the investigation is still unfolding. a short time ago we heard from white house chief adviser or counterterrorism. the big question how worried should we be that this bomb and others like it would not be detected by current safeguards. this i.ed was a threat from the standpoint of the design we ve been able to determine and so now we re trying to make sure that we take the measures that we need to to prevent any other type of ied from getting through security procedures. so will ramped up vigilance mean new security measures again for u.s. travelers? a former assistant director of the fbi is in washington. good morning, tom. good morning, carol. a lot of people are about to board airplanes, are they safe? i think they re no safer than they were before all of this happened. the second thing i would like to add is there s nothing new in any of this. richard reid got on airplane with explosives similar undetected. the underwear bomber undetected boarding an airplane i
every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt there s good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investigation is still unfolding. a short time ago we heard from white house chief adviser or counterterrorism. the big question how worried should we be that this bomb and others like it would not be detected by current safeguards. this i.ed was a threat from the standpoint of the design we ve been able to determine and so now we re trying to make sure that we take the measures that we need to to prevent any other type of ied from getting through security procedures. so will ramped up vigilance m