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Claim savings from money that you werent going to save anyway instead of cutting real programs? >> chris, i dont agree with that. i think that the policy to get out of iraq, to reduce and eliminate our military presence there was very real. i think that if we dont lower the caps that permit that spending there will be a natural process of seeing military spending grow. we have $487 billion of savings in the defense department over -- in the security area over the ten year period. closing down th...

In fact, i did show them my leg repeatedly. and i said, well, can i go back through the scanner. and they said no. >> reporter: senator pauls father, ron, who wants the tsa shut down and called the incident "evidence the police state in this country is growing out of control." the senators staff tweeted, "hes currently being detained by tsa." the tsa said he was only being escorted out of the security area. >> i was told not to leave a cubicle. and when i did step outside the cubicle i was sort ...

and the minds from my colleagues from cnn international who were there when it happened right from the start. january 2011, the first rumblings of an up rising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in the citys central tahrir square. a revolution has begun. >> what is your message to president mubarak? >> reporter: whose hosni mubarak has been egypts dictate for for 30 years. a growing number of protesters want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protests turn violent. >> reporte...

thanks for joining us. im alina cho, t.j. holmes is off this hour. a halloween weekend surprise for millions of people from the mid-atlantic to nudge. more than a foot of snow is expected to bury some areas. millions of people could be left in the dark. also, student loan debt is now higher than credit card debt in the united states. president obama has a plan to ease the burden. but will it work? well hear from a financial expert. and a rags to riches story in india. the son of a po...

ask them to do the tough thing but the right thing. i think it has proven difficult for speaker boehner to do that. ive been left at the all are now a couple of times. >> dealing with the white house is like dealing with a bowl of jell-o. let me just say that the white house moved the goal post. they refused to get serious about cutting spending and making the tough choices that are facing our country on entitlement reform. so thats the bottom line. >> president obama has asked congres...

And security forces to really take -- to take control of the situation here. were doing that through -- and to retrain the afghan police. thats just part of what sergeant shorters mission will be when he gets out there to security area and help retrain the afghan police so they can get people in terms of building the insurgents. >> all right, jason, were going to link up your interview on cnn.com/amfix. well be checking with you throughout the week, of course. meanwhile, coming up, the man beh...

Today. they had to turn back because the air quality was too bad and there was a danger of combustion explosion. crews are working to get more ventilation right now. four miners remain missing after mondays explols, the worst in a quarter century in the united states. 25 were killed. several terminals at los angeles international airport shut down for almost two hours this morning after a bag flagged for secondary tsa screening walked away. the owner for some reason picked it up and left the s...

There has been closed there at los angeles international airport. apparently, a passengers bag was flagged for secondary screening. but the passenger was able to just pick that bag up and make it past the security area. so tsa and law enforcement are presently canvassing the terminal, trying to locate that passenger. so right now, if the shutdown happens -- lets see, just a short time ago, within last hour. well follow this and let you know if we get any more information. a major uprising has ...

Against passengers hands and carry-on luggage to see if there is any signs of explosive materials and residue. >> shepard: arent they already using this technology? the thing in the back of the security area, right? >> it is. >> shepard: swab thing. >> have you seen it before. right this at the main security check point that we all have to go through. right now the t.s.a. says its screeners will be pushing around carts with these devices on them and they will be everywhere. >> well, it will be u...

Terminal, had to be screened all over again. the security doors were lowered at mcnamara terminal between the security area and the concourse and people had to be escorted outside. it was cold and they had to be rescreened as they returned and well continue to follow what is happening at the terminal in detroit. new information about the explosion, power plant in connecticut, emergency officials on the ground now saying roughly 95% of the workers are accounted for. not everybody. jed morning the...