good evening. it now seems clear tonight the federal government has been caught off guard by the level of public outrage on the part of some passengers toward these new security rules at airports. the skies will be full of flying passengers this thanksgiving week. all of them have to get through security first, and for a lot of them, this will be their first encounter with the either/or combination of body scans and the patdowns that have some groups planning acts of civil disobedience. the government reminds us this threat of terrorism is constant. but there is new evidence these flying rules have some room to change. we want to start off with tom brokaw who is at reagan national airport in washington. tom, good evening. reporter: hi, brian. i think the government has heard all of this, because senior government sources are saying they re going to modify the number of passengers randomly selected for a patdown as the government looks for a balance between privacy and secur
it now seems clear tonight the federal government has been caht off guard by the level of public outrage on the part of some passengers toward these new security rules at airports. the skies will be full of flying passengers this thanksgiving week. all of them have to get through security first, and for a lot of them, this will be their first encounter with the either/or combination of body scans and the patdowns that have some groups planning acts of civil disobedience. the government reminds us this threat of terrorism is constant. but there is new evidence these flying rules have some room to change. we want to start off with tom brokaw who is at reagan national airport in washington. tom, good evening. reporter: hi,brian. i think the government has heard all of this, because senior government sources are saying they re going to modify the number of passeers randomly selected for a patdown as the government looks for a balance between privacy and security. after a week o
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. it now seems clear tonight the federal government has been caught off guard by the level of public outrage on the part of some passengers toward these new security rules at airports. the sky also be full of flying passengers this thanksgiving week. all of them have to get through security first and for many of them, this will be their first time encounter thing either/or combination of body scans and the patdowns that have some groups planning civil disobedience. the government reminds us this threat of terrorism is constant. we want to start off with tom costello who is at reagan national airport in washington. tom, good evening. reporter: the government has heard the complaints and senior government officials tell nbc that they re going to modify the number of people who are randomly selected for the patdowns as the government really tries to find a balance between security and privacy. after a week of growing