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Havent seen family and friends since before the pandemic two years ago. listen to them talk about that experience of finally being able to get back home. >> this is my in-laws. first time i have seen them in about two years, so yeah its been a while. and saw my mom over thanksgiving, first time in two years. goit my booster shot. that was first and foremost. i was due for it so i got that. been wearing my mask. and i actually ended up switching my seat to be next to one person, instead of three ...

That makes a big impact on so many travelers. we know so much of that has been linked to the omicron variant that has been spreading rapidly with covid cases being seen all across the country, and that is why the tsa, part of the reason why they say they are seeing fewer people being screened through tsa. about 800,000 fewer people have time period so christmas day compared to the last -- last year with this pre-pandemic levels pre-2019. thanksgiving was, i dont know, insafnlt how would you desc...

Pre-pandemic records with more than 2 million people passing through security checkpoints. today is expected to be each busier. cnns pete muntean is live from reagan national with more on this. what are you seeing? >> reporter: the numbers are hour than in 2014 before the pandemic. the tsa screened 1.08 million people compared to 1.94 million people back in 2014. the same wednesday back in 2019, that was christmas day where the passenger loads are typically lower. though weve seen a week-long st...

A good sign for the airline industry coming out of the holiday weekend. they screened close to 2.5 million people at security checkpoints across the country on sunday, making it the busiest day for air travel since the pandemic. a lot of people went home for thanksgiving. in all, tsa screened more than 14 million people last week, more than double the people who flew home for the holiday last year. the busiest travel day in tsas history remains the sunday after thanksgiving in 2019. time now f...

Own. as air travel returns to its pre-pandemic levels, tsa report an alarming number of passengers trying to bring loaded guns through security checkpoints. alexandria has a details from washington. >> its not illegal to fly with a firearm but there are specifics travelers need to abide by. a gun definitely cant be in a carry-on it should never be loaded. tsa reports a 20 year high and weapons confiscated. last saturday, holiday travelers scrambled the jackson airport but a passenger pulled asid...

Since the start of the pandemic. more than 2.3 million people passed through security checkpoints ahead of today. that marks the seventh straight day that tsa has screened more than 2 million people. the holiday travel spike comes as the justice department cracks down on unruly air travelers, our pete muntean joins us from reagan national this morning. pete, good morning. happy thanksgiving. what are we looking at? >> reporter: the association of flight attendants said it is about time for somet...

Quicker than the actual truth that it was an accidental discharge. thats what we heard from atlantas airport spokesperson. so now kenny wells was able to make it out of the airport in the midst of the confusion with everyone else who ran. so hes now facing several arrest warrants that are out for him right now, including having a firearm, because hes a convicted felon. police say he should have never been in possession of a firearm, let alone trying to get it through a security checkpoint throug...

Walking. so i stopped, i turned around, and i retraced those 20 or so steps that i had taken, and i was sitting at the corner of that hallway for the next maybe three to five minutes. and folks were having conversations about an active shooter, some folks said that they had heard gunshots, but for the most part it was calm. and we saw someone turn the corner and just barrel down that hallway. and that was the point at which all chaos kind of broke out. everyone was dropping their suitcases, folk...

Get at that point. investigators knew who the passenger was and they knew how to track him down and that, though, is still under investigation as they try to talk to him further, but many things happened that were not supposed to happen. one, youre not supposed to reach in your bag if its being checked in a security checkpoint in a tsa agent, regardless of whats in your bag, once they decide to pull you aside and go through it. the second thing, of course, having a gun and that is a big problem ...

We had them back then mostly for hijackings and he was arrested by the airport police and he was -- the guns were taken. he was fined $62 and he was released. so, you know, six months later, he shot ronald reagan. >> wow, jim. >> people do try to get through security checkpoints. they do try to carry guns for criminal purposes. most accidentally do it. so we dont know what happened at hartsfield today. we do know a shot rang out and that citizens and certainly the police reacted to that and we k...