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administration has not addressed security weaknesses in a timely way not only are the feds unable to stop hackers from breaking into the vastness work of faa computers, once they get inside, the faa would have trouble detecting them and, therefore, would not be able to contain or eradicate the threat. the worry here is not that terrorists would have the ability to crash planes or set them on a collision course but they could disrupt vital information and bring the entire system to a stand still. the gao has now made 14 recommendations to help the faa secure the system and congress is asking the faa for a full accounting on the status and solutions for securing the system. so far, the faa has not commented on this report. hope we are all safe in the friendly skies. thanks so much, trace we are going to end today s real story with some good news. dog rescued after getting wedged between a home and a retaining wall. a dog trapped in a 6-7 inch gap,
was running the conveyor belt that goes through the metal detectors and just letting things go right through without stopping to look at each item. that person was suspended for 30 days. but then there s another example in here of a security officer who was helping his family members, was on the job, left his post to help a family member get a bag through security. took the bag around the screening then gave it back to the family member. another screener saw it, said, wait a minute, you can t do that. according to the gao the bag was found to contain what were said to be prohibited items. it says that person was suspended for seven days. some other examples from the report, andrea, says when a worker is accused of sleeping on the job, half of those found to have done so get less than the lowest penalty that is called for in the tsa s own standards. now tsa says it has a zero
travelers although they ve been trying to be a little bit more consumer friendly. this is pretty appalling, the kinds of security lapses that were detailed in this igo report. reporter: this is fundamentally not a report about security lapses, andrea, although they do mention a couple of them. the whole point of this was a report by the gao which says the tsa lacks a uniform system for deciding how to handle discipline and then tracking how the disciplinary system is working and making sure, for example, that if an agent goes from one airport to another his disciplinary record goes with him so that if there are further problems they can be dealt with. they do have some examples here. they note a 27% increase. 9722 cases 2 9622 total cas. they say in here that a screener
it was supposed to be the big fix in border security. a high-tech system that would all but stop illegal immigration. the works. it was supposed to be in place and in working order by now. the project started under president bush back in 2006. four years, $850 million of taxpayer money later, the virtual fence is a virtual disaster. huge waste of time and money, tied up in bureaucracy and a bloated contract between the department of hoped security and boeing. they both apparently bungled the project and tonight we re keeping them honest. let s take a look at plan. boeing got the contract to build this virtual fence back in september of 2006. now, according to a report by the gao, the government accountability office, just three months later the department of homeland security said by the end of 2009 the entire northern and southern western borders of the u.s., a total of 6,000 miles, would be covered by the fence. well, late in 2008, that projection was scaled back, forgetting about th