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President coming possibly months, that he has bunkered down with this. we have to consider the risk. in the name of border security, we have to look at, are we going to hurt ourselves and aviation security in the u.s.? that would be my biggest concern at this point. >> one of the things that really struck me, paul, and i think i just read this yesterday, the average tsa worker makes about $30,000 a year. so theyre living paycheck to paycheck. >> its not a lot of money, and you cant hold on for s...

A tremendous amount of fear. fear thats still being felt. in my world, the security world, a significant number of clients calling in, asking for information. the nypd does a great job. they have 19,000 subscribers to their shield program set up by my predecessor, commissioner kelly after the 9/11 events, to alert and keep informed with as much intimacy as possible information about threats. and today was a clear example of the benefit of that. 19,000 security directors getting information inclu...

A significant number of clients calling in, asking for information. the nypd does a great job. they have 19,000 subscribers to their shield program set up by my predecessor, commissioner kelly after the 9/11 events, to alert and keep informed with as much intimacy as possible information about threats. and today was a clear example of the benefit of that. 19,000 security directors getting information including pictures, descriptions of the devices, what to watch for, and procedures to follow. >>...

A tremendous amount of fear. fear thats still being felt. in my world, the security world, a significant number of clients calling in, asking for information. the nypd does a great job. they have 19,000 subscribers to their shield program set up by my predecessor, commissioner kelly after the 9/11 events, to alert and keep informed with as much intimacy as possible information about threats. and today was a clear example of the benefit of that. 19,000 security directors getting information inclu...

The characters. are there more of these devices? im a member of that 20,000-person shield organization and get their notices. got it while were sitting here describing as you summarized, the summary in the shield notification including pictures of the device and the envelope so those 20,000 security directors and respective companies can put their entities on notice. so the fear as well as the awareness of this is extraordinarily far reaching at this time. >> michael, whats your take? i mean, fi...

Security directors at these hotels can be of great help to the fbi as they are trying to piece together and tell the story of this guy, correct? >> totally correct. we spend a lot of time with police departments and we spend a lot of time with the fusion centers, law enforcement fusion center to take any ep help under any safety situation. >> what do you want to know about this guy? what do you think snapped? >> people just dont snap. what you have right off the bat, most of the time, 81% of the...

Think? >> i could not agree more, i think that we should have the federal security directors who are tsa leaders that are in charge of the security programs who integrate the available assets, local police forces, state police forces, airport police forces and determine whether or not we could not do you precisely what has been proposed. get more cops into the public areas of the airport and there are federal assets that can be used, federal marchers could be redeployed. there are perhaps assign...

Is doing. so we wanted to insure that we always have the correct amount of staffing available. and what that let are addresses, is some of the different inconsistencies and in allowing the tsa security directors at every individual airports or even pistol himself. to make different changes like the one about having knives going on the plane without having local law enforcement being able to push back like they should. >> okay. >> to answer your question about our officers, doing the roving check...

Withdraw after questions about lucrative contracts. all agree the business of security depends to an unusual extent on human factors. among them the morale of the screeners serving on the front line to keep the skies safe for commercial travel it also puts a high degree of pressure on the field leadership. the security directors who have day-to-day responsibility to main taint morale and -- to maintain the morale and keep things moving in heavy usage times. >> reporter: a spokesman for homeland ...

We will be standing today where this horrific terrorist incident occurred. ironically the tribeca area on the lower west side of manhattan was restored, reback in a minute, revitalized after september 11th. >> right. >> commissioner brattan, what happened yesterday is happening all over the world, the ease with which someone can do this, citizens of the world have to get used to, the most interesting aspect, people wonder, the ease with which you can went e rent a vehicle and do this, there are ...