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ABC and CBS both kicked off their newscasts with extended features. CBS' Bob Orr filed from Boston's Logan Airport where the Transportation Security Administration has installed a full-body scanner. Orr took us behind the scenes for a demonstration of the "virtual strip search" that was not at all salacious, brimming with reassurance about privacy protections. Of the 2,100 security lands at airports nationwide, only 490 will use these scanners. It is "no magic bullet" against terrorism, Orr assured us.
ABC's Kate Snow worried that more women are dying in childbirth or in the immediate post-partum weeks. She found statistics from California that maternal mortality is now as high as it was more than 30 years ago. Having emphasized the risks of unnecessary cesarean sections and getting pregnant while obese, Snow put her report in perspective: "We should point out these deaths are not common. We are talking about 95 women dying in California in a year--out of a half a million births."
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