in terms of and the personnel involved in who have access to aircraft at los angeles international airport, and at dulles airport? you know, lawrence, i again have to respectfully disagree with mr. christoph and your other guest relative to the ability of the potential to get 5 bomb on a u.s. aircraft on u.s. soil. i think mr. cavanaugh will remember the case in hartsfield where for five years a baggage handler for one of the major airlines had been in cahoots with a former airline employee and was smuggling hundreds of weapons, including semiautomatic weapons that were fully load ed in the passenger compartment overhead bins and in the cargo hold. and these weapons were being shipped to chicago and new york for an extended period of time
american airports. gerri willis from the fox business network here to talk about this. good morning to you. good morning to you. bill: what is the story? this is astonishing breach of security, these badges which employees, airport employees use to get inside doors so they don t have to go through the entire security screen coming into work, gone, vanished. tsa says not that big of a deal. security experts say this leaves door wide open to terrorists. bill: tv stations contacted one of the big airports in america one ever them atlanta, one of the biggest airports in the world, yeah, as a matter of fact 1400 badges are gone. they re gone. same at san diego. more badges missing. hartsfield that is the atlanta airport, right, biggest airport in the world. 60,000 workers there. they put through 9million people on flights. they are processing millions and millions of people at that very large airport.
cocaine onto a commercial plane. and a 2009 government audit says workers with access to secured airport areas is one of the greatest potential threats to aviation. everyone who is involved in aviation and aviation security know that this is a gap and a vulnerability. reporter: i spoke with atlanta hartsfield jackson airport and so far have no changed security procedures. they tell me they are having conversations about possible changes but no guarantee anything will change but the question is, if this is a known vulnerability, why don t all airports screen all employees and the answer may just come down to money and resources. as for delta air lines, they are fully cooperating with investigators. and there s been a bit of a pushback by the tsa after those arrests, the u.s. agency in charge of airport security released a statement on the
know, one area to another. you have the aiding and abetting of this, the crimes and the list of crimes. what kind of charges are we talking about? exactly those. so they ll charge conspiracy, they ll charge the trafficking and guns, they ll charge the aiding and abetting. and a laundry list of other charges depending upon and remember, these investigations, you know, at this point, they scratched the surface. how many other people were involved as they pull out text messages as they evaluate computer systems. as they continue to unfold this, you know, how many other airports goodness forbid are involved, as well. that is what i m thinking. tom, listen, i ve been through atlanta hartsfield jackson a gazillion times. and to think there s a side door where a guy walks through with the guns, guy with the airline tickets the one that grabs the guns and takes them on as a carry-on on the plane. and at least so far last hour, i don t think this airport has changed security for some of
bound for new york. reporter: this happened before. a baggage handler helped smuggle 12,000 pounds of marijuana on board a flight to new york. in 2013, an airline employee sentenced after agreeing to smuggle guns and cocaine on to a commercial plane. in an audit, workers with access to secured airport areas is one of the greatest potential threats to aviation. everyone who is involved in aviation and aviation security know that this is a gap, a vulnerability. well, i spoke with atlanta hartsfield jackson airport and asked them the very question that probably everyone is wondering, has anything changed in their security procedures? and at the time that i spoke with them, nothing had changed. they say that they are in discussions to talk about possible steps but there is no guarantee any changes have been made. you just heard in the piece there, it is no secret this is a