VIDEO: Feds Swarm Metra Train After Detecting Nuclear Risk
March 15, 2013 10:02 PM
(CBS) - It was stunning for those who watched Thursday night as federal
agents investigated a possible nuclear threat at Chicago's Ogilvie
Transportation Center.
CBS 2′s photojournalist Lana Hinshaw-Klann happened to be at the scene and
used a cell-phone camera to record agents in action. Reporter Dave Savini
looks into what agents were looking for and what they found.
Sources say the agents were members of the elite TSA VIPR team on the 5:04pm
Union Pacific West line. They were carrying hand-held nuclear-detection
devices that picked up a reading.
VIPR teams were created after the 2004 bombing of a train in Madrid, Spain,
to protect U.S. transportation.
At the Ogilvie station, officers held the train and searched for a person or
bag that posed a potential nuclear threat.
Jerry Jones, a Chicago lawyer, was heading home on that train. He says the
federal officers narrowed the trouble to the area where he was sitting.
"I had no idea I was the center of the activity," he says.
The special security team must have picked up on him as he entered the
station and walked up the stairs, Jones says. Little did he know a nuclear
stress test he had at a hospital earlier in the day had set off silent
alarms and sent security scurrying.
The TSA team passed by him several times before ending up on his train car.
Finally, he got a clue when an agent questioned the man right next to him
and asked, 'Sir, do you have an explanation as to why I am getting a high
isotope reading on your bag?'"
"The fellow's jaw dropped," Jones said.
Once the agent said the word "isotope," Jones says he realized he was the
one they were looking for. He raised his hand to say he had a nuclear stress
test.
The tests can leave patients emitting radiation for some time. After showing
identification and proof of the nuclear test, Jones and the other passengers
were allowed to go on their way.
He says he's satisfied with the way authorities acted, "knowing there are
people on the lookout for this type of thing," and was pleased with the way
officers and passengers behaved.
Patients undergoing nuclear testing can request a card they can give to
security if they travel afterward. Doctors have done this for air travelers.
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