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Should be increasing their standards rather than having us lower their standards, and i wouldn't necessarily agree that we have to mesh standards. jon: yeah. tom blank, i'm sorry, now with gephardt government affairs, formerly with the tsa, some good points there. thank you. >> thank you. jenna: well, there will be some big names on the ballot when south carolina voters head to the polls just days from now. it's a primary election for the house seat held by tom scott's appointment to fill a vacancy in the senate. tim scott, pardon me. we're going to take a closer look at who's running for this...

Not that made sense. what you don't want to do is have different classes or different kinds of screening airport to airport. so you have to be careful how much leeway you give. i would certainly evaluate that and in this case i think it would have made sense to let the little girl pass on her way. >> tom blank, thank you very much for your time today. >> thank you. officials in upstate new york are investigating why a mother drove herself and her four kids into the hudson river. it happened last night in newburgh, 60 miles from new york city. the woman and three of the children drowned. acco...

This less revealing technology creates a generic human outline like the ones you see on the right side of your screen rather than the grainy but very revealing images of a naked body on the left, which we've actually blurred because they're so graphic. let's talk about it with tom blank, former deputy director of the transportation security administration. do you think, tom, this solves the problem that has irritated so many people? >> jon, this is the beginning of the end of the controversy about the privacy issues surrounding this technology. if this test proves successful, what we're going ...

Time, i think that where they want to get to is to have only a patdown of a part of the body where a suspected threat object is detected. for right now, they can't tell whether the part of the body is the only threat that might be present. but over time, they would intend to be able to identify specifically what that threat is, whether it's an explosive, whether it's a weapon, or whatever it might be. so we're going to see continuing improvements over time with this technology. jon: and you say that this actually saves money because the tsa wouldn't need as many people to monitor these new les...

Nervous, what they found, two hand guns, 250 rounds of ammunition hidden in middle boxes. he had five daggers, six knives. they confirmed two undeclared firearms were found in the luggage but there is no security check at jfk. packing hand guns in checked luggage is legal in the united states. we're making calls in new york. i'm going to continue to develop this and as we get news we'll break that. that's the latest on that one from the desk. jane: tim thanks. i think jon has more. jon: let's bring in tom blank, former tsa deputy director. how does a guy put a couple of hand guns in his luggag...