tat a time when public anger is growing over invasive procedures at airports, could we see these patdowns elsewhere? malini wilkes live in d.c. this morning. good morning to you. good morning, those body scanners are expensive and not even at every airport yet. it s unlikely you ll see them at public places any time soon. though homeland security secretary janet napolitano is expressing concerns about terrorists targeting other modes of transportation. first day went pretty smoothly despite the new body scanners and patdowns at airports and that passenger threated to slow down travel by opting out of the new revealing scanning machines. napolitano has defended the machines. in an interview, she said they give us a better chance of finding things that could be used as explosives. she said terrorists are continuously probing, looking at attacking trains and other types of transportation and she is
and i guess you re suggesting that the homeland security department is doing this in an effort to appear they re doing something. there s an interesting political game going on. when something happens, the public demands that something must be done. and you have to do something to make sure that thing never happens again. otherwise, your career is over. even if it makes more sense to do nothing which in this case it does, you have to appear to do something and that was true against 9/11, against the shoe bomber, against the underwear bomber. it s not either party. you have to look strong. so you re forced to deal with yesterday s threat instead of tomorrow s threat. something more that is a question and answer session than hundreds of thousands of dollars, is that something that you suggest? the biggest airport is about the size of sacramento airport. it s a small regional airport in
and we re relying on see something, say something. you know, you see someone leave a bag there. that s what our security level is right now in some of the subways and public transportation but, you know, the tsa folks are fighting back a little bit this morning. a lot of the tsa employees not terribly happy. they re saying look, we re not bad. we re doing our job. a lot of these tsa employees who you interact with and go to the airport, they re wonderful, wonderful people but now they re being thrust into the new arena where they have to do the scans and they re coming out with a bit of a message this morning, at least some of them. what are they saying? they re saying look, we re not perverts. that s a quote from a tsa agent saying look, we re just doing our job. we re not perverts. if you read the material about how they do the full body scans, you might not know this. the guy or the woman who is actually looking at these images is in another room. they don t see your head bu
the airport and ends up trying to take them through securitiment they say hold on a second. no way. we re going to clamp down. the flight was delayed as a result of trying to sneak these knives on to the plane. his girlfriend who is a twilight actress, where did you put those cooking knives? they went through security. he said whoopsies and she quotes that s not going to do it here. they let him put them beneath the plane and we averted an international incident. here was my bonehead move. you know the liberty bell in philadelphia, pennsylvania. was taking some family one time through the security and wanted to show them they were in town, you do the tour thing and i had just moved so i had all my stuff in my bag and i couldn t find my box cutter for the longest time. where s that box cutter? go through security at the liberty bell in pennsylvania and the guy says to me do you have a box cutter in your bag? i said no, i don t have a box cutter in my bag. i said no. are you sure a
now, just this morning since midnight, we added another 3 inches to that. we had nearly 8 inches of rain at the tampa airport in the last three days. let s put some perspective on that. the sacramento airport has had 5 inches of rain since january 1st. this is a lot of rine, even by florida standards in this amount of time. they re not done yet. there s a tropical disturbance to the north of the tampa area. that rain over the gulf is going to drench this area all morning long and probably into the afternoon, too. so we can expect the flooding actually to get worse in the tampa area instead of better throughout the next couple hours. that s the florida situation. now let s head north to the cold front cooling off the great lakes, heading into the hot, humid, sticky air in the mid-atlantic and northeast. we re okay now, not many problems but round two will come this afternoon. if you re in the area of yellow you re at a slight risk of storms. i-95, you get spared but a lot of big, highly