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Probably won't see any changes during the holidays or anytime soon. in a statement he goes on to point out that the underwear bomber tried to strike less than a year ago. and terrorists targeted cargo planes less than a month ago and passengers know, if you do not put up the regular metal detectors you won't be on the body scanners or pat downs some are calling a groping. we should focus on improved intelligence and documents and using body scanning machines that reveal less of your figure. they say the tsa is not being proactive. it's treating everyone like a criminal is an inefficient use of...

>> people talk about why don't we profile? of course, we don't do that here in the u.s. we use all the latest intelligence. we have watch lists. we know about people who pose a threat to aviation security. it's those who don't know. >> treating every passenger like a criminal is inefficient and they want improved intelligence, more behavior observation, better checkin checking, and boy scanners that don't reveal quite so much. >> the europeans have been coming up with better scanning technology that uses an outline and highlights if something is unusual, you know, a box will show up on the scr...

We're back. obviously i have gotten nothing wrong, but one of these dummies probably has. let's check in with andy levy. >> thanks, james. appreciate it. sc, you have no problem with the pat downs. i am with you. for some of us being patted down at the airport is the only physical contact we have with other human beings. >> there is that, and i like to feel as safe as possible. if you have nothing to hide, you should welcome the groping. >> bring it on. what i love is they are conducted by the same gender officer. what if you are gay? bill? >> then i guess one would enjoy if one were so gaily ...

You will not notice a thing. flying out of the u.s., also nothing. this will be people coming from other countries into the u.s., a senior administration official tells fox you may notice extra screening during check in and boarding, including things like the use of explosives, traced detection and advanced imaging technology and canine teams and pat-downs and a lot depends on the threat intelligence out there that day are traveling on and if you fit the profile of who they are looking for you will definitely notice, juliett. >> caroline shivley, live in washington. that. bill? -- this is me! ...

Fitting the profile gets extra pat downs and checks before being allowed on the plan and the head of homeland security says this is a better system. >> it is a more information based way to screen and stronger way to determine whether passengers should go through second terry examination, and not just primary examination. >> reporter: for example, if the system was in place before the attempted christmas day underwear bombing, u.s. officials passed on information they were searching for a muslim man from nigeria who traveled to yemen, umar farouk abdulmutallab, could possibly have been flagged...