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The federal government. the federal government cant do anything right. we than. >> yist cran, you think we feel safer as a nation . do you think at this point private companies should come in. >> of course not. we have private security in the nations airports prior to september 11th and we see what happened there. and the argue that companies are going to do a better job is silly and the other issue is cost of effectiveness. we peist programs in 19 airports and it cost on average 3-9 dollars to ...

threat as well this morning. reynolds wolf standing by. hell be here in a moment with the latest from there and all over the country. and herman cain is out. so whos in the best position to take iowa and maybe even take some of his supporters? weve got new poll numbers out. going give us some clues. lets get through some of the mornings headlines now. police in riot gear swept into a portland park kicking out occupy protesters overnight. a number of them were arrested. they had set...

ornament on it. if you live in rhode island, however, it is a holiday tree, taking christ out of christmas. the subject of this mornings "faces of faith." but we begin with the end for herman cain. here is part of his announcement, if you missed it yesterday. >> i am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters, not because im not a fighter. >> all right. but he wont be fightin...

Screeners say they find four or five guns in carry-on bags every single day at u.s. airports. now, some are, apparently, just left in the bags by mistake, but security screeners say they are seeing an increase in passengers who are deliberately trying to hide those guns and get them past security. lets talk about it with tom blank, the former deputy director of the transportation security administration. they are finding four to five guns a day. now, that doesnt seem like a lot, but the number, ...

Transportation and distribution of tens of thousands of highly addictive prescription narcotic pills from florida to users in connecticut. >> trace: investigators went cover and caught law enforcement officers taking bribes in exchange for helping move the drugs from state to state. jonathan hunt live in the new york newsroom. how exactly did this work? >> reporter: what you had was an individual drug trafficker making several trips a week from palm beach, florida up to westchester, county airpo...

Yesterday that documents found in the bin laden compound suggested a possible terror attack on our rail lines. adding to the security concerns already familiar to fliers and travelers out there. in 2010 homeland security allocated $300 million for rail security. as of march, amtrak employs 451 police and security personnel. as of december the tsa had 963 employees. most of those are believed to be those security screeners that you see when you come in and out of the airport. so well see how the ...

Property, air traffic controllers, tsa security screeners, federal law enforcement, that will still go on. other groups agencies that have their own revenue stream or have user fees like the post office, the federal courts operate on the fees they collect. those will keep operating. if you have -- already getting social security benefits, medicare benefits, medicaid benefits, those checks will keep coming because its fairly automated operation. now another thing of course is that next week at th...

Cape hatteras very, very vulnerable right now. >> shepard: very vulnerable indeed. updates throughout this hour on what is proving to be a massive storm. janice, thank you. just into fox news in the past two minutes two men have been arrested on a flight out of chicago on charges of preparing a terror aattack. police in holland have pulled men off the plane after that plane landed in amsterdam today as the story goes, they managed to get on the flight even after one raised the suspicion of secur...

Coastal communities. in one case, cops say they picked up three workers who had outstanding warrants while they were working on clean-up crews. steve harrigan is live in grand isle, louisiana. we have been hearing some several of the controversies, steve, about some of these workers. what you can tell us? >> jon, the first controversy about these clean-up workers is that they werent working very hard. some of their schedules had them 20 minutes on, 40 minutes off. the latest controversy involves...

How productive it will be but i think we have an obligation to try to get the best legislation we can and i think it is important to come forward and bring republican ideas and, frankly, bringing costs down is the over arching theme i think we want to bring but theres specifics in terms of lawsuit reform, addressing preexisting conditions. those are things to do now, those are things to help lower costs for families and i think thats where the focus ought to be. >> michigan congressman dave camp...