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Phones as they wait for the screening checkpoint. they will use a new blip track system that monitors the number of local phone signals in a given area. they say the information will provide a real time picture of passenger flow and congestion areas in the airport. >> it is 20 minutes after the top of the hour. physical education getting a make-over. no dodge ball no pullups no pressure. is this the wussification of gim? >> they are living up to their name. why the owner's bank accounts need it to be a bottomless pit. i make a lot of purchases for my business.

Screening stations? that would be a difficult task. i am not sure that that is how things work there and access before the screening in most airports. that is a matter of reporting later. it is one of the first questions. authorities are coming together here and trying to give an explanation of what it is they have seen. going back to tom blank, this is not going to be a quick process here, tom? >> no tis not a quick process. to the point you were making an airport or airline worker may have access to the tarm acas opposed to the passenger that would have to go through the screening checkpoint...

You know, when i heard the initial reports indicated that there were witnesses that saw a shooting at the screening checkpoint and around the gate. someone asked aren't the tsa agent s armeded. excuse me news conference. >> that is going to be the speaking order and they aren route here in a couple of minutes. >> jim featherstone is -- >> this is the set up. we are a couple of minute as way. back to whether they are armed. i'm in the airport twice a week every week and in my head i don't see them with peb webs on their side. >> i don't want to give you or

of incidents, a lot of them were at newark airport, about things going wrong. a knife getting through a screening checkpoint. a dead dog that was not screened for explosives before it was loaded on a plane. so the numbers, you cited them. let's put them up so people can see. 42% of those security breaches were reported to headquarters. then only about 53% of them were corrected. there's no central reporting system, so they couldn't get the 30,000-foot view of what's going on. we've been listening to the hearing. listen to what members of congress are asking the tsa inspector general ...

Over, talking to john brennan. >> shannon: you touched as well on the secret service scandal with him and what kind of compromises could have been made to national security. >> that's right. secret service and the tsa because four current or former agents, tsa screeners were arrested this week, involved in smuggling. they have taken bribes to allow drugs through their screening checkpoint. obviously, they could allow explosives or weapons through. he said that really, we are looking at all of these things s and taking it very seriously, anything that is a potential security lapse, in the prote...