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Months, we'll work with our partners to ensure these measures are fully implemented. again, today is just a starting point. we are taking prudent steps to make aircraft more secure, to reduce insider threats and to identify suspicious passengers. in the meantime, we will launch a concerted effort with our foreign partners to put in place wider counterterrorism improvements. this will include better information sharing, expanded exchanges of terrorist watch lists, and more advanced security checks of travelers around the world. finally, let me commend all the outstanding men and women throughou...

Point. we're taking prudent steps to make aircraft more secure to reduce insider threats. meantime, we'll launch a concerted effort with foreign partners to put in place wider counter terrorism improvements. we'll have expanded exchanges of watch lists and more advanced security checks of travelers around the world. finally, let me commend all the outstanding men and women throughout the department who make aviation security their daily mission. whether they're working on the front lines at the tsa checkpoint, developing better screening technology in the labs or preparing the intelligence tha...

Fabricate a device and then test it against screening technology, to see how much progress they make, see how they can get something through this kind of technological screening, it is not just isis and iraq, it is al qaeda and yemen, all the intelligence is pointing to all of these groups really stepping up their efforts to try and attack commercial aviation, even aviation coming into the united states, and they came close to an airplane landing in detroit to somebody detonating a bomb on their body. so this is all part of the reason you're seeing the growing concern, all of this contributing...

Technology. it allows them to fabricate a device and test them against screening technology. not just isis and iraq, it is al qaeda and yemen, all the intelligence is pointing to all of these groups really stepping up their efforts to try and attack commercial aviation, even aviation coming into the united states. al qaeda in yemen, the underwear bomber came very close as an airport landed in detroit to someone detonating a bomb on their body. so this is all part of the reason you're seeing the growing concern, all of this contributing to the ban on consumer electronics when you fly. anderson?...

Of the plane. but in this case, they were aiming for what is called the stressed wall of the plane wall to be decompressed. so they are counting on random assortment, if you will, in the luggage hold. if they have one or two or several laptops that won't be together in the luggage hold. and that the explosion would be somewhat contained. however, we should note, we do not have hardened luggage containers in the cargo holds. >> how sensitive is this technology that is believed to be in the hands of these terror groups when it comes to the screening technology that they may be using for testing?...