jon: richard reid was an al-qaida sympathizer, right?ot in some respects different from some of the people who are hidden away at guantanamo bay right now. you had a successful prosecution of him in a civilian court. >> i think that's a good point. there are some obvious similarities between richard reid and ahmed khalfan ghailani. they are both al-qaida operatives. they've both sworn their a allegiance to osama bin laden. there are differences as well. richard reid was apprehended by civil authorities weeks after 9/11 before the infrastructure with regards to holding these illegal enemy combatants was actually set up. ahmed khalfan ghailani was captured on a battle field and was turned over to the military authorities, and the military authorities were required to surrender him to the civil authorities for some purpose of showing the world that we can actually try terrorists in our civil court system. these are not the traditional, ordinary criminals that our civil system is designed and equipped to handle. jon: the obama administration

they arrived home and richard reid is live with the ordeal that this couple went through. >> this coupleas not on just a kris, it was a job. he was among a group of 100 magicians that plan on providing entertainment on the cruise ship. that was before the ship would not have hot food or working bathrooms. they say they are glad to be back home. >> of richard and susan -- you and >> the hardest part was the toilets not working. >> everything was gone. the refrigeration was gone and no electricity. >> they are happy to be gone-to be home. and away from the crippled cruise ship. >> we woke up to this terrible rattling and some black smoke. >> that smoke came from a power in the-a fire in the engine room. -- a fire in the engine room. food was riding in hallways and worse. >> the first 24 hours or so, there were corliss that did not function. >> the navy blue in tons of supplies. -- slew in tons of supplies. -- brought in tons of supplies. as tugboats pulled deep ship ashore, some passengers slept on the deck. >> there were cold water showers and spam and shower -- and worse. >> carnival is

chief white house correspondent richard reid is in yokohama traveling with the president. >> for america this is a job strategy. >> reporter: president obama made one last sales pitch in asia today, continuing the theme of his trip-- opening asian markets to u.s. goods. >> we don't want to lose the opportunity to create new jobs back home. >> reporter: the ten-day trip-- the longest of his presidency-- saw mr. obama take his pitch directly to india where he touted deals worth $10 billion between india and u.s. corporations, including military cargo planes from boeing. >> today's deals will lead to more than 50,000 jobs in the united states. (applause) 50,000 jobs. >> reporter: he and the first lady also took in some local culture. next stop, indonesia, where he lived from age six to ten. and where he hustled to leave the country as a cloud of ash from an erupting volcano approached the capital of jakarta. then it was on to two major economic summits. in south korea he failed to achieve a trade agreement but said he's confident it can still get done. >> it can be a win for the united stat

>> reporter: he says an interview would have red flagged shoe bomber richard reid. he got a british passport in belgium. flew to paris. bought a one-way ticket to florida. paid cash. and came to the airport with no luggage. the tsa responded by making passengers take their shoes off. in israel, security officers are college educated, trained for months and speak at least two languages. and they are routinely tested by undercover agents carrying fake explosives. if an agent misses one of the fake bombs -- >> he is going home. there is no mercy. >> reporter: they are fired on the spot. the tsa conducts similar tests, but if an agent fails those, they're normally not fired, just retrained. >> how long does all of that take in israel? >> reporter: they say it only takes 30 minutes from door to gate. >> so disciplined. so highly trained. thank you, sharyn alfonsi. >>> and also today, an iconic american company roared into the future. general motors celebrated its return to wall street after a life support of bankruptcy and government bailouts. as we saw, the recovery was

richard reid, the shoe bomber, and the so-called underwear bomber, omar abdulmutallab were on planes that departed from europe. >> in europe, we have now reluctantly accepted the fact that when you buy an airline ticket, you agree to surrender your dignity. >> reporter: since the christmas day attack, what was unheard of before are now more visible, with varying degrees of acceptance. after a three-month trial period, paris dropped all use of body scanners, calling them too inveiasiv invasive. great britain and germany now use a handful of body scanners between them. patdowns are random, or secure if scanners or profilers pick up something suspicious. opinions generally are mixed but there's been little outcry. >> i don't, as a rule, mind being searched and all that, as long as they're polite. >> reporter: and amsterdam airport has avoided any controversy. the scanners use radio waves to detect explosives without an image of the body. other airports are looking at similar technology. security experts say the biggest difference is attitude. europeans are less likely to question an int

not in an era of richard reids, when they can be detained, they can fit a profile. we have a new era of terrorism. concealing explosives within their bodies and i think we're going to need this equipment, i'm doing everything i can to get it online. have you had a change of heart? >> i was assured filters had been developed to block out personal private body parts, parts of the body that shouldn't be shown. the other thing, too, is i can't believe that they would deploy this equipment, buy this equipment and not consult with congress and let us know what they were deploying is in fact invasive. i support the technology but with caveats. >> so you're saying back then you thought -- you didn't know the machine -- they didn't show you, you were supporting this but hadn't seen what the machines were capable of? >> i saw the machines and my concern was again the privacy issue. and i was assured, and again, i checked it this week and you can buy filtering equipment to filter that out. they went ahead and without consulting us bought, to me, offensive equipment that should

if i deployed some of them and some of that equipment to the departure points where richard reid or thents bomber came from or the liquid bombers all originate, you have to put your resources where the threat is, and that's what people who pose a threat, not the average american. and somebody has to be able to think and differentiate. jenna: congressman mica, thank you so much for taking the time to join us today. >> good to be with you, thank you. jenna: in light of the new airport security procedures, will you change your thanksgiving travel plans? go to foxnews.com to weigh many and see how others are voting in our you decide question. you might be surprised. a lot of folks feel like it's, you know, we have to be safe. jon: yeah, everybody wants to be safe, but haven't we gone overboard in the name of political correctness? 70-year-old grandmothers with gray hair are not the threat. jenna: very suspicious characters. jon: i've never seen them with underwear explosives. jenna: oh, my goodness. well, neither have i. jon: what ireland's new bailout means for the u.s. economy and your bo

he says an interview would have red flagged shoe bomber richard reid. he got a british passport in belgium, flew to paris, bought a one-way ticket to florida, paid cash, and came to the airport with no luggage. tsa responded by making passengers take their shoes off. in israel, security officers are college educated, trained for months, and speak at least two languages. and they are routinely tested by undercover agents carrying fake explosives. if an agent misses one of these fake bombs? >> he is going home. >> reporter: tsa conducts similar tests but they say if one of their agents misses one of those fake bombs, they are retrained. sharyn alfonsi, abc news, new york. >>> president obama is heading overseas this morning for two days of meetings with nato and european union leaders. this follows a meeting at the white house yesterday with top national security officials. all meant to rally support for that nuclear treaty with russia. the president has pushed republicans to vote on that treaty right away. >> as ronald reagan said, we have to trust but w

he says an interview would have red flagged shoe bomber richard reid.esponded by making passengers take their shoes off. in israel, security officers are college educated trained for months and speak at least two languages. and they are rue lien tested by agents. >> if an agent misses one of the balls? >> he is going home. >> reporter: >> reporter: tsa conducts similar states they say if their agent misses one of those bombs they are retrained. >>> president obama is heading overseas this morning for two days of meetings with nato and european union leaders. this follows a meeting at the white house yesterday with top national security officials. all meant to rally support for that nuclear treaty with russia. the president has pushed republicans to vote on that treaty right away. >> as ronald reagan said, we have to trust but we also have to verify. in order for us to verify, we've got to have a treaty. >> this is a critically important issue for the country. if it was so important it should have gotten done, they should have gotten it done. >> republic

that was -- that could have been the case with people like abdulmutallab on christmas day or richard reidi'm sure a professional interview would have exposed these people as highly spus spishs. >> thank you for your time. snow in the pacific northwest, no big deal, right? unless you live in seattle. we will look at a city pretty much snowed in right now. >>> violent storms in oil now? this is, i guess, just one of a serious of tornadoes spotted yesterday. witnesses say one touched down near rockford causing a school bus to roll over. six children were injured in that accident, and another destroyed several buildings in caledonia, and ripped up transmission towers, knocked down power and knocked it out to about 40,000 homes and businesses. those storms moved east. but what's happening in the seattle area? >> we have snow there. you look at the damage there and it's remarkable there went more injuries. we are certainly lucky and fortunate with that. this storm is pushing east, and it's weakening as it does so but the southern edge is dumping a fair amount of rain across this part of the wor

making us safe should look at richard reid and the underwear bomber. the passengers are the ones that thwarted the attacks. so we ought to start treating the passengers like heroes and empower them to fend for themselves. >> john tyner, i appreciate you coming on, being frank and having a candid conversation with me. apparently the tsa may be following up with an $11,000 civil suit against you. john tyner, thank you. and with that, we go to wolf blitzer in washington with "the situation om." wo?lf >> thank you very much. happening now, freshman orientation right here in washington, d.c. just weeks after clinching republican victories nationwide, members of the new congress are ready to start delivers on their promises to transform government. but first they have to learn the ropes on capitol hill. an eye-popping new survey reveals this year's top ten highest paid ceos. you might be surprised to learn who they are. >>> plus, imagine getting trapped in a deadly 6.9 magnitude earthquake. that nightmare was reality in one japanese city. now it's being call

standpoint of any opportunity that they may have, we go back to christmas day and the passenger and richard reidand of course 9/11. then we look at other venues that they may pose a threat to and so again, we worked with our both the private sector, the major cargo shippers to take affirmative steps to do everything possible to protect those shipments. >> you haven't been specific. you say you've taken steps. is that deliberate or can you share with us something that you're doing to make the skies safer? >> sure. we have done several things. for example, we're trying to be a risk-based intelligence driven operation here, and so the focus of course is on yemen, any packages destined for the u.s., and so on friday issued an order which put a ground hold on any packages out of yemen, destined for the u.s. on any shipper, or on any passenger flights. we've also taken steps working with the yemen authorities to have a team of experts at the airport to provide additional screening, and training, and expertise with additional equipment to assure that any packages that come out of yemen once that ban is

now, the christmas day underwear bomber from last year and the 2001 attempt by shoe bomber richard reide the most high-profile incidents in recent years, but that kind of threat is is always there, and one former tsa screener told us just this morning c-4, an especially adaptable explosive is a problem along with box cutters, liquids that could be made into explosives, all kinds of things. in just a two-year period of 2006 and '07, the agency confiscated 20 million prohibited items, jenna. jenna: unbelievable. steve, thank you very much for that report. steve centanni, thank you. jon: strange update in the case of a missing north carolina teenager. his mutilated body was found in massachusetts. now police say he might have fallen from a plane. how's that possible? this harris has a live update from the breaking news desk ahead. >>> also, fox news on the u.s./mexico border with a look inside a smuggling tunnel connecting tijuana and san diego. our own william la jeunesse takes you inside straight ahead. mom, have you seen my green shirt? ♪ i can't find it. ♪ [ female announcer ] new tide

then six years later we saw richard reid again with a shoe bomb and last year with abdul mutallab transporting a device in an underwear garment. there is an evolution in bomb technology and attack path protocol and more importantly a human element we have to pay attention to. it is the human factor that is the most important in the counterterrorism equation. >> you just saw mr. pistole testifying before congress and i know you're not in the business of critiquing what he might have done but i was sort of saying to jeanne meserve, you know, could he have, could they be doing a better job of marketing what they're doing and perhaps taking a stronger position against people who think that they're getting you their personal space while trying to keep flyers safe? >> i think you nailed the real issue here. the better job comes through education and, ali, you fly a lot as do i. i've spoken to people that plan to travel in the next two weeks. the highest peak travel season of the year. they're concerned about going to the airport. that concern, which elevates to a level of fear if you will, can be ea

we took richard reid, i believe it was, the shoe bomber.ink had posed risk to the national security by taking them into civilian courts, and we did that. they were not individuals, however, ap rehented on the battlefield like so many of the individuals at guantanamo bay are or the individuals that were sort of the mather -- masterminds of mass mob murder. obviously, ksm is a confessed mobster who says he masterminded the killing of thousands of americans. and additionally, he was at the highest levels of the operation, and we needed to get the information from him that we could to help us prevent further attacks. i personally never contemplated that we would take a person who was clearly a military individual, part of the declared war against the united states, and i never anticipated that he would be tried in a civilian court, and i think to do so poses certain risks relating to the way in which we handle those individuals, the way in which we gather intelligence. and i think when the president of the united states makes his mind up -- and

the richard reid, shoe bomber came from paris and flying into miami.om line is this is a proven policy that works and they have been able to keep our country safe. >> uh-huh. let's talk to you. you know, we just did a story about an hour ago about how a guy who looked at this, looked at the screener, talked to the people who put the screener together, said that this particular screener that shows you naked, essentially, would not have detected the bomb the guy had in his pants. so maybe it's working as a deterrent but as a piece of equipment, it doesn't work so well. >> well, these machines are doing a good job of finding certain threats. and we don't have a silver bullet situation. i have to give tsa a lot of credit. they've already heard the response to the new procedures. they've now moved on the pilots. they have moved on kids and other things they can do. we ought to bring back a red shirt traveler program with biometrics at the checkpoint. we have to have the screening that we need and the privacy protection that tsa has built in are acceptable.

americans, they always seem to be fighting the last war, we have to take our shoes off because of richard reidd to mix chemicals and get patted down -- on the other hand, are you confident the tsa is on top of whatever threats are out there? >> i don't think you can ever be confident we're doing everything possible to protect ourselves. that's why you do have to continually look to change the procedures. i think the enhanced scanning devices are not a reaction to some risk of the past, there's something where we're being proactive. that's a good thing. the pat-down, i don't know about that. obviously, it's something you have to balance the risk based on information they have that we don't. as to what possible items could be taken onto a plane against intrusion of the american people. what i have not understood the last couple of years is why the hundreds of thousands of people who travel by airplane regularly can not get some bio-identity cards, minor screening, fast tracks, not only helps them, helps everybody else waiting in line. it's not just thanksgiving when people go to see relatives, i

reid and sharron angle. we predict marco rubio the winner of a three-way race with independent charlie crist and democrat kendrick meek. richardlumenthal over republican linda mcmahon. christopher coons defeats christine o'donnell who made the ad saying she wasn't a witch. in in ohio, rob portman defeats lee fisher. bob, there is a possibility the republican could control the senate. >> reporter: if there is good news for the democrats tonight it is probably they will hold onto the senate. mitch mcconnell, who is the senate republican leader says they are probably going to hold all the republican seats that they have up tonight, but he says if they're going to take the senate they're going to have to take 10 of those 12 senate seats right there that are now held by democrats. now, they've already taken three of them, but the important thing is the republicans -- the democrats have taken two, which means if the democrats are going to lose control of the senate, republicans have to get all the rest of those seats that are in black there tonight. that's a pretty tall order. >> couric: let's talk about some of those seats, nancy c

reid fended off republican sharron angle. in delaware, another tea party hopeful, republican christine o'donnell, was defeated by democrat chris coons. in connecticut, democrat richardumenthal eked out a win against tea party candidate and former world wrestling ceo linda mcmahon. >> what the republicans need to do is reach out to the democrats, reach out to the white house, and say, hey, the train is leaving the station, come on board, we invite you to come on board but we're heading in a different direction. >> reporter: for some, disaster. for others, disaster averted. the change of power in the house means the next house speaker will almost certainly be ohio republican john boehner. a man nearly as controversial as the current house speaker, nancy pelosi. rob and vinita? >> as mentioned, democrats did manage to maintain control of the senate, thanks in large part to some big wins out in the west. in nevada, senate leader harry reid did beat back a strong challenge from tea party star sharron angle. reid, of course, struggled for months in a state with the nation's highest unemployment and with voters extremely angry at washington insiders. and in california, bar