>>> the women claim she were stripped searched at jfk airport because of their medical problems. >>> three women, all over 60, all with medical issues and all with nearly identical stories of human mill taigs while traveling through jfk last weekend. >> i never have heard of a person's pants or under pants being taken off? >>> the claims that the women were stripped search are stunning. the incidents happened all in one day in the same terminal. two of the women were on the same flight and one by one they are coming forward with claims of taking off their pants so tsa agents can check their medical equipment? >>> i was crying. i couldn't believe it? >>> the tsa's even police say passengers will into the be required to expose sheas for inspection and passengers should not be asked to lift, raise or remove any article of clothing to reveal a sensitive part of the body, policies that seem to have been violated? >>> he said she never told agents that she had a colostomy bag, just a bag? >>> there are no cameras in the private screening rooms. the agency is reviewing the allegations but o

chris matthews was here peddling his latest jfk book. he is a huge fan. was jfk under estimated? that is the debate going on. talk about controlling the message. in the obama administration, we talk about their view of the press. they are so controlling of the press. >> they have not done a good job. >> that was a campaign that was brilliant in its use of new media. that again is striking. every president uses the medium of their own time. radio, tv with kennedy. we have not seen this white house effectively harness and the -- any of the media. >> goldman sachs. >> one of the reasons i supported president obama was i did not want to see larry summers in the white house. [laughter] with hillary clinton, until the end of her campaign, there was not a sense of how she could bring her history to bear. it was very much a restoration ist campaign. he fell if you are going to get the clinton administration part 3. -- you felt as if you were going to get the clinton administration part 3. if you feel it was such a crisis and panic at that time as many say it was coming out of the calamit

in the case of jfk, who does he turn to?rts of this cd set and books, dick, that surprised you? >> not really, but i must say that i was marveled at her concern about, for instance, the remodeling of the white house. the detail that she went to and that she had to research that she did, and then her ability to administer it is really overwhelmingloverwhelming. i just can't believe a person could do it on such notice and russia been planning much longer than we know. spent i think it was, when she came to the white house, 11 experience with mrs. eisenhower who did not treat her terribly well. she was shown through the state rooms, and she said they look like bad convention hotel. there was a reason for that, which i'm not sure she knew, which is when the white house was reconstructed during the truman administration, they left the four walls on the outside, scooped out everything on inside, the floors and so on, they ran out of money so harry truman quite characteristically made a deal with a department store in new york, the

but january 2012, we can look forward to biking along jfk on this brand new bikeway, paid for with prop k money. i think that is a very good news. there has also been in progress on the progressbikeway improvements project, but i will not go into detail there. you may recall that you also allocated $165,000 a prop k to that project. finally, two items. the central freeway, this is ancient history now, but the central freeway opened in 2006 -- i am is sorry, octavia boulevard, replacement of central freeway. at the time, we had an agreement with the city that when some of those parcels of land sold, we would do the ancillary projects that had been promised to the neighbors in the areas around the new boulevard. well, finally, the real estate in that area is beginning to sell, and now the city is in a condition to start implementing those ancillary projects that were promised as part of the octavia boulevard plan, and you'll see some action in that plan starting very, very soon, i enginery 2012. that is already beginning to implement projects around the area as, including some of these sm

they say they were forced to take off their clothes while being screened at jfk. tsa says it's reviewing all these complaints, and for their part they continue to say, "we do not conduct strip searches as part of passenger screening." >>> as we reported here last week, hearings are going on now in washington over whether or not john hinckley, who tried to assassinate president ronald reagan should be allowed more time away from the mental hospital where he spent the last 30 years. well, today his sister from dallas testified she sees no reason why he shouldn't be allowed out of the hospital for more days per year. she said her brother "doesn't bother anybody and doesn't pose a risk to anyone." then she was asked if it would be okay if her brother lived closer to her in dallas. at that point she felt compelled to point out she lives about ten minutes away from the home of former president george w. bush, and maybe that wouldn't be such a great idea after all. >>> well, harry truman famously ran against the do nothing congress. barack obama's been trying to do that

plus, president obama compared himself to lincoln, fdr, jfk and teddy roosevelt today. could he be really more like jimmy carter? and now, i have heard it all. professor claims rudolph the red-nosed reindeer promotes bullying and is bad for kids. those details and much more. "the five" starts right now. ♪ >> dana: things are heating up in iowa. ron paul is in second place in a poll out there. newt gingrich is in first. ron paul is going on the offense. >> if you want to put people in jail, look at the politicians that created the environment. the politicians brought unemployment. >> gingrich on the defense, taking $1.5 million. after he led congress. freddie mac. $1.6 million. >> some just before the housing market collapsed. >> he renewed his support for the healthcare mandate. >> the individual mandate? folks, don't ask me to explain this. >> dana: those are fighting words. ron paul has been strong in iowa for a long time. steady base of support. it doesn't grow much but steady. we know his followers are passionate. aggressive. this ad is not something just put on the

of the oval office profiles of the national security at pfizer's and the presidents they served from jfk to george w. bush. simon and schuster publishers and professor i.m. destler is the co-author along with daalder. >> it was created with eisenhower and 53 because we wanted personal policy aide to manage the lubber ret paul will you. but it was created semi into the accidentally when he brought the bundy to the white house and the administration was a of a job available called assistance to the national security affairs. would you like it? kennedy knew exactly what he didn't want. he didn't want an eisenhower process that only involved the rest of the people. what he would want was a person close at him who would be sure he got brain development and that's connected him to officials of various levels of government that didn't undercut the secretary of the st. but. spearman what was the eisenhower then created? >> you wanted to have a glow were and despite what are the basic policy approach to the major issues and major parts of the world. as we put it in much more basic defense posture

april 11th, 2011, a small delta comair bombardier arriving from boston lands at jfk.er of one of the reason yes they should not take their seat belts off before they reach the gate. >> 563. send the trucks. just hit a -- >> a massive airfrance airbus a380. turning it about 45 degrees. crashes into it. >> emergency equipment. >> once ground control receives word of the accident, they immediately dispatch emergency personnel. after moving both planes away from the crash site, crews work to cleanup any debris on the runway. the cause is still being investigated. but the ntsb's preliminary report indicates, the regional jet had to wait for another plane to depart before being able to taxi to its gate. while waiting, the jet's tail was hanging over the taxiway. additionally, the air france airbus a380 is one of the largest commercial airlines in service to date with a total wingspan of 261 feet. while passengers on the 300-ton airbus report feeling only a slight rumble. >> airfrance thinks, may have hit somebody. >> the 56 people on the smaller comair bombardier feel a vio

(woolf) "when jfk was president, we were still using largely the same power plants as we are diversifyr eeergy mix, we're going to need an extra federal government awarded 15-billion dollars in various energy ggants nd subsidies to green energy companies.but one of its biggest grrntssbecame a national scandal. more than a half billion dollars n loans weee awaaded to solyndra, a 3 when the firm went bankrupp, taxpayers were left holdingg 3 solyndra like situation n ttat's because maryland only oofers loans to businesses and & non-profitt by requiring collateral. (woolf) "if you want to get a 2 1/2 percent loan, we'll be happy toogiiv it to youufor investments that will payyfor tself many times over, but they're secured llaas."woolf says those subsidies will help jump-start projectssthat wwll not only crrate hundreds of & construction jobs but many permannnt jjbs. incentivee he -3says wwil help marylann meet its own mandate that 3 20-percent of local electriiity be geeerated from -3 renewable energy sourccs ii 3say the inccease ii government pubsidies has aatually lowered -3 the riss for

he was jfk kind of incarn at. he was extremely active in world war ii. he drank the milk of fdr. he believed in -- he was a democratic activist, labor lawyer truly. conducting sort of activist raleas and supporting downtroden workers and i think going into the c.i.a. i think a lot of people were from yale and especially all the ivy leaguers they were liberal. the tricky part comes at the end of the 60s when it all starts to go sour and i think he stayed being liberal kind of under the covers and then emerged when you see him in these clips where he's very open and very willing to engage with the public and in a sense no longer the clan destined officer. >> let's dip into your documentary. how long is it? >> the film is 104 minutes long and 35 mil meter playing in local theaters and will be out nationwide in 35 cities shortly. so 104 minutes. >> and when did you start actually working on it? >> well, i was inspired by that 9/11 story but i think i really started working about 2005. so it's long, two years of edditting with my editor in new york, the daughter of the famous charles

. >>> 85-year-old woman says she was humiliated at the hands of tsa agents at jfk airport after beingearched. the tsa is telling a different story. here's that story tonight. >> took me into a private room and strip searched me. >> reporter: she headed to new york's jfk airport this week to catch a jetblue flight to fort lauderdale, florida. breezing through security in a wheelchair, she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner. she said she was worried about the scanner interfering with her defibrillator. that required agents to take a closer look. >> i weigh 103 pounds. i'll be 85 february 1st. so i'm your typical terrorist, right? >> reporter: led to a private screening room, what comes next is something she calls "mortifying." >> she says, will you pull your pants down, please? and she pulled my underwear down and searched me. >> reporter: she hurt her shin during the ordeal. she's back in florida, bandaged and humiliated. >> i couldn't picture such a thing. >> reporter: the tsa released a statement saying in part -- >> that's despicable. >> reporter: privat

philadelphia, teterboro and jfk reporting delays.r on thfr an. >>. >> everything is ok for now. >> how did you sleep, rob? >> saturday was good. sunday not so much, you know? and full disclosure. my mother-in-law came in last week for a few days. and we want you back, please. [ laughter ] >> that would help. >> you never love your in-laws and your own parents more than when you have a brand-new baby. >> big help. >> rob, thank you. >>> newt gingrich now surging to the top of the gop field in iowa. he is opening up some breathing room on the rest of the candidates too. take a look at this new nbc poll. the former house speaker leading in iowa with 26%. mitt romney in second with 18%. ron paul in third with 17%. now to the courting of herman cain. the candidate suspended his presidential campaign on saturday. you would have to live under a rock if you didn't know that. >> he was unable to overcome allegations of sexual harassment and a 13-year extramarital affair. now his former rivals are scrambling for a possibly game-changing endors

chateau the oval office profile of the national security of pfizer's when the presidents they served from jfk to george w. bush. thanks for your time. >> it's been a pleasure. thank you for having me. the making of africa and america is the name of the book. professor year the university of maryland is the author and the subtitle for great migrations i gave the title greater recourse the trans-atlantic slave trade in the first middle passage, the movement of some 400,000 african to the mainland north america. second, migration is the internals late trade the movement over a million the old south as it is sometimes called the black belt to the deep south, georgia, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, across the mississippi river. third, great migration being the movement of black people from the deep south from the soft to the cities of the north and the 20 at century. the total is over 6 million, and of course the migration which is just beginning in 1965 that this the change if our immigration law is that have brought people of african descent from all over the world to the united states. >> if

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reporter: both women say they were forced to take off their clothes in a private screening room at jfk last weekend, one day apart, as an extended patdown of ts a averages. >> this 85-year-old woman, they thought needed to be strip- searched. >> they point out, not all terrorists look like terrorists. and he says the incident highlights a frustrating problem. >> they're having cases overseas, where elderly people and young children have been used to conceal bombs and explosives. so i understand why the tsa is concerned but you can't treat everyone the same. >> the tsa is getting better and better at finding the balance between security and privacy. but as this case shows, they still have a ways to go. >> reporter: the tsa is looking into what happened and says it has interviewed the agents involved in both incidents, but issued a statement saying, quote, the tsa does not include strip searches as part of our security protocols. and one was not conducted in this case. but there are no security cameras in the private screening rooms. so it boils down to a he said, she said. state senator

she says it happened at new york's jfk airport after she was strip searched but the tsa is telling a different story. >> they took me into a private room and strip searched me. >> reporter: lenore zimmerman headed to the jfk airport to catch a jetblue flight to ft. lauderdale, florida. breezing through security in a wheelchair with a walker in her lap, she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner. zimmerman told the agent she was worried about the scanner interfering with her defibrillator. that request requiring agents to take a closer look. >> i weigh 103 pounds. i'm going to be 85 in february 1st so i'm your typical terrorist, right? >> reporter: led to a private screening room by a female agent, what comes next is something that zimmerman calls, quote, mortifying. >> she says well, you pull your pants down, please and then she pulled my underwear down and stretch searched me. >> reporter: zimmerman hurt her shin during the ordeal. >> in my wildest dream being couldn't picture such a thing. >> reporter: the truck security administering releasing a statement

. >> she was flown from sacramento to jfk, and then we picked her up in new york. >> it is the best christmas present ever. >> just unbelievable. animal control workers were able to reunite her with her family thanks to a microchip. that is a nice holiday surprise. a new analysis of census data by the pew pew research center shows that 51% of american adults are married. compare that to 1960, when a 72% of americans over age 18 were married. the median age for the first marriage is a record high, 26.5 for brides, just shy of 29 for grooms. but while the percentage has gone down, the numbers reflect an increase in cohabitation, single-person households, and single parents. still ahead, looking for a job? we have tips on how to boost your resume. >> some people may be out shopping for you. >> in "consumer alert," safety tip to make sure you and your purchases make it home safely. >> clouds are building in across the area. a storm system is approaching from the west. first, a live look outside from skycam. alert,"day's "consumer the next time you go through your resume or job application, linke4

she claims office officers out after jfk airport touched her inappropriately touring whether she saysearch. >> tsa officials have a far different version. >> reporter: they took me into a private room and strip searched me. >> len lower zimmerman headed to new york's jfk airport to catch a jetblue flight to ft. lauderdale, florida. breezing through security in a wheelchair with a walker in her lap, she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner. disciple man told the agent that she was worry -- worried about the scanner interfering with her defibrillatoren. >> i weigh 103 pounds, i'm 85 in february 1st so i'm your typical terrorist, right. >> led to a private screening room by a female agent, what comes next is something that zimmerman calls, quote, mother fighting. >> she says pill you pull your pants down, please and they -- she says will you pull your pants down, please and then she pulled my underpants down and she strip searched me. >> the transportation security administration saying in part, quote, while we regret that the passenger feels she had an ann ple

there might be ani eisenhower personal, a jfk person, and he loves to listen to what other presidentshe last dinner was in may and we've had one every year. >> there weren't others that solicited your base of knowledge? >> no, not at all. and it's so much fun. he just is really good at that kind of seminar situation, making sure, hey, you haven't said anything, what are you thinking. and we all talk freely and give advice. i remember at the last dinner we talked about truman, and the idea that truman had run against a do-nothing congress. that was a potential avenue for him to go. we talked about fdr, teddy roosevelt. all these characters are in his head. he likes history and it's great that he can learn from history. >> dinners at the white house. i'm going to have more of my interview tomorrow, including why being a big baseball fan made her the historian she is today. that's a wrap of our extended edition of "weekends with alex witt." i'll look for you tomorrow morning. stay with us, headline updates and breaking news as it happens. i'm alex witt. have a great day. we'll see you in

i was reading one the other day taking on chris matthews and others for the deification of jfk. they both started out on the wrong side of the civil rights question. their exposure with you and others helped to push them toward his better self. talk to me about the role you played in exposing them to find their own moral compass. >> bobby kennedy and john kennedy was troubling to those of us caught up in the adventure of the civil rights movement. from a technical point of view, everything we wanted to do was dependent on the federal government. the laws that oppressed us the most severely were laws of the state. the only thing that were supreme to the laws of the state were that of the federal government. the constitution. you had to abide by the tenants of the constitution. or you will not be permitted to have these rights. therefore the only tools we had that came from the nation, from the state, was the federal law. people who were the caretakers of that law was the president of the united states who could write things into law or into execution of the law. and there was a p

an 85-year-old woman says an agent humiliated here at jfk airport.searched, but the tsa has a different story. fox's heather childress reports. >> they took me into a private room and strip searched me. >> reporter: lenore zimmerman headed to new york's jfk airport this week to catch a jetblue flight to fort lauderdale florida. breezing through security in a wheelchair with a walker in her lap, she asked to be patted down instead of going through the scanner. zimmerman said she was deferred about the scanner interfering with her defibrillator. that request requiring agents to take a closer look. >> i weigh 103 pounds. i'm going to be 85 february 1st. so i'm a typical terrorist, right? >> reporter: led to a private screening room by a female agent, what comes next is something zimmerman calls "mortifying." >> she says will you pull your pants down, please, and then she pulled my underwear down and strip searched me. >> reporter: zimmerman hurt her angry. >> reporter: zimmerman says she plans to settle back into her snowbird life in florida and won't b