occurred, and, later in the week, civil rights and social liberties, border security technology, and bioterrorism. that is all this week on c- span's "washington journal." thank you for joining us this sunday. i hope you have a great week ahead. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> coming up, senator just bingaman, talks about gas prices and proposed tax breaks for oil companies. then oil executives testified to a senate panel on some of the same issues. after that, the release of a new report showing medicare and social security becoming insolvent sooner than previously thought. and the president's speech in el paso on immigration. >> to mark, we look at how small businesses can protect information from several tax. -- tomorrow, we look at how small businesses can predict cybermation from small attacks. >> newt gingrich and i am announcing my candidacy for president of the united states because i believe we can return america to hope and opportunity. >> with a field of presidential hopefuls beginning to take shape, fo

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the same government agency issues bioterrorism tips, offers the same for a zombie attack. >> dead peopleoming alive? >> exactly. >> no, i'm not prepared for that. >> reporter: the goal of the tongue in cheek blog, draw attention to disaster preparedness. do americans have the basics in event of a terror attack, earthquake, or hurricane, or zombies? >> bottled water in the house, canned goods, batteries. i don't know. what else do you need in an emergency? >> reporter: zombie apocalypse, or disaster emergency kit should include water, food, and medication, first aid supplies, important documents, and a change of clothes and blankets, among other things. beyond the blog post, dr. ali khan, cdc official and assistant surgeon general, rear admiral, and he says zombie flick resident evil. the plan was to pick up buzz on facebook and twitter, which, looking at the trending topics, it has. >> that wouldn't necessarily pertain to older people, but the younger generation may know what they mean. >> reporter: while the cdc thinks zombie emergencies are the stuff of science fiction, there's somethi

tomorrow, bioterrorism and preparedness. today, the topic of border security, the articulate the technologies that are used in securing the southern and northern border -- particularly the technologies that used in securing the southern and northern border. chris strohm of "national journal" writes about national security issues. what role does technology play in border protection? guest: over the years it has played more and more of our role. what they are trying to do is have a mix of personnel, technology, and infrastructure. a major component of that in the technology peace -- had been the technology piece. the department is reviewing how going forward it will use technology. over the last few years, there has been more emphasis on money that has been put at the border to blankets mainly at the southwest border with technology, which includes surveillance cameras, which includes an unmanned aerial vehicles, aircraft, sensors, and the communications and equipment to help the border patrol. host: in this case, what can tec

friday, bioterrorism. today our focus will be airport security. our guest, mickey mccarter, is the washington correspondent for the homeland security today. most people think of airport security as screeners and those kinds of machines. can you give viewers at home other aspects of homeland security that may not be well known outside the department? guest: absolutely, pedro. you're talking about a work force of screeners of about 50,000 people. it is one that people interact with. there are also other tsa employees screening cargo, looking out for it, screening baggage, observing behavior, of suspicious people throughout the airport. there are different people of tsa folks that have different specialties trying to protect planes, with it the passengers, checked baggage, cargo being checked in from the airports. host: have we always seen this when it comes to being checked in at the airport? guest: a piece of legislation that went through congress in 2007 implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 commission act put an emphasis on airport cargo s