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Beltway Buzz: Security Changes for Checked Baggage

Aired December 19, 2002 - 06:13   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Also today, huge changes expected on how your luggage is checked at the airports.
And our Washington morning producer Paul Courson is here to explain.

PAUL COURSON, CNN WASHINGTON MORNING PRODUCER: Morning.

WHITFIELD: Good morning.

COURSON: Well you know for a while now your baggage that you take on board with you goes through the magnetometer and gets sniffed by one of the security people for explosive residue or anything like that. Well now the baggage that's destined for the cargo hold is also going to go through those kind of security checks.

Security is a good thing. Privacy issues are raised when those bags get opened by hand on spot checks for possible explosives or other issues that could be in the baggage that shouldn't be on board the plane. Admiral James Lloyd, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, today announces that security upgrade for baggage that's headed for the cargo bay, checked baggage.

And of course people are going to have to be more careful about what they put in those bags these days if they could expect to have it inspected by someone out of view and not really monitored by the customer themselves, the people flying on board the plane. We're also going to be asking questions about how that lost prevention regime might be imposed on those baggage when they are inspected by hand.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, I guess nobody should complain, it's all for the safety for all of us in the -- in -- on the ground and in the sky. All right...

COURSON: That's right.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, good to see you. Thanks very much.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Also today, huge changes expected on how your luggage is checked at the airports.

And our Washington morning producer Paul Courson is here to explain.

PAUL COURSON, CNN WASHINGTON MORNING PRODUCER: Morning.

WHITFIELD: Good morning.

COURSON: Well you know for a while now your baggage that you take on board with you goes through the magnetometer and gets sniffed by one of the security people for explosive residue or anything like that. Well now the baggage that's destined for the cargo hold is also going to go through those kind of security checks.

Security is a good thing. Privacy issues are raised when those bags get opened by hand on spot checks for possible explosives or other issues that could be in the baggage that shouldn't be on board the plane. Admiral James Lloyd, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, today announces that security upgrade for baggage that's headed for the cargo bay, checked baggage.

And of course people are going to have to be more careful about what they put in those bags these days if they could expect to have it inspected by someone out of view and not really monitored by the customer themselves, the people flying on board the plane. We're also going to be asking questions about how that lost prevention regime might be imposed on those baggage when they are inspected by hand.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, I guess nobody should complain, it's all for the safety for all of us in the -- in -- on the ground and in the sky. All right...

COURSON: That's right.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, good to see you. Thanks very much.

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Aired December 19, 2002 - 06:13   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Also today, huge changes expected on how your luggage is checked at the airports.
And our Washington morning producer Paul Courson is here to explain.

PAUL COURSON, CNN WASHINGTON MORNING PRODUCER: Morning.

WHITFIELD: Good morning.

COURSON: Well you know for a while now your baggage that you take on board with you goes through the magnetometer and gets sniffed by one of the security people for explosive residue or anything like that. Well now the baggage that's destined for the cargo hold is also going to go through those kind of security checks.

Security is a good thing. Privacy issues are raised when those bags get opened by hand on spot checks for possible explosives or other issues that could be in the baggage that shouldn't be on board the plane. Admiral James Lloyd, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, today announces that security upgrade for baggage that's headed for the cargo bay, checked baggage.

And of course people are going to have to be more careful about what they put in those bags these days if they could expect to have it inspected by someone out of view and not really monitored by the customer themselves, the people flying on board the plane. We're also going to be asking questions about how that lost prevention regime might be imposed on those baggage when they are inspected by hand.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, I guess nobody should complain, it's all for the safety for all of us in the -- in -- on the ground and in the sky. All right...

COURSON: That's right.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, good to see you. Thanks very much.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Also today, huge changes expected on how your luggage is checked at the airports.

And our Washington morning producer Paul Courson is here to explain.

PAUL COURSON, CNN WASHINGTON MORNING PRODUCER: Morning.

WHITFIELD: Good morning.

COURSON: Well you know for a while now your baggage that you take on board with you goes through the magnetometer and gets sniffed by one of the security people for explosive residue or anything like that. Well now the baggage that's destined for the cargo hold is also going to go through those kind of security checks.

Security is a good thing. Privacy issues are raised when those bags get opened by hand on spot checks for possible explosives or other issues that could be in the baggage that shouldn't be on board the plane. Admiral James Lloyd, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, today announces that security upgrade for baggage that's headed for the cargo bay, checked baggage.

And of course people are going to have to be more careful about what they put in those bags these days if they could expect to have it inspected by someone out of view and not really monitored by the customer themselves, the people flying on board the plane. We're also going to be asking questions about how that lost prevention regime might be imposed on those baggage when they are inspected by hand.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, I guess nobody should complain, it's all for the safety for all of us in the -- in -- on the ground and in the sky. All right...

COURSON: That's right.

WHITFIELD: All right, Paul, good to see you. Thanks very much.

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