got a lot of people in the security industry now locking yet again at the potential threat. we have seen this before. this was the alleged plot to bring down the planes over the atlantic with the liquid bombers. you may recall a number of years ago, using liquid explosives. tsa, atf, homeland security concerned about the possibility of an explosive on a u.s. jetliner and the kind of explosive they re talking about. now, when i talk to john pistol, the former tsa chief a short time ago, he said we believe if you try to carry it on it probably would have been detected he says by tsa agents in america. if it were a checked back, he says it is likely that the explosive detection equipment underneath the airport or inside the airport if you will once you check your bags that they should have or would have tripped he believes a u.s. detection piece of equipment. there s some speculation, the
of course they very quickly and willingly from my observation open those bags. it is a realization that people are having that their way of life may change. and it is something that we in the united states and certainly we who have lived in new york, brian, have come in many ways to take for granted. i suppose you could say a necessary evil but they re coming to it reluctantly here and made a conscious choice after the charlie hebdo attacks of that violence that was not where they wanted to go. yes. i ll say further, every possibility when you come back to washington where you cover the white house, when you come back to new york, you may sense a difference here, too, in slight ways. most of it having to do with how people look around, interrelate with each other, how they relate with public transit and so on. chris jansing who we watched all night long in this country with the sirens whizzing by on their
germs from dengue to q-fever. the centers for disease control grilled about lax storage, avian flu, and transporting within the cdc potentially lethal anthrax in ziploc bags. what in heaven s name would go through the mind to think that a ziploc bag is enough to protect someone from anthrax? reporter: this doctor made few excuses. completely up acceptable. deeply troubling products. inadequate culture of safety. reporter: agreeing that his agency missed a broad pattern of safety lapses. we need to greatly improve the culture of safety. reporter: specifically the cdc has temporarily stopped shipping biological specimen like the dangerous avian flu, closed the bioterrorism labs involved in mistakes and appointed a senior scientist to oversee safety issues. how do you expect to get the
and we re now learning about more safety problems at those federal health labs. among them, anthrax stored in unlocked refrigerators and open hallways and samples transferred between labs in ziploc bags. agriculture department investigators were looking into last month s incident where dozens of cdc workers may have been exposed to anthrax bacteria. new hope this morning for return to relative calm in the middle east. just hours ago they accepted a cease-fire drawn up by egypt but hamas is rejecting it. but the violence continued into the night. two rockets were fired from southern lebanon into israel, and israel responded by shelling the launch site. israeli border police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a crowd of palestinians gathering in bethlehem to protest the military operation in gaza. abc s karen travers has more on the conflict raging for a week. reporter: rockets, missiles and now drones. israelis and palestinians are bracing for what could be all-out war. th
russian officials, demanding answers in connection with an american diplomat kicked out of the country, accused of spying. here s abc s martha raddatz. reporter: the russians say ryan fogel is no diplomat. they say they caught the 29-year-old american red-handed trying to recruit a russian intelligence officer to spy for the u.s. they rolled out supposed evidence. two wigs, three pairs of glasses, ziploc bags, euros, a microphone and this letter intended, they say, for the would be spy. it reads, dear friend, we are ready to offer you $100,000 to discuss your experience. expertise, and cooperation. we can offer up to $1 million a year for long term cooperation. it is no secret that the u.s. and russia still spy on one another. here in washington, it is part of a lore of the city. this mailbox was once the place where an american double agent would leave a mark to signal his