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I was chased down in the lounge in austin, texas. they pulled me to do another security screening. i feel like a criminal. theres an unclear way to get out of it. they wont tell me im on the watch list. >> this is mindless. we did a story about a man arrested from an al qaeda training camp. he was on the list. now hes a truck driver and has a license. people who do get a pass. >> exactly. im global entry, trusted traveler so to speak. me and my friends were in turkey three days. if youre familia...

Sight for the first time. >> line up here in front of this young lady. >> not one of these selected patients has ever set foot on a ship before. they go through security screening. then, more testing. and every step of the way, making sure they are still fit for their operations. >> you cannot tell any friends. >> after her vital signs are checked, marlene and tracy are escorted to another part of the ship. this will be their home for the night. a few more tests, and its time to get settled in. ...

Dollars in payments. some of those indicted either worked at the airport or used inside information to bypass security screening. police in boston are asking for the publics help in identifying a little girl whose body was found dumped last month. hundreds of tips have already poured in, but so far, the childs death remains a mystery. here now, abcs ron claiborne. >> reporter: it is heartbreaking. a police computer-generated composite photo of what the little girl may have looked like. ever si...

>> some democrats also not convinced. vice president biden was on capitol hill yesterday trying to sell the deal to house democrats. he plans to return today to make the pitch to democrats in the senate. republicans in congress meanwhile, promising a full investigation into a video secretly recorded by an antiabortion activist. the video purportedly shows a planned parenthood employee talking about how her group provides fetal tissue from abortions to researchers. the anti-abortion activist sa...

>> betty, the big headline from the report is that one of the flights black boxes may not have been sending out an emergency underwater signal because of an expired battery. the battery in the flight data recorders emergency beacon should have been replaced in december of 2012 more than a year before the flight took off. the report blames a glitch in maintenance records. that expired battery may have made it tougher to find malaysia airlines flight 370 in the weeks after it went down. search cre...

Of this whole enterprise was. and they were confident on december 10th they had uncovered and unravelled this whole enterprise and made the arrest there. and, brooke, there was an admission at that time when before they executed the search warrant to actually get the guns, it was an admission by mr. henry in terms of what he was doing and what the guns that were in his bag. >> and to the point, the brooklyn district attorney saying, look, today it was gun, tomorrow it could be bombs. that they w...

Through all the tracks potentially even, for example, take a laptop. you need to switch it on for it to work. youve got to really start changing the inside of it. even though it goes through a scanner, looks like a laptop, works like a laptop, but actually its a bomb. >> after the shoe bomber, we saw peoples shoes coming off. after that liquid and gels restricted on aircraft. we always react and that is what is wrong with the system. we shouldnt base our response on deploying technology and say ...

Take a laptop. you need to switch it on for it to work. youve got to really start changing the inside of it. even though it goes through a scanner, looks like a laptop, works like a laptop, but actually its a bomb. >> after the shoe bomber, we saw peoples shoes coming off. after that liquid and gels restricted on aircraft. we always react and that is what is wrong with the system. we shouldnt base our response on deploying technology and say oh, my gosh, theres a new device that existing technol...

>> reporter: david, so far passengers weve talked to here are largely understanding. they say they dont mind arriving an hour or even more earlier if it makes their flight safer. david, back to you. >> jim maceda in london. jim, thank you so much. secretary johnson, the question so many americans have, flights coming into the u.s. facing tougher security screening, are we going to see that again here domestically? >> david, our job is to try to anticipate the next attack, not simply react to t...

Traditional target, air travelers. richard reid tried and failed to set off explosives in his sneakers, there is a kind of race between the bad guys and airport screeners when they started screening shoes, the bad guys tried explosive underwear and got a guy with a pair of them on a flight. the fact that he and reid failed to make bombs dead natonate was welcome but they didnt pass security. one or more bomb makers came one a harder to detect advice. jim shutto on what is being done to answer th...