sweet spot where the business interests and the private sector merge with the security interests of the department of homeland security so we'll continue to work in that regard together. because theites, like many other countries -- the united states, like many of countries, it is not controlled by the government but the private sector. >> is there a special challenge in dealing with that industry because of the very libertarian and wide open cull zphur >> oh, yeah. -- culture? >> first of all, hiring personnel is a challenge. the young cyber-- geeks? >> i can use that phrase. they don't think about coming to work for the department of homeland security as their first employment opportunity. i try to make it as attractive as possible. i tell them they don't have to wear a tie. right now there's a huge space for cyberpersonnel to deal with security issues. by the time we talk about a particular phenomenon it's all -- already out of date. from a management perspective, my number one thing right now is hiring. >> and right in the middle there. >> thank you. after the korea and panama f.d.a., the administration i

department of homeland security that is designed to protect critical infrastructure. the grants go from the fed's to our state, cal ema, to local law enforcement to enhance security around critical infrastructure. examples include power plants, dams, stadiums, financial institutions. part of homeland security works with law-enforcement to identify the site that may have some risks associated with it and to identify specific threats and vulnerability. they grant money to the local un force the agency to enhance planning, equipment, and training in the to mitigate the risk to the side. for this grant, the department of homeland security is given approximately $200,000 off to the san francisco police department for equipment. specifically, equipment used by the bomb squad and four interoperable radio equipment. department of medicine management is a fiscal agent for this grant, which is why i am here. there is no local match to this funding. free money for the city and county of san francisco. the opposition's funded and no grant funds have yet been encumber or expanded.

there's no way you can become foolproof. >> this is the department of homeland security, not the departmentes. there are no guarantees here. what we are about is making sure that we spread across the country kind of a safety net of capacity where security is concerned. >> reporter: the safety net includes the transportation security administration, that's the tsa. 52,000 officers screen about 1.8 million passengers every day. the tsa is a lightning rod. >> yes. >> reporter: yes, it is. just some numbers i have. $57 billion in ten years. 8.2 billion what you wanted this year. second biggest cost for you at the department of homeland security. is it worth it? >> i think so. i think so for a number of reasons. i begin with the threat. aviation remains a goal. it worked before ten years ago, but it worked before there have been continual attempts. christmas day of 2009 passenger plane, october of 2010 a cargo plane. that cargo could have gone on a passenger plane. >> could the underwear bomber happen again? >> no, for a whole host of reasons. one of which of course are the new types of screenin

there's no way you can become foolproof. >> this is the department of homeland security, not the departmentantees. there are no guarantees here. what we are about is making sure that we spread across the country kind of a safety net of capacity where security is concerned. >> reporter: the safety net includes the transportation security administration, that's the tsa. 52,000 officers screen about 1.8 million passengers every day. the tsa is a lightning rod. >> yes. >> reporter: yes, it is. just some numbers i have. $57 billion in ten years. 8.2 billion what you wanted this year. second biggest cost for you at the department of homeland security. is it worth it? >> i think so. i think so for a number of reasons. i begin with the threat. aviation remains a goal. it worked before ten years ago, but it worked before there have been continual attempts. christmas day of 2009 passenger plane, october of 2010 a cargo plane. that cargo could have gone on a passenger plane. >> could the underwear bomber happen again? >> no, for a whole host of reasons. one of which of course are the new types of scre

. >>> a berkeley company has been forced to fire 200 workers after the department of homeland security auto ited their employee records. they have been using skilled workers, but many have lost their jobs after the government noticed irregularities in the paperwork. >> the department of homeland security came to the company and demanded all the immigration documents that the employees had submitted and of course the company turned them over. and the federal government came back with a list of documents that -- or a list of employees whose documents didn't check out. >> the company said it had no choice but to let the people go. >>> up next, friday night lights bay area style. see why there is more than just the state championship on the line for awell known south bay high school. >>> he has a way of winning people over in the purest sense. >> he is an exuberant four-year-old in a frightening situation. what a family is asking from everyone before time runs out. >>> plus you are not lazy, you're smart. see how procrastination is about to pay off for you this weekend in a very big way. >

there's no way you are foolproof. >> this is the department of homeland security, not the department of guarantees. there are no guarantees here. what we're about is making sure we spread across the country a kind of a safety net of capacity where security is concerned. >> the safety net includes the transportation security administration. that's the tsa where 52,000 officers screen an estimated 1.8 milli million passengers every day. >> the tsa is a lightning rod. >> $57 billion in ten years. 8.2 billion what you wanted this year, second biggest cost for you, the department of homeland security. is it worth it? >> i think so. i think so for a number of reasons. aviations remains a goal. it worked before ten years ago and it worked before there were continual attempts including christmas day of 2009 passenger plane in october 2010 and a cargo plane which could have gone on a passenger plane. could the underwear bomber happen again. >> no. >> for a whole host of reasons and one of them were a new types of screening machines and also because we have really repaired the intelligence hole

striving for is again that sweet where the business interests of the private-sector merge with security interests of the department of homeland security. so we will continue to worked in that regard together because the united states like many other countries, the actual critical infrastructure of the nation is not controlled by the government but is controlled by the private sector. >> is there a special challenge dealing with that industry because of the culture, very libertarian? wide open culture? >> cyber is first of all hiring personnel as a challenge. the and fiber -- d-backs if i can use that term, don't think about working for the department of homeland security of the first employment opportunity. i like to make it as attractive as possible. they don't have to wear a tie. they can telecommutes and all that stuff. i think right now there is a huge demand on the defense and civilian side for cyberpersonnel. there will exchange so rapidly. by the time we talk about a particular phenomenon it is already out of date. from the management perspective my number one thing right now is hiring. >> right in the middle. >> thank

last year republican senator richard lugar of indiana joined me in asking the department of homeland security to suspend the deportation of these dream act students. now, for the record, is there is any evidence of wrongdoing by these students, they're completely disqualified from this conversation. we're talking about students of good moral character who are in the united states basically without a country. earlier this year, senator lugar and i were joined in our can request by 20 other senators, including majority leader harry reid, judiciary committee chairman patrick leahy and senator bob menendez asking that these dream act students be given an opportunity to stay and not be deported. in response to our letters, john morton, the director of immigration and customs enforcement, issued a memo in june of this year establishing new priorities for deportation. the morton memo says it's a high priority to deport those who have committed serious crime or those who are a threat to public safety. while it is a low priority to deport individuals who've been in the united states since childhood, l

on a declaration of aviation security which, in effect, laid a new foundation for a global aviation security system. at the same time, for more than a year now the department of homeland security has been leading a global supply chain security initiative to protect the vast amounts of goods and commerce that traverse the globe every day and that drive our global economy. we work closely with the world customs organization, the international maritime organization and icao. and what do these initiatives look like in practice? it mean that is the wco at the united states' urging has created something called program global shield that enables customs services around the world to alert each other to suspicious shipments of precursor chemicals used to make explosives. we've made dozens of seizures in this regard stopping just last year 33 metric tons. when it comes to securing the global supply chain, our work was already underway when we saw the attempted terrorist attacks on cargo operations out of yemen in october of 2010. following that incident, the director of the tsa, john pistole, and a team of inspectors immediately went to yemen to assess cargo security and to see

striving for is again that sweet where the business interests of the private-sector merge with security interests of the department of homeland security. so we will continue to worked in that regard together because the united states like many other countries, the actual critical infrastructure of the nation is not controlled by the government but is controlled by the private sector. >> is there a special challenge dealing with that industry because of the culture, very libertarian? wide open culture? >> cyber is first of all hiring personnel as a challenge. the and fiber -- d-backs if i can use that term, don't think about working for the department of homeland security of the first employment opportunity. i like to make it as attractive as possible. they don't have to wear a tie. they can telecommutes and all that stuff. i think right now there is a huge demand on the defense and civilian side for cyberpersonnel. there will exchange so rapidly. by the time we talk about a particular phenomenon it is already out of date. from the management perspective my number one thing right now is hiring. >> right in the middle. >> thank

impression about i.c.e., detainers are merely requests that local law enforcement advise the department of homeland securityn an individual is due to be released from the local jail and that local law enforcement continue holding the individual be on the scheduled time of release for up to 48 hours for i.c.e. to assume custody. resolution addresses the problem by insuring the san francisco county is under no obligation to use limited resources to enforce federal immigration law and enforcement of immigration laws is irresponsible of the federal government, not the local. -- responsible -- the responsibility of the federal government, not the local. colleagues, along with a coalition of many different organizations and immigrant communities, i urge your strong support. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor campos. supervisor campos: thank you. i want to thank supervisors mar -- supervisor mar, the author of this resolution, for bringing this forward. i also want to thank the coalition. if i may, i am going to say a few words in spanish. [speaking spanish] i just wanted to reiterate that i wa

that's why i'm calling on the department of homeland security to deploy thousands of volleyball players to the border to spike these little criminals back to mexico. point, america. next up, folks, we are just 22 days away from the iowa caucus. and newt gingrich has a double digit lead. baffling the washington predicto, but folks i'm not surprised. he has got a good head on his shoulders, and a lot of it. plus, he's not afraid to think of new ways to make us all afraid. so i'm giving a big tip of my hat to newt gingrich for repeatedly alerting the nation to an underreported threat, the electromagnetic pulse. >> electromagnetic pulse is essentially a peculiarly sized nuclear device that becomes a giant lightning strike. it knocks out all the electrical appliances, the electromagnetic pulse attack was literally destroy the country's capacity to function. >> yes, an electromagnetic pulse would disable all electrons devices, all computers. the entire power grid shut down leaving to the unthinkable. we would have to listen to those amish bastards say, we told you so. now newt is not the only

of the contracts between the department of homeland security and the sheriff's department. homeland security is run by janet napolitano, former governor of arizona. she has tangled with him in the past, but he's outlasted her. he's up for re-election next year. chances are, he'll run and win again. and the only thing that's going to stop him is a criminal indictment. >> so, is there any chance the justice department would bring some sort of charges? >> well, there has been an investigation undergoing for several months, if not years. it's completely separate. i don't know, you know, i don't want to prejudge it. i don't know what's going to happen there, but that's the only thing that's going to get his attention. >> it's not like this division which wrote this letter. he rejects the letter and they're like, oh, well, now we're going to file charges? >> with all respect to assistant attorney general perez, all this talk of conciliation and cooperation, i don't know what planet they're living on. >> it's political speak. he clearly doesn't want to say, yeah, he's going to blow

our sister publication reports construction on a new department of homeland securities campus will be delayed by at least five years. the project is being built on the grounds of st. elizabeth hospital in the southeast. the delay will push up the price tag by 5 million bucks and put back relocation of workers. >> one bright spot of news on the economy today, mortgage rates hit another record low. freddie mac said the average rate on a 30-year fixed down to 3.91%. >>> two brazen home burglars are still on the run tonight after breaking into two different silver spring homes earlier this week. one of the daylight heists was caught on home security camera video. our andrea mccar ron live in rockville with more on what was caught on tape. >> it's interesting, aknee tax because both homes did have security systems, but the one you're about to see had video cameras on the out. >> a neighbor's remorse after the house next door was broken into in broad daylight. watch closely as a green suv pulls in front of the home. >> the suspect gets out of the car and walks to the front door. >> he knock

between the department of homeland security and the sheriff's department. homeland security is run by janet innapolitano, former governor of arizona, she has tangled with him in the past but he's outlasted her. he's up for re-election next year. chances are he'll run and win again and the only thing that's going to stop him is a criminal indictment. >> is there any chance the justice department would bring some sort of charges? >> there's been an investigation undergoing, going for several months, if not years. it's completely separate. i don't know, you know, i don't want to pre-judge it. i don't know what's going to happen there but that's the only thing that's going to get his attention. >> this division which wrote the letter, he rejects the letter, now they're like we're going to file charges. >> with all respect to assistant attorney general perez, conciliation and cooperation, i don't know what planet those folks are living on. >> he clearly doesn't want to say yeah he's going to blow his lid off. >> why not say it? this was a guy who has thumbed his

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to retroactively accept a retroactive buffer zone in approximately $199,000 from the department of homeland security president chiu: same house, call put this motion is adopted. item number 29. supervisor sandoval: -- clerk calvillo: item number 29. president chiu: same house, call? this is adopted. item 30. clerk calvillo: a resolution approving the second amendment to the refuse collection agreement. president chiu: supervisor chu?

(laughter) >> stephen: luckily, folk, the department of homeland security is hard at work keeping us safe, especially the terrorist's number one target, western michigan it is like a mitten of death pointed right at the heart of southern ontario. an islamic fundamentalists you know would love nothing more than to attack battle creek and take out our strategic reserve of frooted loops. (laughter) >> stephen: well, luckily, homeland security has provided ample funding to protect the terrified residents of the wolverine state. for more, we turn to fox new's senior anchor with play mobile hair, brett baier. >> 13 counties in the region have received $900 sno-cone machines courtesy of a homeland security grant. local media references state document claiming the machines have a variety of uses, among them making ice to treat injures. and prevent heat related illnesses during emergencies. and to provide sno-cones during promotional events. >> stephen: sno-cones! take that al qaeda! you see, al qaeda's from the desert. they've got no defense against snow, especially in cone form. but the soft