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Gate agent let them check their luggage without the fee. i don't he know if she broke the rules, but she did for them. >> that is nice. keep in mind, not just one way, back also. if you pay $150 in baggage fees one way it is going to be 300 round trip. it gets very pricey. >> does, tom, thanks for alerting us again. greatly appreciate it. that does it for me in this hour, i'm tamron hall. i will see you back here at 2 p.m. eastern time. the controversial decision made by one state about whether to spend taxpayer dollars on more teachers or use that cash for lap band surgery for public employee...

The pilot walked by because apparently the flight had been delayed and it looked like he was coming in from another flight or something like that and said boy, you guys have been waiting here for a while and she -- when he went off, she was talking to two or three other people and one of the guys said, did you smell something on his breath? it kind of smelled like vodka. she went inside and said i don't know how to report this. she told the flight attendant and the flight attendant told another pilot and another pilot took her to the cockpit and next thing you know, you have a gate agent there...

Productivity and turning the passengers over as quickly as possible. >> yeah, my assumption is this is about cost effectiveness for the airlines as well. we have an example of what this would look like with luftsana airlines and essentially they would do away with the agents there before they board the plane. let me ask you, the implication here being these agents are merely robotic in what they do, they take your boarding pass and shove it in. are they doing more than that? does this pose a safety risk? >> they actually have a huge level of responsibility in terms of identifying people who ar...

Hope it should have, greatly since then. >> is the illusion. let's face reality. we do not have security. we are looking how to save the money. we are looking how to have not interfering with the convenience -- inconvenience of the passengers. what happened in september 11th, we forgot september 11th? >> let me ask you this though, sir. if you, for example, go through the security you can the gate agent, she is only or he is only taking the ticket, bink, and then you are going on. what security does the agent provide anyway? they are not patting you down, they are not searching your bags. so, ...

Condoleezza rice. those are the things that we thought you should know. the "usa today" is reporting continental airlines is trying out a new experience in houston. it's letting people boarding planes without handing their ticket to a gate agent. the process is known as self-boarding. it's gaining attraction abroad. we have got a photo showing people self-board, passengers just walk up to the gate, they swipe their ticket and they go through a turnstile, that's it. and that's it. then they continue right on to the plane. lufthansa says it still has the same number of agents at the gates as b...