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Out a new security plan which includes more of those full body scanners at airports. its also to be using swabs and patdowns to search for explosives and other weapons. so, if you are travelling, that will likely mean more time in security lines. right now 21 airports in 18 states are using body scanners. but the obama administration is putting tens of millions of dollars into more screening equipment. the t.s.a. reports nine more airports will get the scanners soon and eventually the agency pla...

Security for the olympics eight years ago in 2002 which was just a short five months after the 9/11 attacks. what are the security concerns when you handle such a huge event like the winter olympics. youve got athletes from all over the country. youve got guests coming, visitors, spectators. it just seems like an enormous task. >> you know, it really is. its one that you can never forget. the city still has to do business so we have to deal with parking and traffic flow and then it goes all the ...

How much does this heat things up there between democrats and republicans? do you see it coming down on party lines? >> it doesnt really. these are the folks, senator demint, senator inhoff, these are the folks who are really in many ways, at the margin of the debate on climate change in washington. at the center of the debate, really, are a group of bipartisan moderates, folks from both parties, a number of republican moderates who say, you know, the science of climate change is clear, its sett...

The security plan for the games has been seven years in the making with a $900 million budget. jim maceda has more on the incredible operation from vancouver. jim? >> reporter: its pretty unusual, i suppose, coming to you from the vancouver winter olympic games when things look so mediterranean or balmy around me. weve gotten a pretty unique access to this patrol boat. were getting a very different perspective. the challenge is that these canadian forces face in having to cover games where venue...

Think about it for the other lugers, to get back on the exact same track where somebody died yesterday, whether it was user error or whether it was the track or whatever it was, its still a frightening proposition for all those athletes today. >> split second timing, all the difference it makes. jeff rossen. thanks. vice president joe biden might be second in command but cheerleader in vancouver, with his wife, jill, met with team usa posing for pictures with some of the countrys top athletes ...

Correspondent jeanne meserve is on the security december income desk in washington this morning. >> this richmond international airport in richmond, virginia, its a story where you have aviation security and double standards and second chances all colliding. heres the basics of the story. back in 2002, a screener was hired for the richmond international airport. the tsa gave him a security badge. more recently, he applied for the highest level security badge. the airport didnt check records. the...

No big bags. they wont be allowed. one thing still missing in vancouver and that is snow. olympic officials are trucking it in. using straw and wood chips in some cases. a sign says olympic athletes, welcome. bring your own snow. intelligence officials here in the united states during the olympics will be at the border. more planes in the air, boats on the water. we are breaking down the security plan in this a.m. original. >> reporter: john and kiran, vancouver 30 miles north of here which ...

Of super bowl threat. she made the comments after a personal tour of sun life stadium. thats a first for a sitting cabinet secretary. about 1,000 federal, local and state enforcement personnel are all going to be involved in the security operation. u.s. and canadian police and intelligence agencies are ready to launch a critical joint operation to keep things safe during the vancouver olympics. a huge point of focus in the u.s., security at the border. >> more means planes in the air boats on ...

That supports impoverished children in africa. >> we shouldnt have to tell the sports guy about sports. >> youre right. i should focus more on polo. thats an every mans sport. every kid in the streets of the city has a horse and a club and just wants to have fun. >> and a field. >> and a scrimmage. >> thats all. >> homeland security secretary janet napolitano has toured the site of sundays super bowl near miami. and says the security plan is ready to thwart any threats. >> we are, as was mention...

Country that all of these bipartisan members who will be there today can share and really inform. >> harris: have you seen this issue from many sides. you were a sheriff yourself. what works to protect our children? because thats the bottom line. politics aside, just what will work? >> yeah. harris, listen, every security plan is a multi-layered process. and our bill, the stop school violence agent of 2018 is one layer in that protection where we address the physical layer of security in the bui...