cooking. and adam writes, in an all-inclusive hotel with sunny weather, there s no rush to get back. anyone who travels through u.s. airports, you ve got to be familiar with taking your shoes off, going through body scanners, and being patted down before you can get into the terminal. may surprise you that there are glaring security holes across this country s airports. drew griffin has the story. reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles national airport report to work without mandatory bag checks, no body screening, and dozens of doors like this where a badge and a code gets you right on the tarmac. think that s scare? put yourself in the shoes of l.a. s airport police chief, patrick gannon. right now what you have in place doesn t appear to be protection against the lone wolf scenario. when you say lone wolf, are
glaring hole in security. baggage day after day without any screened for what they bring on the job. like the flawed passenger screening you just heard about, but when it comes to workers, there s nothing. drew griffin keeping them honest. reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening. and literally, hundreds of doors like this one where a badge and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that s scary? put yourself in the shoes of l.a. s airport police chief, patrick gannit. i got to ask about the long-term scenario because what s in place with hundreds of access doors and the screening you go through, there s really, it does not appear to me to be protection against the lone wolf scenario. when you say lone wolf are you talking about a lone wolf that has access to the
raising fears someone could slip through the net. reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening, and literally hundreds of doors like this one, where a badge and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that s scary? put yourself in the shoes of l.a. s airport police chief patrick gannon. i got ask you about the lone wolf scenario because right now what you have in place with hundreds of access doors and the screening you go through, there is really it doesn t appear to me to be protection against the lone wolf scenario? when you say lone wolf are you talking about somebody a lone wolf that has access reporter: that guy that just walked in with a backpack with a mug. we don t know what s in his backpack or in his mug nor his heart or head. that s correct. reporter: does that concern
two security checkpoints. sheriff s officials say the man had a machete and sprayed two tsa officers with wasp spray. a sheriff s deputy opened fire shooting white three times. white was taken to a hospital where authorities say he underwent surgery. the incident in new orleans turns a spotlight on to airport security. employees work day in and day out without be screened. there is no national system raising fears that some could slip through the net. reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening. and literally hundreds of doors like this one, where a badge and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that s scary? put yourself in the shoes of l.a. s airport police chief.
why the homeland security department is scrambling now to close that gap. 54,000 employees at los angeles airport report with no body screening and hundreds of doors like this one where a beige and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that s scary? i got ask you about the loan wolf scenario. right now what you have in place with hundreds of access and the screening that you go through, there s really it does not appear to be to be protection against the loan wolf. when out say that are you saying someone that has access. that guy that just walked in with a backpack and mug. we do not know what s in the backpack and mug and in his