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Most will travel by car. low gas prices are to thank along with a better economy. airports will be more crowded than usual. >> we are ready for holiday travel. >> reporter: the holiday travel period is underway and airports are seeing a major uptick in traffic. >> i was really worried to miss the flight. >> reporter: that volume is only expected to go up. >> understand how busy it will be and how crowded it will be, give yourself extra time. >> reporter: tens of millions will take to the skies t...

Requirements. the measure would also prohibit companies from bumping passengers off of airplanes but ditches plans to limit excessive fees. >> dont do anything about it. if i want to be crammed and pay less. >> i guess you should be able to. but now you have to pay for bags and everything else. and tierk wood tiger woods g closer to victory. hes in the lead heading into the final round of the 2018 tour championship. tiger woods leading the pack by three strokes today. if hit pulls it off, this...

Airlines to approach different options for bumping passengers. and yum brands, parent company of taco bell and kfc is teaming up with grubhub. americans love fast food delivery. mcdonalds partnered with uber eats last year. wendys uses door dash. we have a government shutdown. we have voting under way soon. debate on the house floor. im hungry. >> it is breakfast time. fries dont hold up well. "early start" continues right now as the government remains in shutdown at 4:59 eastern time. >> an...

Why too many of us arent prepared for retirement. just start as early as you can. its going to pay off in the future. if we all start saving a little more today, well all be better prepared tomorrow. prudential. bring your challenges. next tonight, new fallout for united airlines. the company issuing new rules for employees, specifically when it comes to bumping passengers. and after that doctor was dragged off that united plane by police, tonight a new claim involving a couple heading to thei...

Back to lisa who is monitoring some of the other top stories in "the situation room." >> charlie crist says hell decide by thursday whether to leave the republican party to salvage his u.s. senate bid. crist may run as an independent, rather than face challenger mark owe rubio in the gop primary or he could quit the race. rubio was more than 20 points ahead in the polls. today, rubio signed papers to qualify as a u.s. senate candidate in the fall election before the friday deadline. and a judg...

Airlines. they ranked the airlines at the top of the list for the nations busiest carrier. phil lebeau has more. what exactly did that look at and who else made the ranking? zpl this is all the compilation of data taken by the department of transportation in 2009. it crunches all the data and says, okay, where are they doing better or worse. one being customer complaints to the d.o.t., mishandled or well-handled bags, as well as whether or not they are bumping passengers. there you see the top, ...

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Instead of five threat levels, it will include only two, elevated means there is a credible threat against the united states, and the self-explanatory imminent. homeland security chief janet napolitano explained the new system on msnbcs "morning joe". >> these alerts usually will not be national in scope, theyll be limited to where the threat is. it may be specific to geography, maybe a certain type of threat. we get out of just the general, oh, the airport is orange. >> napolitano said the aler...