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We are back live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We are tracking hurricane hilary. The system just weakened to a category 2 storm with winds of 110 miles per hour. The historic and potentially catastrophic storm is barrelling toward the southwestern United States, triggering the first ever Tropical Storm warning for millions of people in Southern California. The San Bernardino county Sheriffs Department just issued an Evacuation Warning for some areas in that part of Southern California. Thats just east of los angeles in the mountain and foothill areas. Hilary could bring a y...

Students, it may not, unless you are inspecting their backpack and unless are doing a patdown search each and every student, you aren't going to be able to actually get that kind of a person. and it seems as though this person here, at this school, i don't know if he had a sawed-off shot gun and he had a pistol he well could have hidden those things even if some one was at the front door to look people or students up and down. it's just, there's no 100% way of keeping students safe, unfortunately, in schools. >> harris: as you and i have covered, ted, incidents like this, we've covered terror ...

There's something in the mechanism that periodically triggers alarm. >> make it look like they're doing something. >> correct. if it's random and not based on any genuine finding that's a violation of federal law because it's stopping someone and conducting a patdown search without a reason for doing so, it's also a violation of cousin janet's own -- janet napolitano, of hhs's own internal regulations. >> this isn't the first time this has happened with him, right? he's got a little clash with the tsa before. >> i don't know about the tsa problems before. but he told me that he flies from this...

They don't have type to run background checks on all the fliers. the fastest and easiest thing for them to do is put us through the scanner. when somebody says i don't want you to do the patdown search that raises red flags. >> the tsa makes that same complaint. but i beg to differ. going back through the line, stepping back in the scanner might take a couple seconds, but the body search is taking oner than that and our loss of our dignity and privacy is not something i think we have to give up to have security. i think spending too much time on frequent business travelers that we are taking t...

Hitting gingrich, the real question for romney is can he project a positive reason for conservatives to vote for him. sand on far at least, i don't hear anything coming out of the romney campaign that is that. he's got to find a message that connects can conservative voters at the same time as he takes gingrich down. he has to get the positive half right if he's going to be able to win in florida and beyond. >> all right. john heilemann, phase two of your birthday president comes in about 20 minutes when you get to be on "morning joe" for three hours after this. other news, senator rand paul...