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Federal officials have suspended flights going to and from Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, California after a hazardous material was found in luggage there.
Suzanne Trevino, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, says the material was found in a checked bag Tuesday morning. The discovery closed down the airport around 8:20 a.m., and officials called in a hazardous material crew and bomb squad as a precaution.[...]
...KBAK-TV reported that the owner of the baggage has been detained.
Update:
Two Transportation Security Administration agents were doing a routine swab of a piece of luggage when it tested positive for a hazardous substance, Deputy Michael Whorf, spokesman for the Kern County Sheriff’s Department, told CNN.
The agents opened the bag, and both became nauseated, Whorf said. They were taken to a hospital.
Update II:
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Two TSA officials said they felt sick after being exposed to some sort of hazardous material Tuesday morning that shut down Meadows Field Airport.
Authorities said they have tested the substance, and it is believed to be hazardous.
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Officials are evaluating security concerns and a partial evacuation of Lindbergh Terminal is underway.
Liberals & the leftist media actually LOVE this type of crap & hysteria, as they breathlessly report on "yet another shutdown, blah, blah, blah". Of course they would never have the balls to identify the culprits as mid-eastern muzzlims, but instead they will put the 85 yr old little white ladies and expectant mothers & babies in car seats through extra, scowling suspicious looks, and wave the muzzlims on through. Any attack will be to clamp down even more so on the white caucasians who are the LEAST likely to carry bombs or make threats. Bastard liberal idiots!!!