Federal officials in the center for Transgender Equality much of the hearing focused on how the tsa treats transgender and disabled travelers college homeland hearing. The Senate Committee is meeting to examine the efforts to engage with the traveling public and when it is positive, successful for most americans tsa is in Homeland Security component they regularly interact with. By screening over 2 million passengers per day tsa Center Acting with a diverse array tss had certainly look at issues and other times it just operations to improve effectiveness tsa has struggled to communicate with the public. Back of Stakeholder Engagement has led to confusion among travelers, airports and the tsa all personnel. This new procedure called enhance accessible screening was met with some confusion as travelers to not understand the reasoning behind the new procedures. Rises and falls in the agencys ability to consistently apply among the system. Identifying and understanding public needs and eff
Airlines sent out a news statement apologizing to the customer promising a thorough review. 86 million passengers, united denied boarding to 3700 people because of overbooking. More than 60,000 voluntarily gave up their seats. Kenneth moat en, abc news new york. Today new Jersey Governor Chris Christie asked elaine chao to suspend regulation which allows airlines to overbook flights and to remove passengers. Christie specifically cited the incident involving david dao as the reason. The question from united is how do they recover from what is a huge Public Relations disaster . Kristen sze is here with more. The hashtag continues to go viral today. Take a look at some of the memes out there. Southwest, we beat our competitors, not you. How about this one. If we cannot beat our competitors, we beat our customers. Others are posting pictures of the cut up frequent flyer card. Take a look at this, because Even White House Secretary Sean Spicer is weighing in and criticizing united. Clearly
Facing a passenger after passenger left bloody. Consumers threatened to boycott. Tonight united ceo outed a new statement. Reporter tonight, United Airlines hit by severe turbulence. The video of that passenger being dragged off his flight to make room for united employees is seen by hundreds of millions around the world. Oh, my god. Look at what you did to him. He said, well, why am i being chosen . What did i do . Even after being pulled from the plane, the passenger bolting back into the cabin. We saw him running back towards the end of the plane. He had blood streaming down his face. He appeared to be very just distraught, very confused. He was not in the right state of mind at this point. I have to go home. I have to go home. Tonight, that passenger who has been identified asd dr. Dav kentucky is undergoing treatment at chicago hospital. Records show his license was temporarily suspended after a felony conviction more than a decade ago involving his prescribing of drugs. The passe
Deliberately mischaracterized what happened. She was reading from unclassified talking points and nonetheless this has been caught up in a back and forth and, wolf, if i may, im going to read from part of her statement, her letter to the president and what she wrote in part, i am now convinced that the confirmation process will be lengthy, disruptive, and costly to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities. That tradeoff is simply not worth it to our country. The secretary of state may never be politicized. She says, i look forward to building on progress in your second term which seems to leave the door open to the possibility she could serve in the administration in the second term and according to my sources there has been some talk of ambassador rice serving in the white house in the capacity as a president s director of National Security. Now, thats a position that does not require Senate Confirmation and so she can possibly enter that role without the kin
That makes my medicines cause illness to me. Jasmine and cristine and greg treat me like regular family and they know me by name and they help me and they help a lot of people, like me with the medicines that they need when they cant afford it. That is basically all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. My name is Jennifer Morris and im here for bac. I dont get compassion, but my girlfriend does. I have seen her go through pain. I have seen what meds have done to her. I have seen her pick up the phone and call christine and i have seen her call up the phone jasmine and they were always there. When you havent got money or funds and your meds are messing with you, what else can you do . You seek compassion and that is what bac is. Bac is compassion. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is jonathan dwyer. I am a patient of access of love and i have been dealing with greg and christine for a number of years when they were in waterfall wellness