Can have some confidence that the security being provided at those last points of departure to the u. S. Are similar to ours. So we believe that we have the best security in the world. It is the gold standard, and thats why terrorists have looked elsewhere. Ill just highlight three incidents in the last three years that demonstrate, unfortunately, the dedication of the terrorists, particularly alqaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the lengths they will go to to try to blow up a u. S. Bound airliner. So we just go back to Christmas Day three years ago which youre all familiar with, with the young knew gene man nigerian man who was given a bomb with no metal in it. Thats the reason we have the advanced Imaging Technology here in the u. S. , body scanners as theyre referred to sometimes. Because those enable us to pick up nonmetallic as well as metallic items. Lets have those as a deterrent to force the terrorists to come up with new and innovative ideas. Forchew fatally, that attack did not occur because, simply, there were some technical issues with the device as the young man flew from amsterdam to detroit. Fast forward two years to or two years ago, october 2010, where you may recall there were two packages sent from yemen to chicago as the ultimate destination. Fortunately, because of some Outstanding International cooperation, intelligence work by a Foreign Security or service, we were given the tracking numbers or for those two devices, or for those two packages. One was on fedex, one was on ups, and both of them had computer printers that had toner cartridges in them that were actually bombs. We got the tracking numbers, we provided those to Foreign Security officials in the united kingdom. They went and found those packages, opened them up and both said, no, no device here. We said, no, this is really good intelligence, go back. On the second occasion in inspection, they found it. On the third, the other incident it took them three times to find it. Is so what were seeing is that there is a mast orer bomb maker in yemen who is training others. This bomb maker made not only those two devices im talking about, the underwear device is the first one, also used a similar type of device to use his younger brother as a suicide bomber to try to kill a saudi official. Fast forward now to just this past year. April of last year, there is another updated attempt, again on a u. S. Passenger airliner was the intended goal, alqaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in yemen gave this device to a terrorist, and the instructions were get on a u. S. Bound aircraft, wait until you get over u. S. Air space and blow the plane up. Now, fortunately for us, this terrorist was actually a double agent for another Foreign Security service. That individual was able to extricate himself and the device out of yemen, provide that device to u. S. Officials which brought the device back here, and we analyzed the device. And, unfortunately for Aviation Security worldwide, this is a new, improved underwear type device. If you look at the glass on your table, it was not even that wide. It was a little bit longer than that, very small and easily conceal bl. Fortunately, this agent was a double agent. Thats the challenge were dealing with. Were facing a terrorist group that is innovative in their design, their construction and their concealment of devices. So thats why tsa provides security at our 450 airports. Obviously, we dont provide security overseas, as you all know. But the notion is how can we use that information in an intelligencebased way. So what i wanted to share with you here is how we have changed our one size fits all approach that was stood up after 9 11, aware of all the threats out there. If you hear anything about riskbased security, its the notion that we cannot expect to provide a 100 guarantee. We screen 1. 8 million passengers an average every day, over two million carryon bags, so nearly six Million People or bags every day that we screen. And so what we try to do is buy that risk, mitigate or manage risk just as you do in your jobs as mayors. You try to manage those situations. So what this is is a recognition of that and how we can work in partnership with the traveling public to say if youre willing to share some information about yourselves wuss, we can do pre with us, we can do prescreening so we can do expedited screening. We are operating in 35 airports around the country, well be expanding to several more airports this year. And what that means is if you are a known and trusted traveler, then you go to a dedicated lane, you keep your shoes on, your belt on, you keep your liquid, aerosols and gels in your carryon bag and your laptop. It helps us from a security standpoint because we can spend more time on those we know the least about and expedite those who are known and trusted. Now, i think all of you would consider yourselves to be known and trusted, so we would like to work with you in possibilities of including mayors in terms of a known, trusted population. We have a booth out here, a table out here where we are working with people to sign up for theres two ways. One is signing up for whats called global entry that allows for expedited reentry to the country when you come back to the u. S. That also qualifiers you for tsa precheck. Prechecks just one of the policy changes we have done in this paradigm shift of moving from a one size fits all. For those of you who know somebody whos 75 and older or the and under, they can keep their shoes on and a light jacket. We have about 100,000 passengers every day, members of our military. In the past we treated them as if they were untrusted, recognizing that theres no guarantees. Theres always an exception to the rule. And so we always will keep random and unpredictable as part of the process. Pilots and flight attendants, we have them now over 95 of them, 170,000 a week go through a different way of screening as opposed to jamming up the regular passenger lines where we they have, you know, they cut in and everything. So theres other members of the u. S. Intelligence community, 16 agencies with top secret compartmented clearances. We know a lot about them, and so why should we treat them the same as if we had no information about them . So thats part of what this riskbased Security Initiative is. As we move forward with that, the idea in 2013 and beyond is how do we expand that known and trusted population. So what we are interested in doing is working with you in identifying groups of people that may fit those categories of known and trusted, those who may want to sign up for global entry. Were looking at some other opportunities. For those who dont have passports but who may be interested in having the tsa precheck benefits, there may be some type of expedited process for that. Global entry is 100 for five years, 20 a year, but you do have to have a passport. So were working through some of those details. Just wanted to make you aware of those. As we mauve away from the one move away from the one size fits all concept to be more tailored and precise in the both our passenger and cargo screening. For those of you who are mayors of cities of size that have airports that are economic drivers or engines for your loaning community, you know how important it is to have good security, so our job is to make sure we can provide for the Free Movement of people and goods with the best possible security. Thank you for your time this morning, look forward to any questions. [applause] we do appreciate you being here, and you accurately described the tension. Houston has we have three airports, and we want safety, but we want passengers to move, and we depend on international traffic. What are we doing to make sure that International Business people can get in and do the business that helps our economy . Sure, theres a number of initiatives underway to facilitate better visa issuance, if you will, trying to be more welcoming for both business and tourism, and those are things that are taking part, obviously, in different areas of the government. One thing were doing in tsa is trying to develop international known and trusted Traveler Programs that we can recognize. So, for example, weve taken the first step with our friends to the north. Canada has a known trusted Traveler Program called nexus. They have 530,000 citizens who are in the program, and so we have accepted them as part of tsa precheck also. Mexico has a program, sentry, were working with the mexican authorities to try to recognize that known and trusted population. So theres a number of initiatives underway that would help promote not only people coming to the u. S. , but also u. S. Citizens traveling internationally because right now tsa precheck is just a domestic program. What were working with internationally is for those who go through precheck here to be allowed to travel internationally. We do have time for a few questions. Mayor . Anyone . Thank you, sir. All right, maam. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] now were going to have a brief report from seattle mayor mike mcginn whos been spearheading our efforts related to Human Trafficking. In particular, our efforts to require certain publications such as backpage. Com and other classified services to implement inperson age verification and in the exploitation of children through their services. Mayor mcginn . Thank you. Thank you, mayor parker, for inviting me to this. This month, by the way s the National Human slavery and traffic and prevention month, and our city council has passed a resolution calling attention to it. Id urge you to do the same. The u. S. Conference of mayors meeting in orlando, the conference passed a resolution calling on backpage. Com to reform its practices to end the Sexual Exploitation of minors, and i wanted to give you an update on that. But before doing that, just describe the problem briefly. We know that when we took a look at king county and our seattle region there was somewhere between three or five hundred underage young women who were being sold for sex online in the area. And that was kind of shocking to us. And its not as well known a problem be as, you know, it should be. And i invite you to take a look locally. I dont think this is a seattle problem, i just think were seeing whats happening in a lot of places. Basically, what happens is vulnerable young women whether theyre immigrants or just a bad situation at how many or maybe not are preyed upon by pimps, and they are forced into this life of being sold for sex. And theyre vulnerable, its a very abusive, dominating relationship, kind of similar to the situations, emotional situations of Domestic Violence in a way. And these young women are controlled. And its very horrifying. Weve changed our philosophy and practices in seattle to one where we changed our vice unit to our vice and high risk victims unit. And the major point of the change was to view these individuals as victims of crime, not as perpetrators of crime. And when we recover a young woman, we work to we have a program called the bridge to give them place to stay, wrap around services and try to take them out of this life which is challenging, too, because the pimp and the other people working with the pimp will work to bring this person back if they can. They create an environment in which this person is very fearful and may return again to it. So what we know is that the internet has changed how this works. Its no longer somebody walking a street. Its advertised online. And backpage. Com is one of the chief places where it happens. Over the last couple of years, our Police Department has recovered over 25 young women that were advertised for sale b on backpage. Com. And when you go, you have a chance and you go online, look up your city on backpage. Com, and you will find b that escorts are being advertised in your city. Now, you dont know whether those are over 18 or under 18, but i can tell you neither does back page. They will say they will work on it, but we asked them, and the u. S. Conference of mayors asked them to require them to have inperson age verification with id for everyone they advertise as an escort, and they refused. Now, we brought pressure on them, attorney generals across the country did, state leaders did, and backpage. Com was a wholly owned subsidiary of Village Voice media, and as a result of that pressure and i want to thank all of you for your help in this Village Voice media divested itself of backpage m. Com. So that was a success story. Unfortunately, theres bad news as well. State senator jeannie cole wells passed legislation saying that, you know, to advertise children for sale on the internet would be criminal if you facilitated that. And the affirmative defense to the crime would be if you had inperson age verification. That would be an affirmative defense for Companies Like back page. Back page went to the court, cited the federal Communications Decency act which has provisions to prevent, you know, Internet Companies or those doing things online from being held liable for the actions of others. And they said we were completely preempted from the field and their freedom of speech rights trumped, this new criminal law. And unfortunately, they prevailed. Now, i dont think congress when it passed the federal Communications Decency act meant to allow companies to with kind of knowing disregard for the effects of their practices to enable this. But this is the challenge we face still and that were preempted from the field. So were going to try to go back again and work on this. Backpage. Com makes millions of dollars a year off of this practice. Its one of their primary practices s escort advertising, and they refuse to stop it. Other Online Advertising companies that have this practice dont have the same problem. Thats what my Police Department reports to me. The next step were taking in seattle is were going to have a conference of mayors up and down the i5 corridor because what we know is these young women are brought from town to town. Seattle Police Department studied this, and they tracked one phone number, all right, that was being advertised. And, again, we dont know whether it was underage or not, but neither does back page. And of course it was in the big cities, but it was also in little cities like moses lake and bend, and this person is just transported from place to place. So the capacity of our Police Departments to respond to that and catch up to it is challenging. So were working with a local company, microsoft, to work on better Technological Solutions so in realtime, um, our Police Departments can share information and potentially interdict this. B and, you know, in the field right then and there is there a young m woman who we should be seeking to recover, is there a pimp we should be seeking to arrest . Well also, of course, try to bring more pressure upon the men who do this. Now, the internet has really accelerated in this trade. We need new tools to attempt to combat it. And i was talking to the tsa administrator there, they also play a role in this. So im sure theres more that can be done. Again, i want to thank you for elevating this issue. Its a very uncomfortable issue ill say as a mayor to talk about this, to understand there are young women in our community being exploited in this way is horrible, and its hard to believe its as bad as it is. But again, i want to impress upon you, it is happening in your community too. And we all need to come together to find a way to change the climate where men feel like its okay to go online and buy this, and we need to have better tools to combat it, and maybe we need to take a look at our own federal laws about what is or is not free speech or appropriate regulation. So thank you all for your work. [applause] anyone have any questions for mayor mcginn . Now, he is targeting a particular aspect of the trafficking of underage women for sexual purposes, but i know many of us have problems in our cities with Human Trafficking. Houston is a major transport point for Human Trafficking, and i have a Human Trafficking task force that deals with both domestic and International Trade in human beings. And we tend to think of it as being the sex trade, but it is also for domestic labor. And its a growing problem in the United States, and that may be whether its a sex worker or it is a nanny who may be in Involuntary Service whos been brought over and confined to a household or the worker in your favorite nail salon, ladies, and whether they, in fact, are able to leave that salon and travel freely in cities. So its something that were gunning to beginning to look at by mayors. I have been joined by one of my cochairs, mayor frank cownie from im sorry. [inaudible] des moines, iowa, thank you. And glad to have you here. We are expecting the attorney general shortly. They have assured me, as you know how this works, that he is imminently arriving. But im not quite sure. But im if theres no other questions on the Human Trafficking issue [inaudible] yes, maam. Im [inaudible] and i just had a chance to meet with the mayor of seattle and [inaudible] a little bit on the issue. [inaudible] converted to sexual traffic and probably grosses 400,000 a year easily with just two or three girls, and its highly lucrative. What were trying to do in our region is talk about a campaign that actually gets at the johns to talk to them about these are underage girls, this is not just sex, this is a crime. Any sex with a girl under 18. And so im wondering whether or not youve been looking at, al