take phones and tablets out of purses to place them in a bin to pass through an x-ray machine. passengers from overseas with tickets to the direct flights to the united states need to prove their devices have not been corrupted by creative terrorists. they want to see your phone or laptop power up. that tells them it is actual working electronic device, not something that looks like a laptop which is really filled with plastic explosive. reporter: the tsa explains quote, during the security examination, officers may ask owners power up some devices including cell phones. powerless devices will not be permitted on board the aircraft. here is why this is suddenly a concern. there are unhas, maybe even thousands of people with american or european passports who left home to fight alongside extremists in syria. people carrying those passports may not be be subjected to the same kind of scrutiny as other suspicious travelers and security officials are worried that before coming back hom
computers, anybody that travels you already have to take your shoes off. they have on get screened through the x-ray machine. you already have to take your laptops out of their cases and put them will. what more can they do? think about the volume. shoes and computers, come on. right. right. well, it is no question is going to be some some inconvenience. i think that you know, if you have a new compound, for example, you may not show it may not show up on the x-ray equipment at airports the way it previously has. a small change, you know, might pose a new challenge technology isn t yet equipped to actually handle. so, therefore, you have to do rely on the lower process which might mane more dog inspections, more pat-downs and more swabbing for traces of explosives and that sort of thing. do you think these new terror threats are different than attempted terrorist attacks we have seen in the past? well, i think that we know
corrections. that has been the reason for the success and the historic violence reduction. when you get caught with a weapon, you become an icr inmate. that stands for intended contraband recipient. we identify you and you get searched extra. so you don t want to be having no weapons on you, or we make you a red i.d. it puts a flag on you. we know that you ve been involved with using weapons, that you had a weapon on you, that you were intended to carry a weapon, so they don t want to have anything to do with that. weapons aren t only found through cell searches. inmates are regularly scanned for contraband. this is what we call a line scan machine. it s an x-ray machine, we can put inmates property in here and we can see what s inside of everything, if there s any weapons or anything inside of there. we might have this set up in an area. we ll pick inmates coming past, have them take off their shoes, run them through here, x-ray their shoes, see if there s anything in the shoes
everybody and i think breast-feeding moms can feel good about that. reporter: abbie boudreau, abc news, los angeles. good for her. absolutely. i don t think the point is whether or not anything would happen to the breast milk if it goes through the x-ray machine. the point is the tsa very clearly outlined what to do with it. she did it. she even had the printout. so incredibly smart to do it and it was worthless to her because the tsa agent that day decided it wasn t good enough which makes me upset. i will say when i have traveled with breast milk, i have gone through the same experience. i have never had a glass enclosure situation but i called ahead and thought i was prepared. this is scary because the rules have not changed since four years ago. it s the same rules. this could happen to anybody going through the checkpoint if they request the same thing. when you went through, it was fine. everything went fine but it could happen to anyone because the rules have not c
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.