Nightline (ABC) - 2002-01-16
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[0:00] Medical breakthroughs [music] and the
[0:02] latest health information at ketu.com
[0:07] >> January 16th 2002.
[0:10] It took suicidal pilots and associates
[0:14] with box cutters to bring us to this
[0:17] >> any of the items that you travel button
[0:20] at any time.
[0:21] >> Then came a bomb in a shoe. Now they
[0:24] inspect those as well.
[0:26] >> Take a look at all the security breaches
[0:28] that have been out there.
[0:29] >> [music]
[0:30] >> Since 9/11,
[0:31] are we any safer?
[0:33] >> As the threat keeps changing, how do we
[0:36] keep up? [music]
[0:37] >> Matching passengers and bags doesn't
[0:39] stop terrorist bombers from wanting to
[0:40] blow themselves up.
[0:42] >> Wouldn't have any unknown persons ask
[0:43] you to carry items on board tonight's
[0:45] flight.
[0:46] >> Tonight, fear of flying, trying to make
[0:50] [music] the skies safer
[0:56] from ABC News.
[0:59] >> [music]
[1:01] >> This is Night Line
[1:03] reporting [music] from Washington. Ted
[1:06] Cppell. We called the folks at American
[1:09] Airlines and Delta and United and US Air
[1:12] and JetBlue and a couple of other
[1:13] carriers too and asked them if they
[1:16] could provide one of their executives to
[1:18] talk about the fact that by Friday all
[1:20] baggage checked onto a commercial
[1:22] airliner will have to be screened or at
[1:25] least matched to a passenger who has
[1:27] boarded the same flight. None of them,
[1:29] not one, wanted to talk about it. We
[1:32] will be talking to a former president of
[1:34] American Airlines, but the key word
[1:36] there is former. It may have something
[1:39] to do with the fact that the new
[1:40] security measures are expensive,
[1:42] timeconuming, and arguably of limited
[1:46] security value. The airlines know this,
[1:48] but it is hardl