TSA sends dozens of screeners to help cut O'Hare wait times

The Transportation Security Administration is immediately sending 58 new security officers and four more bomb-sniffing dog teams to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to address long delays at security checkpoints.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office says Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson assured the Illinois Democrat in a phone call Tuesday that resources were being directed to O'Hare, one of the country's most important air traffic hubs. A day earlier, Durbin demanded action in a letter.

Lengthening security wait times have been a problem at major airports around the country as passenger numbers increase with the approach of the summer travel season. In the past three years, the TSA and Congress cut the number of screeners.

Durbin is also pressing TSA to speed enrollment in the PreCheck expedited screening program.

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