identification. more than the legislature intended. here s the problem. we have to do a thorough background check because you can use one of these cards for other homeland security purposes. boarding airplanes for example. the state said we ll issue a new third kind of card that s only good for voter i.d.s but then the opponents said it s still too hard to get one. when you go to get one, people said but you have to get the nondri nondriver s license any way. the state says it s easy to get. the question for the judge now is it going to be fixed and fast enough in order to get them to the people that need them and that s what the opponents of the law say can t possibly happen in time for the election. now at a hearing on tuesday, the judge signaled to both sides that he was probably going to put a stop on this at least for this election. he won t rule for the next day or so but at this point it s a tough road for the state to prove this will not disenfranchise voters. pennsylvania is
that we look at. north of the caribbean and towards bermuda. looks ominous to the east coast of the u.s., but right now it appears the most likely scenario would be for katia to recurve and move out into the atlantic and miss the east coast, but that is by no means certain at this point. we re still five, six, seven days away from that. it s something that we ll have to continue to watch. it s not katia. get my name right. thanks very much for the outlook there. all right. a new report out today shows nearly ten years after the tragic events of september 11, there are major gaps that remain in the government s ability to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks. according to that report the u.s. falls short on 9 out of the 41 recommendations made. the u.s. is, quote, completely lacking in detective explosives hidden by passengers boarding airplanes. emergency communications used by first responders in urban areas are inadequate and efforts to
coordinate rescues are a long way from being fully implemented. i m joined by slade gordon, former 9/11 commission member and republican senator from the state of washington. delighted to be here. jay carney was asking about some of these lapses, and he felt that 9 out of the 41 is not a bad record, that most of the things have been implemented. what s your response to that assessment? well, first i think we should emphasize the positive. it s been ten years since 9/11. there s only been one terrorist attack in the united states, inside the country, in all that period of time, the ft. hood massacre, so clearly we ve been doing some things right but we would like to do even more things right in the future. let s talk about some of the things on this list. as i mentioned, the u.s. is lacking and detecting expleasives hidden by passengers boarding airplanes. we know what happened with the so-called underwear bomber.