Heartbreaking situation. Ellison barber is in washington following the response and federal officials and the white house. Less big with jeff paul on the ground in seattle with the very latest. What is the latest on the situation on the suspect that apparently killed himself behind the controls of the stolen airplane . Reporter i want to give a little bit of a better idea what it is like at our location. We are in washington, behind us is the entrance to the ferry. That is we have to take over to get to the site. Now Authorities Say it is sparsely populated island with very few people and they do not believe anybody on the ground was hurt. During the plane crash. We are also learning more about how, a little more about the man that stole the plane. Authorities say is with the airline for more than three years and passed all extensive
background checks. The fbi tells us he was allowed to be in the Security Area and they do not believe any security safeguards were compromised. They say w
crew because there s really no need for them to have that. arthel: and robert, do you know that the tsa plans to lay off 9,000 of its 55,600 airport screeners nationwide by the end of next month, the idea is to increase the tsa budget and also to free up 2.3 billion dollars to help airlines cover their security costs. what can you tell us about the state of airline security, individual airline security? well, usually, from what i can say as someone that still travels a lot, it s usually pretty good. i mean, when we look at the number of weapons often loaded that the tsa confiscated from people that are trying to get on airliners every month, people would be absolutely amazed, especially at some of the responses they get from people that say oh, i m sorry, i forgot i had that loaded 38 in my
holidays. i really believe that it s time to put together some kind of soft target security task force. latest are looking at all these different places and start funneling money, checking bags, have armed security threat the holiday spirit we can take it down to collapse after the holidays. that s what we should do until we can figure out how to do the intelligence for these lone wolves being recruited online. when it comes to airport security, the money is not that well spent. i pointed this out before that these ticket fees that we pay, the tsa budget is about 7.5 billion. $1.3 billion every year goes to pay down the deficit. rather than that ticket fee be
that s a $2 billion cut. the department of homeland security is taking a $336 million hit, most of that money coming out of the tsa budget. there s $8.6 billion for head start that restores previous cuts. federal workers and military personnel are getting a 1% raise and the bill bars postal officials from ending saturday delivery and closing small, rural post offices. investigators are incredulous a man who was texting his daughter during previews at a florida movie theater was shot and killed for it. another movie patron and retired police captain apparently asked chad olson to stop. at some point, one person threw popcorn, it s not clear who, it all escalated and reeves pulled out a gun and fired. olson s wife was shot in the hand trying to protect the husband. drinkable water is available to residents in a small west virginia community plagued by last week s chemical spill although most residents say they
people being screened has gone down, yet the tsa budget continues to grow. that s indicative of government as a whole. the appetite for taxing and revenues are through the roof. the numbers don t add up. if it was a private company they wouldn t do that because it would turn passengers away. if the. they expect people are going to fly anyway. mark, good to talk with you, as always, about this. we ll see you next weekend. we ve all got that one ad that we love every time it s on. we have a treat. the top tennessee most viewed ads on youtube this year. and they are great.