brand-new at 2:00. hi, sandra. sandra: sandra smith in new york. right into a jam packed hour with this fox news alert. faa has been charged with modernizing notam for ten years. why has it taken ten years? we have been on a journey of modernization. let me ask again, why has it taken ten years and why is it still not done. it does take a while. these systems the complexity. everyone shut down the first time since 9/11. john: acting head of the faa getting grilled on capitol hill over the air travel debacle, the first nationwide ground stop since the september 11th attacks. sandra: faa says it is now taking steps to avoid a repeat of that massive system failure but already several incidents of near collisions have travelers rethinking their next trips. john: even some lawmakers questioning the agency s priorities, listen here. do you believe that that is your mission at the faa to mitigate climate change and increase equity, is that your job at the faa?
january, and three already this month. all are under investigation, but half of the cases are especially frightening because they involved near misses, like the one in austin, texas, on february 3rd. this is a simulation showing what happened there, a fedex cargo plane and a southwest airlines jet dangerously close, possibly only 100 feet of one another. this after an air traffic controller cleared both flights to land and take off on the same runway at virtually the same time. two weeks prior in hawaii, the ntsb says a united airlines 777 crossed a runway at honolulu s airport just as a small cessna plane was coming in for a landing. then on january 13th at new york s j.f.k. airport, delta airlines plane, remember, had to abort the takeoff after an american airlines jet accidentally crossed in front of it. faa calls it rare cases, it will
to see how they re doing. a lot of damage. interestingly, jim, one thing to we do e-mailed me this which came from the national emergency management agency hout there where you are. they basically tell us it is the islands where the problems are. a lot of power lines down, a bridge out here and there, a report from cat island that all power lines were down and no telecommunications. so it sounds like the large islands have done pretty well. the smaller islands, either we don t know or they have had some problems. that s right. it s probably going to be another at least into tomorrow where they re able to get a sense. people can only get to those islands it s hard to communicate there. you know the first thing to happen is power is out. they don t even know that they re really facing yet. trying to send out the trucks. really, until tomorrow they can get out there, maybe get some planes out there. it s going to be tough for them to know the real impact on the bahamas.