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Eating a nut for the first time and you know, the dosage is just unclear on what you would do for a pediatric patient. >> okay. i do want to play devil's advocate here. because the airlines are trying to balance a million things at once and there are thousands of passengers every day. i want to play devil's advocate and say, why couldn't josh just wear a mask and protect himself that day? >> well, he can. but there's the problem of contact. and peanut protein is very robust. it lasts up to 110 days. kids put their hands in their mouths all the time. and it's a question of just being ab to get ...

And they've waited until today to try to free the whale. we'll let you know how the whale makes out. and this is something no parent ever wants to hear. if you think he's going to die, don't get on the plane. those are chilling words aimed at leann and her son, josh, who is allergic to peanuts as they tried to board a flight. there are an estimated 15 million americans with food allergies. 3 million are allergic to peanuts and other tree nuts. so how do you protect them in flight? leann and josh join us now from new york. thank you both very much for joining us. so tell me what happened with...

Laugh, and i asked them to make a special announcement identifying the row that we were in and be careful around them and they refused and said it was up to the individual flight crew and they would ask the crew and the crew said they didn't want to do it. there was no remedy offered to me. and then they said to josh, if you think he's going to die, don't get on the plane. and he became terrified, he said, i don't want to die in the air, i'm only 8 years old, and became hysterical. so the problem with this. the only consistency amongst all the airlines, as far as how they deal with a food alle...

And you know, the thing is, we're not asking to reinvent the wheel. airlines already have to have epinephrine onboard. we're just trying to bring them into the 21st century. >> and have training as well. >> josh can give himself the auto injector, so why shouldn't a flight attendant be trained in order to help him in case he passes out when he's an adult or help that passenger that doesn't carry the auto injector, because they don't know they have an allergy yet. >> leann, thank you, we're running out of time. josh, we're glad you're safe and appreciate you bringing awareness to this cause. th...