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Good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you for joining me. congressional investigators are on capitol hill this morning to talk about the effectiveness of tsa security measures designed to protect us and stop a would-be terrorist at the airport. renee marsh is our aviation correspondent and joining us from washington. >> reporter: tsa is the agency in charge of protecting aviation from terror attacks. and they will be getting a lashing from some agencies on capitol hill shortly, from lawmakers as well as from the government accountability office. we know that the government accountability off...

Government accountability office. they testified this morning on capitol hill and they have been highlighting some shortcomings that they found with the agency. they say tsa has not evaluated effectiveness of new screening technologies. they also say that the tsa has no consistent performance measures for their flight programs that matches passenger's needs against the terror watch list. and it also says that tsa has failed to use data to identify opportunities for improvement. as you know, since september 11th, billions of dollars have been spent on aviation security, but the gao is saying bo...

To know quick. >> also this morning. congressional investigators here in the united states are about to reveal a scathing report on the tsa security measures like body scans. of course those body scans designed to keep us safe when we get on board a plane. the bottom line though, there is no evidence those measures actually work. cnn's rene marsh is our aviation and government regulation correspondent and rich richard quest will break down what this all means. >> the tsa is the agency in charge of protecting aviation from a terrorist attack. and there will be -- this agency will be getting a l...

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Session but a lawmaker says this needs to be the last lame duck session of. it is time for congress to go home. >> fox and friends begins right now. it is quite foul this morning. >> quite foul. >> thank you for joining us. we will get to the t.s.a. procedures. we experienced airports this week. >> and in a minute we will get to it. you may have had different experiences. >> similar, actually. similar. we influence through several airports, major airports. >> send in tweets because we will talk about the advanced screening technologies all morning. >> i put it on the blog, too. and now, presid...