it s well known that al qaeda and the arabian peninsula had almost a decade now increasing connections with al shabab, the al qaeda affiliate in somalia. so the concern there is there s sort of if you will, a certain amount of public domain information that allows you to see a link, what intelligence authorities have behind the scenes, we don t know. but the real concern is that spread of this key sophisticated bomb makers expertise and skills. and so, david, now that reportedly these terror groups obtained these screening devices, if that is, indeed the case, then is it possible for airports, for the screening devices to be updated so that they are far many sophisticated than any of these terror groups may have gotten their hands on? security at airports is konl evolving thing. it s reactive. what we re seeing here is the
compartment. what s new from pete williams right now is that it looks like terrorists have found to place a bomb that allows a device to be powered on for a time. and that could fool screeners at the checkpoint. now, when the device is actually placed in the cargo hold, it goes through a different machine that provides a more thorough screening and takes care of that problem. the other thing we ve learning, terrorists may have gotten their hands on screening devices and they are using that to practice and test various types of explosives. if people have brought laptops through tsa checkpoints, you usually have to power it on to ensure that your laptop works. that s why that s so scary, what you just brought up. if they could smuggle explosives onto laptops, why are the devices still allowed in checked baggages and allowed on domestic
enhance the screening of the people who are behind the scenes, the people who are putting the luggage on the plane, the food on the plane, all of that. all the cargo on the plane and then a more rigorous screening of that material itself so however form, whatever form that takes, whether with dogs or specific screening devices, this s the kind of screening that we are talking about trying to enhance and homeland security says it will work with these foreign airports even more dreektly than it already does and it does by the way rather aggressively to try to ensure that the level of security is taken to the next level. we re really talking about the middle east here. the region around sharm el sheikh that is most directly implicated with terrorism and this ongoing war of isis and al qaeda so you can almost do, you know, the wheels and the spokes of a bicycle if you will out of sharm el sheikh and that would include cairo, include all the way up to amman, the persian
intensifies as it heads off to the east, intersects with all of that moisture. carol? did i mention i was going to charleston, south carolina, for the fourth of july? hope you go like saturday. looks better. oh, geez. thank you, indra. sure. getting to the beach or july 4th barbecue will be a lot more expensive this year. gas prices are expected to be at their highest level in six years. the national average for gas is $3.67 a gallon and only expected to go up as we get closer to the weekend. in other news this morning, new terrorism fears could mean even tighter security the next time you re the at the airport. u.s. officials are considering new security measures over a concern that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is developing more sophisticated explosives designed to get past screening devices. republican lawmaker peter king warns the group could team up with isis militants to attack the united states. you hope that you re wrong and the threat is not there but