here's lizzie o'leary. >> reporter: take two things that many travelers love to hate. the tsa and ticket fees. now add them together. >> what is it that's prompting them to ask for more money? >> reporter: the agency backed by democrats in the senate wants to increase the security fee everyone pays with a ticket from $2.50 a flight to $5 per one-way ticket. $10 round trip. >> ten is pushing it to a limit. i mean, i guess it's only $5 more but i'm wondering, you know, how that fits in with they already have a budget. >> reporter: tsa's budget like many in washington is set to be cut. the agency says boosting this fee would help cover the increasing price of security, like those costly scanners. the fee hasn't been hiked in ten years. >> straight over here. >> reporter: a powerful lobby is pushing against it. airlines. they don't want the cost shifted to their customers. >> air security is a national security function. it's something that all of us need to be behind as americans and the government should pick up the cost of that. >> reporter: many travelers we talked to

. >> lizzie o'leary is our aviation and regulation correspondent. lizzie, even before the flight landed, this woman who said she had the device implanted in her body, she was examined by doctors on board the plane. tell us how those doctors determined that she didn't have a device implanted in her body? >> reporter: what we know from two lawmakers is she claimed she had a device implanted surgically implanted. didn't specify what kind of device. never said according to senior law enforcement official that it was a bomb or anything like that. the flight attendants asked on the overhead paging system if anyone was a doctor. a doctor examined her. they found according to two lawmakers no evidence of fresh scars or anything that would be a cause for concern and then took her to the back of the cabin and sat with her for a while until this plane was landing and according to one passenger i spoke with, they sat with her for some time, close to an hour until the flight was able to divert safely to bangor, maine. >> the fighter jets deployed. they were flyin

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let me bring in lizzie o'leary, our aviation and regulation correspondent based in washington. this is very serious. they're not telling us where these jets were scrambled from but you know it is serious when they scramble two aircraft to bring in a civilian passenger jet. >> reporter: yeah. the two f-15s for scrambled about 40 minutes before this plane landed in bangor. there are a couple nearby bases that could do that, but norad confirmed they did use two f-15s to accompany this plane, which is a boeing 767. us airways flight 787 onto the ground in bangor, maine. buses look like they could be there for deplaining those 179 passengers. y you mentioned the tsa did say they had reports of a passenger exhibiting suspicious behavior on the flight. out of an abundance of caution, it was diverted. we know from local law enforcement that the fbi is the lead agency on this issue right now. we still don't know what happened on board the plane. there are a couple obviously different scenarios. i should point out if this is interfering with the flight crew, that is a federal crime and w

>> right. >> lizzie o'leary, good for you. that looked like a lot of fun.r. later on "starting point" we'll talk to the man with oversight on the tsa, chairman mike rogers at 7:30 eastern. >> okay, so hoy did president obama do in 2011, last year? politics, well, the history will have to decide that but his financial state seems pretty rosie. according to disclosure forms released tuesday, the obamas held assets totaling between 2.6 and more than $8 million last year. those disclosures come in a range which are why they're that big. he has treasury notes valued between 1 million and $5 million. a checking account at jpmorganchase holding another $500,000 to $1 million and his book bringing in between 100,000 and $1 million, same range for his children he work "of thee i sing." >> 35 minutes past the hour. >>> cory booker has been called a superhero. we all have from shoveling people out of blizzards, pulling a woman out of a burning home. how do you compete with that? governor chris christie is trying to do so. the governor's office poked fun at the mayors

lizzie o'leary joins me now. when is the splashdown? >> the splashdown is going to be a little bit longer. we're waiting. that will happen several hours from now. but the first few steps have happened. very early while you and i were both sleeping, the arm of the international space station sort of let go of the dragon capsule like a very slow careful softball toss. and what has happened now is the first burning stage has happened. that means that the capsule, you see it there moving away from the space station and it burned one of its rounds. burned away a little bit and then the next thing that's going to happen is this deorbit burn. they'll bring it down out of orbit before some of the crucial steps that bring it much closer to earth. it's a cool shot there when you see it pull away from the space station. >> it's unmanned. that kind of suspense will be taken away. it will be a great image. will we actually get to see it coming down? >> hopefully we'll get to see it splashdown. it will splashdown off the california coast. what happen

former white house press secretary robert gibbs and cnn's lizzie o'leary were the competitors.le "hardball" with alex trebek. >> let's go back to what is crossword clues eight. i'm sorry. $200 for the category crosswords close eight. >> pay attention. at blank, soldier! four letters. >> at ease, soldier. what is at ease, soldier? what is ease, soldier? >> ease, yes. less than a minute. full name of the u2 pilot shot down over the soviet union in 1960. >> chris? >> who is gary powers? >> we need the full name. >> who is gary powers? >> no. >> lizzie? >> who is frances gary powers. >> that's it, yes. full name. lizzie benefits. she selects. >> did you see chris' face? frances gary powers. robert gibbs won, by the way. chris matthews still got $10,000 for his favorite charity as a runner- runner-up. still ahead, on "way too early," your texts and tweets and e-mails next. then "morning joe" live from washington just moments away. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant-kind. [ clang ] my house is where plants came to die. ♪ but, it turns out all i was missing was mirac

. >> ip to jump in with lizzie o'lea o'leary, our correspondent based in washington, d.c. e making a transatlantic flight? >> reporter: it's a 767, a boeing aircraft, pretty common for this kind of flight. they have a pretty large capacity, but we don't know from the airline how many people were on board. they did say a security issue. that's interesting, ashleigh, in that this is -- was pretty immediately kicked over toward the people who handle more security-based things. we talked to the faa, and they put us in touch with the tsa, the department of homeland security. they are not confirming things at this point. but certainly the immediate read on this is it was a security issue and that's what the airline is telling us. chad is pointing out this is a pretty quick diversion from the aircraft's normal flight path. it would head down the eastern seaboard after it crossed the atlantic. that's what they do. we're reaching out to federal law enforcement officials to figure out any other details. usa airways said the plane woul be landing shortly or was already on the ground b

. >> lizzie o'leary, thank you. >>> bluegrass legend doc watson has died.known for his talent on the guitar. [ tires squeal, engine revs ] ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] not everything powerful has to guzzle fuel. the 2012 e-class bluetec from mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. >> okay, got to listen now to a little more doc watson. we have lost a gem. ♪ >> doc watson passed away overnight in his native north carolina, died soon after having colon surgery. he was 89 years of age. joining me now from nashville, needs no introduction, ricky scaggs. it is a pleasure to have you on. unfortunately you should the circumstances here, welcome. i know certainly you knew doc watson. tell me, you know, what was his gift to american music and musicians such as yourself? >> the thing that doc watson did i think his legacy. he took an acoustic guitar that was for many, many years a rhythm instrument in old-time music, country music. was basically a rhythm instrument and he made a lead instrum

cnn's lizzie o'leary is in washington. what do you expect to hear today?l, is about whose responsibility it is to watch the store, whether it was jpmorgan's alone or also the regulators who are supposed to be looking into what they do all the time. you're seeing one of the regulators there on the screen testifying about what exactly happened at jpmorgan and how they could lose that much money. we now know that three different agencies are investigating that big loss at jpmorgan. so that's the securities and exchange commission, and they regulate investment banks, the commodities futures trading commission, it's a mouthful, about you this he look at complex financial products like derivatives, bets on the price of other products, and then the fbi, they're looking into seeing whether there was any criminal wrongdoing that happened at jpmorgan. so here is what they're looking at. first and foremost, did the barng bre bank break the law? it's not illegal to screw up and lose a lot of money. it is illegal if you made misleading statements about it to the public

let's bring in our lizzie o'leary. she's following this as well. where exactly is the dragon right now? >> right now, kyra, it's over the indian ocean, and that picture you just put up where you could sort of see those solar panel wings and that larger part of it, that part should be coming off in just a couple of minutes, two to three minutes. that's the trunk. that's detaching. and then in about 20 minutes, the dragon capsule should enter the earth's atmosphere and that's sort of its final trajectory before it heads toward that splash down. you saw that animation and in some ways it could remind viewers of what the mercury capsules looked like when they splashed down at the beginning of the space race. remember that dragon, of course, has no astronauts inside, it's a cargo capsule and it's the first cargo capsule that's able to go up to the space station and come back intact. there are other cargo capsules from the japanese, the russians, the european space authority but those all burned up upon re-entry. really, the key here is that it's commerc

he was up against robert gibbs and lizzie o'leary.as apparently too much of a heart bal. >> let's go back to -- what is cross word clues -- i mean, i'm sorry. go $200 for the category cross word clues. >> at blank soldier. >> at ease soldier. what is at ease soldier? what is ease? >> at ease, chris matthews. things didn't get much better there. >> who is gary powers? >> we need the full name. >> who is gary powers? >> no. >> it wasn't pretty. i don't want to be tough on chris matthews. i'm a big fan of his. i'm actually on jeopardy this friday. i've been on the show a twice before. first time i cleaned up. >> correct. >> who is archie bunker? >> he's the one. >> canada is right. >> that's it. >> that's it. indeed. you're the leader and the winner today. >> all right. second time, not only did i lose, as i've said before, i lost to cheech. >> cheech? >> what a camelot? >> yes. you're the winner today. >> i know what you're thinking, all the stoner movies how could anyone lose to cheech marin? bzs it's jeopardy, it's tough. it's not lik

he was up against robert gibbs and lizzie o'leary. while mr. matthews started off strong, the rest of the show was apparently too much of a hardball. >> let's go back to -- what is crossword clues -- i mean, i'm sorry. go $200 for the category crossword clues. >> all right. pay attention now. at blank soldier. four letters. chris? >> at ease soldier. what is at ease soldier? what is ease? >> at ease, chris matthews. things didn't get much better from there. >> who is gary powers? >> we need the full name. >> who is gary powers? >> no. >> it wasn't pretty. i don't want to be tough on chris matthews. i'm a fan of chris matthews. i'm actually on jeopardy this friday competing against a three time pulitzer prize winner and kelly o'donnell of nbc news. i've been on the show three times. the first time, i won't lie. i cleaned up. >> anderson? >> who is marie callas? >> who is archie bunker? >> he's the one. >> canada is right. >> that's it. >> that's it. indeed. you're the leader and the winner today. >> all right. second time, not only did i lose, a

last night and he was up against robert gibbs and cnn correspondent lizzie o'leary.rest of the show was apparently too much of a hardball. >> let's go back to -- what is crossword clues -- i mean, i'm sorry. go $200 for the category crossword clues. >> all right, pay attention now. >> at blank soldier. four letters. chris? >> at ease soldier. what is at ease soldier? what is ease? what is ease? >> at ease, yes. >> at ease, chris matthews. things didn't get much better from there. >> who is gary powers? >> we need the full name. >> who is gary powers? >> no. >> it wasn't pretty. i don't want to be tough on chris matthews. i'm a big fan of his. i'm actually on "jeopardy!" this friday night. i'm up given a three-time pulitzer prize winner and kelly o'donnell. i've been on the show twice before. first time i cleaned up. >> correct. >> who is archie bunker? >> he's the one. >> canada is right. >> that's it. >> that's it. indeed. you're the leader and the winner today. >> all right. second time, not only did i lose, as i've said before, i lost to cheech. as in cheech of ch

lizzy o'leary caught up with him in north carolina. >> reporter: it's not unusual to see a nascar drivern hour. he can turn without a trace of fear. or break down a problem with his crew chief. >> better than it was before! it felt tight right after the center. >> reporter: but strip away the sponsorships and all the engine noise, and it is most unusual to find a driver like this one. >> we're sharpening your understanding in both parts and lumen, make the similarities and differences between the two of them. >> reporter: welcome to the double life of pauly hirocca, professional nascar driver and senior at duke university. >> it's a very exciting time. >> you wanted to be a driver for how long? >> i started racing when i was seven and i wanted to do it before then, as long as i can remember. >> why did you go to duke? >> i reached a point near my senior year in high school when gu guidance counselors in high school said, you've got the grades to go to college, you should do that. and others were saying, you're a racer, put college off for a few years. i felt like i could actually play th

let's bring in cnn aviation and regulation correspondent lizzy o'leary. so what more can you tell us about this mission, and whether folks are considering this so far mission accomplished or a success? >> so far, fredricka, it's seen as a success. there was a lot of cheering both in the spacex center in california and in houston, where nasa folks were overseas the mission. and you called it right. basically, that arm there that you see sticking out from the international space station, it's the canadarm 2. and it grappled the dragon capsule and is slowly pulling it in towards the space station. i want to play you a little sound from the moment after that happened, complete with a pretty clever line from astronaut don pettitte, who was in fact in charge of grabbing the dragon. listen to this. >> capture is confirmed. [ applause ] >> congratulations on a wonderful capture. you have made a lot of folks happy down here. great job, guys. >> houston, it looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail. >> so maybe just like neil armstrong, he had his clever line re

lizzie o'leary has some details. >> reporter: keep your shoes on? check. belt, too? check. >> if you are in a hurry, the benefit is that you get through security a lot faster, and you don't have to take your computer out the bag or your liquids or your shoes off and that saves some time. >> reporter: it's a fast track route complete with a dedicated security lane that will be in 35 of the busiest u.s. airports by the end of the year. the idea is that travelers who give the government more personal information, your name, birth day, and gender, and are well-known to the airlines, like frequent flyers, are less of a security threat. tsa administrator john pistol calls it reducing the haystack of risk. how big a deal is it? >> it's a significant paradigm shift both for tsa and the traveling public in the way we engage in a partnership to say let's work together to say if you're willing to share some information about yourselves, then we can work with you perhaps to have expedited screening so we can focus on those we know less about and can focus on those higher risks. >> repo

i want to bring in lizzie o'leary, our aviation spore kond ent. what do we know? what happened? >> we can take it from sort of two sides. what was happening on the ground, those parts of the plane, potentially the debris field and what was happening in the air. there you see pictures from our affiliate cb-24 in canada, pieces of did he pree they say fell from the ski. the blackberry is to i have give you a sense of comparison. now, switching over to what we know from the air side, we are talking about an air canada plane, a boeing triple 7, a twin engine plane, a large pass engineer judget that left toronto at around 2:10 this afternoon carrying 318 passengers and 16 crew members according to air canada. after take off there was an engine shutdown. this is a swin engine plane and can fly on one so they turn around and implemented the standard procedure which is to go back to toronto and they did an emergency landing and the plane landed normally and taxied to the gate and there will be a full investigation. they say they couldn't confirm this debris did in fact come from their p

cnn's regulation correspondent lizzie o'leary is coffering the story. >> americans would be right to bit of a dÉjÀ vu. they didn't tell us about the part that happens now, after a law has been passed but before all the rules are in place, it can get watered down and that's what's going on right now. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: this wasn't supposed to happen again. >> reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. >> reporter: that bill called the dodd-frank law was supposed to be going into effect. banks like jpmorgan can still take in money on one side and also make multimillion dollar risky trades for themselves on the other side. as we saw last week, that can rattle the banking system. >> we carry the law around with us. do you want me to read to it you? >> reporter: senator carl levin is trying to help make the law have teeth. more than 500 companies have lobbied on this law, including the five biggest u.s. banks. those banks, once called too big to fail, so large they couldn't collapse without hurting the u.s. economy are no

lizzie o'leary is in "the situation room" and you've been working the story for now. >> it's a scary federal law enforcement official with knowledge of the situation tells cnn this did not appear to be terror related. >> that's the pilot of u.s. airways flight 787 confirming the cockpit is secure just before landing in bangor, maine. a woman onboard had been behaving suspiciously. the plane had headed from paris to charlotte when flight attendants asked if anyone onboard was a doctor. according to a law enforcement official, a woman told the crew shoe h she had some source sort of device implanted in her. >> she and the doctor along with one or two stewardesses took her to the back of the plane where she remained. heard no more about it for several hours until the pilot made an announcement that we have to land in bangor for fuel. >> reporter: but it wasn't for fuel at all. two f-15 fighter jets were scrambled to accompany the plane to the ground. passengers didn't see the jets and only knew something was amiss when customs officers boarded the plane and removed the woman in handcuff

we want to take you to lizzie o'leary.ed a commuter plane? >> that's right. we're talking about a 747 cargo plane, operated by eva cargo. it clipped an american eagle regional jet. you can actually see it there on the tarmac in chicago. it clipped the tail of that regional jet. there were 21 passengers on board the regional skbret. it was flying from chicago to springfield missouri. no injuries here, but certainly this was something that happened on the taxi way. both of these planes landed in o'ha o'hare, and you can see where the right wing intersected the tail of that american eagle jet. the police say no injuries onboard that american eagle plane. that's their regional carrier. and all thosing passengers are being evacuated and taken off the plane, brooke. >> are these live pictures? yes. okay so these are live pictures, thanks to our chicago apill yat. you see all kinds of traffic there on the ground. i'm looking at some emergency crews, flashing lights there. soo explain to me. had both of these planes just landed wh

lizzie o'leary has the details. i guess the question is how could this happen? they'll be looking into. what we know is two plane, a smaller commuter jet from american eagle and a large 747, an eva cargo plane. you see it there. the eva 747's wing clipped the tail of the smaller american eagle plane as the american eagle plane was coming into the gate. there were 18 passengers onboard and three crew members and nobody was hurt. >> what is that? >> it's a cargo airline. they were moving freight from chicago to anchorage and now the question is whose error this was, whether it was pilot error, controller error and there were a lot on the ground controlling traffic on the ground. >> that's ugly, but fortunately no one was hurt. it could have been a lot worse. >> we're also getting new information on the air canada incident. what, an engine had problems and parts were dropping on parking lots? >> now we know that that engine is being sent to europe to be analyzed to figure out exactly what went wrong. >> here are the pictures of the damage to the plane's engine. the

. >> all right, let's go live now to lizzie o'leary. what do we know?ested one man. he's a canadian citizen. his name is ryan snyder. and they skad he appeared to be disoriented according to passengers. the fbi says he wasn't on any of the government watch lists. it sounds like, according to the badges you heard there and others, he essentially rushed towards the front of the plane as this plane was taxiing. they had already landed from jamaica and they were heading towards a gate at miami international airport. he's in custody. he's expected to be charged with interfering with a flight crew. that's a federal charge. it's the same one that we saw levelled towards the jet blue pilot a month or so back. so this is a similar charge. we don't know quite yet what will happen to him, whether or not he will be formally charged. he'll appear in court in florida on tuesday, ashleigh. >> thanks. have yourself a good weekend. a lie ruined his life, killed his football dream, put him in a cell for five year, but now brian banks can start all over again with a clear

our aviation and regulation correspondent lizzie o'leary joins me from washington.ay a security breach? >> reporter: well, one of the more dramatic ones happened at newark airport and it was newark that kind of sparked this investigation where a dead dog got through screening and onto a flight. the airline in question that put the dog on the plane is getting penalized to the tune of about $55,000 but then you're talking about more mundane stuff like, say, somebody getting into the so-called sterile area or passengers going through when the full body machines aren't working. the inspector general started looking into this because a new jersey senator want eed answers about what was happening at newark. here is what they found, 42% of these breaches weren't reported. and then airports fixed only about half of the causes here so about 53% of them, and this is the most important one, carol, tsa doesn't comprehensively track these breaches. so, you know, it's not just a question of whether five or six different things went wrong but whether the agency can step back and t

i want to bring in lizzie o'leary joining us from washington.gress is holding a hear on this issue and the report from the department of homeland security is pretty damning. what does it say? >> reporter: it gives you a picture, suzanne, of sort of the whole scenario of what a security breach is and how many there were. this started when there were a number of incidents at newark airport and the new jersey senator frank lautenberg said i want to know more, i want to look into this. things like a knife getting through a check point. a man getting passed security without going through security. even a dead dog loaded onto a plane without being screened for explosives. he asked for this report. he looked at newark and five other airports. what they found, i want to put up some numbers, 42% of security breaches were not being accurately reported, and then only about half of those were actually being fixed. any corrective action was taken. and the most important thing is there really wasn't a widespread system for tsa to step back and take a 30,000 f

. >> lizzie o'leary is joining us from topeka, kansas. glad you're with us..s. air marshalls to protect our planes. does that mean observation is our only protection? >> reporr: if you look at the wide spectrum of security and screening, what they call behavioral detection and good old-fashioned observation is often the gold standard. it's certainly what the israelis do. but it's also worth noting that that's a very challenging thing to do in the u.s. where we have 450 commercial airports and we're also talking about looking at flights coming into the u.s. we know tsa has screeners in specific screeners where they try to look at folk who is they think might be a threat or coming from a country they realize is a threat. so what they say is that they have sort of a layered approach. that's the term they always use, which means a little bit of observation, a little bit of air marshalls, a little electronic screening, and a little of watching what peoples' behavior is with the recognition that there's no plan that is 100% full proof. >> senator diane feinstein sa