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Fly. that s up over last year the job of keeping everybody safe is even bigger than ever. what kind of pressure is this likely to put the t.s.a. under to maybe back away from some of this extra searching? well, i don t think they are going to back away. i think they are going to refine their procedures. obviously any time you introduce, you know, new procedures. some people aren t going to do it correctly. i think they are going to keep these new procedures in place. they are going to expand the number of back scanners, millimeter scanners across the country. only 6 airports have them today. i think we are going to see this be part of the regime that you go through at every airport in the united states a whole report what they are looking forward to. they would like to have a thousand of these scanners. at the nbc n ntsb. ....
Earlier he noted that the t.s.a. procedures are not necessarily set in stone. what i agreed to do is to look at how we can do this type of screening if we can do it less invasively has been the request than i am open to doing that. shepard: we re told not to expect any quick fixes that means, of course, thanksgiving threaferls could be in for hassles. our news correspondent steve centanni at reagan s international airport tonight. steve, i guess it could take a while for the t.s.a. to change its patdown procedures? well, that s right, because the t.s.a. is saying for now they are not changing their policy. the policy includes those back scanners, full body scanners, if you refuse to go to that do you get the patdown. but they stress only a small number of people are going to find themselves in that position because not every airport across the country has these scanners. in fact,, at this airport there are only four and all across the country there are 400 at 70 different airport ....
Amounts of testing as we all know and we have seen the stories that we did about cat scanners for adults can give a lot of radiation to your kids. jenna: you know, a big question from a lot of our viewers this week, how does all the radiation add up? how much radiation do we get in a dentist s chair versus some of those new scanners? what do you think? i think that back scanners, you know, that s a back scanner type of machine, i m going to be traveling with my kids this thursday, everybody s going to go think the machine. i think they re relatively safe. so that that i m not concerned about the radiation exposure in the airport. i am concerned about the amount of radiation exposure we tibet in the health care get in this health care system, and follow it up because i think there is a lot of validity to it. more information on fox news health.com where we have all the articles relating to the scanners if you want to know how dangerous they are. jenna: i m sure a lot of our viewer ....
Abdulmutallab went to. he went to the duty-free store. came back bought it again, went on the through security and got on the aircraft. how trouble is it that that airport still appears to be gaps in security? well, that should be troubling to everybody who is involved in aviation, aviation security. but that s why we have to have many layers of security. there are errors that are going to occur. that s going to happen, given the volume of passengers. that travel. that s why we re focusing on more information about who is traveling. more passenger vetting. better exchange of data that we have. and to do it in a global setting, so that everybody has the same information. we know who s getting on the plane. right. and one of the things you re also going to be relying on, particularly here in the united states when it comes to the airport security, the back scanners, total body or whole body scanners, you re hoping to get 250 of those deployed by the end of the year. you ve already go ....