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Ever since it opened 21 years ago, connecting london with paris and brussels, it's been considered that the channel tunnel is a target. and therefore, you've always had airport-style security. and because there's so few stations involved in the network, that's been relatively easy to maintain. >> reporter: but the eurostar is a tiny part of the rail network. long sections of high-speed rail weave through a complex web of local city and rail lines. it moves hundreds of millions of people per year with little to no passenger screening. >> it is the sorts of numbers which simply don't happen in a...

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-...

Of ebola caught him off guard. >> we are monitoring, supervising, overseeing in a much more aggressive way exactly what's taking place in dallas initially and making sure that the lessons learned are then transmitted to hospitals and clinics all across the country. >> reporter: lesson one, a faster response. the president ordered a cdc medical s.w.a.t. team to visit any ebola hospital within 24 hours of a new case. house speaker john boehner and other republicans are calling for a travel ban for people from west africa. mr. obama said such a ban is off the table, though passenger screening wil...

Welcome back, i'm jim sciutto reporting from washington. we have breaking news out of the department homeland security concerning passenger screening at airports. we've just learned the department of homeland security could announce new airport security measures as soon as today due to increased concern that terrorists are developing explosives designed to avoid detection by current security screening. we're told these would apply to airports in europe, in the middle east, elsewhere around the world that are not up to this current threat. i'm going to bring in our justice reporter evan perez t...

L.a.x. brian what's so amazing about this you're looking at one of the most fortified, secure airports in the united states. it's incredible this could have happened. walk us through how he did this. >> this is what we're told by patrick gannon, the police chief of l.a.x. about the shooter's path when this began about 9:20 in the morning pacific time. according to the police chief, the shooter came in through the main entrance of terminal 3. this is a diagram of terminal 3 only at l.a.x. comes in through the main entrance. could have come through this part, the drop off area here. also could h...