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>> it creeps me out. it can be abused. the idea of the government monitoring people is is a little creepy. alabama state troopers were caught zooming in on women's buttocks and passing them around to their friends and putting that on cable tv. >> bill: there can be abuses, obviously. they have got cameras now in new york state all over the place to see if you jump a light or something like that. and those are actually causing accidents because people are slamming on the brakes because they don't want the camera to pick you up. there are unintended consequences to this massive camera society th...

What else do we know about these migrants? >> shep, she migrants are latinos and asians from seven different countries, japan and china from, honduras all the way to guatemala. they reportedly each paid some $7,000 each. that's a 3.5-million-dollar take for the smugglers with no guarantee they would actually make it into the united states. many of the migrants were eeither abandoned along the way or could be abandoned or turned over to drug cartels. the drug cartels would extort the families. one of the big problems there in this case there were four smugglers all four of them were arrested. h...

Because radiation levels vary depending on each patient and each test. radiation is measured by a unto called millisevers and according to college of radiology, an x-ray of your arm for example expos to .001. a dental ex pray, .005. and by far is c.t. scan of the abdomen it jumps up to 30 and 62 million ct asked and answered are done every year in this country. -- ctskans. people that survived the japanese atomic bomb were exposed to as little as 50. but the likelihood of getting cancer from x-rays is relatively low, and doctors also say that you have to keep things in perspective. back in the...

Increasing rate of cancers if not a cancer epidemic. we are not. new cancers per capita, per 100,000 people in this country s been flat for the last 10 years. >> however, there are growing concerns over the potential side effects of medical radiation exposure, which is why the food and drug administration now looking to make some changes. for instance, requiring device makers to actually print the radiation dose on each film or image so that patients and doctors can keep track of how much they're receiving there are also alternatives for people who are concerned. >> we call it green imaging. w...

>> it's a series of inspection reports. let me clarify that the tsa using two types of body images machines. one called back spatter uses x-ray technology. the tsa says these machines are safe. but some members of congress want more information about the radiation they emit. and they are complaining that the tsa is not providing it in a timely manner. congressman jason chafets is among those who wants to review the reports. he asked the tsa months ago. but hasn't seen them. he calls that unacceptable, inexcusable, it sends up a red light that there might be something wrong. the tsa says it wil...