well it was interesting. you re talking about an agency that has definitely changed the face of what travel looks like in the wake of 9/11. i did speak to the secretary who was one of the first dhs secretaries in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. he came in as number two in that order and he was talking about how much had changed and how under his leadership, the liquid ban came into place because they were able to get intelligence working with the british intelligence to find out there was a plot to blow up airplanes overseas. this is back in the mid 2000s. using what looked like sports drinks and there were people who wanted to drill holes this those. it was an example of something that started as intelligence, it s a reason we have our liquid limits on airplanes.
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coming up in the show, it could be a big change in the way you fly. if you re tired of tossing out champagne, cologne, things of that sort, the liquid ban may be a thing of the past. we ll tell you about it. and dave wilson, he s a white republican that ran in a mostly black community in houston and won. but was it a bait and switch, all a big trick or political genius? let s see how he stands up to scrutiny on new day this morning. let s take a look at the headlines. the official death toll topping 1,700 hundred in the philippines. efforts to find the dead and the missing and feed and shelter the living being hampered overnight by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake and driving rains. help is on the way as hunger and disease spreads, the pentagon dispatching the uss george washington from hong kong. the carrier has 5,000 sailors on
in a very annoying way, for going on a decade now. but if you have ever wondered why it is that you can only put something this size in your carry-on luggage, but on the same flight, as the same person, you re welcome to put something giant like this, full of the exact same liquid in any size into your checked luggage, this can go in the carry-on, but this or something bigger, even, can go into your checked luggage, your checked luggage you don t have access to during the flight, if you ve ever wondered why we have a liquid ban for carry-on luggage but not for our checked luggage, it s because of this house in london, east london. and it s because of something that the british version of the fbi, something that mi5 saw inside that house. and what they saw, initially, made no sense to them. but when they figured it out, all of a sudden, rules changed around the world. it was some time in the summer of 2006. mi5 decided to put surveillance
but if you have ever wondered why it is that you can only put something this size in your carry-on luggage, but on the same flight, as the same person, you re welcome to put something giant like this, full of the exact same liquid in any size into your checked luggage, this can go in the carry-on, but this or something bigger, even, can go into your checked luggage, your checked luggage you don t have access to during the flight, if you ve ever wondered why we have a liquid ban for carry-on luggage but not for our checked luggage, it s because of this house in london, east london. and it s because of something that the british version of the fbi, something that mi5 saw inside that house. and what they saw, initially, made no sense to them. but when they figured it out, all of a sudden, rules changed around the world. it was some time in the summer of 2006. mi5 decided to put surveillance on this house, this guy s house in east london.