take the davis family flying to see grandma in el paso. it took them all of two minutes to breeze through security, but they were still leery. >> i'm not too big on either of the choices. >> reporter: you don't likiter? what are you going to do? >> i don't want to get killed through radiation, i don't want people touching my private parts. >> reporter: it is the touching, the patdown, that's drawn the ire of so many americans. a recent abc news/"washington post"poll found that 64% are in favor of the scanners but half say the patdown goes so far. the uproar started a few weeks ago and has only gotten louder. first, there was the guy that recorded his encounter. >> we can do that out here, but if you touch my junk, i'm going to have i arrested. >> reporter: and then, the videos. a shirtless little boy being examined by an agent. tsa insists it is all necessary to keep explosives off planes. president obama was forced to defend the procedures. >> you have to constantly refine and measure whether what we're doing is the only way to assure the