. >>> a tsa shakeup. new changes at the agency that protects our nation's air travel after dozens of fake bombs made it through security. >>> plus steady rain still following already on already soggy surfaces. a look at broad street here. rain still coming down. first alert radar tracking hours of rain still ahead for this tuesday. look at all of the green there. good morning and welcome to "nbc 10 news today" on this tuesday. i'm chris cato. let's begin with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz and the forecast. it's going to be a lot colder today. >> yes many places got into the 80s yesterday. we may not get into 60 degrees today. it's still damp and we have the flash flood watch up until 6:00 a.m. for a good bit of the area. the flood advisory in effect until 5:30. now for some of these southern counties it's some areas still getting some localized flooding. you can see with the radar things are quieting down. we're seeing lighter rain and that is an improvement over what we have seen last nigh

. >>> also breaking overnight, a tsa shakeup. the agency's leader is out after undercover agents got dozens of fake bombs and weapons past checkpoints almost every time they tried. >>> and get ready for a damp dreary, and chilly day. a live look at the aramark building shows rain still falling this morning. the first alert radar shows hours of rain still ahead. it's 4:30. good morning. this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. >> i'm chris cato. a lot of people asked for rain after one of the driest mays in history. we got a lot of it yesterday. chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is standing by. glenn, is the rain moving out of here soon? >> the heavy rain has moved out. in other areas it's just going to be tapering off. we got about two inches of rain officially in philadelphia in one day more than the entire month of may. a lot more. there's the live shot of cape may. the streets are wet. the streets are wet just about everywhere else too. they're going to stay wet. the clouds are going to stay with us. the fog

our other story the tsa missing 95% of the weapons and fake bombs the testers tried to sneak on board the airplanes. and you can imagine that inspired a shakeupeup might be an understatement. what head is going to roll with a grade like that. moms knowafter brushing, mouths often need a helping hand. listerine® total care helps prevent cavities, strengthens teeth and restores tooth enamel. it's an easy way to give listerine® total care to the total family. listerine® total care. one bottle, six benefits. power to your mouth™. and for kids starting at age six, listerine® smart rinse delivers extra cavity protection after brushing. >>> the top man in charge of keeping weapons out of our airports and off of our airplanes is no longer going to the office. the shakeup comes after a report reveals weapons and fake bombs made it past those tsa screeners a lot, like 95% of the time, during an undercover testing sting. cnn's suzanne malveaux has more on the problem ands the man who's being reassigned over these colossal failures. >> reporter: interim tsa administrator is stepping in replacing the former director melvin carraway. acting deputy director

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that startling number has led to a shakeup in leadership at the tsa. night 9 tshe tsa's acting administrator was reassigned. chris cato is live in the digital media center. tell us more chris. >> reporter: tracy, it was an internal investigation. the department of homeland security used so hf called red teams, undercover agents posing as passengers to pumll off the tests. they're not telling us which ones. as you said 67 out of 70 times the agents were able to sneak fake bombs, guns and other contraband through screening check points. a 95% failure rate. in one case an alarm went off but even after a pat down the tsa officer failed to find a fake plastic explosive taped to an agent's back. scary stuff, right? the former tsa chief is downplaying these findings a little. he's calling the secret agents super terrorists. they have inside information and they know the tsa's weakness bes going in. >> plus they have the benefits of being able to conduct devices in a lab. they're not out in the desert someplace in yemen, syria someplace like that. >> now when

taking immediate action, first he replaced the man at the headest tsa and ordered major changes at airport screenings. >> a big shakeup at the tsa after a stunning report thoughs safety lapses. it shows that tsa screeners missed 95% of the fake bombs and weapons that they tried to sneak through the system. an undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm but the screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device strapped to his back and now the fallout. secretary of homeland defense, jay johnson is so upset he removed the head of the tsa and replaced him with his deputy. and they have announced major ser changes to airport screenings and revising standard operating procedures and intensive training for supervise supervisors and going forward tsa screenings can expect more random covert testing. he says that tests like this one are intended to improve the system. >> if there say high rate of misses it cautions concerns one the technology is not working right and the procedures are not working right or three the officers themselves are not doing it right. >> and a major concern from this report is that terrori

someone called the tsa claiming a bomb was on board. the hoax comes after a shakeup at the tsa. the agency's director was reassigned after a new report showed undercover agents were able to get fake explosives and banned weapons through the checkpoint 95% of the time. >> it kind of makes you feel like when you're checking in and going through the airport like a dog and pony show. the tsa is going to implement reforms to stop the security breaches. >>> there's new information on a corruption case that forced a state lawmaker to step down. pennsylvania's house speaker will set the date for a special election to fill that seat. ron waters pleaded guilty to conflict of interest charges. they took plea deals that will keep them out of prison. three other state lawmakers from philadelphia face charges in the same sting operation, vanessa lowrie brown and louise bishop. none has entered a plea in the case. >>> the head of liturgical music for the archdiocese says he will step down at the end of this month. he's citing irreconcilable differences. he's been in charge of it for five years

this comes on the heels of a shakeup at tsa over security failures. >> reporter: yes and most passengerse talked to knew the tsa screeners had failed 67 out of 70 security tests. it's always good to be in the air and reading about tsa agents failing security tests. >> i just assumed they're doing a good job. we have no way to check behind them to see they're keeping us safe. >> reporter: the acting head of the transportation security administration resigned this week after undercover tests showed agents failed to detect fake bombs and banned weapons 96% of the time. >> it was very surprising. i just came back from italy and they took my hair spray. they're not taking guns but they're taking my hair spray. >> reporter: and it did not help that one of five jets targeted for bogus bomb threats around the country landed at philadelphia international this morning. >> there was a bomb scare, and everybody had to take their luggage and purses and put them on the tarmac. >> it kind of makes you feel that when you're checking in going through the airport it's like a dog and pony show. >> reporter

we are live with the latest. >>> shakeup at the tsa. its director ousted following an alarming failure to find replica bombs and weapons and contraband smuggled across airports across the country. good-bye bruce, hello caitlyn. caitlyn jenner sharing her story of transformation with the world. welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour. a frantic search is under way on the yangtze river. the rescuers are scrambling to save people after the cruise ship sank there. they are desperately trying to reach passengers they believe are still alive and trapped inside. just 14 survivors rescued. among them the captain and chief engineer in police custody. let's have ana coren bring us the latest. >> reporter: christine, we can tell you in the last few minutes, another person has been rescued. taking the number of survivors to 15 which is extraordinary, considering that ship capsized last night with 458 people on board. most of the people retirees and elderly and many aged in the 80s. to

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. >>> shakeup at the tsa. its director ousted overnight. following an alarming failure. bombs and weapons and contraband smuggled past security at airports across the country. 95% of the time. details ahead. >>> good-bye bruce. hello caitlyn. caitlyn jenner sharing her story of transformation with the world. i'm christine romans. welcome back to "early start." >> i'm john berman. we have breaking news. a search under way on the yangtze river. rescuers are scrambling to find survivors. crews report hearing sounds through the hull and trying to reach passengers they believe might still be trapped inside. chinese state media reports just 15 survivors have been rescued leaving hundreds more missing. among them the captain and chief engineer in police custody. for the latest let's bring in david mckenzie live on the scene. david. >> reporter: john just those few have been rescued and hundreds missing. if you look behind me charlie will push into the scene. that is the staging area where the rescue is happening. they believe people are still under the hull of the river cruise.

. >> and, tom, let's move to the stunning tsa report, major shakeup, 95% failure rate in the tests? >> talking about the tsa's own red team these are homeland security teams that go out and their job is to probe the tsa checkpoints to see whether it's possible to smuggle a fake bomb a mock bomb or weapon past inspectors. unfortunately, they had 95% failure rate. so, as you can imagine, that is -- has led to a lot of questions at homeland security. and now the acting head of the tsa has been essentially demoted and reassigned melvin carraway 11-year veteran with the tsa, reassigned to another agency within homeland security. acting deputy head of tsa is taking over. but clearly, they've got a lot of work to done they've lost a lot of confidence from the public. it would appear. and also from lawmakers. and the question how is it possible 14 years after this agency was stood up after 9/11 that we're still dealing with this failure rate? that said, you know former tsa administrator john pistol says you've got to keep in mind red teams are what he calls superterrorists. what he means the

also developing now, a major shakeup at the tsa this morning amid new concerns about airport safety. that after a scathing report found tsa screeners at dozens of the nation's busiest airports failed nearly every time to detect mock weapons which undercover agents tried to smuggle past them. the failure rate if you can believe this 95%. and as a result acting tsa administrator melvin carraway on the job since january, has resigned last night. and he was reassigned excuse me by homeland security secretary jeh johnson. smuggled weapons in 67 out of 70 attempt attempts. in one case an alarm sounded but even during a patdown, the screening officer failed to detect the fake plastic explosives. john pistol who ran the tsa until january called the news "disturbing." >> any of the failures are a concern both from a technology standpoint and then from a training standpoint officers sounding alarms when the technology does detect them. >> joining me now, chief technology officer at a security firm so bruce, let's first start with how these tsa trainers are screened. i think people who travel o

it comes on the heels of a shakeup at the tsa, a new report revealed undercover agents got weapons throughsecurity czech points about 90% of the time. >> it feels like when you're checking in going through the airport it's like a dog and pony show. >>> also the acting head of the transportation security administration is off the job today, first fallout of the agency's failure in that recent security test. the smugglers were successful in getting the mock explosives weapon answer other contraband through security in 67 out of 70 cases. >> those are astounding troubling and demand not just response from tsa but top to bottom examination. >> it's government at its worst and yet it should be government at its best. >> the former tsa chief points out that the government testers are experts at finding and exploiting airport weaknesses and have inside information tsa protocols. >>> another damp day with on and off showers. some spots heavy downpours. >> there's a chill in the air. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen joins us with more of tonight's folks. >> rosemary jacqueline it is

. >>> shakeups at the tsa this morning following stunning failures by airport security screeners. the acting tsa chief has been reassigned after an undercover operation by homeland security showed weapons and fake bombs getting through security at a whopping 95%. the results are taken seriously. while disappointing, this is a learning experience for the tsa and they now know where to focus. >> did technology work properly and if not, why not? where the standard operating procedures followed or were they appropriate? and third, were they followed and if not, what type of remedial training needs to be done across the system? >> homeland security secretary jeh johnson made changes directing the tsa to revise its screening procedures conduct training and re-evaluate its screening equipment. >>> to florida where republican presidential hopefuls gathered for an economic summit. these are live pictures from the forum where mike huckaby is speaking. jeb bush chris christie bobby jindal and scott walker also on the agenda. marco rubio canceled his appearance due to the senate vote on resto

. >> pam: a major shakeup at the tsa after that shocking report >> pam: this is all in just a click awayat a beautiful day to day. moving out of place with temperatures right now for 62 for san francisco opera and half moon bay 69. concord 73. >> diane: 11:00 p.m., up like greased trip for the most part when conditions into tomorrow afternoon. >> diane: morning lows overnight when you went up tomorrow morning in a handful of '50s. as i mentioned, the cloud coverage will roll through and it will be let it was to that. --today. pockets will remain. uc san francisco bay area will have a chance to warm up once the sun shine comes through. >> diane: for the most part we are staying low because of the system in place highest moral and led, 68 and san ramon east bay shore cities oakland 66, union city 65 separate most of the clout coverage coming through. ocean beach at 57. and san mateo as 66. >> diane: highs tomorrow with the south bay alan scuttles as 73. so two more days with the clout conditions here is what the next few days will look like. >> pam: and major shake-up at the t as an after

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series of bomb threats and we're learning more about tsa failures to detecting prohibited items like weapons at airport check points. now a major shakeupat the top of the agency. but some are asking if it's enough. >> acting tsa administrator melvin care away out after embarrassing news an undercover operation designed to test tsa's ability to detect weapons at the security check points yielded a 95% failure rate. >> if in a test the tsa is failing 95% of the time they're failing the american people. >> cnn learned undercover teams who smuggled weapons and fake explosives past security were not weapons experts, security or law enforcement. they were regular staff with the department of homeland security inspector general's office. they performed 70 tests. tsa officers failed 67 times, a poor performance. not even recently retired tsa head john pistol can defend. >> this is completely unacceptable. >> homeland security secretary jay johnson wants the screening procedures revised, more training for officers and screening equipment re-evaluated. >> they have invested over the years billions of dollars in stuff that doesn't work. remember

tsa is out. people are going to be infuriated by this. these results are unacceptable. >> we're going to get more to this shakeup at the tsa. but right now to breaking news. a rescue effort unfolding in china this hour after a cruise ship flipped over on the yangtze river. bill neely has the latest on this. bill, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, a van that. good morning, everyone. it's now clear this is china's worst passenger ship disaster in almost 70 years. more than 400 people are still missing. relatives are distraught. and they're asking not only how did the ship sink but how come the captain left the ship and survived? the search for survivors is a separate one. hammering on the overturned hull to try to make contact with passengers still trapped inside. but time is running out on the yangtze river where the ship with more than 450 on board sank in rough weather. some people have been rescued. this 65-year-old woman was pulled out by divers. a few managed to swim ashore but after a day of searching hope is fading for so many more on "the eastern star" which was carrying hundreds and crew. the ship's ca

the catalyst for the dramatic shakeup came right here at security check points. tsacreeners missed 95% of the dummy bombs and weapons which they tried to smuggle through the system. the man who runs homeland security so diss pleased after the classified report he's demoting the head of the security agency. the acting director moved out, replaced by his deputy mark hatfield and that's not all the homeland secretary has ordered immediate action. more ran dan testing of security check points and more equipment checks of the scanners and machines they use to make sure they're calibrated. the man who ran the tsa until earlier this year was surprised. >> it's disconcerting when we're trained to identify those type of prohibitive items and it doesn't work. >> reporter: now these management changes are temporary, because president obama has approved and nominated a nominee to take over tsa, he's a coast guard admiral. he's still not has been confirmed by the senate. >> david, thanks very much. >>> now to that severe weather slamming the east, as storms bring record rains and

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shakeup by the transportation security administration. undercover agents smuggled through items like guns and bombs in 67 out of 70 attempts. the tsaassigned. officers will be retrained and procedures will be changed. a former tsa had says the threats are real. >> they do watch and go to school on how they can learn from possible vulnerabilities. vonnie quinn: one undercover agent set off an alarm, the screener did not discover it. hundreds of people in china may have died after a cruise ship capsized monday. the ship was carrying a 400 people when it overturned in a storm on the etsy river. crews are able to rescue several people step -- trapped inside the ship, most of the passengers were elderly. apple is getting ready to get into the music streaming business. apple will launch a $10 a month service next week. they already sell 85% of music downloads worldwide. that market is shrinking as more people choose to stream. more pushback from a fee for -- fifa. the number two official authorized a $10 million payment that is a bribe. it contained -- the governing body says the payment was approved by a former finance person who died l

. >> we're seeing a shakeup at the very top. we know the acting tsaadministrator, melvin airaway is out. he's been reassigned. that came last night, effective immediately. of course all of this is in the same sort of timing that we talked about this undercover operation in which testers were essentially able to get weapons and fake explosives through the check points. cnn has learned today that these testers were not even weapons experts, they were not law enforcement, they were not security. these were regular employers with the department of homeland security's inspector general's office who were able to pull this off. they didn't have a certain level of expertise. the changes coming into place, a couple of thungs. he wants the screening machines to be ree-evaluated were more training and the screening procedures revised. >> there's a lot of work they need to do. >>> after furious debate the u.s. senate just endorsed the bill reforming the national security's agent sit's surveillance programs. the measure passed by the house of representatives. will

shakeup. >> reporter: we'll see how the west coast airports fared in this report. won't officially be released until august but already leading to changes. it is a revealing report about the tsat one former high-ranking official called disturbing. in an announcement monday night, homeland security secretary jeh johnson ordered several corrective measures for the tsa, including revising screening procedures re-evaluating screening equipment, and increasing random testing in u.s. airports. he's also shake up the management naming mark hatfield to lead the agency for now. in april, president obama nominated u.s. coast guard vice admiral peter nefender to be the neck permanent administrator but that appointment is awaiting contirmation from the senate. a former white house counterterrorism official. >> we've got to be right 100% of the time. the adversary only right once. >> reporter: a report from the inspector general, undercover investigators posing as passengers able to smuggle dangerous items 95% of the time they went through airport security. the so-called red teams, whose job to uncover vulnerabilities, smuggled mock explosives weapons, potential bomb components through ch