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Tsa may direct mandatory body scanning screening for some passengers as warranted by security considerations. thats from the tsa. sarah sidner is live at laguardia airport to tell us more about that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yeah, i mean, basically what this means is you really cant opt out of the body scanner. but what is happening, which is a little confusing, this is why critics are kind of upset with this new rule happening just as the holidays come to the floor, basic...

Holidays specifically from a travel perspective, we have security changes that the tsa has made. we have cnn sara sidner live at laguardia airport with more, sara? >> chris, yeah, theres a time just in time for the holidays. basically, the change may not affect everyone. you know when people go off and say, hey, i do not want to go through the scanner, i want a pat-down instead. it used to be that anyone could do that and the tsa would oblige. now the tsa is saying no, were not going to oblige e...

Critics are saying, wait a minute. some people are told they have to go through the scanner and other people are told they can get a patdown. what is the message here? the tsa saying, look, we are doing this in response to heightened terrorism in the airport. passengers need to know if they refuse to go through the body scanners when they are told they absolutely have to do that, they wont be able to get on their plans. sara sidner reporting from laguardia. houses are rigged to explode and ter...

Through the scanner. and you remember the controversy over the years, people worried about too much radiation and not wanting to go through the scanners, but there have been studies saying its a miniscule amount of radiation that goes into your body and wont cause harm. if you say, no, want a patdown and they wont give it to you, you may still ask for it and may get exactly what you want. >> sara sidner reporting from laguardia airport in new york. operation resolve is underway, the mission to...

Are a key function, they are looking globally and coordinating with foreign partners around the world. again, beijing, quite unusual, but the u.s. authorities in coordination with their beijing counterparts will be focused on this. >> lets switch gears and talk to -- about some of these domestic security procedures that we are seeing in effect, particularly to the tsa. its obviously a very busy travel time of year. millions of people passing through the airports. the tsa can now mandate that a p...

Whether they opt out or not. thats the new fate. its not everybody thats going to be affected. not every single passenger. there will be some who were told need to go through the scanner. others will be able to ask for a patdown and get exactly what they want. but the situation here when you talk to travelers they say were willing to give that up because we want to be safe when were traveling. >> were totally in support of anything they have to do to tighten security because theres too many craz...

We will not provide you with someone to pat you down. while others, they say, they may go ahead and grant their wish. its a little confusing. the big story here is you can still ask to be patted down instead of going through that machine, but your wish may not be granted. that is the new rule thats gone into place for this holiday season and beyond. kate? >> i suspect thats going to cause some additional confusion as folks are traveling. i remember being pregnant and not feeling comfortable goin...

Want to be patted down, thats no longer going to be acceptable, is that right? >> thats right. it will not be acceptable. however, it raises the question what basis will tsa use to determine who they will mandate must go through this full body scanner. tsa will not give us any specifics only saying that they dont want to divulge that for security reasons. but again, it will be up to tsa officers discretion where they believe someone needs to be forced to go through that scanner, wolf. >> very qu...

Procedures at airport security checkpoints. heres the thing. if they have some sort of reason of concern about a certain individual who has requested a pat-down instead of going through the body scanner, the tsa, this is the change, now can mandate that an individual indeed must go through the scanner and would not be able to get that pat-down. again, they would use this power where they feel they have some question about a certain passenger, perhaps some security questions about a certain indiv...

About terror plots, the possibility of terrorists wanting to bring down a commercial jetliner using an explosive, they are making this change so that if any of these tsa officers on the front lines have a security concern about a specific passenger, they have the power now to make that passenger go through this full body scanner. >> whats behind the change, rene? >> well, the benefit of the full body scanners essentially is that it is able to detect nonmetallic explosives. so the fear is lets sa...