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But when i was driving through the gate one particular time, a guard backed up. my mirror hit his back. i immediately stopped. hey, if we need to make a report, let's call your supervisor. no. didn't look at my i.d. didn't look at my plate, nothing. an hour and a half later, i got a call on my desk from the base safety officer that said hey, understand you had an incident with one of my marines at the front gate. i was immediately ticked because i wanted to be on site when that happened. but after the formal reporting process, i said help me out. i came through the front gate, no i.d. or ident...

Passenger, but teach them to get in the cockpit and fly. >> alisyn: one of the hero passengers on flight 93 also happens to be a flight attenda attendant, good morning, alice as we said you lost your son at the hands of the terrorists on 9/11. what did you think when you heard that the tsa data base is woefully out of date. >> i agree with congressman rogers and delighted that a congressman from mississippi introduce add bill trying to close up that loophole. it is of course horrifying the idea that 500 to 550 people on the no-fly list are all eligible to take flight training cool. i'm so glad...

>> does that make sense? >> i take that back to our administrator to take a look at that. >> he's referring to the director of the transportation security administration, john pistol. the alabama congressman, mike rogers, said he would bring the issue to the tsa director himself and other security officials say that a series of checks is now already in place to keep terrorists off u.s. airplanes. trace gallagher at lax this afternoon. are they at least checking students from outside the u.s., trace? >> reporter: no, shep, and that's the problem. the government said they're not checking them. a...

Person like today's was -- >> they don't meet up anywhere else. anybody can take off. depending where you are in the country, you can fly anywhere juan. >> should there be more psychological screenings for people applying for a private license and going through classes to detect suicidal tendencies? >> i think that will be very hard to do actually. >> is it more often kind of up to the instructor like yourself? you mentioned have you done some of your own screening of flight students? >> i have in the past pulled the plug on someone's screening because i didn't like what i see at that point. a...

Is here. >> yes. i am so happy she's here. she knows what i'm going through. she's been -- she was one of my flight students. i've had many, many, 3,000 flight students and i don't know if they're going to get to see this or not, but i felt so charged. i was not nervous. i was just normal, normal person going up into space, and that's what i wanted to feel. nothing here. >> i can confirm that wally was never nervous. she was wondering what was taking so long. >> it's true. we had a six minute hold on the pad. and wally was like are we going to go or not? what the hell? we're burning daylight. ...