what i would propothat conditioe will use patdowns and a wand if needed. other than that, we are fine with everything else. the outreach i would like to discuss a little bit. steve is a member of the mentioned -- mission merchants association and we are in contact with them. we also reached out to mission economic development. and a group that helps food entrepreneurs and it puts on a big street fair every year in the mission. it is really great. there are seven letters. i think it shows where steve is coming from. he has been the biggest supporter for three years of this clinic. he was their number 1 financial supporter. he is now doing fundraisers for schools in oakland. you have something from the president of monroe motors, the oldest motorcycle dealership in the bay area. they're talking about what a great meeting place it is. you have the fundraising share for the haight asbury committed to schools. talking about how great they have then. there was a documentary film that was produced locally in the mission that talked about the discrepancy is of low

that's when she was forced to undergo a patdown.he tsa has modified screenings for children younger than 12. in this case, the child had completed a screening and then had contact with someone who had not. the agency followed proper procedures. her mother is outraged. >> it was horrifying, her face, i will never in my life forget the way her face looked. they were standing over her, telling her to stop crying. they would not let me tell her. >> the little girl had nightmares for five nights after the incident. she had just learned about stranger danger at school and was afraid of what was going on. >>> the foul ball that's causing we have the rules bet enweave a tdult r between adus ltand kids. an >>> oh, my god, they can't give it to the kid? >> apparently there is crying in baseball. >> a foul ball tossed into the stands took a sour twist. an adult fan won out, reducing the young boy to tears. completely unaware, the fan and his female friend posed with the ball for n front of the child. someone from the rangers had mercy on the c

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patdown said he did not go to the airport with the intention of getting into full out nude but it turns not lewd as he put it. here is a picture of the naked guy. we added the ribbon the he was charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure yesterday, a judge dropped the disorderly conduct but indecent? yes. naked guy said the t.s.a. crosses the line between privacy and security and decided to protest after he was pulled aside after he went through the metal detector and after a patdown adding the most effective way to say i am not throwing a bomb is to take off all my clothes. and firm -- randy and arthur? >>arthur: what do they do when you enter prison? they strip you down. they make you cough. >>shepard: when you have entered prison you have done something wrong. he didn't do anything wrong. >>arthur: i know what your position, and what a lot of people's position. >>shepard: my position is keep your position and i'll keep my position, i won't blow anything up. don't touch me. don't touch. >>arthur: how do you know who the nut job is? how do you know the story of covered --. >>

she was told to sit and await a patdown. when her daughter went to give her grandmother a hug, a security officer allegedly implied a handgun had been passed to the little girl. the t.s.a. says agents did follow procedure and never accused the girl of carrying a gun. >>> a 5-year-old boy in need of a heart transplant is found, safe, after being kidnapped from a st. louis hospital by his father, who does not have custody. police say porter was found. an amber alert was issued after the boy was taken from the hospital yesterday. jeffrey stone and his mother are both charged with kidnapping and other offenses. >>> the drama between pro football hall-of-famer deon sanders and his estranged wife pilar. today, deion is charged with misdemeanor assault, relating to a fight for which his wife was later arrested. >> not many are interested in what a house mother has to say. >> today, they were, after pilar sanders, the estranged wife of former cowboys quarterback, deion sanders, was released from the collin county jail. >> i am innoc

tp the squthe squa the squ patdow patdowns fpatdownsy f 12 per week.p>> this h wp wwas recovered from an brother hood member. >> we go through hundreds of pieces of male a day and sometimes we get lucky and find some. >> an investigation found 10% of inmates to be under the influence of narcotics at any given time. the squad has authority to conduct cell sessions at discretion anywhere in the prison. >> right here it's just a lot of ink that they use for tattooing. and that's a homemade tattoo gun. right here is a hypodermic needle. >> where did you niend? >> in a male inmate's cell. you have to be crazy to work here. we come here voluntarily every day. >> the squad must respond like street detectives carrying all the tools necessary to process the crime scene. pelican bay has over 900 violent assaults per year and the squad respond to every one of them. msnbc's cameras were rolling as one of these assaults occurred inside a cell block. >> there's an alarm in that building right there. staff responds. sergeants and lieutenants responding from over here to your left. >> so this is an a

said he was upset after he opted out of the full body scan and went through a metal detector and patdown and then of told the machines picked up traces of nitrates on his clothing. >> when they said i tested positive for explosives, i said that's it. i'm not carrying a bomb and you need to know it. the system is broken and the balance between our liberties and security in the sky is out of balance. >> brennan is charged with indecent exposure. the disorderly conduct charge was dropped. >>> a california middle schoolteacher fired for appearing in a pornographic video. stacy hollis lost her job as a science teacher in oxnard. the school investigated after rumors spread among students a teacher was a former porn star. the video was apparently shot before she became a teacher in 2009. officials say her return to the classroom would cause disruption. hollis has a month to appeal the decision. >>> office romances on the rise, plus no more bugs in your starbucks. maureen umeh has your fox 5 top five. >> we begin with love in the workplace, no. 5 a new survey saying 84% of employees age 18 to 29

and it's a patdown showdown, did you hear about this, at agents are patting down a little girl with cerebralalsy twice, twice, and the forbes gang plan to stop it from happening to anybody again. the top of the hour, the ceo of the usa, some democrats the idea that mitt romney can run the oval office like a board room. some saying it's exactly what we need. is it? hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get bk to these invoices... whh i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to automate their global invoice process so they can focus on serving their customers. with xerox, you're ready for real business. >> coming up, you can't run the free world like you run an economy. why not? and someone says that mitt >> boy,

. >>> the grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became his hysterical after undergoing a patdown saysents treated the girl like a terror suspect. they say agents at the kansas airport yelled at her granddaughter and called her uncooperative. the mother posted details of last week's incident on her facebook page. the tsa says its agents followed proper screening procedure. >>> meantime, four current and former security screeners at los angeles international airport have been arrested on drug trafficking charges. one of the first cases in which employees of the tsa have been accused of helping drug smugglers. brian rooney has the details. >> reporter: the investigation turned on a bungled drug shipment that led to an arrest and information that tsa screeners were taking bribes to let parcels of cocaine, meth and marijuana through security. assistant u.s. attorney david herzog. >> the timing was critical because the screener had to be on the x-ray monitor at the exact moment the courier put the bag with the drugs on the x-ray conveyor belt. >> reporter: one of the tsa screeners was arres

outrage has been fueled by parents' anger over patdowns of children like a 6-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and a 4-year-old girl in new york. in both cases, the tsa said their officers followed proper procedure. the agency's reputation took a further hit this week when officers in los angeles were charged in a drug running operation. passengers today at chicago's o'hare airport. >> we still might be a target, and i feel safer knowing that it's not going to happen here. >> i'm not so sure it's not just window dressing. >> kip polly said the system is broken. he ran the tsa from 2005 to 2009 and has written a new book. he argued animosity toward the system is hurting security. >> the result of this compounding security measure over ten years has driven the public crazy. and created a huge separation between tsa and the public. >> he says most frequent flyers checkpoint horror stories could be eliminated if officers were allowed to use common sense rather than being threatened with discipline for not following procedures to the letter. >> the effect after three or four years to tell the

have them starting to feel that they have somehow done something wrong and they're being suggest to patdown and shakedown, as we do when we're worrying about someone who has committed a crime or we're assuming everyone is guilty and treating them practically like prisoners when they're american tax-paying citizens. so, i feel that we've got a lot to do to straighten this whole mess out. it's not a cost-effective or very disciplined approach. and after ten years, we'd owe more to the american people. mr. chairman, thank you for having this hearing. >> i thank the gentleman. the gentleman yields back. i now ask unanimous consent that our colleague from tennessee, mrs. blackburn be allowed to participate in today's hearing. without objection, so ordered. i will now note that the ranking members of each of the committees are driving in have been delayed. so, it is not a flight as far as i know. so they will make their opening statements after our witnesses make theirs. i'm sure they'll be here by then. with that i would like to now introduce our first panel. mr. christopher l. mclaughlin is the

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agent did that particular patdown with a smile? i kid you not.harry reid thinks that would be the world of difference, he wants the security secretary to do this. >> they can instruct everyone that works at t.s.a. to smile and say hello, welcome. with a smile. >>neil: hello. please. man. man. >>guest: this is the leader of our united states senator. i will not call him a idiot but it shows you this is our leadership, that is in washington, dc, a smile? no, remember how it all came about? it was after 9/11 and they stuffed this t.s.a. with whoever they could find. security guards and now t.s.a., they stuffed it with all these people and the professionalism is not there. people are there that could determine if a person will be part of a problem, talk to people, and you can have a courteous way. we have all these great men and women coming out of our service from iraq and afghanistan, and let's train them the you can sues half that amount of people with professional im. >>neil: but most of these t.s.a. agents are decent. >>guest: you want your peop

agents at the screening area and the compromise was she with not need a patdown but they would swab down her braces and cane and make sure there were no poisonous chemicals or any kind of dangerous devices hidden on my daughter and we were let to go on our way. we were at the gate an hour before the flight boarded and we were literally on the line next in line to board the plane with our boarding passes in hand, and t.s.a. appeared with the screamers and a supervisor and pulled us off the line to tell us she was not patted down properly. >>neil: what they worry about and i don't condone their search here of your little girl, i have a son your daughter's age so i would relate, and he is not wearing a brace so i canned that your rage but people with disabilities oftentimes are targeted by bad gives either to hide something or while they are not looking do something so agents have to be on guard. did they tell you that? or did they just say this is a policy. >>guest: that is what the policy is, and i understand that is what the policy is, but, then, the policy needs to be enforced and be en

employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the plane. >> and the tsa is such a lousy place to work that more than 50% of the work force has quit. >> the agency keeps losing employees and hiring new ones. >> they are advertising on the top of pizza boxes. >> a career where x-ray vision and benefits are standard. turnover is high not because the tsa is underfunded. it spends ten times wh

employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the plane. >> and the tsa is such a lousy place to work that more than 50% of the work force has quit. >> the agency keeps losing employees and hiring new ones. >> they are advertising on the top of pizza boxes. >> a career where x-ray vision and benefits are standard. turnover is high not because the tsa is underfunded. it spends ten times wh

employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the plane. >> and the tsa is such a lousy place to work that more than 50% of the work force has quit. >> the agency keeps losing employees and hiring new ones. >> they are advertising on the top of pizza boxes. >> a career where x-ray vision and benefits are standard. turnover is high not because the tsa is underfunded. it spends ten times what the previ

well, to forget about a patdown.ent a step further, rather, to protest airport security measures. passengers got an eyeful other as this man stripped naked right there in the security line. the 55-year-old was reportedly angry over security procedures and said tsa agents were herselfing him. he is now charged -- herselfing him. he is now charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure. >>> andap altercation over luggage at an airport in california, lands another man behind bars. witnesses say the 61-year-old violently grabbed and pushed a flight attend apt, after she told -- attendant, after she told him his bag was too big to be a carry-on. he is now charged with misdemeanor battery. >>> a police dog in kentucky brings a wild police chase to a swift end. police say they chased a suspected carjacker through three counties, before he finally stopped. wow. look at the dog. but before officers could surround the car, a police dog moved in and dragged the driver out of the car by his shorts. wow. the man was treate

employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdownformer miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the plane. >> and the tsa is such a lousy place to work that more than 50% of the work force has quit. >> the agency keeps losing employees and hiring new ones. >> they are advertising on the top of pizza boxes. >> a career where x-ray vision and benefits are standard. turnover is high not because the tsa is underfunded. it spends ten times what the

he got upset after opting out of the full body scan and went through a metal detector and patdown and picked up traces of night rate on his clothe. >> and when they said i tested positive for explosives, i said that is it. i'm not carrying a bomb and you need to know it. the system is broken and the balance between our liberties and security in the sky is out of bounds. >> brenan is charged with indecent exposure. the disorderly conduct charge was dropped. >>> coming up, continuing coverage of the top story. the shuttle discovery moved to the new home in virginia. >>> and student at the university of maryland urged the governor to stop millions in budget cuts from taking effect. >>> and you probably heard of flash mobs, but what about a flash lecture? how a local college professor is making learning fun. arning . >>> getting back now to the most talked about story in d.c. over the past couple of days. the space shuttle discovery's arrival had many people buzzing about that amazing sight in the sky. new, we can all get a chance to see it up close on the ground at the center. foam tom f

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got a little too personal and hurt him during a patdown at san antonio airport.ten. >> he touched me in my private parts, and it hurt. and it's a natural reaction to move the offensive hand away not in a violent way and to move back. but what was even more offensive was, that he didn't recognize the reaction as being normal and claimed that i assaulted him when i was the one being assaulted. >> and nobody ended up pressing charges and so far no response from the t.s.a. the congressman says he is all for airport security but there has to be a better way to protect passenger's dignity. we are hearing from passengers who are aboard the jetblue flight that emergency landing bird strike that news was breaking during last night's fox report. the jet was headed from florida to west chester new york when it ran into trouble. listen now to the pilot. >> jetblue 571, we have got to come back. we hit two big geese. >> jetblue 571, roger. would you like to declare an emergency? >> we are declaring an emergency. >> trace: the plane turned around and landed back in west cheste

>>neil: metal detectors, patdowns in the name of safety but the t.s.a. us covered, what about airport employees the folks who are rooming around the airport. according to a t.s.a. memo airports can hire the new, employees before they pass the back ground check. the t.s.a. says no one is at risk. my guest says don't believe that. ing i said they are nuts. we have all the problems, you are giving tests to people you have not done efficient background checks. be honest, we don't know who is there. people at condition difficult -- people at kennedy airport, from afghanistan, pakistan, working in the airports and a lot of them if you do a background you cannot do a proper background on someone would has been in the country for even 12 or 10 years because you did not know what they did before. so you do an f.b.i. search nothing comes out. >>neil: say you work at a cinema. are they checking out that worker? >>guest: they have different types. you have different levels. you have a ramp pass, and a last the security personnel have the ramp pass so they can go whe

employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdownformer miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the plane. >> and the tsa is such a lousy place to work that more than 50% of the work force has quit. >> the agency keeps losing employees and hiring new ones. >> they are advertising on the top of pizza boxes. >> a career where x-ray vision and benefits are standard. turnover is high not because the tsa is underfunded. it spends ten times what the

employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdownformer miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the plane. >> and the tsa is such a lousy place to work that more than 50% of the work force has quit. >> the agency keeps losing employees and hiring new ones. >> they are advertising on the top of pizza boxes. >> a career where x-ray vision and benefits are standard. turnover is high not because the tsa is underfunded. it spends ten times what the

or a woman sobbing uncontrollably as she submitted to a very public patdown.ere's our recent favorite. >> i have no problems with my body. and decided that this was the most -- >> well, i do, because no one wants to see anybody naked at the tsa, no matter how you look. fed up with what he believed was an invati invasion of privacy, he stripped down to nothing to prove he wasn't dangerous. and we have lots of ideas, on hoy to take on the unpopular tsa. kip, thanks very much and good to see you, sir. >> i'm glad to be with you, erin. >> it would be nice, you know, to avoid people stripping down naked at the tsa line. i'll start there. but you think that we just have gone way too far. that knife, liquids, all of it should be okay? >> well, i think that right after 9/11, we jumped into put security arrangements that would prevent that happening again. and as life has gone on and the security measures have taken effect, a lot are no longer really needed. and for instance, the prohibited items, swiss army knives, baseball bats, things that could in fact injure someb

they resulted in fewer requirements and a significant reduction in patdowns. by enhancing the effectiveness of our current programs, tsa continues to work toward our goal of providing the most effective security and the most efficient ways. thank you for the opportunity to testify. i would like to introduce my colleague. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> good afternoon. i appreciate the opportunity to testify on some of the work we are doing in coordination with the united states coast guard to strengthen security. the transportation credential program is an important security measure designed to ensure that individuals who pose a threat to security do not gain on escorted access. prior to this program, there was no standard verification or background check for entrance to a port. the identity verification requirements of the program supports the multi layer approach to protecting the nation's transportation systems and enhance security at airports. several key objectives were met during the initial rollout of the program in october of 2007. these include mil

to be humiliated and embarrassed in that way was not right. >> in addition to the patdown, petty says the t.s.a. agent made him put $300 in cash through the scanner. problem is he never got that money back. t.s.a. says it's now investigating. and those are your headlines. >> they got a lot of video cameras around there. they ought to be able to figure out who took the guy's dough. >> i always wondered who was -- what is royalty of region nine mean? why is it specialty? is that a resume builder? well, it turns out i'm not sure what royalty of region nine means. i know what the first lady does, deborah neely and that's a whole line on taxpayer expenses. basically working with her husband. >> there's her husband, jeff neely. he's the guy who lined up that almost million dollar wing ding we've been talking about in las vegas. deborah neely has been referred to as the first lady of region nine. keep in mind, she was simply his wife. she was not working for the federal government. and yet, because he gave her this power, apparently, she was helping to spend a lot of the dough. she even had

. >>> the airport security patdown of a 4-year-old girl in kansas has the tsa defending its actions.tle girl's mother says airport screeners yelled at her daughter. she says it happened after her daughter ran to hug her grandmother after the grandmother set off a security alarm. she said the agents called her daughter an uncooperative suspect and took her into another room. the tsa says the proper procedures were file -- were followed. >>> flacks of birds have hit two jets in the laugh two weeks. this was video lake -- taken last thursday. both planes made emergency landings from the new york area. now one senator wants to make it easier to round up geese near a federal refuge near j.f.k. airport and kell them before ka tas industry happens to a -- and kill them before catastrophe laps -- catastrophe happens to a plane. >>> the city has been contributing money to the mayor and the two -- and two council members, their retirements. >> i was shocked when i found out. when en-- when i was elected as council, i came in as an -- as an employee. here's your package, here's your choices. i