functioning tomorrow. reporter: and probably at about a 70% capacity, compared to what they normally run, based on the damage that you saw. the largest concentration of damage is over in the c-concourse and affects airlines like air tran and american and case air. so, if you re flying those airlines in and out of st. louis tomorrow, check the airlines because there may be a problem with you being able to use those tickets tomorrow, but the rest of the airport, if they can get electricity back up and running here, should be a go. jamie. it s a tribute to the folks on the ground there and in the area, at least, 50 homes were damaged. the aerial videos of the neighborhood wiped out. they haven t confirmed that that was a tornado, but likely it was, right, steve? yeah, and there, we believe that we ve got one confirmed tornado and they re investigating a bunch of others and the normal sort of things that happens in the weather and do want to show you what s happening here that makes
different time, and a guy. was able to still get on the plane. a security lapse at memphis international airport. she was able to get on the plane with the wrong pass, account lean beard. she printed out an air tran boarding pass for her friend s old flight and no one noticed until before takeoff. they came on the plane, asking for my friend s name. i said he s not on the plane, but i know him. they said, where is he? i said he s at the office. and the two of us were perplexed equally as well because he couldn t phantom how i got through. so far, no one at the airport or the tsa is commenting on the incident. did she do that by accident? accidentally did it. in the end, i mean, she wasn t going to take off on the plane, but she did get on the plane. right. interesting. all right. coming up next on american morning, it pays to be the top dog. ceos see their pay go up big time. how does that compare to what you re bringing home? i bet you have an idea about how
we re watching several stories that affect your financial bottom line. let s begin with allen cosick. a new survey about worth. hi, fredricka. a federal reserve study of household waerth somehows how big a hit americans took during the recession. taking everything into account, the value of your home, your car, income and debt, the average net worth of a household in 2007 before the recession began was $125,000. fast-forward two years to 2009, it fell to just $96,000. air tran and southwest airlines are one step closer to completing their tie-up. air tran shareholders approved the a merger.
airlines are adding now fuel surcharges to the ticket prices. alison kosic, she is at the new york stock exchange with the bottom line. alison, tell me, how much are we talking about here? suzanne, the fuel surcharge is back. expect $4 to $10 to are tacked onto your round trip fare. it started on monday. united hiked the surcharge. at the same time american hiked its base charge and united looked a that and said that s a better pr move. they went back and took off the surcharge and raised the base fare. expect your charges to go up on delta, u.s. air, air tran. they are matching the hikes. how bad is the situation with oil prices? are we going to see what we saw two years ago? you know, since the crisis in
winter weather clearly wreaking havoc in the airline system. you know, it s the worst winter for cancellations in five winters so this will hurt the bottom line. delta, this is how it could sack revenues for delta, $75 million hit in the furs quarter. united, a $10 million hit to fourth quarter earnings. maybe you re a shareholder in the company. you don t care much about how they re hit, you just know you re hit in the pocket. what does it mean to you? well, later on, they could try to raise fares for boosting profitability to the end the year. they have been rising fares. did you know they had three already since december. united, everyone else jumped on board. united dropped a $6 fuel surcharge but adopted the florida $10. watch, you ll see fares going up. i will say that southwest, air