airport. she pulled a can of wall spray and sprayed the officer in the face. armed with a machete and wasp spray, a man takes aim at agents. and police searching for the man who shot a woman on a texas freeway after she honked at him. you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello again, and thanks for joining me i m fredricka whitfield. tracking major developments happening today in yemen. sources tell cnn, the u.s. is evacuating 100 special operations forces from the al anod air base. this is over concern the security situation in yemen is deteriorating. we are joined now from baghdad. so the last of the american troops who were stationed there,
homeland security inspector said it highlights the need for modified precheck procedures. what in your view needs to change? well in my view i m not sure how they identified who the guy was. there s no records check when you go through there. if, you know somebody has been convicted and they re a felon and have certain types of almost seems like it was face recognition by saying that this one officer recognized that felon. that s a one in a million chance too. when somebody is a sex offender they have to register as a sex offender. it might be time for us to start looking at certain types of crimes and people if you re a felon you have to register as, you know a certain thing. in the case of any type of crime with using a weapon or using a bomb making material something that you have to sign be on a list and when you present your credentials, it s known that you re in that airport. all right. jonathan gilley m, thanks so much. good to be here thank you.
that was outside of a museum but they didn t attack the museum. they hit the bus. the bus that was pulling up to the museum. completely vulnerable. when you go to an airport, anywhere anywhere a soft target is a place where people congregate and let their guard down. the thing that will save you and in the case that it happened where it happened here is the officers are prepared mentally for that to happen. you know civilians that are walking around ins these areas, you need to start preparing your ownself, your mind and awareness to look around and see what s going on to avoid it. meantime i want to ask you about another story involving the trastsa at an airport last summer. let a convicted felon and terror member group through a pre-xek point and the passenger had convictions for murder explosive expenses but the tsa supervisor said let the individual board anyway and a
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
really quick and it avoided something far worse? that is true. but had it happened in another area in the airport, the response would not have been the same. the fact is that, you know there s armed police officers you have a massive amount of tsa people but they re all in that area. had somebody snuck something through or had they done the same attack outside on the curb it the response time would have been a lot slower and potentially there could have been a lot more injury and even death. and what does this tell you about the preparedness a at this airport, which, you know, is a sizable airport given you have so much tourism, but not considered one of the largest ones. what does this tell you about the security in place, tsa response sheriff s deputy who was nearby how people work together? i ll tell you fred when bob bear was talking about the middle east that attack that was in tunisia, for instance,