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Homeland right now to what its been since 9/11? >> i think the threat environment is one of the highest ive ever seen it and primarily because theres so many failed states out there. we had to pull out of so many kupts countries in north africa. baghdad is dangerous, we visited with the prime minister there, with that comes the breeding grounds of terrorism and ability of terrorists to spread globally and global jihad effort. both from a foreign fighter standpoint to travel but also to radicaliz...

Highway, into western europe. so what were trying to do is meet with these officials to see how can we close these security gaps. we can keep these foreign fighters both out of europe and also the united states. >> kevin mccaul, thank you, always good to talk with you sir. >> thank you, chris, thanks for having me. >> we wanted to ask secretary of homeland security jeh johnson about the terror threat but while the white house put him on another sunday show they declined to make him available to ...

Solving the problem of corruption. you dont want me grandstanding on that. i respect that. thats what it is about. >> hughes is under house arrest. he could get up to four years if convicted. the nfl has worked out a settlement to compensate players that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. coy wire has that in the bleacher report next. despite security gaps and gun smuggling by airport employees, the tsa will not conduct full employee screenings. such screenings will not help improve...

>> any given day there is thousands attempts to probe and get into the networks and control systems on the powergrid and we have the defenses to prevent that. >> it is a priority to strengthen our critical structure to reduce risks to systems we all rely on including the electric grid. >> pg and e says theyre spending millions of dollars. they replaced their fence with a concrete wall. >> here we are in front of a substation with a wide open gate. >> but investigations found security gaps. >> no...

>> reporter: the department of homeland security tells nbc news it is a variety to quote, strengthen our fran structure to reduce risks to systems we all rely on including the electrical grid. pg & e is increasing security at their plants and have added surveillance cameras. >> here we are with a wide open gate. >> reporter: but a three-month investigation by kntv found security gaps at other substations. >> no on site security that we can see. >> reporter: without providing details, pg & e told...

Congress members of the oversight committee are very concerned about when the director of the secret service learned this information. its a violation of the more strict policies now at the secret service in the wake of all of these flaps and security gaps. its a violation not to notify the inspection division basically the investigative team if you suspect alleged misconduct. why is it something that happened on wednesday, the director of the secret service is learning about, according to him, ...

>> so as you know from the incident thats under investigation are allegations that these officers, forgive me -- these very senior agents who dan knows well, drove on to the white house complex and u.d. officers with be who are also sort of the palace guard, believed that they were intoxicated and were told to let them go. thats the -- thats the sum total of it, of allegations that are being investigated. what were hearing now is that congress, members of the oversight committee are very concern...

>> those security gaps led the first female director of the secret service to step down. number six, accusations that u.s. veterans died while waiting for treatment at veterans administration hospitals was a national embarrassment. a month-long cnn investigation showed altered death certificates and secret waiting lists. >> i want to know the full scope of this problem. >> secretary of veteran affairs was sacked from his cabinet post after the scandal broke and repairs to the broken system still...

Using ease si-to-guess passwords or clicking on links from untrusted passwords. here a whats prepare ries did to find security gaps at one of its financial services clients. >> a cd was placed around a business, spring break mexico, 2005. and was interesting is that 50% of those cds were loaded into computers and were infected with fake malware just to see who would put those cds in, 50%, those are the types of things that these terrorists are doing. >> bottom line, prepare ries says that it tel...

Measures to prevent cyber attacks, breaches will do more than affect movies, the entire economy, bill. bill: what is that you have to do protect yourself as a business? >> reporter: they are saying in 70% of these cases, in cyber attacks it actually involves employees at victimized company doing something unwittingly to compromise security. so his company is advising its clients to make cybersecurity a companywide issue. train each employee how to identify suspicious links in emails or phishing ...