Laptop Ban Lifted for Emirates, Turkish Airlines but Not Qatar.
QUEST: Welcome aboard Quest air again. Look, travelers flying to the United States from Dubai and Istanbul just got some relief. They no longer have to check laptops from Istanbul and/or Dubai. If your boarding pass says Emirates or Turkish airlines, you can take your pc or your MacBook, whatever you like, you can take it into the cabin and use it, of course only after you're above 10,000 feet. Now, Saudi says it aims to have the ban lifted by July 19th because that's when it expects the authorities from the TSA to have visited and to approve the new security measures. Which leaves amongst the majors, Qatar airways, where passengers will still have to check large electronic items. Now, arguably Qatar has larger problems with the embargo from the GCC countries. The airline's declined to comment on the future of the ban, but certainly puts Qatar it would seem at a different disadvantage over the other three of them. Qatar is one of the six airlines still operating. Our aviation expert Renee Marsh is in Washington. So, look, explain as best as we know because it's all security related, what did these countries, what did these airlines do that suddenly the U.S. said, all right, you can take laptops on board?</s>RENEE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: So, you're right, a lot of this is information that's sensitive that the Department of Homeland Security won't lay out for us because they laid it out for us, they're laying it out for the bad folks who want to do harm. But we do know based on our own reporting and from sources that we've been speaking to that some of the items that are required for these airlines include increased use of explosive detection technology as well as increased use of canines. There are other things that they will have to do as well. Again, very sensitive information. And so, what happens is once they put all those measures in place, TSA physically sends people to go and inspect to make sure that everything meets the standard that the Department of Homeland Security laid out. And if they do meet the standard, that is when they are removed from the list.</s>QUEST: Now, this is different, but related to the new measures that DHS announced only recently a couple of weeks ago, didn't they? We're talking about basically they were going to be enhancing security measures for those airlines that wanted to fly to the U.S. so there's another whole raft of this coming along, as I understand it.</s>MARSH: So, everything that we're talking about here today regarding this electronics ban, this was all announced last week -- or around the 28th. The 28th of June Homeland Security Secretary Kelly announced that this is the way for people to get around the laptop ban. Because there was a great deal of pushback. You saw it from allies in Europe as well as from the airlines themselves. They gave the Department of Homeland Security an earful because they said it would create a logistical nightmare. They believe it would cut into their bottom line. It just was not going to work. And so, we saw the Department of Homeland Security's position really evolve over time. And so, it moved from the laptop ban is the only way to go to now if people have these measures in place, which were just announced, then you can avoid the laptop ban. So, we do see a shift now in the stance as to how homeland security is choosing to deal with this intelligence and the intelligence that suggests that there's a threat against aviation, Richard.</s>QUEST: Rene Marsh, thank you, good to see you.</s>MARSH: You're welcome.</s>QUEST: As we continue tonight, violence in Venezuela continues to escalate, forcing people to desperate lengths for some extremely basic issues like medical care.