FORT MYERS, Fla.- Security checkpoints will change soon at Southwest Florida International Airport. Body Scanners have arrived to screen travelers. The government says, the scanners are not intrusive and do not violate a person's privacy.

"These are the new millimeter wave machines. They don't take a picture of your actual body. They take a generic outline of a person, and then pinpoint any possible weapons, pieces of metal, or other things that might be an anomaly," said Sari Koshetz, the public information officer for the Miami office of Homeland Security.

"I still am not sure I will like them. I feel they are intrusive and I feel uncomfortable when going through one of the machines," said Colleen Fitzgibbon, an air traveller waiting for a flight at RSW.

However, Roseanne Trinkner of Ohio, favors the machines. 

"I went through one of them and they have refined them so you don't get an exact picture of your physique. It's a general outline of a body, and then the agent looks for metal, or explosives.  

The Transportation Security Administration will demonstrate one of the body scanners on Friday, and hopes to begin using them, shortly thereafter.

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