. >> we came on lax and we let them stay in the game. in the nfl, you can't do that.nd especially when we have a vision and a goal to do things, you know, you got to come out and play better there. >> the rhs are back at home taking on the bucks and the kick offset for 4:15. >> >> about landry had no idea he was going to do that. reed said they practiced that play all of the time. and it's interesting, after towards, they're showing reed's stats and the company he keeps with the stats and without question -- he's going to the hall of fame. and i want you to think about what we've seen on the field over the past few years. ogden is going into the hall of fame and ray lewis is going to the hall of fame. and ed reed is going to the hall of fame. we have had rod lewiston and shannon sharp and they're going to go. wow, the guys that have played for raven's town, unbelievable. yeah, it speaks well. >> man, doesn't it? >> we played a game in the front office off of the front field -- just watch this for a second. just watch this. okay! okay! touchdown, baltimore ravens. of c

an audit revealed recently lax record keeping. the audit discovered a $200,000 gap in the books but criminal activity is not suspected. >> i don't personally believe and i can't say this for a fact, i don't believe there was criminal activity but we'll find out. it's being looked at. >> reporter: the department is rerouting all record keeping to one office for better accountability. >>> the mayor heads to miami on a family vacation and taxpayers foot the bill for her security. the spending panel approved almost $900 for a police officer who accompanied mayor stephanie rawlings-blake on a july vacation to florida. >> the sergeant knew where we were staying so if something happened here and he had to get3 me back to baltimore, he knew where we were staying but he wasn't there to cart me around. >> the mayor says traveling with security is a city policy. it's our duty to hold our government accountable and can you help us do that by joining our fox 45 waste watch..3 if you see government waste, call our hotline. can you also go to.co

a plane, delta 125 taking off for lax, los angeles international.ck in atlanta a short time ago because of a reported engine failure and when it landed at heartfield, apparently it scraped its tail on the runway, but we're told everybody is okay. that's two delta flights tonight. one in new york and they landed safely at jfk, the late he is one in atlanta. landing safely, but having a little bit of trouble as it scrapes its tail on the ground. now, engine failure is being reported in both instances. this also a boeing 767. we're going to do some reporting on this and find out more about it. that's the latest on the breaking news story and just wanted to get you that. moving on. black friday is around the corner, you know that. kicking off the shonning season. will the rush to the stars pump blood into the u.s. economy? the elusive santa claus bump. is that a dance? no. tips what to watch for in the markets, plus, one of the world's most recognizable animals here today and may be gone completely tomorrow. the national call to save the tiger. here kit

in san francisco a delay about 45 minutes on the ground, lax same thing, departure delays, and we see that fluctuate a bit. later on today the delays are going to be mostly out towards the west, salt lake city, rain and wind could give you up to an hour delay and again sfo, lax also over into oakland, you can have the delays from 15 to 30, portland, organize oh, seattle also going to join into the mix and the reason why, it's very easy to see. we've got a large storm system out to the west and the storm system will pull its way across much of the great -- across parts of the sierra nevada into the great basin and central rockies, not in inches but in terms of feet. plain as day the scattered showers moving as could parts of the san joaquin valley and bay area. same story back in parts of the wasatch range and central rockies. great news for skiers, not so much for the travelers. we're beginning to see a light touch of snowfall towards thunder bay and into the arrow head region of minnesota. more on that on the way. as we get into wednesday and thursday which we'll show new a few momen

it has come under scrutiny because of the lax inspections the state has been fined for seven straight years for failing to meet minimum federal standards. >> new cell phone towers in walnut creak may be hut on hold yt the city council will consider a request for a six- month moratorium. >>> and new evidence that a college education is worth the investment. a study by the cal state system found a san josi graduate will be earning nearly $93,000 when they reach medd career, 21 types the initial tuitionip investment. san francisco state is more than $82,000 and cal state east bay is nearly $80,000. >>> final farewell to her oakland district from mayor- elect jean quan. during her eight years on the city council, quan and her staff held office hours at most claire farmers' market from spring through fall. today she was at the market for the last time as a council member. quan says she wants to treat the city she did her district. >> i hope to do the same thing all over the city, to organize people, to organize the business districts and to literally organize block-by- block to take back t

. >> the department officials say at least five people were reprimanded for the lax recordkeeping. >>it is our duty to hold our government accountable and you can help by joining our fox 45 waste watch. if you see government waste, call (410)662-1456. you can go to foxbaltimore.com and click on waste watch. >>> in chester today, a veteran is receiving a hero ease welcome mad's welcomemade just for him. joel d smith is showing us how this amputee is moving into a home as special as he is. >> reporter: good morning, patrice. this is called homes for our troops. this is a free home going to him because of how special he is and the special needs he has. i have jim from the construction. you guys got invooved with this. tell us about the guy who is going to be living here. >> the soldier's name is parris butler, is' double amputee. the home was built with special features to get around on a daily basis. >> reporter: there's a lot of challenges, and he was looking for a home for a while. what is here in the kitchen that wouldn't be in a normaa home? >> what you see underneath the stove, you

passengers have been complaining about the new rears here at lax and other airports since they went into in july. the tsa plans to be tough on him. >> we'll look at the incident from start to finish of what occurred and the penalty cou

at lax, a few more handed out don't touch my junk stickers. activists at reagan were met by angry flyers determined not to be slowed down. >> ma'am, make sure to opt out. >> no, of course not. >> reporter: so, what was supposed to be a national day of protest turned into little more than a side show. there was the college student in salt lake city who went through security in a speedo. >> sir what are you doing? >> just a safety precaution, man. >> put your clothes back on. >> reporter: the woman in l.a. who asked for a patdown in her bikini. >> if they want to try and see what i've got hidden in my bikini, they're welcome to. >> reporter: still, one of the organizers of national opt-out day calls today a success. >> the interest has just been incredible. and all the reports seem to indicate that airport traffic is light. if fewer people have been abused today as a result, i'm ecstatic about that. >> reporter: he says though the protests weren't large, the message got through. take the davis family flying to see grandma in el paso. it took the

china's mines are considered the deadliest in the world due to lax safety standards and the rush to feed demand from a robust economy. more than 2600 people have died in coal mine accidents in china last year. >>> coming up next, howard and his forecast. >>> j.c., it's nice out here right now. the sun has come out, the fog has burned off and a warm start to the week. it's not going to finish that way. we're looking ahead towards thanksgiving when 9 news now at noon returns. - hello! - ha! why don't you try a home cooked meal... with yummy hamburger helper? oh! tada! fantastically tasty, huh? ummm, it's good. what would you guys like? hamburger helper. what?! one pound... one pan... one tasty meal! with not having enough food. that's why i've teamed up with feeding america and hamburger helper®. when you buy hamburger helper® you can help feeding america deliver a meal to a local food bank. visit this website to see how you can help. and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month for a year. and th

woman mangled and disfigured after jumping over their yard fence igniting the debate over russia's lax dog ownership laws the complex issue is difficult to solve with some pointing the finger at dog breeds and others blaming bad owners ortiz dennis blonsky reports. this eighty five year old woman was almost killed by two pit bulls and here on the yard she was screaming for help and when a neighbor heard her cries she called the police when the officers arrived the region animals turned on them. one of the officers blew his whistle the dogs robbed the victim and the tag the policeman badly injuring his arm the officers had no other option but to should both animals dead by the time the woman was unconscious she was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where the patient was in shock upon arrival we had to perform an emergency operation to amputate her arms the owners of the bulls kept them for breeding but it seems they didn't keep them secure enough since on the fateful day they managed to escape jumping over a fence and tearing through the neighborhood so that the unfortunately it's

china if you want to pay cheap taxes go to ireland you know if you want to pay if you want to have a lax regulatory environment for your environmental crimes to go to some other territory so there's not the corporations they don't exist on behalf of any one region or country they're merely fractions of a corporation. that are held together by one common theme of fraud and max finally i have some headlines here that i noticed silver shortages accelerate as wholesale supplies plunge kreager kaiser one j.p. morgan's zero that's right zero is picked up on this the wholesale market for silver has dried up because of the campaign to disseminate to a decimate j.p. morgan by exposing their multi-billion dollar silver position that they're holding short on their books every penny of the price of silver that goes up j.p. morgan comes closer to being extinct and i liken this to that scene in star wars remember where luke skywalker is flying into the death star and he asked to hit that exact little spot in the death star to explode the death star that little spot is the vulnerability of the global b

. >> one traveler got a lot of attention at lax, and she wore bikinis to the airport as she was headedyour thanksgiving destination there she is, she says normally she feels like she's done dressing to go to security any race. she wanted to avoid a full body scan because she's worried about radiation. with all eyes on her she did not get one or sat down. coming up we will have live to glider morrow church where they are getting ready to serve meals to five dozen needy people. you can see, the tables are ago, a food is ready to be carved up we'll take you there in a few minutes. welcome back, a quick look at the next few days. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. zia called it is, 56 and landed here in san francisco it will top out of 45 degrees. it looks like to get a chance of rain tomorrow, louisa will have a foul weather update in a few minutes. first, auction house, selling an original spark greater cost him and the star wars movie. the offer and has a jet black helmet masks and armor is expected to sell for 250,000-at 365 status and dollars. because jim is thought to been

the roots of it is the fact that the banks gave out loans willy nilly and the root of it is there was lax regulation large commercial globe and that's down to the politicians isn't it and you know for example ireland you know we've been told a law at the moment in britain we've been told we have to bail out our interest we trade with them so much and also that ireland is such a close neighbor the truth is. we're bailing out the our response because we're trying to save r.b.s. the rule bank of scotland well the british taxpayers already failed our but particular bank out once about twelve months ago and we're being asked to do it again we're being asked to give intent give ten billion pounds to ireland we're not even a member of the eurozone others a lot of people in great britain who feel we shouldn't be bailing out ireland and i say this poll in today's tabloid the sun the biggest selling newspaper in britain says that nearly eighty percent of the population will not sugary chose paling out any other countries and i'm sure that's going to be mirrored if they did a similar survey in simil

he knows trucker hats like i know trucker's lax. living at a rest stop will do that, people. and he is old and it abouter and under the cat's litter. good to see you, pifn. >> check out today's feature on the caribbean region that offers a wealth of activity that includes snorkeling with whales. i said snorkeling with whales and not snorkeling whales. big and life-threatening difference. >> truly it is. >> it is. >> i hope to see a correction in the future. >> i hope to give one of those whales a paper cut, if you catch my meaning. i have a big mouth. >> it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery and wrapped in an inning ma object obscured by a leopard thong. i speak of the rogue rocket a cbs news helicopter captured video of as it launched over the skies of l.a. last night. the missile defense agency, navy, air force deny any involvent in in the eerie airshow. and though nobody knows what the hell it was, a spokesman for the space defense command told fox news to totally not worry about it. quote, we are confident this was not fired from a foreign military. that's not what we are w

. >>> a plane heading from lax to redding landed safely after it hit a bird shortly after taking off. the horizon air turbo flight had to land after the turbo plane hit a bird. the plane was flying near dodger stadium then safely flew back to l.a.x. 73 people were on board. >>> police launch a major gang sweep. the bay area locations that investigators say were at the center of a crime ring. julie haener is looking at the stories we're working on. >> san francisco could soon have a new mayor. the action taken today to choose one. >>> and bay area residents roll up their sleeves and help feed people in need. >>> these stories and much more coming up at 6:00, we'll see you then. >>> a man arrested in the case of a woman who had her terrier stolen is now changing his story. 19-year-old christopher orlando perkins was arrested on thursday, last thursday in connection with the october 30th robbery. according to police, perkins first told investigators he sold the 6-year-old dog named deuce. now he says he left it in a holiday park -- at holiday park in stockton. the investigators believe h

it's just pointing out his accounting was a bit lax. but why?oesn't holder have anything more important to do? this is a desperate attempt to denigrate governor christie, is it not? what other explanation is there for this? the governor should just write hold ear check for 2 grand and send it to him. preposterous. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from austin, texas fox news analyst karl rove partly responsible for fox owe phobia. you know it is your fault, mr. rove. >> i thought it was all your fault. i'm willing to accept part of the blame. isn't that amazing snarky dana milbank who writes a column several days a week that is bitter and brittle and nasty to people on the center right of politics he has to call doug shone a nominal democrat. was joe trippi who ran howard dean's campaign, you know, not enough of a democrat for mr. milbank, kirsten powers who writes columns advocating the democrat line and disagreeing with republican line, is she not enough of a democrat because she generally keeps her colum

it makes me wonder if laxatives were added because there's no fiber in any of these things.e like this in the long-term? >> people talk about food, the "super size me" movies, other diets people have done. it's always interesting for me what works. i wonder how much of it is his body type, his metabolism, how much could work for you and me, i'm willing to try. >> i should mention our producer told me, the guy did have a few carrots. maybe my laxative theory falls. >> weighing down the doritos, that's lovely. >> the take-away message is we get caught up in nutrition. the guy used to eat 2,600 calories, he dropped it 800 calories, that was part of the weight loss. part of the takeaway is immediate if you're trying to lose weight, calories are really the bottom line. it's not necessarily nutritional value. sarily nutritional value. nutritional value. >> if you had to pick one for your diet, what would you do? doritos. i'll take the twinkies. why go one more round ? you don't need a rematch, but a rethink. with lunesta. lunesta is thought to interact with gaba receptors associat

when did it take off and have everybody come out and say, it was the folks going off to hawaii from lax>> reporter: right, yeah, that is a good question. that would have been one of the first things that they should have done. you've got restricted air space on either side of the corridor that runs right over lax, and any flights coming in from hawaii going into l.a. would go in that corridor, and many would fly through that corridor above that corridor if they were going to some place like phoenix which is one of the postulated things in this that they are saying it was a flight from hawaii to phoenix. so i don't know why they haven't done it, because it should be relatively simple to do. megyn: yeah, which has a lot of people asking questions. captain, what about its speed? because some experts, like yourself, who have looked at the tape have said, it's going too slow. there is a reason they call them rockets, these missiles. >> reporter: well it all depends on your aspect. if the rocket is going like this you see a real quick movement. but if the rocket is going away from you there i

it happened monday night north of catalina island near lax, california. resembled a missile. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, eun. a lot of folks, including experts at the pentagon, are trying to figure out exactly what happened. there was a strange vor trail that was actually caughtn video. it appeared it was coming up out of the ocean, up into the air from the ocn. a lot of folks thought it looked like a misle launch. let's take a look at this video. actually, it was shot monday night by a news helicopter by kcbs in las vegas. it goes up intthe sky, turning pink in the sunset. now it looked like a missile launch. a lot of people have been speculating ever since. the u.s. military has been investigating. they say they have no concrete explanation. a former nasa mission control specialist say it was an optical illusion. the vapor trail seems to be rising vertically but it's horizontal, traveling toward the camera. but because of the angle, it looks suspicious. >> theost common thing you see is a rocket flying away. it was a legitimate prope

as said they will put two brand-new jets into use, but did not say if they would be used to fly to lax. >> richard seymore will do it with lighter pockets. they fined him $25,000 and did not suspend him for punching the quarterback on suspected. the raters will host the dolphins on sunday. >> houston lost their third game in a row as they hosted the denver nuggets at the oracle arena. wright had a nice jam to put the warriors up by three. they took the lead and held on to win with the help of carmelo anthony. he had 39 points and the warriors lost it 86-89. the warriors fell victim to a crazy shot by the bird man. check it out. chris anderson throwing up a shot and check out the nice mohawk he has going on. a lot going on. he fouled anderson o the play and he went to the foul line and could not complete the three-point play. you throw it up and it goes in. >> there is a charity event and professional bollers will help feet the hungry. >> bob regel joins us live to explain what's happening. good morning, bob. >> lane seven of the sarah bowl here in daley city. we have the ball and what

around the world some of these terrorist points originate from third world countries where security is lax. >> the underrer wear bomber started somewhere in africa and went through amsterdam on the way to the states. so the u.s. said we have warning areas not up to our standards of security if you come from one of those types of airports most are required to go through screening. you have to find that weakest link and attack it. >> north korea we have a flair up there, possibility of brink of war north korea has a history of acting as a terrorist state as airports how do you react to that? >> one plus side there is no commercial service there. they can get people out through south korea, japan and china. you have to use intelligence. background information, coordinate human intelligence because these things do not happen in a vacuum. the situation just over portland they got a tip on this gentleman and were able to track his e-mail and set audio tape sting operation. -- set up and sting operation. get that human intelligence network in place first and then use the significance of technolog

don't cool off that much. 52 sacramento. 72 at lax. and san diego at 78 degrees. this system will work its way towards. and that's going to flirt with us on the weekend and rain sunday. first system won't make it. that will be friday. won't make it. high cloud, mild to warm, windy, higher elevations. 60s, 70s. a few low 80s. holding on a little bit. high cloud, parentally sunny, cooler on sunday. and out of the north west, a cool breezy monday. >> thank you. >>> san francisco police are still out there searching for dozens of stolen election ballots take finance a polling place election day. now a poll worker has been arrested. a 50-year-old. police believe he ran off with the 57 ballots and a computer memory card that errors votes from a polling place. police found him at his home early yesterday morning, but there's still no sign of those missing items. >> the preliminary search unfortunately did not result in recovery of the stolen items. >> he faces felony burglary charges and election code violations. not clear what will happen to the stolen ballots if they a

international pressure and image conscious, and they scale back and others want to compensate for the more laxand the next day they go forward again and are more hard-lined so that is why we see a push and pull. it is difficult and we hope for the best outcome. >> that they could be home in time for the holidays. and we are learning from the iranian government or from the eastern iran state television there, new video released that was aired on the tv and she is called a "sinner," and her stoning trial is being put on hold. could there be other means she might be assaulted by the government? is she in the clear here? >> this is her third television confession. another form of torture making her come on television and do everything short of beg for her own execution. nothing new. we have seen this where eastern iran suspects are on death row and they are brought on television, sometimes a plea bargain, say this or do that and maybe we will thank you instead of stoning you. so it is nothing new. and the legitimacy of the tape is in question, she is speaking in another language and so it is diffi

but the argument is for this and believe me i agree with you on all levels here, that it's, if we get lax on this sort of stuff, the clever terrorists is going to find a way around it and sneak all of stuff on a plane and kill us. >>guest: if we allow the government to debase us it is not worth getting on the plane. would you rather per inor live as a slave? i would like to get to chicago with my human dignity intact. >>neil: the t.s.a. chief is getting all hell at the hearings going on, it is supposed to be security, and everything now to do with the whole situation. >>judge napolitano: he has the whole name now of "is -- "pistol." >>neil: and the judge's show is each night at 8:00 on fox business network and he gets worked up about stuff. you should cash legal when he is annoyed by the money supply. after all the spending they are worried about the deficit. did you hear this? >> i don't see how we can afford to borrow an additional $700 billion from other countries we cannot afford the additional staff. >> a republican senator who could be a republican presidential candidate is not buyi

>>shepard: they say normally folks at lax would have seen it. admiral, thank you.at to see you, former commander of the 6th fleet, thank you very much for your service to our nation. we appreciate it. a crack down on cargo shipments coming into the united states after the failed bomb plot. but there is word the government new of security gaps years ago and decided not to do anything about it. the reason why is ahead. chronologically i'm 60 years old. is it the new 40, i don't know. i probably feel about 30. how is it that we don't act our age? [ marcie ] you keep us young. [ kurt ] we were having too much fun, we weren't thinking about a will at that time. we have responsibilities to the kids and ourselves. we're the vargos and we created our wills on legalzoom. finally. [ laughter ] [ shapiro ] we created legalzoom to help you take care of the ones you love. go to legalzoom.com today and complete your will in minutes. at legalzoom.com, we put the law on your side. don't want to deal with a lot of flibbity-flab or mumbo-jumbo. sounds like you need to name your pric

>> well, let me tell you, a couple weeks ago before this started at american airlines at lax, i was talkingand who is a pilot and we were talking about the first pilot who said i don't want to be groped. my husband is like i fly the plane, if i want to crash the plane, i can do that. why do i need to be checked? there should be another system in place. i asked for an opt-out. they picked me. i don't know, if i look like a terrorist. i said no. the guys proceeded to yell at me and mad i was opting out. look, i know i can opt out, i'll take the secondary pat-down. they were mad at me. one guy is why don't you want to do it? i don't want to be photographed and i don't want the radiation. >> sean: i actually feel bad for this guy. now they want to fine the guy $11,000. he was not disrespectful. when the guy described that he would grab the groin and like don't touch my junk which has now become infamous, i don't blame him. >> there is a bigger issue, and the issue is if somebody gets to the security check point, we have a problem. the issue, we should be targeting these people at the gate. >> s

so -- and i think the democrats paid a price because it looked like we were too lax daze cal about whatned during these bailouts and people thought that irresponsible behavior was being rewarded in this instance. and you really can't blame them. i don't blame people for being mad about this. it's something to be mad about. >> james carville, i appreciate your times. >> thank you, anderson. >>> still ahead, our amazing animal series, what scientists are learning from lemurs' powerful brains. i didn't really know they had powerful brains, they seem to have very small brains, but apparently they have very good heads on their shoulders and a good head for numbers but cannot stomach gambling. and later, why is steven seagal lining up to be a lawman in yet another state? he makes our ridiculist tonight. [ male announcer ] a little bit of this, a touch of that... yup, there's a new head chef in the kitchen. introducing new quaker mix up creations. does your breakfast make you amazing? ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] here's hoping you find something special in your driveway this holiday. ♪ [ santa ] ho

also sunday, a delta plane headed to lax had trouble and doubled back to atlanta.a day earlier another delta flight from philly to paris made an emergency landing in ireland. our senior correspondent rick leventhal with the details on all of this and live in our newsroom in new york. we are getting more details on that aborted flight in new york. >> bang in the left engine after takeoff. never heard anything like it. thought it might be a bird strike. some thought -- with only one working engine and 60,000 tons of fuel on board. the pilot dumped that fuel over the ocean with some passengers shrieking and crying fearing things might not end well. also tonight we have confirmed the 193 relieved passengers include actor leonardo decap preio released a statement commending the actions of the pilot and crew. he actually signed autographs for the crew after they landed. >> shepard: what a guy. king of the world. >> yeah. >> shepard: what's delta saying. >> the airline is pointing out none of the 600 passengers included in the three incidents including the flight out of a

into this country coming out of bangkok and transferring in seoul and in hong kong and coming into lax, los angeles international airport, and then going from los angeles and getting up here to washington, getting to spokane with the monkey, which they did. they accomplished all of that. and the way they did that was by the daughter feigning, feigning pregnancy. and they drugged this monkey and put it under her clothing as if she were pregnant and managed to make that trip and get home to spokane where the monkey and the daughter lived, apparently, happily ever after in an apartment on the north side of spokane. until, until she was wandering around the local shopping center with the monkey and bragging about how they had got it into this country. despite the fact that what they did would have been illegal. and consequently, somebody picked up the telephone, called the fish and wildlife service, and they were arrested, tried and found guilty. now, three vents have occurred in the last little while that have raised our alerts to the potential problems that can exist for the animals and

rebecca skloot is the author of hen rei -- henrietta lax. this is just under an hour. >> thanks, clay, for introducing us, and welcome, everybody. this section is called fact of life, humanizing medical mysteries and the authors are molly crosby and rebecca skloot. i want to remind you following the session 15 minutes after it, the authors will sign their books on congress avenue between 10th and 11th street. i've been involved with book fairs for many years, and like 10 years ago i took an author to the airport, and i mentioned i was a scientist, and the author turned to me and asked who my favorite science writers were. i was struck dumbfounded. i said mia wilson, nothing really came to me because the truth was i really wasn't gripped by science writing at that time, but since then, writers like molly and remember -- rebecca got my attention because they bring difficult complex subjects to life. i know if i were back in that car today, i would have a name like molly molly caldwell and rebecca skloot. molly spent several years working for n

certainly mortgage underwriting standards became too lax and consumer protections were needed. there were -- there was a lack of communication between a lot of the regulatory agencies. but to get right to the heart of the matter, i guess -- though i'm coming distant for the need for better coordination i remain a little skeptical that it will be successful and the reason i feel that way is that i think you need a certain type of person or a certain type of qualification in that regulatory role to understand exactly what is going on. and i don't know how many people here have ever traded in interest rate swaps can explain how a cdo is really structured. i've traded cds and that can get in the granularity of the problems that occurred. but i would argue that the regulatory regime and what's required is to get real granular understanding of what's happened. and having read just about all the books on the financial crisis -- the one that stands out to me is michael lewis's book the big short. and all those guys that shorted all the subprime, they came from the outside. and that is

even though it has 20 percent fewer travelers today, at lax is the second busiest airport.at it's boston's logan and then new york's laguardia. the fifth busiest airport in the nation today san francisco is sfo the kron 4 dan, and tried his live with an update. how're things going out there tonight? >> i have never seen it is quieter on the day before the giving. i've been out here before every year for the last hand and it's been very quiet this year. , these days the day before things giving is no longer the busiest travel day of the year people are starting out their departure dates everywhere from monday at couple of days ago to the return date which along are always sounded the coming back friday, saturday, sunday. that makes it an easy day for those coming to sfo. >> security lines were moving at a good clip his wednesday before this giving as 113,000 travelers or expected to fly in and at sfo. this year though the focus was on how long the lines might be, but what was at the end of the line. the full body scanner and the possibility of more interest pat downs. >> see

if you're going to it stay in in process of public fe, you have to develop a sense of humor and lax. host: >> good morning. steve and mr. speaker. steve, if you could forebear. i have a 2-part question. st: okay. caller: i would like to compare and contrast the people of valley forge and the american people today. the idea of self sacrifice and liberty in those days is without question. i wonder if we have the fortitude today. one recent poll created 72% of american people and 62% of tea partiers support social security and medicare and like those problems. the other antidote, alaska, the home of the most independent and tough people, you know, re-elected murkowski, a republican back to the senate in order to maintain hopefully their need for additional federal government. i just don't see how, you know, today you can compare the two. i don't think we're prepared to make sacrifices today to fight the british. that's our burgeoning debt.to. we are free. guest: first of all, i get this occasionally. there are two parts. one is not romanticizing the past or being cynical of the presiden

loss angeles mayor, is helping to ease some of those concerns he went to lax yesterday and submitted to when that the gsa is full body stands, he decided to do it to show people the scanner is a common ec after his skin and he praised the beef up security measures. day seven of preliminary hearings will start today for those seven defendants in the high school homecoming game rape case. the police chief gav graphithe police chief says one of the defendants backhanded the victim across the face " because she would not shut up during the assault " he told detectives that " she was a winding, no, no " he scratcher when he tried to take her necklace and after the first person richter she was kicking and telling them to get away. they will cross- examine them today. we will take a break, much more straight ahead on the kron 4 morning news, outside james lick freeway traffic coming off the central freeway the inbound chains like is moving well. you can see there's a lot of space between the cars, plan a little extra time there is rain falling so slow your commute just a bit. >> and we're b

if you have delays at lax, chicago and jfk, that is the domino effect for the rest of the country. here is the head of tsa talking about this. listen. >> my concern, really, goes to all the vast majority of the traveling public who simply want to get home to enjoy the holidays with family and loved ones, and if they miss a flight because people are protesting, then i feel bad for them. >> reporter: and, of course, there are a lot of passengers who are going out willing to cause some commotion who are going to opt for these patdowns. we now have special underwear, megyn, that people are creating and, don't pert the don't touch my junk t-shirts. so people are going to go out of their way in some cases to make this difficult. the advice for everybody is, boy, this holiday weekend if you're traveling, you've got to allow yourself more time because it could potentially be a mess. [laughter] megyn: i can only imagine what's actually going to happen. trace gallagher, thank you. >> reporter: okay, megyn. megyn: well, those full-body scanners a major part of the controversy, and let's take

>> even southwest airlines from lax to laguardia, $900. >> on southwest, you know what, i even though a bit longer than i should have to book my christmas tickets and i said, you know what, i'll try jetblue, a discounts airline so it was no cheaper. >> the law of supply and demand. if the seats are filling up they will adjust prices accordingly. >> what other things are contributing to the rise. >> first of all you've got fewer planes, fewer seats, fewer flights, a capacity issue. but there are ways around this to be flexible without having to be a contortionist. >> for example maybe leave on a different date. i tried fussing on a date and that helped. >> for example, if anybody leaves on the day of 24th, no simp three from me because that's why they made "planes, trains and automobiles" but if you leave on the 28th, as an example the cheapest i found on delta was 427 between l.a. and new york. on jetblue on the 30th, it goes down. >> i bet lu to leave like 6:00 in the morning, no. >> no. just a different date. >> what about a different airport. >> look at alternates, milwaukee like t