phones as they wait for the screening checkpoint. they will use a new blip track system that monitors the number of local phone signals in a given area. they say the information will provide a real time picture of passenger flow and congestion areas in the airport. it is 20 minutes after the top of the hour. physical education getting a make-over. no dodge ball no pullups no pressure. is this the wussification of gim? they are living up to their name. why the owner s bank accounts need it to be a bottomless pit. i make a lot of purchases for my business.
screening stations? that would be a difficult task. i am not sure that that is how things work there and access before the screening in most airports. that is a matter of reporting later. it is one of the first questions. authorities are coming together here and trying to give an explanation of what it is they have seen. going back to tom blank, this is not going to be a quick process here, tom? no tis not a quick process. to the point you were making an airport or airline worker may have access to the tarm acas opposed to the passenger that would have to go through the screening checkpoint, but unfortunately we have an incident of this magnitude and there are going to be delays and rescreen all of the passengers. they will have to take the dogs down and sniff for explosives and and manner of things to get back to a normal security status. i am sure of that, tom.
you know, when i heard the initial reports indicated that there were witnesses that saw a shooting at the screening checkpoint and around the gate. someone asked aren t the tsa agent s armeded. excuse me news conference. that is going to be the speaking order and they aren route here in a couple of minutes. jim featherstone is this is the set up. we are a couple of minute as way. back to whether they are armed. i m in the airport twice a week every week and in my head i don t see them with peb webs on their side. i don t want to give you or
as mike taibbi, tory belleci, safe travels to you. i m sure this is a stressful moment to say the least. glad everyone there is safe. pete williams reporting officials believe that the incident is over. pete, lets go back to you and the latest you re hearing from law enforcement officials. apparently the local authorities are in charge here. lapd, l.a. fire department taking the lead on this investigation. so the federal authorities are helping out. obviously tsa is involved because this happened near a screening checkpoint. we believe that one of the shooting victims was a tsa employee, a screener, we believe. everything we ve indicated, heard from law enforcement people back here is it s over. it happened very quickly this person with what we re told some kind of rifle or long gun approached the security checkpoint. shots were fired.
of incidents, a lot of them were at newark airport, about things going wrong. a knife getting through a screening checkpoint. a dead dog that was not screened for explosives before it was loaded on a plane. so the numbers, you cited them. let s put them up so people can see. 42% of those security breaches were reported to headquarters. then only about 53% of them were corrected. there s no central reporting system, so they couldn t get the 30,000-foot view of what s going on. we ve been listening to the hearing. listen to what members of congress are asking the tsa inspector general about how exactly all of this happened. so there is no depository where one could go and pull up all of the breaches that have occurred? well, first, they need to have, like i said earlier and the chairman alluded to, there needs to be a clear definition of what a breach is. and then tsa needs to give clear guidance to the airports, what to report and when to report. and then tsa needs to foll