bodies. we spent tens of millions on the puffer machines using puffs of air to help detect explosives. they were unreliable. we spent 120 million on the current body scanning machines used in about 150 airports across the country. these are machines that use radio frequency energy to help detect suspicious items. a recent audit found tsa failed to find explosives and weapons in 96% of tests. 96%. not only do they fail to find explosives but simple metal objects which is why the chair of the senate homeland security committee is suggesting airports use metal detectors along with body scanners. we all have to walk through a bunch of different scanners. the company hat makes almost all current body scanners is working on a software patch to improve the machine s reliability but
untouched. it s not really helpful for her. i think, again, it s becoming a huger controversy. the numbers keep going up. today just 40 minutes ago we are at 305 potential classified e-mails. got to wrap it there, thanks. so we now know how much the tsa spent on controversial body scanners. price tag? $160 million for equipment that some investigations later revealed failed to prevent security threats. trace gallagher is live with more on this. is that what it is? this body scanner technology has been the back bone of check point screening processes and the country has invested hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and various body scanning machines. we spent $40 million on naked scanner machines. they had to be pulled out of service because of health concerns not to mention the detailed images of travelers
captions by vitac www.vitac.com anyone cheering president obama s new stance on same-sex marriage has vice president joe biden to thank. the president himself is now confirming what many had suspected that the vice president forced the president s hand when biden announced his support for gay marriage over the weekend and now we re hearing that s a sore subject at least among some white house insiders. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is working the story for us. what are you hearing over there, jessica? reporter: wolf, there are times when a president is more forgiving than his aides and this may be one of those times. some of the president s top aides are deeply annoyed. they acknowledge the president was going to come out and speak out in favor of same-sex marriage before the democratic convention, but boy, are they frustrated that vice president biden made it happen sooner than they wanted. he was planning to say this some time before the democra
abdulmutallab can get on a plane with explosives in his underwear, because we don t have the overseas. dave: that s what congress has said repeatedly. we were not safer than we were around the time of 9/11. clayton: the u.k. banned the body scanning machines because they found them to be ineffective. friends@fox news. dave: who is worse, the school for suspending the nine-year-old or the tsa? and the extreme santa ana winds this morning, nearly 1,000 homes and businesses are still without power from wednesday s wind storm when now a new one moved in. the state littered with downed trees and power lines, the threat of wildfires also increasing as the dry and gusty conditions continue.
flooding, washed out by roads have been waiting for supplies, relief workers are now using air drops and some are having to resort to four-wheel drive vehicles just to reach these people with everything from pampers to prescriptions along with, of course, food and water. amber lyon once again following this for us out of vermont. live today in wilmington. amber, i see a lot of people out and about behind you. it looks like some progress is being made. reporter: yeah. there s a lot of cleaning up going on out here, brooke. at one point, residents say the water would have been over my head. this river that s over that way flooded and just came right across here. this is the center of town. a town called wilmington. 1800 residents live here. this is where a lot of people have family-owned businesses across the street. if you look at the clothes hanging out to dry, that was a consignment shop. i just spoke with the two owners. they lost the majority of their inventory. they als