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It with tightened security. 6,000 police officers will be watching more than ever before. cnn justice reporter is in time jar tonight. evan, always hard to judge these threats specific, credible, et cetera. what do we know about this particular threat? >> reporter: that's right, jim. the president gets briefing on all threats. some are credible, some are not. in this case he asked for a briefing from his top officials before he left for his vacation in hawaii and this is one of the threats that was mentioned to him. now, when you're talking about new york, you think about times square and the ...

Question to the city is you send these men and women to the chicago police academy to be trained as police officers to be able to respond as police officers to be able to act as police officers. >> reporter: the chicago police department has 231 armed officers and the city says that's enough. so, too, does the chicago aviation deputy about its unarmed force and the staffing level of armed police is for the most part similar to other major u.s. airports. if you compare the top three busiest airports in the u.s., atlanta's heartsfield-jackson has 178 armed police. los angeles, 572. while o'hare ...