and his time and of course leonard was spock cool logical, big-eared and level headed the center of star trek s optimistic inclusive vision of humanity s future. live long and prosper. images. father of all we now hold true. leonard nimoy died yesterday at his home in los angeles. he was 83 years old. i ll see you back here at 7:00 p.m. smerconish begins right now. i m michael smerconish. thank you for join us. crisis averted for at least one more week. or is it? after a nail-biting showdown on capitol hill last night, the house and senate agreed on a bill to fund the department of homeland security. but only for seven days. it s gridlock in action a dysfunctional display, but at least it keeps hundreds of thousands of tsa screener border agents and other who is keep us safe on the job and paid for a few more days. dhs funding has been held
reporter: she showed a printout of the tsa rules to the screener. he read them and it said breast milk is a medical liquid and to be alternately screened. he didn t want to accept it. her lawyer filed a lawsuit against the tsa. they allowed her to actually have her breast milk alternately screened. did you feel humiliated. like you are an animal in a cage. we spoke to several medical experts who say it is highly unlikely that the x-rays would damage the breast milk. still, four years later, she said the tsa plans to settle her suit for $75,000. we reached out to the tsa which referred us to this on its website. when carrying breast milk through security checkpoints it is treated in the same manner as liquid medication. parents flying with and without their child are permitted to bring breast milk as long as it is presented for inspection at the security check point. they have promised to retrain
a california mother took on the tsa and she won. it all goes back to her request that the breast milk she was carrying be screened at the airport because she did not want it to go through the x-ray machine. after a four-year battle the law is on her side and that of other nursing moms. abc s abbie boudreau has more. reporter: this phoenix airport surveillance video shows stacey with a bag containing bottles of her breast milk to a tsa screener debate that landed in federal court. the manager told me your milk needs to go in the trash or through the x-ray. and as a breast-feeding mom neither was an option for me. reporter: she pleaded for an alternate way to screen it. worried that three milk bottles for her 7-month-old son maybe damaged somehow by x-rays. we work hard to eat well, drink water, exercise and make sure we have nutritious food and milk for our children.
welcome back to the real story. a san francisco 49ers linebacker arrested at the l.a. airport. police say aldon smith was selected for additional screening. right? we ve all gone through that. then he became loud and uncooperative with security officers. officers say smith threatened the tsa screener, then claimed to have a bomb. well, then he was verbally abusive when officers took him into custody. so after frisking smith, cops say did he not have a bomb. this mugshot of smith is from a dui arrest from last year so this incident is just has latest trouble. joining me now, fox news legal analyst, it is serious bhusines when you are standing at the security screen. you don t talk about a bomb. people take you seriously. this was more than just a joke. by the way, the video is exhibit a. if there is ever a trial on this. he is belligerent. shoving. pushing. then he s threat being wi ininis
a former tsa screener. possibly confirming, really, some of our ugliest suspicions about the tsa. and some of our fears, too, that while they re patting us down, you know, looking for weapons, contraband. they re judging us. making fun of our bodies. they re laughing at us. not all of the allegations are in any way comical. like the idea that full body scanners don t even work. rene marsh has more. christi and victor, a former tsa agent penned an article for politico and it reads like an expose like the agency he once worked for. and these allegations, well, they do nothing to help clean out the agency s image. reporter: a former officer calling out the agency he once worked for. jason harrison said the agency juices ineffective anti-terrorism measures at the