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Support for a law that would make the barriers mandatory especially in light of the tsa's new knife policy that kicks in next month. fred. >> thanks so much, rene. from trouble in the skies to trouble on the high satisfies, more problems for carnival cruise lines trouble with two more ships this week. we'll find out what you can do when a dream vacation turns into a nightmare. and you have heard about snakes on a plane. what about roaches on a bus? we're not talking about just one or two. we're talking about thousands of them. it happened and it is next from our newsroom. line fracture to the ...

>> the tsa refuses to go along. we would very much consider legislation and my guess is it would have large bipartisan support. i don't know anyone who's defended the tsa on this, because it doesn't make any sense. >> you can see what this change is. starting april 25th, can you carry knives this size under 2.6 inches, on to a plane's cabin, the tsa believes with cockpit doors more secure these fives can not friday down a plane. this petition on white house.gov is against the new knife policy. so far as you can see it has 17,000 signatures. now, flight attendants are worried about their person...

>> the tsa refuses to go along. we would very much consider legislation and my guess is it would have large bipartisan support. i don't know anyone who's defended the tsa on this, because it doesn't make any sense. >> you can see what this change is. starting april 25th, can you carry knives this size under 2.6 inches, on to a plane's cabin, the tsa believes with cockpit doors more secure these knives can not bring down a plane. this petition on white house.gov is against the new knife policy. so far as you can see it has 17,000 signatures. now, flight attendants are worried about their person...

Catastrophic threat, and these are the knives that tsa says will now be allowed. they are knives with blades that are no longer than 2.36 inches and they are also knives that do not lock in place. so that's why the change now. who has a problem with it? well, for one, senator chuck schumer of new york. add news conference today urging the tsa to change its mind. he said if it didn't, he might try to make them. >> if the tsa refuses to go along we would consider legislation and my guess is it would be large bipartisan support. i don't know anybody who has defended the tsa on this on the merits ...

Whitehouse.gov, right now, against the new knife policy this this being pushed by unions representing some 90,000 flight attendants. you can see right there it has just over 17,000 signatures. now flight attendants are worried about their personal safety and not of individual passengers but tsa says the agency's doing this is prioritize things that can bring down an entire plane, like bombs and things like that. they say hunting for small knives could get in the way of that i spoke with the tsa spokeswoman, frederica, a few hours ago and i asked if the agency is can reconsidering their policy....