A record 230 Million People are expected to fly this summer but travelers are spending hours stuck at security checkpoints and missing flights. Whats behind the long lines and could your vacation being at risk . Reporter phil lebeau is at chicagos ohare airport, the site of some of the worst delays. Phil . Reporter becky, the lines are a little shorter than a couple weeks ago because of more staffing and despite the shorter lines you can bet the hassle of getting through security will be a focus for a busy summer for those traveling. The frustration is easy to see. Long lines at Airport Security checkpoints sometimes topping one or two hours are taking a toll on travelers. How do we get to this point . Its crazy. Its got to be a better way than this. Disgusting and uncalled for. Whoever is at the head should are fired. Reporter American Airlines says 70,000 of its customers have missed their flights this year because they couldnt get through security in time. Its become so bad the head
Travelers are spending hours stuck at security checkpoints and missing flights. Whats behind the long lines and could your vacation being at risk . Reporter phil lebeau is at chicagos ohare airport, the site of some of the worst delays. Phil . Reporter becky, the lines are a little shorter than a couple weeks ago because of more staffing and despite the shorter lines you can bet the hassle of getting through security will be a focus for a busy summer for those traveling. The frustration is easy to see. Long lines at Airport Security checkpoints sometimes topping one or two hours are taking a toll on travelers. How do we get to this point . Its crazy. Its got to be a better way than this. Disgusting and uncalled for. Whoever is at the head should are fired. Reporter American Airlines says 70,000 of its customers have mis year because they couldnt get through security in time. Its become so bad the head of the tsa is under fire. In response, peter and his team are adding officers and mor
Ukrainian passenger jet, a commercial flight crashed just a few hours after iran fired missiles just the other night. It turns out that jet which had 176 innocent people on board was likely shot down by the iranian government shortly after it took off from tehran. Why . Was it an accident . Did the iranians think it was Something Else . Was it intentional . Were not 100 percent certainty hour. We dont have the black box. But mike voight is an Aviation Security analyst. He has watched this carefully and has some sense of it. He joins us tonight. Mike, thanks so much for coming on. My honor. Tucker how do you think this happened . Their air defenses were up. They had more arms running. Simple as that. They didnt know what they were doing. Its very, very clear. Take it to vegas and make book on it, this was a missile. It was probably not intentional, but its very sloppy country running a very sloppy airport. Tucker thats not the iran thats been described to us recently which has the cutti
Militia groups, Christian nationalists, anti-vaccine activists and other conspiracy theorists in the Pacific Northwest have all started working together and are forging new connections with the formal political class.