security checkpoint every day. here s nbcs tom castella. only miami and orlando airports screen every worker every day. surprisingly, the nation s airports decide for themselves whether to screen employees. airport police union says it s a dangerous security gap. they urge mandatory screening for employees at the biggest airports including tsa officers. homeland security called recently for fewer access points and more screening. security experts are warning against radicalized employee with access to airports and planes. that was nbc s tom castella. i m joined now by kenneth. how does this happen? well, people are not being screened. the airport employees who are not being screened have all passed background checks and all
thanksgiving day. if you re driving from minneapolis there s an icy mix changing to snow. the ice is the big concern. those of you that drive regularly know you can drive in snow and rain and ice not so much. we ll be watching for that as well. lots of rain turns much windy and colder in chicago and here s the dividing line where you re going to see the cold air plunging down. the forecast tomorrow we re getting all the way up to 18 degrees in denver. notice the rain in chicago and the cold air coming in behind it and mild across the east. we ll be looking at warm temperatures in new york and washington in the 60s. what a contrast how cold it is in the west to how mild it is in new york. bonnie, thanks so much. the weather not the only thing that could effect your holiday travel today as travellers face a heightened police presence. an nbc news investigation reveals that the vast majority of airport employees in this country do not pass through a
would they get through the door but what happens after a year or two on the job. if you choose to screen them, the second question i d have is, how does the government decide what radicalization is. the pendalum has swung towards, we better do everything we can. if you go down for screening people, in a year, people are going to be saying, why is the government deciding which airport employees are watching internet videos. be careful what you wish for. be careful what you wish for, mitch, but terrorists, isis just successfully infiltrated an airport and brought down a commercial jet with 224 innocent people on board with a bomb. yeah. this is shocking that this suddenly seems to jump out of the news in belgium and france today. this isn t something new. we talked about this last night in 2010, the uk arrested a british airways i.d. information technology worker. his plan was to either crash all
thousands of terror police at the thanksgiving macy s day event. expecting millions of people. tourists and children will line the parade route. it is a primed target. the beefed-up security comes as we learn an alarming new development. brussels says that at least ten of the airport employees had terror ties. the number of radical islamists with access to planes could be as high as 50. this comes as we learn more about the most wanted man in europe, salah abdeslam. the man who drove him went to syria in 2014. and then president obama spoke about destroying isis. we re going after isil wherever it hides. we have conducted over 8,000 air strikes on isil strongholds and equipment. those air strikes, along with
another one of these terrorists appears to have been travel easily to syria, come back to europe undetected and new fears in france, that possibly their transportati transportation system has been infiltrated. with an international manhunt, there are new details emerging about a second suspect on the run last seen here at a gas station in france with salah abdeslam shortly before the november 13th attacks, traveled to syria in 2014. and was able to make his way back into europe investigators. new fears radicalized islamic workers are infiltrating the french transportation system and revealing concerns about airport employees with access to commercial airlines at france s two main airports. since january, 50 employees at charles degall have been denied