Very well because i fly american every week. Thank you very much. My name is carrie philipovich testifying on behalf of airlines for america. Thanks for inviting me to discuss the impact tsa security lines is having on our customers. Theres nothing more important to the the Airline Industry than the safety and security of our passengers, employees and cargo. We have never seen tsa wait times that affect airlines and passengers throughout the United States like weve seen in recent months. Without immediate leadership, the 231 million earn a americans that will board airplane this is summer will be frustrated and angry. Last year, programs that had been in place were eliminated without adding resources required to support longer passenger processing times. The as a result that screening process caused unacceptably long security lines and a frustrated flying public. Our discussions with tsa revealed three other contributing factors. First, it appears tsa did not adjust its staffing model
We are working to ensure similar promise responses to the needs and concerns at Midway Airport. This response was possible because Congress Approved tsas reprogramming request and we were grateful to you for taking that quick action. To ensure transparency, we will be releasing a biweekly score card showing average and maximum wait times, staffing and resource levels provided by by tsa. In the short term, in order to manage the spring and Summer Travel season ahead there are a few Critical Resources and management steps that we need to ensure are reallocate passenger screening canine teams, ensure tsa is transparent about its staffing allocation models and level, transportation transparency helps us better predict potential staffing strategies and shortages. Provide federal Security Directors the ability to make local decisions about manpower, allocation and overtime. Ensure checkpoints are open on time or risk playingup all day. Screen line tsa preenrollment process. In the long term,
Further evaluation and then pd will follow up with the investigation. Reporter a neighbor who witnessed the aftermath of the crash said what might have begun as a joyride could easily have ended in tragedy. The thing im thinking of, its really simple and easy to follow the rules. You could think that something is going to be harmless, then it lands you in big trouble. And it puts other people in harms way. The owner of the stolen car will not face any charges for following or pursuing his stolen car. He was actually on the phone with police the entire time, telling them where those suspects were going. In san jose, devin fehely, kpix 5. A bay area baby born prematurely after a car crash killed his mother is showing signs of improvement. Baby christopher remains in serious condition at Valley Medical Center in san jose, but new video shows him opening his hand and wiggling his fingers in an incubator. Christophers mother was not 7 months pregnant when the car she was riding in crashed o
Enforcement priorities would result in only moderate reductions in overall removals. Would that make any difference if the president extended the guidance to cdp . Yeah, you know, and modest is so modest is not a very precise word, i think its not hard to describe a scenario where you could see removals go down by 10 or 15 or maybe 20 , or some of the scenarios that we described. But, certainly you know, cdp has as we described in our last report, theres been a sea change in how cdp does enforcement, just over the last less than 10 years, from mostly voluntary returns to overwhelmingly formal removals. So if what youre talking about specifically is reducing formal removals. You could reduce that substantially if you decided well go back to an era where youre going to violence tearily return most people. Which you may or may not tie to enforcement priorities, but having said that, the data do suggest that the great majority of people that cdp and prehengds, they apprehend within three d
Something you heard from me over and over again. There is not such thing as 100 security. No matter how good you are and you are good. And no matter how good the first two rose here are, good and they are good. Something could happen somewhere so, my question is, what are you doing to prepare america for the day after a possible attack . Well, i have a lot of faith in this country. I mean we, we have agencies, systems in place for emergency response, for disaster response. Ii have a lot of faith in the character and culture of this nation. And how we respond to crises. I think it is no accident that, twice i think i think i got it right. Twice as many people ran in the Boston Marathon this year as last year, in light of what happened in 2013. I was there on the finish line and it was a remarkable experience to be at the Boston Marathon in 2014 after the tragedy of 2013. I was in manhattan on 9 11 and i was in manhattan in the days after 9 11 and in the new york area to see people who,