school s social justice training. a protest? yes, that s right. our slogan comes to us from john in tallahassee, florida. fox & friends , fox & friends , it s good for the brain. more you watch, the more you gain. good morning, folks. who knew that the white house needed a six second delay until yesterday with joe biden? you saw it right here live on the fox newschannel. joe, joe, joe. gretchen, you would think since senator biden, when he was senator biden was a big fan of the show, he would know after watching earnest bordinin that you re always miked and always caught on camera. earnest did not say a four letter word. he said a much longer one. he did. absolutely. actually, for a lot of people in america, didn t you need some levity? at least it made me laugh. secretary of state hillary clinton, another person in th
good morning. signed, sealed and repealed? as president obama prepares to put his signature on health care reform, republicans are lining up challenges to block or repeal the landmark legislation. this morning white house senior advisor david axelrod and republican party chief michael steele weigh in. shocking allegations. a man who was in michael jackson s bedroom on the morning of the singer s death claims he saw dr. conrad murray stop cpr to collect drug vials scattered around the room. did that alleged delay play a role in the pop star s death? and look out. a texas police officer chasing down a suspect when another driver pulls out in front of him. he swerves to avoid a crash but ended up in the woods and he s nursing his injuries today, ended up in the woods and he s nursing his injuries today, tuesday, march 23rd, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m lester holt, in for
get a successful outcome. doug white and his family were passengers in a private plane last april when the pilot suddenly passed away, died. white grabbed the radio and begged for help. as the plane climbed higher and higher. i ve already busted 10,000. i m steady climbing. i need to stop the climb. all right. disengage the auto pilot. we re going to have you hand fly the plane. you find me the longest, widest runway you can, ma am. i am joined now by the pair of voices you just heard on that aviation call, that call for help, and it s air traffic controller lisa grimm in orlando, florida with us and the man at the controls of that plane, doug white, joins me on the phone. first of all, mr. white, thanks for joining us. what did you what happened in the cockpit? you talking about at the beginning of the emergency? right at the beginning of the
emergency. oh, we were in climb and had just gone through a cloud layer and you ll hear the whole tape, at the beginning you hear joe the pilot trying to call miami center. he just runs out of air. and i don t specifically remember hearing that because i m just kind of looking out the window, you know, we hadn t been off the ground five minutes but i either heard that or i heard when nate, the first controller, tried to get ahold of us a couple times. something didn t sound right. but whatever it was, made me look directly at joe. you were in a twin engine king air. were you in the back as a passenger or were you right seating this aircraft? i was in the right front seat beside the pilot. okay. lisa grimm, this is a real story about team work with air traffic controllers acting quickly to avert a disaster. how did you handle this? what happened? well, there was quite a lot of controllers in the
considered failing. i just kind of got focused and kind of like the old saying, somebody s got to do something. so i was going to try. if we were going to die we were going to die trying not to. you got a successful conclusion. i appreciate your time. lisa grimm and the other five air traffic controllers involved, congratulations on your award and the great work that the air traffic controllers do. thanks so much for joining us. thank you. speaking right now is robert gibbs at the white house. let s join it. for a late morning bill signing, weather permitting, outside, probably on the south lawn. as of the last sort of update i got, it would be logistically tough to go off campus but also if the weather doesn t cooperate it might be logistically difficult. i think each and every member of