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this is stuff the tsa is not doing. and the tsa may not want to do it because it is a public institution. it's responsive to politics more than actual security. now politics often demands security. in fact politics often demands oversecurity but demands misdirected security. tsa was very good in early years looking for small sharp objects like the objects used in the 9/11 attack. after richard reid, the shoe bomber, i like to say the tsa caught something of a shoe fetish. after the underwear bomber it got closer to us still. before too long new innovations in smuggling will bring the tsa yet closer to our lives in ways i care not describe to you today. so what are the roles what are the roles between public sector and private sector doing security? david does a good job of describing them in his paper. his thinking is sound. government provides public goods. it provides the goods that can not be provided privately economically. national defense is a public good because no one individual, no corporation, is going to go a

terry crosby went to work for the tsa almost from the beginning.gned up eight years ago because the attacks made him want to serve his country. he rotates through several different jobs during his shift, from running the x-ray machine for carry-on baggage... >> guy left his liquids in there. >> reporter: ....to hand- searching for suspect items... to physically searching passengers. >> okay, i'm going to go inside your collar. >> reporter: it's not his favorite job, but a job he says needs to be done. >> a lot of americans don't feel that they should be patted down, that it's not necessary to be patted down. but when you have things that come in that don't belong, or try to take things on the plane that don't belong, then it is necessary. >> reporter: some americans believe those "enhanced pat- downs," which started within the last year, violate their constitutional rights. they're just one part of a raging debate over how far the tsa should be allowed to go. since 9/11, security procedures have steadily escalated after a series of failed terrorist

tsa gave me my things. on and i headed down and one lady had come up to me just out of nowhere and said did they check your hair? that's what she said. did they check your hair. i said no and i kept going. after that i got in front of the train transit to go up to my gate and then these people came screaming, humiliating sounds and disrespectfully coming after me saying they needed to check my hair. >> tsa have issued a statement. i want to share that statement in part. they said "additional screening may be required for clothing, head wear or hair where prohibited items could be hidden. this passenger left the checkpoint prior to completion of the screening process. you were offered but refused private screening." is that true did you refuse private screening? >> it's untrue. tsa never said anything about screening to me. they do that when you first go through the checkpoint. i've been screened and patted before. i know how this thing go. you don't wait 10 to 15 minutes later and some odd people come runni

this change signals a shift in the way tsa might approach security in the future. a decade after 9/11, the agency has been widely criticized for taking a one size fits all approach to security, treating children and the elderly like high risk suspects. >> we do want to move and are moving to a more risk-based approach to screening passengers. >> reporter: a risk-based approach, screening that focuses on passengers who recently traveled to countries known to support terrorism, could make security lines faster for all of us. and screening less invasive. napolitano also said technology is in the works that could one day allow everyone to keep our shoes on. but she wouldn't say when. at the nation's airports today, passengers said the changes to tsa policy are long overdue. >> last time i heard about an american child with a bomb strapped on them was -- never. i never thought that patting young children was a deterrent or in any way made the country safer or air travel safer. it just took more time and traumatized families. >> reporter: now, secretary napolitano stress

the tsa's response. >> and images of a satellite falling to earth. we now have a better idea when and where it might hit. >> all of that coming up, and then a bit late other "night nightline." >> i'm terry moran. dan and carolyn, up next on "night lynn," the defense opens in the millionaire developer accused of killing his wife. he says it was an accident. we're in court. plus, the country where breast enhance enhancement has set up a national clash over beauty and politics. okay, people, let's get started. pete, did you forget yours? me pete, me use pen! (laughter) sorry i'm late, i was in the 16th century looking for pete's pen. (laughter) guys, guys. take it easy, ok? pete's mom is videochatting me, and she wants her pen back! ok, alright, well. i just got one. so... yeah, you've got a little... yep, i can feel the wet patch. don't look at it. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. why did you buy my husband a falcon? thanks for the falcon. i didn't buy anyone a falcon. sure, you did. you saved us a lot of money on auto insurance. i used that money

and just last week, the tsa bought more all with the advanced outline system. but members of a house homeland security subcommittee approved a measure today that would speed that up, requiring all the scanners to be upgraded within 90 days if the full congress approves. >> it's giving a little bit more dignity back to the people who have to go through the scanners without sacrificing any type of security. >> reporter: on another security issue, a big concern for parents, the homeland security secretary said children under 12 will no longer have to take off their shoes for screening and will be patted down less often. >> we hope over the coming weeks and months to begin rolling that out. it does require additional training of all of the thousands of tsa officers, and that's under way. >> reporter: a different travel nightmare for a woman caught up in heightened security over the 9/11 anniversary. passenger and crew jitters led to fighter jets escorting a frontier airlines flight to detroit sunday after two men seated in the same row were seen making frequent lon

leader that tsa currently has.hat let's go to questions and answers. please wait for the mic opposed to comrade because we do have media and they're trying to capture these. state your name, your affiliation if you have one, and the question. no statements. the gentleman in the redshirt right over here. >> thank you. john brown, fox news channel. with respect to the christmas day underwear bomber, is it accurate to say that we were lucky that the explosives didn't ignite because his pants were damp? and more broadly, is it fair to say that we get lucky more than, lucky that more of these plots don't succeed? thank you. >> there are a number of unknowns of course. i think we were fortunate on christmas day. the question i would look back at is, is what have our layers of security done, force, if you will, terrorist to adopt different means of concealment. as to whether there was something either design, construction, or the fact that he had been traveling for 17, 18 hours, didn't have something to do with it, there

the tsa's response. >> and images of a satellite falling to earth. we now have a better idea when and where it might hit. >> all of that coming up, and then a bit late other "night nightline." >> i'm terry moran. dan and carolyn, up next on "night lynn," the defense opens in the millionaire developer accused of killing his wife. he says it was an accident. we're in court. plus, the country where breast enhance enhancement has set up a national clash over beauty and politics. ii [ beep ] [ man ] you have one new message. [ mom ] hi scooter. this is mommy. the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. the vegetables are cut nice and thick... you were always good at cutting your vegetables. and it's got tender white-meat chicken... the way i always made it for you. oh, one more thing honey... those pj's you like, the ones with the feet, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> a new lase

former head of tsa security policy tom blank. nice to see you again. for joining us. >> thank you, alex. >>> as we've been saying ten years ago tomorrow, life as we know it here in the u.s., really life around the world changed in a matter of moments. and as we go through our daily lives, some of the numbers from that day are faded from our memory. in all, 2,977 people died that day, including 34 firefighters. far and away the deadliest day in the history of the fdny. 184 died at the pentagon. 33 passengers and 7 crew members died as they fought down hijackers on flight 93, crashing in shanksville. citizens of more than 90 countries were killed. 3,051 children lost a parent. 17 children were born after a father was killed that day. and 11 pregnant women lost their lives. it is also a time for reflection on many fronts, including those who covered the events of 9/11. in a special airing on msnbc tomorrow night, nbc news correspondents and anchors share their stories about covering the attacks and how they were seen by so many as an act of war. >> oh, go

. >> reporter: ten years ago, there was no tsa. and airport security was run by the airline chose screeners allowed the 1919 hijackers to board that september morning carrying box cutters and knives. >> in 2001, security was illusory. the airlines pretended to deliver security and the government pretended to find it okay. >> reporter: two of the hijackers were even on a border watch list, but they were still able to board their flights. a former tsa administrator says that could not happen today and their plot would be stopped. >>>> the 9/11 plolo as it was designed then would be highly unlikely. if they were on the no-fly list, if those two, today, tried to buy tickets and fly, they would not do it. >> reporter: that has changed. >> that has changed. >> reporter: still, the report card out today on the 9/11 commission recommendations concluded not enough has changed. we are still highly vulnerable to aviation security threats, the report says. >> not got it right yet. >>>>eporter: in particular, the ability to detect explosives th

private companies are actually forced to pay for the tsa.ll you, the research on this segment, i did not know that the airlines themselves have to pay the tsa, but they do. >> this is very problematic for two reasons, one is that they are never going to acknowledge when capacity is going down and less people and they are going to credit back these private companies. two, this is the government punishing success. these airlines have figured a way to make money. we may not like it because we're paying more and they are successful, and they are trying to get something else. >>> shouldn't the airlines be the ones that take care of the passengers and property? don't they have more of an interest than the government does? and can't they do it less expensive and less intrusive job of it? >> we have some sort of failure in the replication of the freedom gene in america. if the american people don't understand it. government is rewarded by failure, bigger budgets, everybody moves up in the bureaucracy but failure for a private company is a very costl

because obama's tsa is abandoning our most effective weapon against terror, x-raying your junk. jim? >> fort wayne is one of 40 airports in the country getting a technology upgrade for its body scanner. >> the new software changes two things, first what the scanned image looks like. this is the old one. it shows a rendering of the person's actual body along with any anomalies. this is the new one. everyone's body is the generic rendering and auntillies like something in your pocket show up as a jell-o block. -- yellow block. >> stephen: great. this will protect us if we get attacked by the gingerbread man. the key tool, folks, the key tool in our national security portfolio is ghostly images of our pee pees. it is easy for terrorists to disguise their facial features, but everyone knows there is no disguising your crotch face. every genital is as unique as a snowflake. side note: if your genitals are shaped like a snowflake, see a doctor immediately. now, folks, without forcing us to take off our shoes and undergoing full body scan, what is to stop a terrorist from boarding a pl

bags aren't the only place the tsa looks for bombs.nd the airport making sure that terminals are safe, as well. >> not everybody likes dogs. but everybody respects the dog and its mission. >> now officers have a new mission, too. spotting suspicious people using behavior analysis. both in person and from a new high-tech surveillance room. >> we found hundreds of various prohibited items and other things that shouldn't be on an aircraft through the various techniques we are using in behavioral observations. >> experts say all the tools really have made air travel safer but now intelligence suggests that terrorists have a new target. >> when bin laden was killed, the papers that were captured targeted u.s. rail systems. >> it's a threat bart police have taken seriously. like the airport, bart built a new state of the art surveillance center, added bomb-sniffing dogs and now trains officers to spot a terrorist. >> it's not an attack on bart, it's not an attack on the bay area, it's an attack on america and we are part of the defense and p

that's something the tsa disputes.ials say tsa screening procedures are designed to ensure the security of the traveling public. additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear or hair, where prohibited items could be hidden. this passenger left the checkpoint prior to the completion of the screening process and was offered but refused private screening. brantley says she feels she was a victim of racial profiling. >> i would love it if tsa could make a public apology to me and let me know that i'm safe to travel and they will follow their procedures. >> i'm upset somebody would treat diana ross like that. >> i know. in case you're wondering how to get that hair. she has not cut her hair since she was 12 and she's now 35. >> wow, all those years. >> that's what you need to do. >> that's kind of -- i mean, security's security, but she does have a lot of hair, you know. >> it looks good. it frames the face. >> frames the face, really? you said you would want -- i'm impressed. rings in the fro? >> i would like

airport security is the top priority for the 60,000 men and women who make up the tsa.lo has more. >> reporter: for nearly 2 million passengers every day, the tsa and its 755 checkpoints are the most visible reminder of 9/11. and the threat says the tsa chief, hasn't changed much. >> those who are able to design and construct and conceal bombs that simply don't look like bombs -- >> reporter: since 9/11 there have been serious attempts to bring down planes. the 2001 shoe bomb attempt, the 2006, the christmas day underwear bomber in 2009 and last year's cargo bomb plot. from undercover air marshals to armed pilots, 40,000 tsa screeners, bans on liquids and gels, shoes off, laptops out, a watch list, controversies over full-body imageers and those personal patdowns, flying is nothing like it was ten years ago. >> what brings you to the airport today? >> reporter: in miami, mobile police checkpoints and hardened barriers protection the airfield while a heavily armed tactical police and canine unisit always on patrol inside. at a 24/7 airport where tens of thousands of peop

she'd gone through security in atlanta, going down the he is ska later, tsa agents said they had to pat down her hair for explosives. >> i said you can't touch my hair. he said well if you don't allow herer to, you won't be able to catch the plane. so, at this point, i let her touch my hair, she took her hand and started to dig around in my hair, several times, touching and digging. and i said do you see any? please. don't do this to me this, is humiliating and embarrassing. they said ochblg you have nudging in your hair. so okay. bye. >> tsa has a different version and released a statement saying she left before officials were done searching her. >> the tsa says it offered to screen privately but she refused. >> that is some do she has. >> that a lot of hair. >> thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. >> and you can keep track of the latest news on twitter. >> the news at 5:00 continues right new. >> coming up early warnings ignored in a san francisco neighborhood where a little girl was shot by a stray bullet. >> i thought would it break me down. i won't be able to search an

. >> that is where tsa came from. out of september 11th. >> tsa founded with two missions.to keep skies safe and reassure traveling public. over 10 years, both have occasionally been a challenge. passengers were forced to remove their shoes after the al qaeda shoe bomber made it through security, then tsa banned liquides after word of a new threat. and the so-called under wear bomber prompted a roll out of what american civil liberties called naked body scanners. >> this is outrage. >> and it didn't eliminate concerns over intrusive pat downs. right now, the terrorists are winning. whit comes to this security situation, to make us accept intrusiveness but it's a necessary intrusiveness. >> travelers rights attorney says in this case, he believes the right to privacy comes second. >> there are those who to kill us, i would rather fly protected. >> nothing is truly private when you fly anymore. auto mated x ray machines scan every checked bag. and pull it off the line if something likes fishy. this is a side that you don't usually see. in this room, inside of the airport, any

the tsa has strengthened airline passenger screening. nevertheless, a young man was recently able to fly across country without a valid government issued id and with an expired border pass that did not even bear his name. similarly, the department of homeland security has bolstered the security of americans' borders and identification documents led to refugees with ties to al-qaeda were arrested in kentucky to help allegedly carry out attacks against our troops. how a known bomb maker whose fingerprints we had had for years was able to enter our country on humanitarian grounds remains an unanswered and troubling question. it appears, however, that this case may reflect the kinds of lack of imagination that the 9/11 commission found to be a persistent failure. while the fbi's announces iring's ed's collected in iraq and afghanistan has up doubtedly helped u.s. war fighters, the forensic information collected from these devices should also be used to screen those trying to enter our country, and we must ensure that the fbi has the resource

tsa is at the forefront of that debate.ry day there are officers in the field who have to deal with that balance between privacy and security. it is going to get more difficult going forward. you do not get a lot of pats on the back. nobody says, nice job. you only get criticized when something goes wrong. to manage an organization like that, when you do not a lot of praise when you get right, requires a significant level of leadership. that is where the administrator comes in. he has been a lifelong and, nearly 30 years of government service. he was at the fbi during 9/11. he brings leadership and integrity to organization like tsa. for today, i would like to introduce mr. pistole. he is going to give 30 minutes of remarks and then we will have questions and answers. we appreciate and the microphone comes along to please state your affiliation. will forward to his remarks. crescive for attending. >> good morning. thank you for that introduction. it is a privilege to be here. i appreciate the opportunity to focus on some of

when the tsa had pistol was here come you said we need to do invasive searches. he said we may slow down or may not do them as much pay but then he sent me a letter and said absolutely have to because the eight euros in kandahar exploded a bomb. to me i think that shows a bit of naÏvetÉ to think that somehow there's a similar letter between eight euros in kandahar and one in bowling green. i wouldn't consider them each to be a risk factor. if anything can't age might argue against davis. to say she is the same age as someone who put off a bomb in kandahar, we have to bring some sense to overdo it. after 10 years, why don't we have a frequent player program? a bit talk of those traveling or traveling to three times a week and yet we treat everybody equally as a terror suspect. in doing so, i think that we take away time that could be spent on those who would be. i think half the tsa agents have joined the program and who take half the agents and look at the manifest of those flying from foreign countries. i want to know the limits of reflate. i do know how a part

in berkeley, cbs 5. >>> the tsa declined to comment. arizona's dmv says it's aware of the id's coming from overseas and they are actively investigating. as for the california dmv, the newly desined driver's license's have been counterfeit proof so far. >> we have tough ones roberta, how about our stuff? >> i played, i have no idea. that's what i am pleading. i don't know. have no idea on that one. all i know is this weather report is not follows phid by any stretch of the imagination. the facts, the numbers you are to be the read are all true. right now, 75 degrees in cann cord. oakland in the mid 60s. after realizing a high today, check this out, 86 degrees. currently still at 73 degrees in san jose. this after a high today in the high 90s. tonight, mainly warm. looks like tonight we will have some clouds at the beaches. otherwise, lots of clear conditions into the 50s and a few low 6 os. tomorrow, these are the things i want you to take with you. sure, we started out with whispy clouds. bay side too, will drop a few degrees inland and

tsa officers might ask kids to make more than one trip through metal detectors and body scanners. >>> fog is already rolling into the bay as we speak. we're going to see more widespread fog into tomorrow morning. different than what we saw today. the fog is going to last through the noon hour all the way back to the coastline, temperatures are going to be cooler tomorrow afternoon, 80 degrees in livermore, 75 in san jose. let's get a look at that fog. as you head out the door tomorrow morning, fog will be widespread through the north bay, inland valleys, it will be down in the south bay, even though fog tracker isn't filling it in. the 9:00 hour, not a whole lot of change, sitting virtually in the same spot. later morning hours it starts to scale back, the peninsula seeing the fog and for the afternoon, the fog clinging to the coastline, similar to what we saw out there today. temperatures are going to be cooler tomorrow, 70s and low 80s for the south bay, 75 in san jose, 82 in morgan hill. also cooling several degrees for our inland valleys. it will be 85 in antioch, and walnut creek

when the tsa had pistol was here come you said we need to do invasive searches. he said we may slow down or may not do them as much pay but then he sent me a letter and said absolutely have to because the eight euros in kandahar exploded a bomb. to me i think that shows a bit of naÏvetÉ to think that somehow there's a similar letter between eight euros in kandahar and one in bowling green. i wouldn't consider them each to be a risk factor. if anything can't age might argue against davis. to say she is the same age as someone who put off a bomb in kandahar, we have to bring some sense to overdo it. after 10 years, why don't we have a frequent player program? a bit talk of those traveling or traveling to three times a week and yet we treat everybody equally as a terror suspect. in doing so, i think that we take away time that could be spent on those who would be. i think half the tsa agents have joined the program and who take half the agents and look at the manifest of those flying from foreign countries. i want to know the limits of reflate. i do know how a part

martha: an extreme patdown tsa edition, folks. how many have we seen of these, kids getting patted down. but now there's something new on this. >> we teach our children not to let anyone touch you, we teach them not to let any adults touch you, and then it's supposed to be okay as soon as we go through a airport. that's unacceptable. bill so some new tkphapbgs airport security, the tsa now easing the security screening measures for children under the age of 12, and peter doocy, live in washington on this morning. peter, how will the screening be different for children? >> it's going to be a lot less invasive, no more taking off shoes and no more patdown toss involve private areas for kids under 12 because the tsa is going to cut out their one size fits all in airport security and switch to a risk-based plan so instead of taking off shoes and patted down, the under 12 set will instead make multiple trips through metal detector respect or other screening machines and be tested for explosives. millions have been required to take off

the tsa says it will no longer do those invasive pat downs of little kids.. caused a lot of controversy, patting down little boys and girls. >> being a parent that travels with kids, a thankful change actually. >>> and rarity this -- later this half-hour, google's street view cameras make public pictures that should really remain private. with images like these we should consider changing the name of our program to "world nudes now." i'm sure ratings would skyrocket. let's try it. see what happens. >> we'd be the best thing, smoking. >> think the executives would noce. >> probably no. we begin with the little boy who spent the night lost and alone in this chilly san bernardino mountains. the 8-year-old with severe autism ran away from his school monday wearing shorts and sandals. >> great news -- he was found in the woods yesterday just a mile away. rob mcmillan reports from california's san bernardino mountains. >> reporter: moments after getting the news that 8-year-old joshua robb was found safe, his parents rushed in to thank search-and-rescue crews. >>

when the tsa had pistol was here come you said we need to do invasive searches. he said we may slow down or may not do them as much pay but then he sent me a letter and said absolutely have to because the eight euros in kandahar exploded a bomb. to me i think that shows a bit of naÏvetÉ to think that somehow there's a similar letter between eight euros in kandahar and one in bowling green. i wouldn't consider them each to be a risk factor. if anything can't age might argue against davis. to say she is the same age as someone who put off a bomb in kandahar, we have to bring some sense to overdo it. after 10 years, why don't we have a frequent player program? a bit talk of those traveling or traveling to three times a week and yet treat everybody equally as a terror suspect. in doing so, i think that we take away time that could be spent on those who would be. i think half the tsa agents have joined the program and who take half the agents and look at the manifest of those flying from foreign countries. i want to know the limits of reflate. i do know how a part of

this is according to a tsa spokesman.sa spokesman is saying a dog trained to sniff explosives alerted personnel to a suspicious package in a cargo area. right now part of terminal b, part of terminal b at dulles airport outside of washington, d.c., has been evacuated, shut down, i should say shut down just as a precaution. again, this is just as a precaution. we'll bring you the latest information as soon as it becomes available. now back to our coverage of 9/11. >>> hour away from the anniversary of the september 11 attacks, there are rohries about another threat -- worries about another threat. susan candiotti with more. are people worry good this terrorist attack? are they going about their business and remembering people who lost their lives there today? >> reporter: i would say both things are happening. certainly people who are worried about the terror threat. and also new yorkers who are moving on. i want to show you, don, right now what is happening at ground zero as part of the security sweep that is going on as

in berkeley, cbs 5. >>> well, the tsa declined to comment for our story. dmv says they are aware of the id's coming from overseas and actively informationing. so far, they i the newly designed criminalses have beep counterproof. >> head out of feline distemper. it is a swift and deadly disease that can kill cats in a few days. the shelter in san martine has quarantine and put a hold on all adoptions. kit spoke with the shelter manager. >> this quarantine couldn't come at a worse time. it is the height of kitten season when the shelter typically adopts out as many as five cats a day. what is more, they recently took on several dozen cats from a local hording case, which pushed them to 120% capacity. the shelter is undergoing a cleaning right now and the quarantine expires in two weeks. in san martin, cbs 5. triple in san martin, cbs 5. triple digits across the bay ,,,,,,,,, >>> though these are the days that tourists come here and they say wow, the weather in san francisco is perfect out here. >> then they move here. >> reality sets in. >> like tonight with

the nfl is ramping up security this season to nearly tsa levels by requiring full body pat downs of all fans. the ankle up crotch watch will impact the 16.6 million ticket holders who will be waiting in longer lines thanks to the league's busy, busy hands. explains a spokesman in a statement, the fans slash future victims, quote, the enhance etd -- enhanced security features will further increase the safety of fans, but will acquire some cicial -- additional time. we encourage fans to come early and enjoy their tailgating tradition, ie get drunk and be patient as we enter the stadium. shut up you big perv. and while the lead claims they recommend them at the start of the season, last week's arrest of a stun gun carrying fan at a jets-cowboy games prompted the new rules. i believe we have tape. >> how did he get in there with that thing? how did that happen? >> that was just bad taste. that added nothing to that segment. >> i blame tailgating. they did not focus. they were drunk. >> is that from an iphone? all of that empty space. at least put unicorns there. >> or an android. >> it coul

. >> the tsa is a favorite whipping boy.them to be wonderful as i go through airports, frankly. i stand in line and see the courtesy with which they treat people. but you had a ray of hope for a lot of us travelers. can we wear our shoes? is that in the future? >> that's right. i said that earlier this week and we are looking at that. we are moving to more of a risk-based process within airports. we want to expand programs like global entry that are for frequent known travelers that are low-risk travelers, and yes, we are researching whether we can let passengers leave their shoes on. >> but not the liquids? >> not the liquids. from a science point of view, look, the number one thing we want to do is keep passengers safe. we have the largest and safest airline system in the world. we process about 1.8 million passengers a day through hundreds of airports and we want to keep it safe. >> fema, under your management, has done an extraordinary job. everyone agrees. but the challenges of the earthquake was a smaller challenge, bu

with significant federal funding, tsa has deployed equipment for explosives detection. unfortunately explosives detection technology wax reliability and lags in its capability to automatically identify concealed weapons and explosives. dhs must improve technology requirements working with the private sector to develop this equipment and test it in the field. with regard to standards for terrorist -- this is not within the jurisdiction of this committee but is an important matter. for too long our nation's political leadership has delayed resolving the difficult problem of reconciling the rule of law with indefinitely detaining alleged terrorists some of whom would no doubt attempt to do the nation grievous harm. congress and the president must enact a law, comprehensive approach for how to handle these detainee's grounded in the principles of fairness, due process and protecting the american people. to conclude while we have done much since the attacks ten years ago, we are safer than we were that day, all of us agree there's much more to do. political leadership from b

john pistole and tsa start moving in a direction where people frequently fly, do background checks. we made deals to remaining tsa can focus on people they don't know in the baggage that belongs to people they don't know. i think we have -- we should be restless about the risk. it's manageable it would be to manage very, very effectively. i still can't believe after 10 years and we talked about the infrastructure and no bread bad communication, but i still can't believe it didn't like the detroit incident in fort hood would occur. when people within government, with the federal government had information, it was substantial enough to ask. i mean, there's a lot of criticism because they weren't adequately prepared. you have to be in this day and age, the new norm of tears them come you have to be a little less cautious. you have to act. in the ad, as i understand it for public information, that the fbi was aware that hasan was e-mailing to a radical cleric in yemen and this was an act of duty soldier who when they type to the department of defense will never know. but we did connects

tsa is given a reasonable latitude, but it's reasonable.now, the underlying offense that he was arrested for, disorderly conduct, in the state court was thrown out. it was dismissed. so what was this bizarre behavior? tsa needs to understand that even though they're given the wide latitude, that there are going to be crazy people who are trying to, you know, prove a point or whatever, and there's a way to defuse the situation. what was this guy up to? was he really a terrorist, and does everybody need to be arrested? i think that this is a big first amendment violation, and it's going to go forward, and i think he's going to prevail. gregg: kimberly, you mentioned one other thing the judge pointed out, and we'll put that up on the screen. >> right. gregg: do you suspect that the judge, henry hudson here, if there is a verdict in favor of the plaintiff might just decide to set it aside? >> he's sending a big signal here, he's doing the right thing. he's hedging a little bit to say let this guy have discovery where he can get statements put f

because tsa agents are looking for weapons. have to touch a lot of things and look at a lot of places when you are looking for weapons. you can do behavioral or psychological profiling. then you allow some 70-year-old lutheran woman to walk through having walked through many times before without having to be patted down. i think the accusation you are making against janet napolitano and the administration -- i think it is wrong of you to make that accusation. guest: the fbi is engaged in a racial mapping program. there are centers around the country that are investigating a law-abiding groups. the aclu has documented 36 states and d.c. how local law enforcement and the fbi have infiltrated peaceful groups. there are many people brought in for questioning. may i finish? i did not talk about president obama. i said janet napolitano, certain it. the practices against latino immigrants and arab and muslim immigrants. there was a special program temporarily suspended that called muslim men in for special questioning that singled out

at airports, the tsa says there will be a show of force with armed units called viper teams patrolling in record numbers. and there will be more patrols near bus stops and subways, too. amtrak announced there will be more armed patrols at train stations, as well and more screening of bags and passengers, george. >> everyone is out in force. but is there any specific threat they've identified? >> reporter: no specific plot has been identified. but officials are going through extraordinary lengths to make certain they haven't missed anything. one senior official told me last night, it's what he doesn't know that scares him. >> that is right. okay, pierre thomas, thanks. >>> and now, a new look at the harsh reality changing the lives and futures of millions of americans. numbers just out show most people who lost their job in the depths of the great recession haven't found a new one. and they don't believe they'll ever recover the financial security they had. abc's jim avila has more on the families forced to rethink our american dream. >> reporter: in her three straight years of unemploy

just going to the tsa background checks, they get fingerprinted. you have to do a bunch of paper work around that. >> reporter: still according to this latest law enforcement bulletin, al-qaida operatives believe security is lax. that's why private pilots play a crucial support. >> you have to be aware, i tend to be a little more protective than most. >> reporter: this comes right before the tenth anniversary of 9/11. alex savage, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> next sunday marks the tenth anniversary of 9/11. little later we'll look at how things have changed since then through the eyes of the muslim community. >>> a flight to southern california was diverted after a passenger allegedly made a flight threat. spirit airlines was headed to las vegas to los angeles. when the plane landed back in las vegas all the passengers were taken offer the plane and it was searched. no explosives were found. the man was arrested there at the gate. the remaining passengers were rescreened and boarded a new flight to l.a. >>> the highway patrol is out tonight looking for

in berkeley, elizabeth cook, cbs 5. >>> the tsa declined comment for this story.ona's dmv says it is aware that theids are coming from overseas and are investigating this. as for california's dmv, it says the newly designed driver's licenses have been counterfeit-proof. >>> san francisco is taking steps to make the city safer for birds. >> some structures like the federal building are already bird-safe. they have exterior screens or ultraviolet patterns that birds can see so they don't fly into them. now under and ordinance that just got initial approval by the board of supervisors, all new buildings in parts of the city would need to follow bird- safe standards. >> this stuff happens all the time. i mean, you see dead bird all over the place. there have been some studies that show, you know, bird littering the ground around certain high-rises and stuff. and because they are using glass more and more, too, and the bird don't see it. >> some muni business shelters also follow bird-safe standards. the ordinance returns to the board next week for final approval. >>>