potentially significant snow and wind and atlanta, los angeles looking fine. new york city airports a departing storm will bring wind for wednesday and we ll start to see delays in those airports. thanks, rick. passengers and pilots aren t the only ones upset over the security measures, some lawmakers saying the screenings go way too far and voiced their concerns in a letter to the tsa administrator. the two men behind the letter are congressman thomas petri and ranking member of the house and infrastructure committee and florida congressman john mica. good morning to both of you this morning. good morning. mr. mica. start with you, what started all of this? was it faced on actual intelligence, the changes at the tsa that we re hearing so much about in the las week? well, just like the public, you know, we learned about this, unfortunately, mr. pe tri and i and we are in the minority, but we learned about this from media accounts that
refused to be frisked down they humiliated her walking down the floor with no shoes on. this is out of hand. i don t need a government to watch over me. there s enough protection out there. we haven t had anything happen to us. what happened to the profiling, they don t take everybody, little kids, old ladies, come on it s out of hand. we ve heard other guests echo your complaints not in so vehement a fashion, you predict they will go away? it s affecting people personally. all right, gerald, thanks so much for coming on an and we appreciate your passion. coming up on the program, as we told you a lot of lawmakers want the tsa practices stopped. congressman petri and john mica, the republican and democrat explain why. sleepovers, slumber parties are part of childhood, but one
years of two companies that are in my state into that and you know, they try to discredit folks that have a difference of opinion. but the important thing here is that we get it right. and i don t care if the airports do it, private screeners do it or tsa does it. it s so important because we cannot afford to fail. we ve got to get this right. our security and the travelers public s security depends on that. congressman, what s going to happen? are the machines going to go away? well, i certainly hope they are replaced by something better. we will be having hearings and john mica has been very, very aggressive when he was chairman of the aviation committee in having briefings and questioning of the procedures, trying to figure out ways with the experts in improving what really is a pretty dismal rate of success
so far as accuracy of screenings. these sort of procedures really are a part of the picket with you only a small part. intelligence and other methods are equally or in fact more important. congressman petry and john mica thank you for coming in and sharing your opinions on this. thank you congressman. and continue to send your e-mails and tweets. we ll be reading them through the show because a lot of people are fired up on these issues. coming up the president attending two summits overseas, but were these trips successful for the president and for the u.s. interest? chris wallace the anchor of fox news sunday ijoins us with his take next. we have a sweet potato recipe, and the founder of dog fish heads brewery are here with the labor and fear with turkey. can t wait. take a nap after that. you might also want
i was told, and i shared the aviati aviation subcommittee and mr. petry will be chairing it next committee. they weren t having the body images, but this is only symptomatic of the symptoms, 3,590 administrative personnel in washington d.c. making $105,000 per person on average a year. again, this is just one tip of the iceberg to an agency that cries out for reform. congressman, i ve got to ask you quick. critics pointed out you received $81,000 in campaign donations related to private contractors when it comes to the airports. might there be a conflict of interest there in terms of your asking the tsa to make changes perhaps helping those private contractors? yeah, well, first of all, you know, they ve bundled 18