in "the situation room." you can watch us live or dvr the show so you won't miss a moment. thanks so much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" start right now. >> next, breaking news. 800 u.s. troops now in iraq. that's more than double what president obama said he would send. is this mission? plus, facebook admits conducting psychic experiments on hundreds of thousands of users were were you one of them? a u.s. flight forced to make a landing when one of its slides deployed mid flight. it's not the first time it happened. let's go "outfront." >> good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon in for erin burnett. more u.s. troops now in iraq while new terror concerns are

forcing u.s. officials to consider beefing up airport security measures. we start with the troops first though and additional 300 u.s. military personnel are now in iraq. that's in addition to those the president announced he would send earlier this month. barbara, what do you know? >> these additional 300 troops, the pentagon says are purely for security. they will work out protecting the embassy be u.s. installations and perhaps most importantly protecting baghdad international airport. why is that? because there are growing concerns that isis fighters are building northwest of baghdad. the u.s. cannot afford to let baghdad airport even, by any measure, remotely fall to the insurgence. they simply cannot afford to have that happen. so 300 troops going in. security helicopters drones many of them will be based at the

airport. others at embassy. this is, as you say, don, in addition to the 300 advisors that the president was sending in about 180 there. so until this afternoon when we learn this latest news, there were about 500 troops on the ground plus these new 300. coming up to 800, it's inching closer and closer everyday to a thousand troops on the ground in iraq. don? >> seems like the number there keeps increasing. now the president announcing now 800. the question is, will this number keep growing? that's what everyone wants to know. >> i think that is the question right now. can you only deal with the fact as you find them and facts are, once again, today, pentagon said, this is it. baghdad is not about to fall. we have security concerns. we have to send more security in to protect the people we have sent in and those at the embassy. the embassy is not about to be evacuated. but the fact is, almost everyday

we see some additional forces being sent. just last week the pentagon put another 1 thousand marines on board a ship in the persian gulf. >> barbara, thank you very much. now to our other top stories tonight. u.s. officials are considering new airport security measures due to increased concerns that terrorists are developing undetectable bombs that could be smuggled on to airports, on to airplanes, i should say, head together united states. our chief national security correspondent has the latest for you. >> reporter: they are homeland security's most dreaded threats. explosive devices hidden in objects from shoes to toothpaste tubes and undetectible by airport security. now, the u.s. is considering new airport security measures due to increased concerns that terrorist from al qaeda and arabian peninsula are developing new bomb designs to full current

security screening. >> we remain concerned about the capability of some of these elements to develop weapons that could be thwarted by by our current security systems. >> officials tell cnn there is no imminent threat or plot. however an additional vulnerability has been identified which the department of homeland security is currently working to address. >> department of homeland security is regularly reviewing our procedures to a dapt to the threat that is faced by our transportation system. as advisories are required to adequately inform the traveling public, we will make those announcements. >> representative peter king discussed the threat on abc's "this week." >> a number of airports do not have the type of security they should have. anyone that will be having children who can fly to the u.s., they have to increase security. we will push it. but overseas airport security is

a concern. >> this is the man believed to be behind the threat. in recent months u.s. officials warned a siri and trained terrorist trained under him were improving designs of new explosive devices, such as shoe bombs, that could fool screening systems. the threat has grown all the more severe as chaos in syria and iraq has created a safe haven for terror groups to train, plot and recruit westerners to join their flight flight. >> allowing them to pool up in syria, allowing them to have safe haven the size of indiana between syria and iraq be a went they, meaning their army. this is as dangerous a time from al qaeda to the united states as i've seen. >> there is no evidence of cooperation. with isis now controlling all this territory, it heightened awareness of the commune it to a

whole range of threat, don. looking closely and particularly looking closely at this constant effort to find ways to flights into europe and the u.s. >> very disturbing. thank you have very much. now out front to discuss the latest threats seeing military analyst, and major general marks and counterterrorism analyst mudd, former cia and fbi official. thank you gentlemen for joining me tonight. very serious subject. general marks, how serious is this new threat? >> well, it is serious and i don't know that it is specifically new. i think what we're getting is good intelligence feeds telling us they are in advanced levels of development. what we are really talking about is intelligence exchange. you can't just stop this directly as a result of increased security with tsa.

the united states intelligence community has to be able to reach out to its friends and neighbors, partners around the globe and many who aren't partners but we have to find some convergents of interest here and exchange intelligence to find out what is happening and what we are talking about. and clearly this is beyond simple liquids. this gets into paste, materials. that aren't easily detectible, but we have to catch it early on in the process. >> it's been almost four years since the same group got the underwear bomber on to a plane in the u.s. how concerned are you about bomb making advances, phil? >> i wouldn't say i'm concerned about aqap, what i'm concerned about is this particular bomb maker. when we were chasing bomb makers, you would be surprised how difficult it is to graduate a become maker from making say a roadside pipe bomb, which we saw in iraq, to the bombs we saw in

cargo air track, remember the cartridges, underwear bomber in detroit in 2009. this particular bomb maker, we can stop plots all we want. he will continue to create new and creative devices until he's dead. >> and what about what jim mentioned. in the very end there, mentioning the cooperation between aqap and isis. how big of a concern is that? >> i think the concern is the experiences built up in terms of not only successes of getting cartridge in the aircraft but failures. what did they learn about aircraft security is anything. there is a lot of bomb makers in syria but nobody with the experience this guy has. >> general marks -- >> and don also -- >> go ahead. >> don, if i can pile on to what phil just said, what this gives, in this particular skill set of bomb making, is this is now a petri dish of experimenting.

live devices can be used in a very open area that is completely ungoverned. it certainly is an opportunity to learn more lessones before they enact those and strie to take some, what i would call, a very dangerous step as it is to vis-a-vis the united states. >> all right. well said. general marks, another question for you. you aqap considers airline secure ate weak spot. after a decade, how can this still be a weakness? rs. >> it still is a niche. our relationships with others overseas, we establish various standards. agree internationally to what they look like. and the united states has a handshake deal and trust its friends and neighbors to enforce standards. it is either done well or not. you can trust, but you also have to verify. that allows for a weak point of penetration. >> phillip mudd and general marks, thank you for joining us

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supreme court. >> reporter: fiery protest on merge not three issue niece one. religious freedom, abortion and obamacare. today the high court striking down a key provision in the affordable care act for companies providing coverage. hobby lobby cast stores saying it violate their beliefs. >> obamacare covers 20 types of birth control. this case focuses on four. plan b, morning after four and week after pill known as ella and two types of iuds. hobby lobby equates them with abortion because they say it prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb.

supporters of the contraception mandate say this ruling unfairly brings a woman's boss into her private medical affairs and will dump a huge financial burden on female employees. >> i think immediately tens of thousands of women who were employees of these companies will either be out of their birth control or will absolutely have to double pay because we already pay and that adds up at the end of the month. >> five conservative justices on the court used a 20-year-old federal law it make the case that closely held for profit company have right just as individuals. justice samuel alito say it makes it clear that congress did not discriminate against men and women who wish to run their businesses as for profit corporations and manner required by their religious beliefs. in a strongly worded descent, ruth ginsburg says theying force

theirs own religious beliefs on their employees. it would deny women who do not hold their employer's belief access to contraceptive coverage the aca would other wise secure. this could open the door to other legal challenges to obamacare. some arguing there should be coverage for same-sex couples, sa vaccinations and medical marijuana. >> let's get into this. jeffr jeffrey toobin is here. let's get a sense of what the court called closely held. stock held by five or fewer people, about 90% of all businesses in the u.s. are closely held. and slightly more than half of the work force works for such corporations. what are the implications of this ruling down the road for all of these companies and its

employees? >> half of the work force, millions and millions of people are potentially affected by it. so what has to happen now is these privately held corporations have to decide, a, if they have religious belief. before today, we didn't even know know that companies, corporations, could have religious beliefs. but the supreme court said they could. and if they have religious beliefs, do those religious beliefs compel them to fail to pay for certain aspects of health insurance. some religions don't believe in blood transfusions. some religions don't believe in vaccinations. some, like christian scientists, don't believe in much medical care at all. so the question is, which companies say so their employers employees we won't pay for your health care any more. >> sound to me like you are saying corporations are people. remember that?

>> citizens united, absolutely. yes, absolutely. and this is an extension of that idea that corporations have rights that we used to associate only with people. as you point out, citizens united was about first amendment rights to political expression. this is about religious expression. >> okay. so politically then, what does this mean for the president and the democrats? >> well, it means that the president's achievement is slightly smaller. unless they can figure out a work-around. but i think the democrats welcome this fight because the polls show individuals by and large believe that their employers should not have a religious veto. if you are a clerk for hobby lobby you should have the same right as a clerk at macy's or k-mart.

now that hobby lobby is privately-owned by a religious family, those clerks have very different health care rights than other clerks do. >> so moving forward, what can we expect? can we expect more suites like this to -- >> definitely. there are already lawsuits in the pipeline awaiting the resolution of this case. but certainly there will be more -- >> does this set a precedent? >> absolutely. it is a very important precedent. supreme court has the last word. now, how it actually works out with all of these companies that may make religious claims, you know, we don't know for sure. but we do know now that companies have religious rights. they can assert them. they in some circumstances can prevent their employees from getting certain kind of birth control and we can expect quite a few companies to assert those successfully. >> interesting. jeffrey toobin, appreciate it.

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connected to today's recall. this is on the heel's of gm's nounsment they will fwif at least $1 million to each of the 13 families that were linked to fault eswitches. peter is with us tonight. good to see you. gm issues 54 recalls. that's more than 27 million recalls here in the united states. can we expect to see more recalls? >> yes. and gm is on pace by itself to break the record number of recalls for the entire industry, which i think was setback in 2004. can you expect more because what general motors is doing now is going through every issue they've ever had on any of their cars. looking for issues and they never again want to be in a situation where they are saying look, we should have recalled this car years ago. as they were, this time they want to call them as soon as

they think they might have to recall. >> so they are going over everything with a fine-tooth comb. >> absolutely correct. can you expect more. >> okay. >> stock is down 32 cents on the news. why? >> i've talked to analyst looking for the numbers. recalls don't hit sales that much. you might expect they would. a certain model of car getting recalled will impact sales for about amonth. but they don't impact sales of chevrolet or cadillac. they don't impact sales overall for the manufacturer. right now gm is making very desirable automobiles. they are selling well. people are not scared off by this. >> interesting. as i said, when i was telling the story before i introduced

you, they announced giving families linked to someone who died due to the faulty switch, $1 million. >> 1 is the numb3 is the number who died sitting in the front seat. they are paying others that were sitting in the back. they are doing it because, look, alternative is they could be faced with lawsuits. that's an ugly situation to be in and a big unknown. you don't know how much you will pay out in a lawsuit. they are doing this because they want to be seen as doing the right thing. i'll give them credit for that. and it is more manageable than going through countless lawsuits. >> thank you very much. appreciate you, sir. >> out front next. facebook under fire. the company admits it tampered with 700,000 users profiles as

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were found in the west bank. again, the teens, one with dual u.s.-israeli citizenship. kidnapped from a jewish settlement in the west bank. as soon as we get more informing we will bring it to you throughout the evening on cnn. that's breaking news for us this evening. moving on now, we want to talk about one of the most talked about stories of the day, as a matter of fact. we all have bad days. but what if facebook intentionally made it worse for you. now admitting it allowed researchers to manipulate news feeds to hide good news or bad. part after secret social experiment and without knowing nearly 700,000 facebook users were gunea pigs. those in a positive group responded with more upbeat messages. cnn seerory media correspondent,

and cnn legal analyst. that explains all of the negative comments i've been getting on my facebook posts. >> that's why they put the bow tie on. >> no, no. just i had something before the show. i wanted to make sure i got back in time and wanted to read in. i was concerned more about content than my bow tie. all right. so steve? >> yes. >> thank you. face book responded to the backlash in a statement. here's what they said. quote, we do research to improve services and to make the content people see on facebook as relevant and engaging as possible. a big part is understanding how different people respond to different types of content. why would facebook do something like this? i'm not surprised. are you shocked? go ahead, steve. >> i'm not shocked. but it is one of the dumbest things i've ever seen a corporation this big or small do. i'll tell you why. one thing to try to understand

or have it, and make business decisions. we get that. the age we're living in. but when you start messing with our news feeds and decide that paul is too depressed or brian is too upbeat so we will change the tone to see how people react, i ask the question, when did we sign up to be gunea pigs. not just what you monitor and say but to tweak what we say and do to see the reaction. facebook will see reaction. instagram will see an uptick. this is a dumb move. >> okay, i will play devil's advocate here. we have focus groups where we tweak and change and do thing and we are programming because of focus groups. in a way that may manipulate the news. not just us, not just cnn. there are focus groups saying, do you like don lemon's tie? what about blonde hair? what about red? this should be expected from

facebook, correct? >> if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. if you are outraged, you're not paying attention. this is what face book is to do. this is one of the reasons my wife doesn't sign up for facebook. some people opt out so they are not experimented on or a grand trial that facebook is doing. i'm much more bothered by advertisers that manipulate by emotions than i am by a very small group by facebook. every time i drive by a fast-food restaurant and see a billboard, i'm manipulated. >> that's not what we signed up for. we never signed up and said face book, take my post on news food. because you want to see what the reaction will be. where is that? is that in the legal fine print in maybe paul can tell me it is but i don't remember that deal.

>> what about it? is it in the legal fine print? >> technically with it is. >> it's got vague terminology about we have the right to experiment, use different methodologies to speed you data but this remains shocking to me nonetheless. what they are doing is going through your friends feeds and picking up the bad news to feed to some people and the good news to feed to other people. and guess what? if you feed the pressing news to people they get depressed. ca cano. >> shocking. >> can they be held liable for that? >> they could. but here eat problem and why it is a hard lawsuit. there is so much bad news in the world, how is a lawyer going to prove facebook pushed me over the cliff rather than, you know,

watching a prison show on television? it would be hard -- ever watch the local news, how depressing that is. >> get 90,000 people involved. i think facebook should give us all happier news. take the results and push more positive stuff up for everybody. >> what about my right to be depressed that day and feel what i want -- oh, come on, don. you know i'm a happy guy be don. but if that day i'm a little down and i want it post something and say, not feeling up to it today. just want to mare my thoughts, i want that on facebook, on my news feed, isn't that my right? >> they can tilt the balance in more important ways. if they just show me republican stories or democratic stories, sources in one direction, that's a problem. even bigger problem if that is on the eve of an election. that is something we should be concerned about. >> what about advertisers who do it? am i the only one who cries due

something commercials. like when the guy comes home from the war and the kids are there and they buy the house. >> starting out about television shows, people like depressing shows. they want it watch shows about prison. there are other people who like optimistic shows p. we do that in the business. but this is a secret feed of depressing or happy news to people who didn't sign up for it. i think it is a disgrace that facebook did it. they stopped doing it, fortunately. facebook, google, they know everything about every american citizen and heaven help us if they become manevolent forces. >> if they were so proud of it and had nothing to a apologize for, why didn't they announce it all over facebook. it is in fine print for a reason. >> i got to run. but i want to ask you, first steve, tip of the iceberg? yes or no? >> absolutely. that's the culture of facebook. i don't have evidence or proof.

but if you do this, it means you're doing other stuff in my opinion. >> i don't think any of them are about negative emotions but they run a, b test all the time opinion and i think they are continuing. >> we can't keep up with it. >> strap yourself in. >> thank you, guys. >> appreciate it. >> i'm trying to be positive. >> krasy spring of neck ties along the screen today. >> i love yours. >> look at that. >> always good to see you guys. >> face book had been around earlier. they talked to chuck hagel who is trying to reconnect with his platoon commander. it wasn't until he became secretary of defense he was able to track down johnson. barbara starr reports on the man who changed the face of war, who is the first enlisted combat veteran to lead the defense department. >> only been 40 years. >> reporter: it was a reunion more than four decades in the

making. secretary of defense chuck hagel reuniting with his commanding officer from vietnam, lieutenant jerome johnson. chuck hagel was just 22 when he and his brother went off to war in vietnam. the toughest of times on the battlefield and at home spp. >> we had huge problems. the army, as you know, in 1968, bad year for everybody. we sent 16,000 dead americans home in one year. >> back home civil rights marchers fill the streets. an assassins bullet would take the life of martin luther king, jr. the racial tension felt by the troops in vietnam, thousands of miles away. >> huge racial problems. >> the young lieutenant johnson set out to fix that. >> he walked into that company.

there's this young african-american lieutenant. i said, no, no more. we're all-americans. we're going to take care of each other, live together, fight together and like each other. okay, let's get it done. >> and johnson did just that. >> we came from different places. we were all children for the most part. not having had any experience with combat or that type of thing. for us to be successful and be able to do the mission that was given to a single home, we today resolve whatever differences we might have. >> after the war, the money lost touch. but hagel never forgot his lieutenant. as a senator he tried to find him but came up short. it wasn't until he took over the helm of the entire u.s. military that he found his buddy.

johnson and his family came to washington to see the hagel brothers. who decades later, still defer to their commanding officer. >> he's the officer in charge, yeah. >> actually, quite fulfilling to have had the time to tie jest experiences that we went through then together and to have gone and done separately throughout our life over the years. and come back together. but still to feel that connectedness and unity that we had that time. >> a relationship forged by the fires of combat on broken by decades of separation. >> war is messy. there's no glory when we suffer. but in the end, this is what matters p. >> secretary hagel made one last

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check out mr. john burrman for a look at what is ahead on ac 360. >> keeping them honest ahead on 360. money you thought would help wounded warriors but instead lining pockets. there is action in this case, serious action. you'll only get it here. also aheat, the case against justin harris. is there enough evidence to keep him jailed? prosecutors gather evidence on murder for leaving his son in the suv hon a hot day. some say, no, not enough evidence. we will speak with our full legal panel ahead. all at the top of the hour. >> i just can't watching that story. it is terrible. it happens a lot. if it was an accident, it does happen a lot. it is sad. we'll be watching. >> thanks, don. >> see john at the top of the

hour. terrifying moment for passengers. an evacuation slide opened up midair inside a packed boeing 737. forced to make an emergency landing in kansas. according to flight aware, it descended 20,000 feet in just 10 minutes to get to the ground as quick as possible. luckily though, no one was injured. the flight landed safely. but look at that right there in the middle of the plane. can you see this? "outfront," a man on that flight, mike schroeder. that looked terrifying. was it? >> it's not everyday that world's largest air bag goes off inside your plane. but you know, i was actually surprised by how calm everybody was. i mean, passengers had their cell phone out and taking pictures of it. and the flight attendants were goin going, gosh i've never seen that. and when the pilots said that, that got me. my first reaction was to think,

gosh, i hope there was no one in the rest room. because if there is, they will be there for a long time. >> and no one getting squished against the wall or caught in the wrong position there. >> when did you know there was trouble? >> i heard a pop. like noticeable pop. which you are not supposed it hear. then i heard a hissing noise. i turned behind me. it looked like a giant air bag. but planes aren't supposed to have those. i'm only a philosophy faithomaj. but i thought they were supposed to open outside, this one opened inside. it took a few second to figure that out but not very long. >> you said you were surprised that p.m. were calm. i'm sure the flight attendants calm, correct? >> yes. the pilot did a very nice job. he came on the pa real quickly and said, the obvious is the slide opens. we can't lost cabin pressure. i'm going to take you down

pretty fast. and he did. it seemed like we were down there awfully fast. he goes, i'm going to figure out where we will land and i will let you know in a minute or two where it will with. turned out to be kansas. they figured out if they could install a new slide. there wasn't one available. we got off the plane. my general feeling about flying is if any flight that you land and walk away from is a good one. >> so were you concerned at all about your safety? >> not really. i mean, it was one of these things where you thought, so far we're okay. if one more thing goes wrong, like we lose cabin pressure or something, then we are seriously are in trouble. but we never had that one additional thing happen. i don't think anyone -- i didn't hear a single person yell out or freak out or anything like that that you might think would happen in a situation like that. >> united hasn't said anything afterward about what happened to you? >> no. i heard the pilots and engineers talking. one thing that was clear is they

had no idea what happened. i could hear them discussing. >> thank you, sir. thank for coming on. >> my pleasure. >> in november a slide opened on a jetblue flight pinning a flight attendant against the wall of a plane. it happened on the obama campaign plane. good to see you mary, how big after safety hazard is this? >> well, a big safety hazard. of all the times you need the slides, the statistics about 37% of the time, they malfunction. it happens a lot. >> so why does it keep happening, though? >> well, it is interesting. ntsb and canada transport canada has looked at it and they found in 40% of the cases, they weren't put together right in the first place, and they weren't packed right. you know the old joke about know who packs your chute.

they were packed wrong. that was followed closely by mechanical and maintenance issues. few key component and often not taken care of well. in a couple cases the protective cover had just come off. that's what happened in the case of president obama's plane. somebody had taken off the cover. tried it blame it on the secret service. but they said no. sometimes it is just a malfunction that way. lots of issues. usually it comes down to the way it is assembled and put together and the maintenance. >> so packing and maintenance. what can you do to resolve the problems and their check list? >> right. >> well, the ntsb has -- and by the way, before the asian crash in san francisco, there were slides and two things, and one the ntsb has to be careful any time this happens. because the causes are very different. it is a different mechanism, different maintenance, not the same model of plane.

they will point out any mechanism failure and then issue directives to paimaintenance. you have to check these things. make sure they are assembled properly. make sure the cover is on them. these will usually prevent the accident from happening p. this does count as an accident. that will do it. >> always a pleasure. thank you. >> thank you. >> still out front tonight, and there are no buts about it. a major royal interview. jeanne moos is next. avo: waves don't care what age you are. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's 50+. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth.

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deirre-aire that launched to fame at the royal wedding. >> not every day you can say you have a world exclusive. >> finally, pippa middleton speaks and matt lauer has to figure out a way to ask about her bottom. yes, that bottom. remember that? the booty that stole the show when her sister kate married prince william. a butt that launched workouts. >> pippa booty workout. >> we're going to get a butt just like pippa. >> if you didn't want to work to create it, you can have one made. >> a backside that took a back seat to the queen on snl.

>> my girl. >> talk about a bum steer. they were even selling pippa merchandise, t-shirts emblazened with if only pippa were a stripper. and calling her queen of the asstocracy. >> people started talking about you. and for lack of a better way to explain it, the way your dress fit. >> the way your dress fit. he must have spent hours dreaming that one up. >> how did you feel about that? >> it was completely unexpected. i suppose it's flattering. >> a legal embarrassing? >> definitely. >> her dress was almost meant to be insignificant compared to kates. matt was smart enough not to ask about unsubstantiated speculation that pippa's bottom was somehow false, the product

of padding or silicone. he did coax her into saying the b word. >> you said fame can have an up side, a down side and -- >> a backside. >> a commenter who thinks bigger is better, sniffed, i still don't know what all the fuss was about. she hasn't even got a backside. even if she does, it's not as if it has a skill like homer simpsons. homer can't shuffle cards. jeanne moos, cnn. ♪ >> new york. >> only jeanne moos. at least she wasn't twerking. and that would be interesting. so listen, i have breaking news i want to tell you about, before we get off the air, another major call recall tonight. chrysler recalling 696,000 vehicles for an ignition switch problem. it's similar to the one that forced general motors to recall

2.6 million vehicles worldwide, and about 525,000 of the chryslers are in the u.s. the recall includes some of the dodge journey suvs, dodge grand caravans, chrysler town and country minivans, they're all made between january 2007 and january 2009. it is an expansion of a recall that was issued in 2010. we want to update you on more breaking news. israel's launched air strikes targeting hamas and gaza. earlier the bodies of three missing israeli teenagers were found in the west bank. the teens were kidnapped earlier this month from a jewish settlement in the west bank. we're going to bring you more on this story as we get it here on cnn. make sure you tune in to ac 360 which starts in a little bit. also, cnn tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern where i will be hosting that program. before we go off the air, i want to explain the bow tie.

i was at an event tonight that was a little more formal, and i had to get on the air quickly. that explains the bow tie, no other meaning. thank you for watching, i'm don lemon, see you back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern. ac 360 with john burman starts right now. good evening, john burman here in for anderson tonight. keeping them honest big time on a story, a scandal really, your money, money that you thought was going to help wounded veterans, but instead was lining a fwund raiser's pockets. now, as a result of our investigation, there is action in this case. serious action, you'll only see it here. also tonight, why you might be facing even tighter security at the airport. officials now talking about a new vulnerability, we'll talk about what it might be and what is being done about it. and later, left to die in a hot car, his fathered charged with murder, now another shocker. police have