madison is live for us at an airport in newark, new jersey. good morning. we re looking at one of the busiest travel weeks of the year and the deadline for tsa workers to be vaccinated is today. that has been making travelers worried that an imperfect system could have more problems when it goes into effect. the deadline is today but here is the thing. that was the original plan. now learning tsa is looking at the deadline as less of a cliff and more of a learning opportunity. tsa telling fox business last night that the period of progressive discipline which starts today is a period ever counseling and education intended to reach 100% vaccination status. those workers will still be employed and working. so at last check as many as 40% of u.s. airport security screeners haven t been vaccinated. as i just mentioned they will be on the job as of today. the manpower is needed because it is estimated that travel will be close to pre-pandemic
the tsa is reporting an increase in the number of airport security screeners calling out sick, to reach a point of 10% of that workforce. on it is laura ingle at new york city s laguardia airport. one of the busiest in the nation. laura? hi, harris. here at terminal b, we have seen passengers coming and going all day long with pretty typical wait times as they go through screenings. i will step aside and let you see what s going on behind me. other than those boxes there, being transported, you can see the line is pretty much nonexistent. right now passengers throughout the airport are looking at around 3-11 tran wait times from what we ve been told. we ve got numbers from the transportation security at administration about how many workers called out yesterday. 7.5% of the workforce, compared to 3.3% from the same weekday last year. that after 10% how that of who we can. those numbers are going up. according to the tsa, many of
caucus at the white house next hour. yesterday a second group of democrats declined his invitation for a meeting. the president said we will be out for a long time. the impacts are getting hard to overstate. food banks now across the country under strain from 800,000 federal workers either furloughed or required to keep working without a paycheck. that includes airport security screeners, many of whom are protesting that fact by calling in sick. food inspections have taken a hit. now the fda is calling back hundreds more inspectors, though they will not get paid. and the coast guard is the first armed service of this nation to go unpaid in a government shutdown. rosa flores is in miami beach. how are members of the coast guard reacting?
in u.s. history and still going on. the transportation security administration says nearly 8% of airport security screeners are calling in ic. that s more than double the rate this time last year. in wisconsin, a first court appearance is set for the man accused of murdering a couple and kidnapping their 13-year-old daughter. police say he managed to escape from jake patterson s home before asking a woman for help. now back to lockup. due to mature subject matter viewer discretion is advised. unlike many other large correctional facilities, the tulsa county jail was designed as a single-story structure with double-tiered cells. when we were designing this facility, we went to many facilities around the country. the elevated or the multi-storied buildings were cumbersome and hard to maneuver and it separated the employees from each other.
removing a critical line of defense in protecting the public s health. every time there is a recall of a tainted food item in grocery stores, it is because of the fda. and cherished national parks being ruined because employees have been furloughed like joshua tree national park in california, plagued by trash, sewage, illegal off road vehicles and illegal camping. it is a national treasure, and get this, this is even more disgusting. vandals chopped down one of the park s prized namesake trees because no one was there to stop them. wow. some airport security screeners should be getting a little money to tell you about. the government says it will pay them for one of the days of work, back when the shutdown first took effect. it also promised a $500 bonus to uniform security employees who showed up for work during the holidays. but it probably will not do much to relieve the strain and