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Accounting office, from the various inspectors general and from tsa itself. to see where there are gaps that you can possibly get weapons, prohibited items to repair that is going on in a constant basis. but it is obviously kept secret so the bad guys dont find out. it is very likely that most airport lobbies in this day and age by this time are under camera surveillance, and you probably have people in command centers who are doing some observation or what might be defined as suspicious movemen...

Layers of securitsecurity, quot simply missing. they are responding with changes to the operations and training. which it said last time. tom blank is a former deputy administrator for the tsa. nice to see you again. >> nice to see you, shep. >> what do you do? i mean, if 95% of the time you cant find a bomb, what good are you? >> well, this is clearly unacceptable performance without a doubt. it doesnt seem to be getting better. you can blame the culture of convenience. theyve lost the edge of ...

Interesting there, well see how that comes out with my name. that might be a tough one. the faa is trying to track down whoever is shining lasers into their planes and cockpits. four flights reported being targeted last night in new york and new jersey. its a federal crime to point a laser at a plane and its been happening a lot lately. last week at least 11 pilots reported having lasers shined at their planes. tom blank is the former head of tsa security policy. hes now the executive vice pre...

Angeles. we have with tsos administering cpr and saving passengers wo collapsed this in newark chicago, knoxville recently. this incident is an outlier are by very destructive, immoral people. >> lets hope it stays that way. tom blank, thank you, sir. much more uh ahead on a busy wednesday including breaking fews of what appears to be a small helicopter landing at the capitol. plus the aftermath of aaron hernandez and the guilty verdict. we talk to oh the d.a. and a former nfl player about the c...

>> tom, are you angry seeing the agency you once helped lead have such enormous breakdowns, our breaking news today? >> especially when its simply a matter of funding and will to get it done. as i say, even during my tenure going back a number of years now, this was a known gap in security. its something that definitely needs to be closed. just think of someone who, in this particular instance, mr. harvey, carrying very likely a backpack, toolbox, something like that, hes coming onto the secure ...

Just an hour i will tell you what he has to say about these heightened concerns. >> okay. real quick, this follows the france concern -- follows the british concern, correct? they stepped up efforts. >> reporter: thats correct. british stepped up efforts and we saw that happened earlier in week. so this is coming on the heels of that. and these concerns, again, that is with these extremists are developing bombs that will make their way past airport security and that is the concern that folks are...

That occurred? >> well, i call it a cockpit breach. either there were people that -- either one of those would pilots had nefarious intent, turned off certain communications equipment, the transponder in particular, and either programmed a turn to the west one hour into the flight or actually physically turned it. now, if that didnt happen, there was still a cockpit breach which would mean that someone with nefarious intent, maybe a stow away, maybe a member of the flight crew, maybe a passenger...

Miles, and then begin rolling the bottom of the ocean floor. and until they get that done, they cannot drop, they cannot drop those mini subs and towing the sonar listening device is really going to be fruitless when the ships traveling too quickly. guys, back to you. >> tom costello, thank you so much once again. lets bring in retired navy captain, vann girly, who had 26 years in service and led the naval oceanography operations command. hes now senior manager at met ron scientific lusolutions,...

Scenario under which any of this makes sense, unless youre landing it. if youre going to commit suicide, who needs all the dramatics. >> thats exactly right. so, its hard to think you could actually land this without someone detecting it, whether thats a physical detext or whether its a satellite that cover our globe these days. but it would certainly seem that was an intent unless things went very wrong and there was an intent to land and it it did wind up in the drink. >> tom blank, former tsa...

The other side of this break. we have to take a break for a moment. well continue our conversation. after the break, the very latest on the story that, of course, everyones talking about. the fate of that missing jetliner. investigators now think had its communications deliberately turned off and flew in the air for another seven hours. youll hear from the former top tsa official, tom blank, with his insight about what he thinks happened. and six years into office, is president obama still f...