today. reporter: airlines will have two years to put these new rules into place. congressman john mica put out a statement today saying the rules do improve aviation security but he goes onto say, quote, pilots must take personal responsibility for coming to work rested and fit for duty. the government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night. cargo planes are exempt from the new rules. the faa said it would be too expensive for cargo companies to adopt them. alisyn: thank you very much for that update. we have new information out of maine after a toddler is apparently snatched from her crib. police say they ve received a hundred tips since 20-month-old ayla reynolds was reported missing yesterday. she was last seen with her father but he says he has nothing do with her disappearance. as the investigation continues he also is not saying what he thinks happened to her or who he thinks might be responsibility. senior correspondent rick lea
leadership. and these families, with unimaginable heart brake, turned that into a powerful commitment to save the lives of others. they pushed us to make progress, the progress we re making today. reporter: cargo planes though are exempt from these new rules. the faa says it woe be too costly for cargo companies to adopt them. but secretary lahood says he is urging those cargo companies to voluntarily opt into the new requirements. one last thing. we got a statement in from congressman john michael. he is the republican chair of the house transportation committee and he has weighed in on these new rules. they do provide improvement for aviation security but he says pilots have to take personal responsibility on reporting to work rested. jon? jon: that sounds like a good idea. let s hope they keep things safer in the air. molly, thank you. jenna: speaking of the sky, a major new development in
reporter: the chair of house transportation committee put out a statement today saying that rule dozen improve aviation safety but says pilots must take personal responsibility for coming to work rested and fit for duty, the government cannot put a chocolate on each pillow and tuck them in at night. airlines have two years to comply. shepard: two years before the rules go into effect? and they don t apply to all pilots. guest: they only apply to commercial airlines and pilots. cargo companies fought the new rules saying they fly mainly at night and don t carry passengers so they won. so they are exempt. the f.a.a. argued saying you may fly overnight and you may not have passengers but you could crash into someone s house but the f.a.a. said it would be too costly for the cargo companies, think ups or fedex to adopt this and the secretary of transportation will encourage them to adopt the rules
now to the steps being taken to make the skies safe and the focus on billions of tons of cargo shipped on passenger planes every year. until this weekend, nine years after 9/11, that cargo was never screened. but now as lisa stark reports, there is a new rule. reporter: it s not just passengers and luggage that get stuffed on to passenger planes. cargo does, too. an estimated 7 billion pounds a year. but unlike passengers and luggage, not all of it was screened. so what if a box doesn t get screened? does it get put on a plane? no, it doesn t get put on a plane. if a box does not get screened, cargo will not go on a passenger plane after august 1. reporter: tsa bomb-sniffing dogs will do a small part of the screening, but it s really up to airlines and cargo companies to ensure there are no bombs hidden in boxes. i think for you and i when we get on an airplane, we d like to know that the cargo that s on the airplane underneath us has been screened.
anybody. and we have people that don t even call them in the past. but now we call them. i m also proud to be joined today by passenger advocates, pilot unions, and leaders of airlines and cargo companies who strongly support our new framework and our bidding process and we re bidding ideally to one great company. there ll be many bids. but one great company that can piece it all together. not many companies all over the united states like in the past. when they came time to piece it together, it didn t work. there were all different systems. we threw away billions and billions of dollars. i am very grateful that every former faa chief and chief operating officers and three former transportation secretaries, jim burnley, elizabeth dole and mary peters,