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TSA to remove controversial body scanners from airports

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    Trace Gallagher reports from Los Angeles

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Passengers worried about their naked body showing up an airport security scans.

Can breathe a bit easier tonight the Transportation Security Administration today confirming.

It is removing the body scanners that produce X ray images.

Congress had ordered -- TSA to fix those scanners by the month of June but.

TSA officials say the company that makes them could not change the software in time so they're pulling them from the airport.

But body scanners would not go away entirely airports will still use the kind that makes it more generic stick figure image.

One official telling us today the decision is purely based on the deadline and not the controversy over so called invasive imaging.

And Gallagher was more live in our West Coast news held tonight how much did this cost -- -- Well the Fed's first -- rapist get a 25 million dollar contract bill back in 2009 that was for a 150.

Of those high tech image scanners you know the naked -- you're talking about.

And -- a year later they awarded rapist get another sixteen million dollar contract for an additional 100 scanners so.

The total budget was for about 42 million dollars but as the government often does things ran.

A bit over budget and with installation it cost about ninety million dollars but the head of TSA says body scanners work.

And he points to the underwear bomber case listen.

That individual could walk through our typical airport walked through metal detectors.

Ten times a hundred times a thousand times and never set off that alarm and so that's a reason we have the advanced imaging technology here in the US.

The body scanners as there for two sometimes.

Two because those enable us to -- to pick up non Metallica as well as -- items.

By the way of the 215.

Rapid scan and full body scanners they ordered only about a 176.

Were actually put into place but the good news is the -- -- gonna command and take all those scanners -- way.

And pick up the tab phenomenal and so if that is the case also what is the TSA about making security.

And the process faster well it.

Well they say it's gonna do that for a couple of reasons one because the scanners that we'll stay in place you can actually view right there at the security area of the old full body scanners the naked scanners.

Had to be viewed in -- back Rome and then someone had a radio the agents to let people go.

And it.

Without the invasive -- the belief is that fewer people will opt for those full body pat downs now the scanners only take twelve seconds the full body pat downs they take eighty seconds -- the -- the theory issued move.

A lot more quickly.

And if we can get our shoes on in a relatively short amount of time we might have a little bit of time to spare before the -- in the meantime belts and -- still come off thank you Trace Trace Gallagher on the West Coast.

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