used by members of congress and they flies back home to their home states, some of then in rural states. i should add quickly, men reid speaking at the ohio clock said they could still reach an agreement on this and expects it probably to get done by the end of this day so maybe this is hope. shepard: that would be good. thank you, doug. security screeners at boston s international airport may have some questions for you. the trapping security administration is reporting they are testing a new layer of security at the hub where behavior officers pull random travelers aside. you will be asked questions, maybe three or four innocuous questions and they are gaging your reaction to the questions. not the answer but how you react. shepard: suspicious travelers undergo adill screening additional screening taking a take from israel. critics say this will lead to
yesterday that documents found in the bin laden compound suggested a possible terror attack on our rail lines. adding to the security concerns already familiar to fliers and travelers out there. in 2010 homeland security allocated $300 million for rail security. as of march, amtrak employs 451 police and security personnel. as of december the tsa had 963 employees. most of those are believed to be those security screeners that you see when you come in and out of the airport. so we ll see how the security is stepped up in light of all of this. in the meantime one of usama bin laden s wives is painting a picture of what life was like living with the world s most wanted man. saying they basically spent five
property, air traffic controllers, tsa security screeners, federal law enforcement, that will still go on. other groups agencies that have their own revenue stream or have user fees like the post office, the federal courts operate on the fees they collect. those will keep operating. if you have already getting social security benefits, medicare benefits, medicaid benefits, those checks will keep coming because it s fairly automated operation. now another thing of course is that next week at the end of next week or actually it is the 18th this year, is tax day. if the shutdown continues on into tax day, the irs when if there is a government shutdown, the irs will stop processing paper tax returns. they ll still process e-filing because that s done automatically but you just have to file by have that filing postmarked by midnight, april 18, to avoid a penalty.
christians. hea heavy snowstorms in the med west led delta to cancel 500 christmas day flights nationwide and 300 at the nation s busiest airport in atlanta. airline says passengers will be rebooked and wave booking fees. storm that dumped nine inches in iowa, is expected to dump snow on nashville, atlanta and carolina. in europe, the weather hasn t gotten better for the stranded passengers just trying to get home for the holidays. more shortfall and thousands are camped out at airports in brussels and cots brought in for travelers who were forced to spend the night in the terminal. security screeners are taking an extra look at the insulated beverage containers this holiday as an effort by the fed to prevent any possible terror activity. after issuing warnings about thermoses and other similar containers. a top military official says chatter has been intercepted
feel the heal. 18 minutes past the hour right now. india s government is furious. they do not like the way one of their top diplomats was treated by security screeners at a u.s. airport recently. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty with details from washington this morning. reporter: last week at the jackson, mississippi, airport, india s ambassador traveling with the trade delegation was about to board a plane back to washington, d.c. she was selected for a thorough secondary pat-down, visible to other passengers. the ambassador was wearing a traditional indian dress. the tsa officers called it bulky clothing. some passengers agreed it was