pittsburgh is coming out against the new rules. he asks that his identity be protected. he says tension is very high among passengers and his colleagues. some agents are two aggressive he says and tpaoeug isn t safer. i m torn. i truly feel that it s morally and ethnic lee wrong to do it. this does not make flight safer, it s just taking away american citizen s rights. if you do it properly you re not touching the genitalias, okay. but if there is so much room for error that s where the problem comes in. juliet: we obviously disguised his voice. that agent says he s not alone and that other tsa officers don t like having to perform those pat-downs. rick: meantime planned protests over the rules never really got off the ground. yesterday was one of the busiest travel days of the year. and a boycott could have made it even more hectic. jim angle is live in washington with more on that, good to see you, jim. reporter: hello, rick. that s right airline passengers decided they d rather
inside the beltway conservatives that ran for office. she had a good record, better than anybody else i ve ever seen when they endorse candidates. she can do whatever she wants to do, stay what she wants to say and go fishing and people say her to watch it on tv, not a bad year for sarah palin. rick: mark any thoughts on the government. i think it s a miracle for thanksgiving day that i partly agree with ben. i think sarah palin is thankful that alaska is a beautiful state. thankful that she is never there and doesn t have to be there because let s face it it is a lot easier to be a star of a reality show than governing a state,. rick: happy thanksgiving to you both. we are thankful that you came and talked to us. take it easy guys. juliet: i don t know but i think i detected a little bit of sarcasm. airline passengers might be upset about new security procedures. apparent plea some of those who perform the pat-downs and body scans are unhappy. a tsa agent who works in
there were a lot of worries that passengers would protest over the tsa body scans and cause all sorts of delays. most of those worries didn t pan out. rick: i have to say corrine i think it was a very smart thing for her to do. juliet: i bet you do. rick: she was saving time. everybody is worried about the delays at the airport. juliet: it creates all the chaos and everybody looking around. we have to focus on security. i don t know, i m just trying i think it s pretty funny, actually. rick: i think that s what the tsa agents were doing when she walked through, they were focusing on security. some air travelers finding the weather a bigger problem than that planned boycott of airport security scanners. few passengers took part in national opt out day, instead choosing to put up with enhanced procedures. james rosen reporting from dallas, fort worth airport. i will not fly, because they have these procedures in place.
washington. reporter: a lot of people just stayed home rather than go through security, but the travel industry dismisses that as nonsense saying some 1.6 million people were expected to fly. as you said on one of the busiest travel days of the year. and congressman king criticized the whole idea of a protest. there s really been a mistake over the last week to ten days, and somehow make tsa the enemy when it s al-qaida. can we improve the system? i m sure we can. i think some of the hysteria that was generated, people trying to slow the system down yesterday, if a plane had gone down the blood would have been on their hands. reporter: fortunately that didn t happen, in fact weather turned out to be a bigger delaying factor than security was, and as we all know complaining about the weather doesn t do a thing. rick: nope, not a thing. jim angle in washington. happy thanksgiving, jim, thanks. reporter: and to you, thank you.
your clothes that would pose a threat to the traveling public. reporter: there are three ways you can be subjected to an enhanced pat-down, if you opt out of the body scanner, the metal detector or you can be randomly chosen. the tsa says only 3% of the traveling public t-l lee gets the enhanced pat-down. my husband went and he told me they touched him. he wasn t happy with that. i didn t see any protesting, no acting out, no problems at all. reporter: susan and her husband say everyone in rochester new york went through the body scanner. very, very expeditious and that was an easy way through and i m all for the safety of the citizens of the usa. i m glad we are doing it. what is the alternative? you know i d rather not be on board with a terrorist, and somebody that is going to hurt us, and i think it s a good idea. rick: and you think it s a good idea too. juliet: i do, of course i do. an illusion of security?