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To grandmother's house. travel expected to be up 5.4%. you'll see about 4.7 million people travel through the nation's airports. the good news is it's not that bad. if i step out of the way, let you look at the tsa line here at o'hare airport's terminal number 3. looks like an average wednesday. they see this coming, they budget for the overtime, they fill all the positions at the screening checkpoints and they keep the lines moving right along. aaa says so many people are traveling because more americans have money. >> people have more money in their pockets. disposable income is up. when we ...

They're making a poor risk judgment here that we understand that there's low risk at the smaller category 4 airports, but we have to project forward and say what would the risk be if we removed the screening. so again, it's concerning, and i really think they're going to rethink this. >> and another big one that is under consideration, not having as many air marshals poised to be on airplanes. what are your thoughts on that? >> i know i'm going to have a controversial statement here, fred, but the only way to get the money to continue to fund front line screening officers and management is cut...

Move, he returned and shot him again, and as we know, hernandez was fatally wounded, david. >> how much additional security will there be for tsa at airports? >> they said the shooting will not lead to a decision to arm tsa officers, and they have a couple reasons. first they say airport security has never been tsa's mission. that's in the hands of airport police or other city officials who do carry firearms. the job of tsa is to protect airline passengers by keeping dangerous things off planes. and second, tsa officers are not sworn officer officials. they do not have arrest authority, they a...

>> how much discussion will there be about additional security for tsa at airports? >> they said the shooting will not lead to a decision to arm tsa officers, and they have a couple reasons. first they say airport security has never been tsa's mission. that's in the hands of airport police or other city officials who do carry firearms. the job of tsa is to protect airline passengers by keeping dangerous things off planes. and second, tsa officers are not sworn law enforcement officials. they do not have arrest authority, they are not trained to use firearms. they could be, but that would repre...

Photings, i wonder whether or not they are in the boston area and why i say that. with these images they are clear we can run them through video image identification. i believe the f.b.i. has run them through the radio act from the tsa counters in the airport already. if they have done that and not seen the imannuals come through tsa screening checkpoints and we take video of everybody through there. the question is are they in the boston area and if they are not did they drive or catch the train and even in trainn stations we do the same thing. i wonder if they may be in the boston area, bret...