cnn's kate bolduan has more. >> reporter: the name and the effects are hard to forget.nd after nine students at central washington university were hospitalized after drinking four loco, officials banned the sale of it and caffeinated malt liquor like it statewide. they're not alone. michigan officials have also banned the sale of alcoholic energy drinks, and college campuses nationwide are taking a closer look. >> the general concern with alcohol and energy drinks is when you mix the two, you're creating an unstable combination in your body. we worry our students are not as informed as they could be about the consequences of mixing these substances. >> reporter: the university of maryland hasn't officially banned the drink but is stepping up outreach to warm them of the potential dangers. dangers dr. daniel lieberman says aren't new, but now served up in a ready made mix and a can he says is marketed to young drinkers. >> what the caffeine is doing is it's encouraging people to drink far more than they should. it masks the effect of the alcohol, so people don't feel the

cnn's kate bolduan joins us now from washington's reagan national airport. reagan is one of those airports with the full body scanner. so let's go through this. if you clear a metal detector, you're simply clear to fly? >> that's one scenario. as you come to the airport and you go through security, that is one scenario. you can clear the detector and off you go. but today with the new security procedures, there are the additional technologies that have raised a lot of eyebrows and criticism. specifically talking about the enhanced patdowns. not everyone will be subjected to these patdowns. some people are calling them more groping than patdown. but you will be subjected to them if you opt out of the full body scanner, if you just refuse to go for whatever reason. or if you go through a metal detector and an alarm goes off, indicating a secondary screening or additional screening is needed. also, there are -- you can be randomly selected for these enhanced patdowns. so those are the scenarios that would put someone in the position of being subjected to these

bring back kate bolduan who is covering the story for us.gs for cigarettes and dramatic warnings. tell us about it. >> the federal government call it the most significant change in more than a quarter century of packaging of cigarettes. today, requirements of bigger and bolder and more graphic warnings on all cigarette packs and cigarette advertisements sold in the u.s. here are some of the proposed images that we are talking about, and the images that the fda is unveiling. they are much more colorful warnings that cigarettes are addictive and harmful to your children and also warnings and images that smoking can lead to cancer and very plainly saying that smoking can kill you. the goal here is clear, grab your attention and make you think twice, to get people to stop smoking or never start, and i spoke with the fda commissioner a short time ago and asked her, why now? >> for many years we were seeing steady declines, but over the last five years or so, the numbers have stayed steady, and we are seeing more than 20% still smoking, and we nee

. >>> we want to go to our kate bolduan at washington's reagan national airport and says the tsa is aware of this woman's complaint. so what is their explanation? >> reporter: tsa released a short statement, don, and said in their statement "we will review the matter and take appropriate action, if necessary. tsa also pointed us to their procedures and policies regarding screening -- screening of prosthetic devices which say very clearly that the screening officers will need to see and touch the devices. but it also says the officers will not ask nor require that you remove the diseases. so it seems clear it's not policy to ask someone to remove the device. but this did happen a couple months ago, moments before the new mapatdown procedures put do place. >> thank you very much for that, kate. >>> we want to go to wendy walsh, who is a psychologist and blogger. tell me, what is going on here? have we traded really all of our privacy for the promise of safety and security? does it have to go this far? >> sad to say, it does, don. i mean, we've now reached the sort of level of personal fear

kate bolduan at reagan national airport. appreciate it. >>> what else is happening out there as you either hit the road, hit the skies. jacqui jeras is watching all the potential travel delays. any particular troublesome areas? >> yeah. we're watching things out west. that's where we'll have the greatest problems in terms of travel today, because we have very windy conditions, and a lot of heavy snow. a lot of people this time of the year, fredricka, like to go skiing. the ski resorts are happy because you're getting good snow. difficult to get there from time to time. there you can see the snow coming down from the sierras into the wasatch range. wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour. look at a live picture in salt lake city. mostly cloudy conditions. you see shaking on the camera because of strong winds. under a high-wind warning. gusts as high as 60 miles per hour an the snow starts later on. may start at rain an change over and four to eight inches expected by monday morning. the sooner you travel the better off you'll be.

as he said i'm kate bolduan in for ali velshi with you for the next two hours. a deadly confrontation between two bitter enemies raises tensions around the world. >>> haiti's misery, first the earthquake, then the cholera, and now violence. we'll have an eyewitness report. you'll want to see that. >>> and thousands of u.s. troops are coming home from iraq and afghanistan with traumatic brain injuries. we talk about this a lot. could a new kind of helmet help? >>> first, though, big story we are watching and we want to begin with right now. the shocking reminder of the forgotten war. 57 years after north and south korea reached an uneasy armistice, but never an outright peace. the world is watching a return to deadly hostilities. it centers on a disputed island two miles from a disputed border in the yellow sea. the south had been holding military thridrills there to wh the north fiercely objected when the south started firing artillery into the sea but away from north korea, the north unleashed a barrage, killing two south korean marines and wounding at least 15

to help answer these questions kate bolduan joins us from reagan national airport. what's taking place there and what are the grumblings. what are people saying? >> hey there, fredricka. you set up the debate really well. there's a big question of what's thorough and too thorough. you have everyone from privacy rights, civil rights activist to pilots themselves criticizing security procedures that they are too intrusive and excessive. at the same time tsa has come out to defend the security policies saying they are both necessary and safe. there's been a lot of talk about it. a lot of stories, a lot of headlines. we want to clear up a few questions for viewers as they get ready to head to the airport for this very busy holiday season. one of the things people should know, they ask if everybody is going to encounter these full body scanners. the answer is no. some places don't have them yet. there are 400 machines in about 69 airports, commercial airports throughout the airports. that's 69 airports of the more than 560 commercial airports there are in the country. on

kate bolduan, cnn, washington. >>> well, now we're crossing the half hour.r a look at our top stories. a stunning military confrontation between north and south korea. reports say the north hit a south korean island with some 200 artillery rounds. at least two soldiers killed and a dozen more hurt. south korea then fired back, scrambling f-16 fighter jets. the south has convened an emergency meeting of the security ministers. >>> heavy snow across our nation's northern tier with more on the way. there's a blizzard warning. for most of utah and tornadoes tore through parts of wisconsin and illinois leaving a trail of destruction behind. >>> anger in ireland. about 100 protesters got into shoving matches with police and forced their way through gates of government buildings. angry over the decision to take a multibillion dollar bailout from the eu and the international monetary fund. >>> well, it's been five years now since alabama teenager natalee holloway disappeared in aruba. and her family has had no answers. >> that's right. it could change in a matter of

let me bring in our kate bolduan who is a friend of our cnn saturday and sunday morning., who won't, who does, who doesn't go through these particular pat-downs and scanners. >> yeah, there are a lot of headlines going on out there and a lot of people talking about this. one because it's raising a lot of eyebrows and also because we're heading into the busiest travel season of the year. i'm already saying it, we're going to say it a lot more. about 20 million people are expected to travel this holiday season and that's why we're talking about this. and we wanted to kind of do a little bit of a reality check to try to help people out and answer some of the questions that passengers will likely be having as they head to the airports this holiday season. i think we have some graphics that will help us a little bit. so i want to run through a few things that will probably help passengers out a little bit. one, do all airports have these full-body scanners that you've been discussing, t.j.? well, the answer is, no. and you mentioned it. there are 400 machines according to the