Things under control. how do you prevent something like this especially since the mta or the nypd already added 1,000 officers to the transit system? katy, as you are familiar with the system in new york, it s huge, 450-some-odd stations, 6,000 train cars, 500 trains running at any given time, 700 entrance points. so even a department as large as the nypd with 38,000 officers, you can t have cops everywhere all the time. impossible. i m familiar with the chief of the transit police in the early 1990s when we turned around crime in this sort of problem. the challenge going forward is not only the rising amount of actual crime but the phenomenal growth and fear of crime in new york city and increasingly in the subway. this particular incident will compound that dramatically. can we talk about the reliability of the surveillance
Another one. it is people in the retirement age that wonder whether they ll be able to retire. this is a tough time. then of course, another failure the budget and government. he was critical of president bush. he said that 450-some-odd billion dollar budget shortfall deficit was outrageous. and in fact it was. but he put in place budgets deficits three times that large. matter of fact, he s on track by the end of his first term his only term by the way he s on track to amass as much public debt, almost as much as all the prior presidents combined. this president s failed. he went on the today show shortly after being inaugurated and saidfy can t get this economy turned around in three years, i ll be looking at a one-year proposition. i m here to collect.
only dreamt about a month ago. i m asking you to not settle for someone who as your nominee, who might be able to win the election, but the election would be a victory where we wouldn t have a candidate that s elected president who will do what s necessary of what america needs. romney, gingrich, perry and bachmann all have campaign events in iowa this hour. we ll dip in live where and when we can. cnn of course, the place you want to be tomorrow night. we begin getting results from the iowa caucuses. america s choice 2012 special coverage tomorrow night 7:00 eastern on cnn. a person of interest is being held for questioning in california after another night of arsons. the flames have spread to buildingings, started from parked cars. we ll get the latest on this arson spree from l.a. s biggest since those riots back in 92. the mayor will join me live. mr. nis washington state have a definite suspect in yesterday s shooting death of a park ranger at rainier national
What are the odds we would see saxby the government if they feel the screeners aren t doing the job. under the legislation passed post 9/11, basically there are specific sub sections that say the secretary of transportation can delegate security to private firms but he or she has to certify the security will be equal to or greater than that provided by federal employees. that leaves it wide open for a challenge. there is 16 or 17 airports right now apparently out of the 450-some-odd major airports that have some privatization of this function. to me it seems like a little bit of political talk in the wake of the recent media grabbing