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hundreds of passengers missed their flights. kris van kleave reports. reporter: growing flyer frustration made for tense moments at chicago s midway airport. you re walking to the back of the line where you belong reporter: across town at o hare, passenger sarah king felt differently. it can be tedious and bothersome, but i know it s for our safety and protection. reporter: with concerns the egyptair crash could be an act of terrorism, the transportation security administration is caught between the need to thoroughly screen passengers and baggage and to get flyers through checkpoints in a timely manner, all while handling a surging number of flyers and staffing shortage. it s a difficult balance between efficiency and customer service and security. reporter: tsa spokesman mark howell says the agency is monitoring the egyptair investigation. there s a reason we do what we do, okay. why do you have to take your shoes off? we ve had instances of the ....
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. rose: good evening. scott is off tonight. i m charlie rose. and we begin re begin with a mystery. what happened to egypt air flight 804. the air bus a-320 crashed into the mediterranean sea some time after 8:00 eastern time last night between the greek isle of crete and the egyptian coast. there were 56 passengers and a crew of 10 on board, none of them american. the united states has joand the search for the plane, and the national transportation safety board is assisting egypt in the investigation. we have extensive coverage, beginning with mark phillips in paris. reporter: this was the second egypt air plane to leave paris in the past day that no one wanted to be on. this flight was taking grieving family members to cairo. their relatives, who had left on last night s flight, never made it. egypt air flight 804 had been at its normal cruising altitude over greek air space over the eastern mediterranean, when some ....
and realist. i don t like being on television. it is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. the money s very good. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i m anne-marie green. a massive search resumed this morning for egyptair flight 804. 66 people were on board the jet when it vanished from radar yesterday morning over the mediterranean sea. we know that just before it disappeared, the airbus made dramatic turns and lost altitude. elaine cobb is at charles de gaulle airport outside of paris with the latest. good morning. reporter: good morning. so far there s no sign of debris or wreckage from the jet and no explanation as to what happened. nothing is being ruled out, but egyptian official say it s more likely the plane was brought down by an act of terrorism than a mechanical issue. greek aization officials were unable to contact the plane whether it entered egyptian airspace. it was f ....
if you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. it s the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that s cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. all: osteo s preventable? right on! if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! mike morell is the former deputy director of the central intelligence agency. he is now a cbs news senior security contributor. mike, everybody wants to know, and they re all being cautious. what happened? so charlie, i m being cautious too. i have not seen a single piece of data, single piece of evidence that would take us to a conclusion that terrorists brought down this aircraft. that s certainly possible, but it s also possible that it was some other factor like mechanical failure. we ll just have to wait and see. but what if it was terrorism? what might it have been? so i think there s two possibilities, right? one is a bomb either placed on the aircraft somewhere in north africa where the plane had been e ....
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. its normal cruising altitude over greek air space over the eastern mediterranean, when some time after 2:00 a.m. local time, something catastrophic happened. greek radar showed the plane going into a series of violent, irregular maneuvers, first turning abruptly 90 degrees to the left, then swinging through a tight 360-degree circle to the right, all while dropping like a roarke one official said, down to 15,000 feet. and then, at 10,000 feet, disappearing off the radar. there had been no distress call from the crew, although the egyptians said an emergency beacon may have been activated opinion an air-and-sea search was launched. and later in the day what looked like debris was sighted by the captainave ship in the area, although greek officials would not confirm this came from the plane. by chance, the aircraft involved in today s crashs was seen in brussels last year, but was destroyed by a bomb, it s not clear where ....