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Brought about the security gap or the collapse that was often anticipated. i would like to pay tribute at this moment to the continued sacrifice of the afghan security forces and civilians in a patriotic nation. our patriotism is part of our simultaneous internationalism. weve unique in that weve embraced democratic ways and were proud of our islamic ways and islam is in dialogue with the word and we have the capacity to speak truth to terror. they do not speak for islam, we do. and if the genui...

Flooding. the airport could be affected here as well. as a matter of fact, delay-wise, were still anticipating that i-95 corridor, washington d.c., philadelphia, new york to boston, with major delays coming up for tomorrow. it eswidespread misery. i hate to be the grinch. >> sounds bad on christmas eve. thanks very much. travel delays are one thing. today, federal authorities revealed something a whole lot more troubling than that. a security gap that allegedly let bad guys carry loaded weapons....

Hour. a winter storm watch in chicago. the deep south, places like atlanta could see flooding and airport could be affected here as well. as a matter of fact, delaywise, we are still anticipating the i-95 corridor. washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york to boston with some major delays coming up for tomorrow. so its widespread misery. i hate to be the grinch. >> thank you, karen, very much. travel delays one thing today. federal authorities revealed something more troubling than that. a secu...

From the people who want to kill us in this world using passenger planes that we would let this happen? how does this happen? >> well, this happens as a result of a security gap being exposed, and the people that are at fault are the airlines, the airports and tsa. they need to work together to close this gap. its been a known gap for many years, in fact. the reality is that we have 450 commercial airports in this country. we have tens of thousands of people that go to work at those airports eve...

Between the top and bottom. by some theories, particularly with lower sounds, it may go many, many, many miles before it comes out. this may explain why a pinger that shouldnt be heard more than three miles away is being located at a range of some 17 miles. as its coming up, its possible that these anomalies, these strange things that happen to sound in deep water are affecting that signal. and theyve got to overcome that and crush it down to the actual location before they go under water and st...

Cyber attack on the navy computer network. a breach so severe it took about two months and cost about $10 billion to repair. the attackers entered the internet last august or september through a security gap in one of the websites. poor security the official says allowed them to migrate deep into the network and stay there. >> the ability to sit on the military network for several months poses real risks to operations and personnel. this would have been really risky in the event of a conflict. >...

Their constituents. >> people are getting e-mails saying, you have to put an end to this or put more restrictions on this. but on the other hand, as juan and kim suggest, god forbid theres another attack, you dont want to be the guys who created the security gap. >> look what happened last year when a vote on the nsa came to the house and john boehner voted in support of the nsa establishment. boehner and others are grappling, how hawkish can you be on the campaign trail with a lot of questions ...

I think thats the group to watch. >> people are getting e-mails saying, you have to put an end to this or put more restrictions on this. but on the other hand, as juan and kim suggest, god forbid theres another attack, you dont want to be the guys who created the security gap. >> look what happened last year when a vote on the nsa came to the house and john boehner voted in support of the nsa establishment. especially in the republican party, boehner and others are grappling, how hawkish can you...

Their constituents. >> people are getting e-mails saying, you have to put an end to this or put more restrictions on this. but on the other hand, as juan and kim suggest, god forbid theres another attack, you dont want to be the guys who created the security gap. >> look what happened last year when a vote on the nsa came to the house and john boehner voted in support of the nsa establishment. boehner and others are grappling, how hawkish can you be on the campaign trail with a lot of questions ...

>> well, i think its time to embrace that this is the new normal. the chinese constantly make the denials even though they have one of the most controlled internet presences on the planet so theyre very well aware of whats going on coming out of their networks. we have to be mindful of the security gap we have, keep closing the gap as fast as we can and we have to give the best fight we can. theres no single technical answer to solve this. theres going to be diplomacy and nontechnical ways to ad...