patdowns. you touch my junk, i ll have you arrested. you re hearing horror stories. they pulled me into another room and they searched me again. i just felt dirty. reporter: officials say the tsa would rather look and not touch. to avoid something like that, go through that screening device. say no, you ll be pulled aside by a tsa agent. you re in a tough decision. the government says 99% of passengers will be passed up for a patdown. a small percentage of passengers who get patted down. unless a scanner goes off. and that s when the fun begins. we re talking somewhere around 8% or so. homeland security secretary janet napolitano acknowledges there may be room for adjustment. there s wiggle room here not elbow room. the alternatives? we re not talking about profiling. the recent approach that some people would call profiling. these close encounters are leaving no one satisfied. i m sympathetic frankly with the security guys. they are tryi
live in high definition, from wbff tv in baltimore, this is fox 45 news at then clock. hello, i am jeff barnd. and i am jennifer gilbert. a college student who is also award veteran, is barred from campus. after his essay is published in the school paper. red flag. crime and justice reporter joy lepola explains the demands now being made before the student is allowed back to the community college of baltimore county. it is a drug and has been ever since i first time i have killed someone. at first it was weird. felt wrong.3 but by the time i was third and 4th killing it feels natural and like i could do it for the rest of my life and makes me happy. been three years since charles whittingtoo returned home from fightinn in iraq, and it is still a struggle. that s one of the reasons he wrote about it in an essay for his college english course. i am writing the experience. to help myself out in the long run. i mean, thhrapeutic. a form of therapy that led whittingt
couric: good evening, everyone. the busiest travel week of the year is colliding head on with the most invasive airport security screenings yet. today the head of the t.s.a. john pistole pleaded with travelers not to boycott body scans saying that would only tie up the lines. pistole will be talking with him in a moment, by the way, also said he s taking another look at the new procedures including patdowns, as he tries to balance security and privacy. and for a perspective about one million passengers have been patted down in the past month, and just a fraction of those, 700, have complained. don teague is at the dallas fort worth airport tonight. don, the numbers may be small, but some of the stories we re hearing are pretty outrageous. reporter: they sure are, seems every day we re hearing new stories of humiliation and outrage, as the t.s.a. walks a fine line between p.r. and safety. that s not right. reporter: this grandmother sandra murdic says she felt violated
you touch my junk, i ll have you arrested. you re hearing horror stories. they pulled me into another room and they searched me again. i just felt dirty. reporter: officials say the tsa would rather look and not touch. to avoid something like that, go through that screening device. say no, you ll be pulled aside by a tsa agent. you re in a tough decision. the government says 99% of passengers will be passed up for a patdown. a small percentage of passengers who get patted down. unless a scanner goes off. and that s when the fun begins. we re talking somewhere around 8% or so. homeland security secretary janet napolitano acknowledges there may be room for adjustment. there s wiggle room here not elbow room. the alternatives? we re not talking about profiling. the recent approach that some people would call profiling. these close encounters are leaving no one satisfied. i m sympathetic frankly with the security guys. they are trying to keep
good evening. this thanksgiving week, our usual conversation will be about the sweetness and stress of being with family. but this year, something different. americans are wrestling with the new rules of travel versus the threat of terrorism. so we set out to find some facts today, what is really happening at the airports and also, a new abc news poll on those aggressive patdowns. it shows we are a nation divided. half of us say the new body searches go too far. the other half feel they re justified. today, the white house had to weigh in on all the complaints and the debate. abc s jake tapper is there for us tonight. jake. reporter: good evening, diane. the head of the transportation security administration today said that flying is a privilege, and he said if someone decides they don t want to have a screening, they don t have a right to get on the plane. the white house has been more diplomatic in its language but tonight they are standing by the new procedures with or w