Page 29 - Security Costs News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Including a thumbs down to "saturday night live" calling it unwatchable, biased, not funny and the baldwin impersonation can't get any worse, sad. he was responding to this. >> kelly ann, i just retweeted the best tweet. wow, what a great, smart tweet. >> mr. trump, we're in a security briefing. >> reporter: so now one other thing here in new york, wolf, the mayor of new york city asked congress today for $35 million to help pay for security costs here in manhattan during the transition. no word yet if that will happen. but of course, it's causing so much disruption here in midtown, that's wha...

Astounding. >> 1 point 1 billion works out to several hundred billion dollars for those banks. but the fact is, banks are struggling to cover their costs. really, since the financial crisis they have higher regular laces. we've had ultralow interest rates for so long, banks are not earning as much on loans, and security costs, folks are hacking into our private data. >> i've seen their quarterly balance sheet. wah, wah. >>. and american larls flight was four hours into the flight when the captain dropped dead at the controls. can you imagine? dramatic details what happened inside that cockpi...

Thanks in large part to the actions of a quick-thinking officer, who typically works traffic, but was at this event here last night working security. i want you to listen to what police say how this all unfolded. >> both of them had assault rifles came around the back of the car and started shooting at the police car. the police officer in that car returned fire and struck both men, taking them down. we think their strategy was to get to the event center into the event center, and they were not able to get past the outer perimeter that we had set up which was part of that security. >> reporter...

This is also through tsa. the congress passed this increase in the fee that you pay to offset the security costs at the airport. now, the fee was formerly set at $2.50 per leg of a connecting flight. that's $5, was the cap, before. now it is $5.60 per one-way trip. now, what's interesting here, brooke, the money that -- under this new law that congress passed, is not actually all going to the tsa. it's going to the treasury to help offset the federal debt. at the same time, as part of this law, they also passed a -- several hundred million dollar tax rate for the airline industry. so they're n...

And nothing happened. >> the faa did not want us to tell congress. they did everything they could. they tried to have the report classified. >> the whole system of security was so flawed, it's a matter how the terrorists wanted to do it. >> the main reason security was so bad? many told the commission it was money. >> the nature of what was happening in the civil aviation industry in the united states at that time did not put terrorism high on the list of priorities. >> every time the government proposed an actual add-on or separate tax item for security, the airlines opposed it. they said tha...