system, the light rail systems. and finally airports in particular because as you said earlier, a will the of people going to europe, you can approach a ticket counter without having to go through security. it s only you have a get to the ticket counter and have a ticket do you normally go through security. a lot of people there, you can walk in with guns. you can walk in with grenades and open up on the people inside. that s a real concern. megyn: you say one of the nightmare scenarios is there could be a series of coordinated attacks, one past other or simultaneously carried out not once we have gotten past security because you have gone through the magnetometer, but when we are at the ticket counter getting our affairs in order. that s right. if you have one incidents at an airport, a large incident in the area before the ticket counter,
prevent another tragic incident such as occurred in london, madrid and moscow. jane: you said those three cities provide a roadmap of sorts for what we should be looking at potentially that could come down for us. no doubt about it. when we look at not just the transportation systems in terms of subways, we look at light rail systems. take for instance the truck, we need to get high security on both types of transportation. simply because you can leave a piece of luggage in an amtrak train and get off and set a time up at the station, penn station in new york town would have a real tragedy on your hand. it would shut the city down for a good number of days. but thank got intelligence sources and law enforcement sources are on top of all these
the subway every day as fly nationwide. there are, of course, dozens of other busy commuter subway and light rail systems across the country including those in los angeles, chicago, and washington that host a total of 14 million riders daily. yet, we re spending 100 times more securing airplanes than trains and security and terrorism experts say we need to devote more resources to rail travel if we want it to be safer. shep? shepard: still the police in new york are sending out the word that they re ready for most everything. we saw efforts today surge in new york city where hundreds of heavily armed police officers took to the subway and train stations coming from several different agencies to converge on these stations. a show of force designed to give comfort to commuters and maybe give potential terrorists reason to think again. one thing about terrorists is actually pretty conservative. they want to be successful. and if they see that basically the risk of them being caught