CBS Evening News - 1999-03-10

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[0:00] Skywalker Ranch and seel de on

[0:03] ET security at US airports tested and

[0:06] found wanting undercover agents

[0:09] repeatedly sneak onto airplanes without

[0:11] even an ID though for president

[0:15] Elizabeth says she will test the waters

[0:17] to see if the money is there and poison

[0:20] chemicals in the clean room I on America

[0:23] investigates charges that making

[0:25] computer chips could threaten your life

[0:31] this is the CBS Evening

[0:34] News with Dan R reporting from CBS News

[0:38] headquarters in New York good evening

[0:41] new questions about the security and

[0:43] safety of the US flying public landed

[0:46] hard today on Capitol Hill stranded

[0:49] passengers left high and dry and treated

[0:51] rudely by Airlines this winter vented

[0:54] their rage more about that in a moment

[0:56] first there is new and disturbing

[0:58] evidence about how easy it is to breach

[1:02] security at major US airports as Bob or

[1:05] reports today's airport security

[1:07] supposedly airtight seems more like a

[1:10] Fly by Night

[1:12] operation the mission for federal agents

[1:15] cracked the security system designed to

[1:17] keep Intruders off America's airplanes

[1:19] mission accomplished agents working for

[1:22] the Department of transportation's

[1:23] Inspector General targeted four major US

[1:26] airports in Miami Salt Lake City San

[1:29] Francisco and Honolulu without

[1:32] displaying identification agents sneak

[1:34] through supposedly secure doors and

[1:36] entered off-limit airport areas 46 times

[1:39] and on 51 occasions they boarded

[1:41] jetliners without being challenged in a

[1:44] hearing today on Capitol Hill the

[1:46] inspector General's office said the FAA

[1:48] needs to close the security loophole

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