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Air carriers to divulge who is sending the package, where it was sent from, what's in it and where the package may have made stops before it was placed on the final u.s.-bound flight. that information gives tsa and customs officials some added tools to identify potential explosive. one official told cbs news is somebody is spending $500 to ship a $100 printer that is easily purchased in the united states, it should raise some instant suspicion. egyptair, royal jordanian, qatar, saudi, already serve the u.s. from those five countries. they'll now all be required to comply with this new order. r...

Trying to be brought on to planes. i don't think it's the most effective way. ainsley: what is the most effective way? what do we need to be doing? >> our human intelligence is our best. i mean, training tsa agents to actually know what it is that they see when they see it, if you put sheet explosives into a laptop, more than likely a x-ray machine isn't going to find that that might have been the reason for the temporary ban. however, you can put all types of binary explosives, concealed in every kind of container you can think of and as long as it's under 3 ounces or five ounces they can bri...

Cleared, i get visas for a lot of places i go means i have to be approved months in advance before i can even show up at the door. i don't understand why people get so frothed up about the idea that america has every right to stand in its door and say tell me why you're coming. >> kennedy: what does it say to you about the unanimous decision about the supreme court? >> mike: i think they were looking at the constitution and the statutory law that gave the president the power to make that decision. you may not like his policy, you may think it's cruel. doesn't matter. the decision of the court ...

Phoenix international airport, it will be tested in boston as well later this month. of the ct scanners made by different companies are also likely to be tested later in the year, the technology is similar to what we currently use to inspect checked luggage, they tend to send hundreds of images to an x-ray camera, giving screeners a 3d picture of a carry-on bag and its contents, using algorithms to detect explosives, firearms, and other prohibited items. it could speed up the screening by reducing or even eliminating the need for repeat trips through the x-ray machine and the secondary screens...

Learning, and this comes from our colleague robyn kriel, is that that device was taken through an x-ray checkpoint by two airport workers, insiders who'd been recruited by the al qaeda affiliates in somalia. actually went through the x-ray machine and they handed it off to a third man, the suicide bomber, who brought it onto the plane. it then exploded. fortunately, didn't blow the whole aircraft up. but the investigators actually went back and looked at that x-ray scan and were able to figure out that actually you could see the possibility of an explosive device. in that case the belief is th...