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To grandmothers house. travel expected to be up 5.4%. youll see about 4.7 million people travel through the nations airports. the good news is its not that bad. if i step out of the way, let you look at the tsa line here at ohare airports terminal number 3. looks like an average wednesday. they see this coming, they budget for the overtime, they fill all the positions at the screening checkpoints and they keep the lines moving right along. aaa says so many people are traveling because more ameri...

Theyre making a poor risk judgment here that we understand that theres low risk at the smaller category 4 airports, but we have to project forward and say what would the risk be if we removed the screening. so again, its concerning, and i really think theyre going to rethink this. >> and another big one that is under consideration, not having as many air marshals poised to be on airplanes. what are your thoughts on that? >> i know im going to have a controversial statement here, fred, but the on...

Move, he returned and shot him again, and as we know, hernandez was fatally wounded, david. >> how much additional security will there be for tsa at airports? >> they said the shooting will not lead to a decision to arm tsa officers, and they have a couple reasons. first they say airport security has never been tsas mission. thats in the hands of airport police or other city officials who do carry firearms. the job of tsa is to protect airline passengers by keeping dangerous things off planes. a...

>> how much discussion will there be about additional security for tsa at airports? >> they said the shooting will not lead to a decision to arm tsa officers, and they have a couple reasons. first they say airport security has never been tsas mission. thats in the hands of airport police or other city officials who do carry firearms. the job of tsa is to protect airline passengers by keeping dangerous things off planes. and second, tsa officers are not sworn law enforcement officials. they do no...

Photings, i wonder whether or not they are in the boston area and why i say that. with these images they are clear we can run them through video image identification. i believe the f.b.i. has run them through the radio act from the tsa counters in the airport already. if they have done that and not seen the imannuals come through tsa screening checkpoints and we take video of everybody through there. the question is are they in the boston area and if they are not did they drive or catch the trai...

The truth of the matter is, there are any number of weapons if you think about it that you could smuggle aboard an aircraft that the tsa could never find that would have a sharp edge as sharp as a razor. what about somebody that knows martial arts? i think with a reenforced cockpit door, the real issue is the tsa needs to spend more time at the screening checkpoint looking for the components, these are the very small part that would make up an improvised explosive device. >> if youre looking -- ...

Adding the dogs was purred by another event, the failed 2009 christmas day terrorist attack, when a man with explosives hidden in his underwear boarded an international flight headed for the u.s. they realized that dogs trained to check out luggage and cargo were not being trained to detect concealed explosives on people. >> we do not have a layer of security in place to detect organic or nonmetallic explosive devices on persons prior to the tsa screening checkpoints. >> reporter: the question n...

that he can win the white house. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." the taliban warn that this will not be the only death. they are claiming back to back suicide bombings at a pakistani training facility in northwest pakistan. at least 80 people were killed, most of them pakistani army recruits. reza is joining us live from islamabad with pretty horrendous crime. what are they saying where you are, reza? >> reporter: well, wolf, this was a coordinated attack designed ...

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