Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added to an immigration bill.
In San Francisco, cable cars average about an accident a month and routinely rank among the most accident-prone mass transportation modes in the country per vehicle mile traveled annually.
A 61-year-old Frenchman impersonated a pilot and sat in the cockpit of a US Airways plane before a scheduled flight from Philadelphia International Airport.
Despite growing opposition from airlines and industry unions to the TSA's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes, the agency's head said he is not backing down.