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Glaring hole in security. baggage day after day without any screened for what they bring on the job. like the flawed passenger screening you just heard about, but when it comes to workers, there's nothing. drew griffin keeping them honest. >> reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening. and literally, hundreds of doors like this one where a badge and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that's scary? put yourself in the shoes of l.a.'s airport police chief, patrick gannit. >> i got to ask about the long-...

Raising fears someone could slip through the net. >> reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening, and literally hundreds of doors like this one, where a badge and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that's scary? put yourself in the shoes of l.a.'s airport police chief patrick gannon. >> i got ask you about the lone wolf scenario because right now what you have in place with hundreds of access doors and the screening you go through, there is really it doesn't appear to me to be protection against the lo...

Two security checkpoints. sheriff's officials say the man had a machete and sprayed two tsa officers with wasp spray. a sheriff's deputy opened fire shooting white three times. white was taken to a hospital where authorities say he underwent surgery. the incident in new orleans turns a spotlight on to airport security. employees work day in and day out without be screened. there is no national system raising fears that some could slip through the net. >> reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening. and literall...

Why the homeland security department is scrambling now to close that gap. >> 54,000 employees at los angeles airport report with no body screening and hundreds of doors like this one where a beige and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that's scary? >> i got ask you about the loan wolf scenario. right now what you have in place with hundreds of access and the screening that you go through, there's really -- it does not appear to be to be protection against the loan wolf. >> when out say that are you saying someone that has access. >> that guy that just walked in with a backpack and ...

Protect their airports and they have stopped attacks. it's unpleasant for americans. i was in scotland when somebody tried to run a car through. i wasn't there at the time but i came afterwards drove it right through the window. and fortunately the bomb didn't go off. the same sort of barriers should probably be put in front of our airports. >> so bob, stay with me. i want you and our viewers to see this fascinating report from our investigative team because they have uncovered shocking new information about how some airport security workers are hired and some airports do not screen their work...