all windows users, heather. a lot happening in the story and a lot of moving parts this morning. heather: it s always scare to do updates but you should do them. thank you, cheryl. a flight attendant is being blamed for a major security scare at united airline. the wall street journal reports that the attendant mistakenly posted codes used to access the cockpit online. post has been taken down. officials at the airlines, pilot association union says the problem has been fixed. cockpit doors were fortified and secured after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. emergency lockdown after hundreds of workers call out sick on mother s, more than 350 employees did not show up for their shift at the cook county jail in chicago, apparently a trend they re having where a lot of people are calling out on national holidays, 350 makes up
down isis is so important. stop them overseas. if you can t stop them overseas, have new processes at the border. biometric passports, for example. hardening of cockpit doors. finally, when they get here, you look at programs like the nypd ensure that you have an intelligence process to identify people before they do something. i think securing locations is not going to be efficient. this is not about locations. this is about people. you ve got to find people before they do this because you just can t secure everything. phil, is it also about timing in terms of do law enforcement and counterterrorism officials expect things to spike around holidays? i think that conversation about timing is not does not match what i saw when i was a practitioner. we talk about timing. for example, christmas marks. if you look at what s happened in the united states over the past year in san bernardino and orlando, i don t think trying to synchronize security responses
things like, for example, before the attack, should you arm a drone? something that s considered normal. you couldn t get over that hurd until either administration. i agree that the clinton administration approach was law enforcement. it s not like that was turned on its head when president bush came to office. i understand that. there wasn t a tragedy that drove a change in policy. as for airport security, look, this country was a sieve in 2000, 2001. we had take actions, set up homeland security. we hardened cockpit doors. we changed the process for a visa, biometric passports. you cowl not turn this country around to stop those kind of attacks. it wasn t about people bringing box cutters on planes. it s about saying we had a catastrophic event that will lead us to spendle about l spen dollars to protect the country.
report and they also emphasize as well that there are multiple layers of protection that the tsa uses. so they re seen unseen some examples they re not just screening at checkpoints but have random canine screenings reinforced cockpit doors, air marshals armed pilots all that that goes into the security system. as you can imagine, this gets out and leaked it s not complete but it is pretty damming. 67 out of 70 times, failure. that s not good at all. thanks very much. hopefully they ll learn from that and fix the problem, fix it they say they re starting. thanks very much. the government s bulk collection of millions of americans phone records has ends at least for now. but according to some brand new poll numbers, most americans want that authority restored. take a look at this. this is a brand new cnn/orc poll being released for the first time this hour. look at this. 61% of americans want the patriot act to be renewed. that s the law that has allowed
all we know for a fact is that he did make these adjustments. he changed the target on the altitude and the rest, as they say, is history. it does show a certain amount of forthought and that this was not a completely impulsive act, that this was something clearly he had thought about at least somewhat before. and no question about it. and if you take twhathat with the further evidence of ripped up medical notes and online searches for sueicides and researching cockpit doors and the locks on cockpit doors, i don t think there s any doubt we re talking about the actions of a very sick and deranged mind in what he did. but what we won t know and will never know is were the crew able to use the emergency override to