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The order, based on unspecified threats, affects passengers on us bound flights from certain countries in the middle east and north africa. And now britain has tightened its Aviation Security measures as well. La pto ps security measures as well. Laptops and fieiiifig leeifiei £5. 33 eehef fiefiliei Airport Security on flights through Airport Security on flights from the middle east to the uk is about to get even more compensated. Anything bigger than a smartphone will now have to go in the hold. British airways, easyjet and four other uk airlines are affected, so too are middle eastern ...

Bureaucracy, everybody thinks they have to get out there to talk about what should be secret matters, but we'll see. >> do you read that as a dig toward scotland yard? >> no, i didn't read it that way. hey, scotland yard was on the case, they were on the case and had to act quicker before they got arrested. >> new york city police announced here at home they are stepping up patrols of mass transit and bridges, even though there are no threats to new york and manhattan. is that the right move? that's a move we see in these situations. >> i think you can't have a big bomb go off in an allied cap...

Aviation security measures in place is causing concern for airlines that have international flights with direct service to the united states. failure to meet the new dhs mandated standards within the u.s. government's time line threatens to trigger a laptop ban, or even a suspension in direct flights to certain international destinations. >> it is time that we raised the global baseline of aviation security. >> reporter: last week homeland security secretary john kelly laid out the new measures as a way to counterthe threat of terrorists blowing up a commercial passenger plane. cnn obtained th...

Flights to the united states, they will have to follow these new aviation security measures. this is a way to get around that laptop bant that we have been speaking about. this is a compromise to that in that if all of these measures are followed, countries can avoid this laptop ban. i spoke with one airline industry official who tells me they expect some of the issues that dhs will lay out will be increased use of k-9s as well as explosion detective -- explosive detective equipment. back to you. >> rene marsh, thank you for that. again breaking news, john kelly will announce the new measures ...

We've seen this before over the last decade with the threats coming from electronic devices. i think the problem to note with electronic devices, this story is somewhat morphing from where it was two weeks ago where there was a concern of lithium batteries and potential fires in the cabin to two weeks later where there's a direct threat with intelligence. so this is no different than we've seen before. there must be a lot of intelligence to get it to this level. what i will say is that these devices, the amount of sophistication in them as we move forward, they are just trying to get better an...