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I think its essentially that the airlines discontinue their opposition to this even in advance of passing legislation, but were going to continue to move forward with our legislation. >> and lets bring in now cnn aviation analyst miles obrien as well as les abend, also cnn aviation analyst. hes 77 pilot as well. when you look at this which senator casey and others were proposing, is there any reason why these secondary security barriers should not be installed in all commercial jets? >> absolute...

Included people walking unchecked past metal detectors. security guards no longer poking around at the pockets and ankles of every person entering olympic facilities. tangerines and bottles of coke are making it through security barriers that banned them two weeks ago. nbcs richard engle has been covering security in sochi throughout the games. joins us live now. richard, lets start there as we move into this second week. is that a fair assessment? is that what youre seeing on the ground now is ...

Its unclear how he managed to escape. once outside, he pulled back the fencing of security barriers and crawled underneath. his escape took a dramatic turn when he abducted a woman forcing his way into her car and forced her to drive across to indiana. >> he has a hammer and box cutter. >> surveillance footage shows elliott on the run, inside a store paying for gas. while there, his hostage was able to lock herself in the restroom and make this desperate 911 call, her abductor lurking outside th...

A two state man hunt comes to an end after authorities capture the escaped convict serving time for murder. authorities spotted david elliott in indiana after he spent 24 hours on the run from a michigan prison. >> he ran over a couple of stop sticks some of our sergeants laid out. his tires were going flat. he lost control of the vehicle. came to a t-intersection and slid to a snow bank he wasnt able to move further. >> reporter: it began when prison guards discovered elliott missing from his c...

>> ivan, what are officials doing there to prepare with just a week to go before the opening ceremonies? >> well, the russian authorities insisted its going to be the safest games ever but there is an awful lot of talk about security, about the threat of terrorism. in large part because sochi is located right next to one of the most turbulent regions in russia. the caucuses region. and also because just at the end of last month twin suicide bombings hit the city hundreds of miles to the north of...

Support. this comes as a u.s. military puts its final touches on plans for evacuations should they be necessary. according to u.s. officials, transport aircraft and medical crews will be on standby at a base in germany and would be able to get to the games within six hours if they get that call. in sochi, guards can be seen on nearly every corner. very tight security there. ivan watson has more on the security with the olympics. >> reporter: russia is tightening its ring of steel around the upco...

Court jurisdiction. they found a way out of that and she has gone home. >> i dont know if this is the end. energy secretary cancelling a trip to india and what did india do, shut down a swimming pool for americans who used the pool in new deli. you would think that that government is immature in all of this. >> they did much worse in closing off the swimming poll. they removed security barriers a round the american embassy. that is childish behavior. india is an independent country for 65 years ...

Zone. you know, a month up until, no sooner than a month or no later than a month before the olympics. various other draconian measures have been taken. president putin uncharacteristically silent since these attacks has apparently in his new years address bits of it trickling out said he will annihilate the terrorists, arthel. arthel: lets hope no one can breach the security barriers. amy kellogg, thank you very much for the live report in london. jon: these attacks come at a pivotal moment in ...

To shelter upwards of 40,000 south sudanese trying to escape the violence and get any safe shelter that they can. yesterday, in fact, the u.n. was reinforcing its camps to avoid attacks. they were digging, putting up security barriers, doing whatever they could, trying to ensure their camps were safe from the fighting. they have been attacked in the past. we saw two indian peacekeepers, two indian people murdered just a few days ago when they were attacked in this area. so this is part of the co...

Offered food and then taken to jail. where she is fully searched in a private setting by a female u.s. marshal. the government of india goes ballistic, stating that they are shocked and appalled at the despicable and barbaric treatment of their national by the united states federal government. john kerry, secretary of state, that great american, you remember him from vietnam, rushes to throw all of us including his own state department under the bus apologizing, lamenting and regretting the acti...