and they both made the turn around the benches and heading out of the exit. when going through the magnets the tsa alerted to the law enforcement officer that s manned at the exit. the law enforce presidement offe down the line to get close and fired three times and hitting the preerpetrator in the left chest and left eye. let s dig deeper and the former director asis tent and tom let s just start because this is not the first attack against a tsa officer at an airport. what is your reaction on what happened in new orleans? good morning victor the. sounds like you have a mentally disturbed person and describes
the waste band until that point. police are unsure why he was doing this. one tsa agent was shot in the scuffle. the terror group isis is claiming attacks on yemen. it left 137 people dead. reporting that suicide bombers pretended to be disabled and hid explosive after casts. that s the latest sign that it s plunging into a civil war. people marched to terrorism on the independence day. it s two days after extremist killed 23 people in a museum. the officials say that they had weapon and training in libya. about half of the people killed in the attacks were tourists. we have a lot of information that we want to share with you ton terror attack. two of the suspects received weapon training in libya and in a new audio message isis is
point. the felon was spotted by an agent but then a supervisor cleared the security check despite the man s history. a homeland security inspector said it highlights the need for the agency to modify its procedures. let s talk about these. let s bring in former assistant director of the fbi tom fuentes. tom, good morning. i want to start with the tsa pre-check story christi gave us. this man had a murder conviction connected to a domestic terror organization. how could someone like that get through the security pre-check process? i think victor, the mistake is he shouldn t be on the pre-check list. if they had him selected randomly to be able to go through pre-check i think they are going to have to take a hard look at that program. most of us, and i have the pre-check approval, comes from you know, the application process, the background process, the number of miles you fly with a particular carrier, so i don t understand how he was even able
it s not safe. state control and the middle east is deteriorating by the day and it s wise to stay away and certainly don t go to public place like the bardo pew seem in tunisia. appreciate it. this story out of new orleans, louisiana, this morning. police shoot a man threatening tsa agents with a machete and bug spray. travelers were sent scrambling as 62-year-old richard white stormed a security checkpoint. an agent fought white and used a piece of luggage to block the machete when a police officer opened fire shooting white in the leg, chest and face. reporter: a chaotic scene at new orleans armstrong international airport. an injured tsa officer is wheeled away on a stretcher after police say a machete wealding man who used wasp spray attacked security staff at a concourse checkpoint. he walked down the tsa
and especially when we have wind chills below zero. you can not have people lined up with the infants or elderly. you re going have to let people indoors and decide where you re going to set the checkpoint up. tsa guards and manning the checkpoints are not armed, so there are police officers that are supposed to be close by, and that s what you have in this case. you have a police officer who when alerted to the whole problem of this person attacking the the officers, that officer came and opened fire on the individual. yeah, you make a good point. wherefore you approximate put that check someone that has the motive will do everything that they plan right before that. tom, stay with us because we want you to weigh in on this story as well. second unsettling story at an airport. appears that the security administration has explain to do. yeah, the tsa athlete a