fisher took to twitter twitter and tweeted that costello was a member of the. well today costello his response responded to fisher's remarks live on the air take a look. he days ago he came after me a homo should be he is immoral he is unnatural and it is unhealthy that is a simple straightforward statement of fact but for the gay gestapo they're going to call it an insult now carol costello she showed you what this looks like i mean costello when i was on with her and she showed you what the gay gestapo looks like in action because she cut my water off just as soon as i started to talk about the health risks of homocentric behavior. well mr fisher if that's the mission of the gay guests then i'm a proud card carrying member. and i'd say where do i sign up good for you carol for standing up for diversity and fighting back against the hatred at a difference that is tearing america the bad todd akin akin the republican running for senate from missouri made waves this past summer when he said that women can't become pregnant from legitimate rape despite the backla

jamie costello is live in the bronx. i know this section sighting for you. >> beautiful. this is why you love baseball. every night you see something different. i just saw something i never saw before, two starting pitchers taking questions from the media. usually you hear from the starting pitcher. well, buck showalter has two of them tillman and saunders. don't you love buck. that's why. jim thome will be playing his 70th post season game. here he is at 42 years of age. still, he managed to beat buck. buck showalter talked about that. >> the more you're around guys like him, gem mi walks through the door like his first game in little league. he's enthused, uppete, approachable. so many guys with his resume aren't approachable sometimes. >> reporter: i'll tell you what. we have fallen in love with this club and tonight they're sending miguel gonzales to the mound. many have taken the trane to get here at the bronx. abc2's don harrison was here. >> they're wearing their colors proudly and they're looking for a party. everyone is in a hurry to get to the game. yankee stadi

you're probably an irish costello. >> i am an irish costello, and i'd be happy to claim you, but you're right, no relation. >> i'm the italian version of costel costello. so let's be clear. could you explain your program's mission? >> yes. my program's mission is simply to help children get past labels and stereotypes and understand that individuals are not defined by the group they may belong to. so whatever those groups are at school, and sometimes they're based on race and sometimes they're based on class and sometimes they're based on ability, what we do is we encourage kids to sit with someone different and have usually a pretty structured conversation in which they find that they have something in common. >> and if your program -- it's gone on for 11 years, it's not like it's something new. >> it is not new. it's been going on for 11 years. it's been very, very successful in a lot of schools and in schools that do it well, it helps promote a positive environment. what we want to have is a positive environment where every child who walks into a school feels that he or she belongs t

our report tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: at st. thomas hospital in nashville, 71-year-old janet russell remains in intensive care, battling meningitis. >> to watch mom, shake, and grab her head in pain should not happen. >> reporter: her symptoms began in early september, a week after she received a common steroid injection for back pain. investigators believe the steroid was contaminated and came from the new england compounding center which shipped the vials to doctors and clinics in 23 states. now there have been eight deaths, among them, diana reid, last week. >> my heart is broken for the loss of my dear friend and for her husband and boys right now. >> reporter: so far, they are reporting the most cases, now 13,000 people may have been potentially exposed to the contaminated health care medication, and they warn people who received the injections between late june and september to get checked. fungal meningitis cannot be spread, the symptoms are sickness, confusion, an inability to maintain balance. >> the incubation period i

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> and not to be outdone by a guy free falling from the edge of space with no aircraft and breaking the sound barrier, chuck yaeger, who broke the sound barrier, now is 89 and did it yesterday for good measure, he was at the controls to remember his anniversary. he was in a two-seat aircraft he pushed the throttle up and over the once mythical mark. >>> still ahead for us tonight, alternative therapies, now considered essential by a lot of doctors because their patients have demanded it. >>> and later, a rare interview with ethel kennedy, and a family member 50 years ago when the americans feared their world would be coming to an end. >>> tonight, we kick off a series of reports on medicine called "what is the alternative"? in fact for decades, we used that alternative medicine, in fact so common now we use the name, complimentary, to use the practice. and a lot of it has simply been demanded by patients from their doctors. our report from chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: this breast cancer survivor, diana miller, has been t

let's check out with jamie costello, he begins our team coverage. we're in the 12th right? >> 12th inning. unbelievable. here are we are two outs away from going into a game four. here's what happened. we had three rooks about to beat the kings. i'm going to bring in christian schaffer because i have to bounce it off of somebody. >> 2-1 bottom of the 9th. >> amazing performance. he should be pleased with himself. >> a-rod, the major league was highest paid player. >> jim johnson left the ball up a little bit and he didn't miss it. he's a professional hitter. the baseball gods are fickled. and just when the orioles thought they were up now they're down like a punch to the gut. now we're in the 12th inning. look, fans got here today. they were excited and looking forward to something and they are seeing a great game. >> orioles magic has made it's way to the -- it's its way to the bronx. buckling up for a tight game there was even some orange and black in the front row. >> reporter: these fans took a bus from baltimore to the game. >> it's been all year long [ indiscernible ]

our report from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: they were initially rolled out as the state-of-the-art upgrades at the tsa airports, so-called background machines that searched passengers for weapons and explosives. despite word from the tsa and the scientific community that the radiation levels are very low and safe, many travellers have remained concerned. >> it has always been an issue for women, especially if there is pregnant women going through, the body scanners. >> reporter: the tsa supervisors have also complained to nbc news that the screeners have broken down, causing long delays at the checkpoints. today, the tsa announced the back scanner scanners are coming out of some airports, including jfk and l.a.x., and moved to smaller airports, to be replaced by the wave scanners, using radio waves instead of radiation. the tsa says it is an effort to insure the most efficient and effective use of security technology and should speed things along at the big tsa checkpoints. meanwhile, at newark airport, some have been fired or suspended after an internal investigation found they we

jamie costello is live outside yankees stadium. are you seeing a lot of orange tonight? >> reporter: we are seeing a lot of orange, christian shaffer is with me. >> absolutely. there is a lot of tickets available. people knew that this morning and made the drive up. >> reporter: the story line isn't about the win or the fact they pushed in to game five it's about the benching of alex rodriguez. >> $29 million a year. this is the biggest game of the season. if the yankees lose, they are done. supposed to be the best players, highest paid player is on the bench. >> where were you when you heard a-rod was benched? >> joe is going to do what he thinks is best for his team, he knows his people get better than anybody else. it's a good option for him on the bench. just like chavez on the bench. >> reporter: that's buck. we were talking to cal ripken earlier, we said have you ever been benched. he said 81, he was sitting on the bench and said i'm not going to do this again. >> he said that inspired him to do the streak, he didn't like that feeling. >> reporter: inside yankee st

tom costello. >>> and coming up, what happened on a texas highway in the news for high speed. >>> one of the world's most active volcanos, kilauea, in hawaii, now continuing to rise, providing us with a spectacular new show, the lava numbers continuing to rise spilling over the side. >>> we reported last night about the new highway in texas, with the highest speed limit in the land, didn't take long for the first wreck, single car rollover, resulting in minor injuries, not known if speed was a factor. there were three instances of vehicles hitting wildlife on the highway, but the sheriff says that was more common. >>> this photo appeared around the country a week ago, emotional and inspiring, showing 93-year-old frank tanabe, a japanese-american world war ii veteran, filling out the application to vote on his death bed. he passed away yesterday, surrounded by family under care in honolulu. his family said he was determined to vote as one last act of being a patriot. >>> up next here tonight, what is old is new again, people turning to the skills of the past for a happier future. >>> p

tom costello. >> reporter: more trouble for american airlines. first, a boston to miami flight had to make an emergency landing sunday after several rows of seats came loose. the airline says new seats had been installed and the track may have been defective, forcing the pilots to radio in an emergency. >> during climbout, rows, passenger seats rows 12 "d," "e" and "f" came loose out of the floor. passengers are unable to sit in that seat. >> reporter: then today more seats came loose on a new york to miami flight that had to turn back. the airline is now proactively inspecting six more 757s. yet another black eye as the bankrupt airlines on-time arrival numbers plunging from 82% in september 2011 to just 58% this september. compared to 86% at southwest. and 88% at delta. american blames the slowdown on union pilots writing up trivial maintenance issues. the pilots blame the airlines' old planes. but passengers are losing their patience. from chicago -- >> if they don't fly i don't have a status on another airline. so it's a big issue for me. >>

nbc's tom costello is at reagan airport this morning for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this place is abandoned. behind me normally you'd see a lot of planes on the ramp. this morning there isn't a plane to be seen anywhere because they pulled them all out of here. they don't want to take any risks at all with planes getting hit by this storm. let me show you a website we watch very closely, i'll show you what happened yesterday at about 5:00 p.m., this website shows real live airline traffic over the skies at any one time. you can see at 5:00 yesterday we had tremendous traffic over the skies of the eastern seaboard. now take a look at the live view of flight radar 24.com. you can see it has emptied out dramatically over the last few hours. whatever few planes are still on the east coast, they're also going to get out of harm's way as fast as they can because of the danger that sandy poses, not just, of course torques the passengers, but physically to those airplanes. we have right now according to our stats about 7,500 flights c

nbc, tom costello covers aviation. he is with us again >> reporter: hi, brian, after cancelling 150 flights, four more today, the airline says it is running normally tonight. and the last of the 757s will be back to work. the airline mechanics looked closely at the locking pin. they claim that wear and tear, as well as something called cokeing, as in the soft drink as in the soft drink, you know what happens when you spill that on a keyboard? american says that the years of the drink gummed up on the pins, keeping them from locking down. the 757s are at least 15-20 years old. the faa reports no other airlines have had this happen to them and their seats. and the faa is also looking at whether or not the seats were installed incorrectly after they were recently moved by mechanics. >> hard to believe that the beverages got together and decided to take effect right now. tom costello in our washington bureau, thank you. >>> and an update on the outbreak of a rare form of meningitis, caused by steroid injections that are us

tom costello in our d.c. newsroom. >>> now out to california. of course, the driving capital of the world where the problem concerns gasoline. both where to buy it and what you'll pay for it. nbc's kristen dahlgren, good evening. >> reporter: take a look. 5.69 for unleaded. so much, they actually had to put signs on the pumps apologizing to customers and saying it's not our fault. this is normally the time of year when we see gas prices drop. but while californians slept last night, prices went up an average of eight currents a gallon and experts say they're still climbing. they're calling it the highest single day increase in history. it comes down to refinery and supply chain problems. it started with the the fire at the richmond refinery in august. there was also a power failure at an exxonmobil refinery in southern california this week. and a pipeline shut town that further cut supplies so much that some gas stations ran out of gas including a costco near los angeles. some station owners say they're thinking of shutting down completely. they

he will work to come dancing out of the tunnel next year. >> that was jamie costello reporting. imagine walking outside to get your paper and you see adam jones in his bathrobe doing the same thing. the baltimore sta r is thinking about mauveing to maryland permanently. we tweeted out the idea yesterday and his timeline has blown up. jones tweeted he checked out nice places adding that will are hidden acres all over the county. we are posing this question on our facebook page today, this morning, where would you like to see adam jones call home? what community? let us know what you think. >>> maybe with the o's out of the playoff picture you took in football from san diego, if you did you were treated to history. after trailing 24-0 to the chargers, manning led the broncos with 35 unanswered points. in third and fourth quarters, to secure the 35-24 win for denver on monday night football. manning threw for 309 yards and three scores, broncos tied the fourth greatest regular season come back in history. the presidential candidates will be what you are watching tonight. mitt romne

we will see you tonight live at 5, 6 and 11:00 news in the bronx with the orioles jamie costello, for good morning maryland. >> reporter: again that city hall pep rally is 10:30 here and the city is painted orange like mason and the sports legends museum by ca is orange and spending of yankee stadium -- speak of yankee stadium i -- speaking of yankee stadium i spent five innings walking around looking at one of baseball's historic museums. >> must have been a great experience. we will check in in just a bit. and we will get more information on the pep raily. thanks so much. -- rally. thanks so much. abc2 is your place for all things oriole. see game two reaction from players and pictures and check fans out in the o's gear all available on abc2news.com/orioles. >>> news time is 5:36. a woman dying from cancer says a security pat down left her embarrassed in front of crowds of people at the airport. she was carried out with her prescription drugs and called the airline ahead of time to make sure how to careity drugs on board. -- carry the drugs on board. during the screenings she says n

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> and not to be out done by a guy free falling from the edge of space with no aircraft and breaking the sound barrier, chuck yaeger, who broke the sound barrier, now is 89 and did it yesterday for good measure, he was at the controls to remember his anniversary. he pushed the throttle up and over the once mystic mark. >>> and.sdemanding a treatment. >>> and later, a rare interview with ethel kennedy, and a family member 50 years ago when the americans feared their world would be coming to an end. [ male announcer ] wouldn't it be cool if we took the nissan altima and reimagined nearly everything in it? gave it greater horsepower and best in class 38 mpg highway... advanced headlights... and zero gravity seats? yeah, that would be cool. ♪ introducing the completely reimagined nissan altima. it's our most innovative altima ever. nissan. innovation that excites. ♪ has become boring and tasteless... only one man can save the day. kellogg's crunchy nut! ♪ sweet and nutty crunchy nut! [ male announcer ] honey sweet flakes with nuts in every bite.

>> tom costello miami international airport starting us off tonight. thanks. >>> just over 24 hours from now, millions of americans will tune in to a stage with two lecterns set on it in denver, colorado. two men with 50 debates worth of combined debating experience will debate each other for the first time and for very high stakes. this is the first of this season's big league presidential debate. this one on domestic matters and the economy. it's already been a long race. voting is underway already in 34 states, and the polling numbers are still on the move. as you'll see in just a moment. first, we want to begin with peter alexander in denver where they're getting ready for the big moment tomorrow night. peter, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. when president obama and mitt romney step on the stage behind me tomorrow night, it's going to be the first time they've seen each other face to face in nearly five years. to give you a sense of just how crucial his performance is, romney aides brought podiums into his hotel conference ro

in the bronx with the orioles, jamie costello for good morning maryland. >> reporter: all right. jamie, don harrison and the crew had you covered for everything you need to know with orioles related for the divisional series underway in new york. looking back at a video. it's the looksry of being -- luxury of being at old stadium in 2008 and i spent four innings walk around the ball park because it was truly one of baseball's great cathedrals and museum for a great game. >> all right. well, new ball park and hopefully we are going to have a win tonight in the next three nights. we will check in in a bit. >>> you never think it's going to happen to you but it happens every day. we are talking about fires. more than 2300 people die in fires every year. and so abc2 news is working for you this morning to help you with some tips that could save your life. the u.s. consumer product safety commission are urging you to install smoke alarms. it seems like a no brain are but a lot of you don't -- brainer but a lot of you don't have them. make sure they are work properly and have batteries

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cnn newsroom with carol costello begins now. welcome back from vacation. >> thanks so much, soledad. good morning. stories we're watching in the "newsroom," round two, obama and romney. tomorrow night's debate, do or die. >>> plus this -- >> sometimes you have to get up really high to see how small you are. i'm going home now. >> amazing. a free fall from near outer space reaching 833 miles per hour. felix baumgartner blazes past the speed of sound and into the history books. >>> e-refund. e-book readers rejoice. a refund check might be in the mail. >>> and yankee pain. first a-rod. then jeter. now empty seats? it's bad when you can't sell out a playoff game. a playoff game. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning. thank you so much for being with us. i'm carol costello. we start with round two. the big presidential debate. you guessed it. you will not see mitt romney or the president on the campaign trail today. because the clock is ticking. romney in massachusetts prepping for the debate.

while at work watch us online amount bc2 jamie costello and -- abc jammy -- jamie costello and scott garceau will look at what they need to do to get the win. tonight from 6:30 to 7 the orioles special. >>> remember it's purple friday. megan is representing over there on the desk. the ravens head to kansas city where they are take on the chiefs at one sunday. right now the team is 3-1 and having lost one game to the eagles that was in week 2. they are tied atop the northern division with the bengals a team they have beaten. >>> 6 minutes after 6 right now. parents, you may have heard the story from your child and it made you cringe. little case of bullying, name calling and internet taunt and physical violence happening in the classroom. we all know it happens and know something has to be done so right now sherrie johnson is live to tell you what the state is doing to step in. [ no audio from station ] >> we apologize. we are having an audio issue but we will try to bring you the report because of course bullying prevention month is happening in october and we want you to know about

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with christian schaffer, i'm jamie costello for "good morning maryland." >> need a short memory on this short series and here's what it stands and how things break down. tonight it's back for new york for game four. first pitch 7:37. again on tbs. game five if necessary is tomorrow from the bronx. that's set for 5 : 07. we want to see the orioles pride. e-mail them to pix@wmar.com. you got a slide slow there on the website. >>> ten minutes after 6:00 right now. parents it is so tempting you're so tired all you want to do is get some sleep and get your newborn to go to sleep too. >> this morning we have a very sobering story and reminder to tell you about why you should not do this with your child. a father has a lesson from what you can learn. >> you hope somebody like salem palmer is around, just ahead one quick thinking kid saves another. >> and maryland's most powerful radar is dry as a bone. i'll tell you if this dry weather sticks around through the weekend coming up. >> well, lynette everything is moving right along here on interstate 70 just west of the beltway. i'll let you know

it's where we begin tonight with nbc's tom costello, he's at miami international. tom, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. in fact, three incidents and no more. american says that by the end of the night, it will have finished inspecting 47 planes that could potentially have this problem. and it knows what the problem is. apparently a clamp was improperly installed on the base on the leg of a row of seats. in boston today, maintenance crews were removing the seats from several american 757s to make more leg room after seats on two other planes came loose from the track on mid flight, first on a trip from vail to dallas last week. mechanics thought they fixed it, then on saturday it happened again on the same plane flying from boston to miami. the pilot declared an emergency and diverted to new york. >> the seat is loose, we don't want that thing flying around and hurting the passengers behind them. >> reporter: then monday it happened on another 757 flying from new york to miami. >> rows 14 a, b and c are totally disconnected. >> reporter: discon

and we're not going to crumble. >> all right, that's jamie costello reporting. look at that just a few weeks away from the race for the cure in hunt valley and still time for you to join us and take part in the walk. you can walk, you can run. all of this raises money for breast cancer research. treatment in our area. so a great cause to get involved with. this race happens sunday, october 21st in hunt valley. you can register by calling the number on the screen. it's 410-433-race. or you can always log on to komenmd.org/2012. >>> all right, it is 6:16 and taking a look at the video from last year you'll remember that was one of the first really really cold days of the fall season. we got a long way to go to get there. >> i know but you know we're going to have a powerful cold front that's going to be moving in here into the weekend and it's going to feel like a whole different story. >> really? >> i love that fall feeling though. it will be nice. >> exactly. the only thing is rain is going to come with it. be prepared for that. but for right now far cry from th

nbc's tom costello has the latest from reagan national. tom, any sign that flights are going to get back to normal any time soon and what about amtrak, the rest of the whole northeast corridor? >> yes, but, but, but. here we go. yes at reagan national airport. yes at dulles. behind me it looks empty and it is. u.s. airways has shut down operations again at reagan national today not because we have any damage here but because trying to get up to the northeast up to the new york city area and boston, there's no point. those airports are closed. let me give you stats real fast here. 6,127p flights canceled today. today. 6,127. and systemwide, since they started shutting down flights over the weekend because of sandy, 16,000 flights. we're talking hundreds of thousands of people inconvenienced. i want to show you quickly a photo we got out of laguardia airport and this will tell you why they have shut down air traffic in new york. look at laguardia. it is under water. they've got significant flooding in laguardia. also significant damage as we

jamie costello and christian schaffer have d last night and was a tough one. they've been there all week. >> reporter: a not so "good morning maryland." we're rolling out on the wrong side of bed after watching this game last night. let's show you the highlights. the orioles had a great start. miguel gonzalez was on the hill and he was just dominating the yankee bats. and then we have a home run from another rookie ryan o'flaherty and then another home run by another rookie, it was manny machado. you thought three rooks were about to beat the kings. then in the bottom of the 9th. joe girardi from the yankees makes the move. he tells a-rod to sit down. raul ibanez will be a pinch hitter and he homers to tie the ball game up in the 9th inning. one pitch, gone. then to the bottom to have the 12th with matusz on, raul ibanez one pitch gone. game over. yankees win 3-2. they now take a 2-1 lead on the orioles. let's bring in christian schaffer. unbelievable. may be the best pinch hitting job baseball has seen huh? >> absolutely and he came in and he's clutch. got al

i'm carol costello. we begin with new revelations that could cast a large shadow on the presidential race 13 days before the election. they involve the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in libya and new questions about what the white house knew and when it knew it. as you might remember, the obama administration has been under fire for being slow to label the military-like siege an act of terrorism. four americans died in that attack, including the u.s. ambassador to libya, christopher stevens. here's the latest. cnn has obtained government e-mails showing that just two hours -- just two hours after the attack, both the fbi and the state department were told that anise llamaist group was taking credit. here is one of those e-mails. embassy tripol ireports the group claimed responsibility on facebook and twitter and has called for an attack on embassy tripoli. the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> this is clearly a place where they had wanted to have some terrorist success on the compound

i'm carol costello. it is 30 minutes past the hour. gross domestic product increased 2% in the third quarter. the gdp is our best measure of economic health. but while that number is better than expected, a senior economist atwells fargo called it just ho-hum. >>> upper west side nanny is accused of stabbing to death two young children in her care. their mother returned home and found the children in a bathtub and the nanny nearby with what appeared to be self-inflicted stab wounds. the children were pronounced dead at a hospital. >>> hurricane sandy losing strength this morning over the bahamas, but it is still poised to cause some major league damage, expected to intensify and merge with a winter storm over the northeast, which could make for one damp halloween. sandy already being blamed for 21 deaths in the caribbean. >>> china blocks internet access inside the country to "the new york times" after the paper published an article, critici criticizing the fortune of china's premiere. "new york times" s

i'm carol costello. it is the morning after the presidential debasement many americans are remembering not just what was said last night but over the weekend. remember the prediction that raised eyebrows just a few days ago? >> this whole race will be turned upside down come thursday morning. >> well, mitt romney has a lot more believers this morning after a commanding performance. most americans believe he trounced president obama in their first showdown. more on that in a moment. first, some of the reactions. even as the dust was settling. >> a week ago, people were saying this was over. we've got a horse race. mitt romney, his performance was head and shoulders above anything we've ever seen him do before. >> mitt romney rose to the moment tonight. in a way, frankly, that surprised me. >> it looked like romney wanted to be there and president obama didn't want to be there. >> dan lothian is in denver. morning, dan. mr. obama can't be feeling very good this morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, loo

i'm carol costello. the countdown is on. first presidential debate 12 hours away. it's quiet now in magnus arena in denver. later it will provide the backdrop for what could be a game changer. as the candidates continue to prepare, a tape surfaces, one that "the daily caller" bills as obama's other race speech. a clip. >> quiet riots that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and destruction and the police decked out in riot gear. this they happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. despair takes hold in young people all across the country, look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get better. >> reality check. this tape is not new. it was an open press event recorded in its entirety in 2007. many media outlets, including cnn, extensively covered it. even tucker carlson himself covered it in 2007. >> barack obama was talking about a quiet riot today. it was not a reference to '80s heavy metal band unfortunately. the senator wad

i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining us. it's just 36 days until the presidential election. the race still too close to call. and both mitt romney and barack obama will be virtually invisible today. why, you ask? well, they're hunkering town for wednesday's debate and a chance to deliver that made for tv moment that will have us all talking. after all, debate zingers are an american tradition. >> i'm counting on you. i'm counting on the fact that when the american people focus and push aside all the noise and all the nonsense and they remember the fact that all of us, whatever success we've achieved, we've achieved because we worked together. because we made sure everybody -- >> here you go again. >> i want you to know that also i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> senator, i served with jack kennedy. i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. >> t

costello. >> mr. dillingham when you concluded your testimony you made the statement that nextgen may not be given to handle traffic at the busiest airports in the united states. i wonder if you might elaborate on that and why you believe that and number two, what has to be done to address that issue. >> yes, sir. what i was referring to is based on the forecast of traffic and the capacity of the current airport with the current infrastructure that we are still going to have congestion at the airports the technology of nextgen will help us move from place to place and in some ways also help us manage traffic on the ground but if the forecast comes through, we are clearly going to need additional runways, taxiways to accommodate that given the otherwise you're going to move towards the congestion that we saw early on that started to generate the need for nextgen. >> so it is a funding issue. in order to make those improvements, you are dealing with the passenger facility charge and airport impro