bombings? pam brown joins us from louisville. did i say it right, louisville? reporter: louisville. don t worry, jake, not many people get it right. unless you re from kentucky like me. the big question, kentucky girl, i don t know where your huge hat is. my understanding is you need to be wearing one of those to even get into the state this weekend. reporter: yeah, i look like an amateur, don t i? i just didn t have time to go shopping, but your twitter tip was right on, big hats yes. big bags, no for this weekend. i was happy to hear that they had increased security. it means, you know, less makeup and goodies we can bring in, but it s worth it to just be more comfortable and know that we re going to look after each other. reporter: is what happened in boston on your mind today? yes, it definitely is on my
beautiful places like st. petersburg you ve been to. what s the good news in all this traveling around you ve figured out? well, the good news is that people are traveling. i mean, there s a reason why companies like marriott or hilton or starwood are building hotels in india, china, brazil, and that s because no longer is it just an issue of americans or europeans going to those countries to see the great wall or to see the taj mahal or the grand canyon. it s people within those countries, these rising middle classes. and we re talking about hundreds of millions of people who want to travel. first they want to see their own country. most of them want to come to america. yeah. and so what we need to do is make it easy for them to get here. to get their money. for every international traveler that comes to america we create jobs. those international travelers give me an example of that because when i ve traveled around on this book tour you ve gone to beautiful citie
companies like marriott or hilton or starwood are building hotels in india, china, brazil, and that s because no longer is it just an issue of americans or europeans going to those countries to see the great wall or to see the taj mahal or the grand canyon. it s people within those countries, these rising middle classes. and we re talking about hundreds of millions of people who want to travel. first they want to see their own country. most of them want to come to america. yeah. and so what we need to do is make it easy for them to get here. to get their money. for every international traveler that comes to america we create jobs. those international travelers give me an example of that because when i ve traveled around on this book tour you ve gone to beautiful cities like chicago and san francisco and of course new york. and every time you walk down the streets, i m not saying always, you see russian, germans, people from asia, carrying big bags. they re buying all
it first. they are a pretty good distance away from the storms. a lot of times. but a lot of times the storms can be unpredictable and can come over like an unexpected guest. you know we hate that to happen. we do. reynolds, thank you. we ll talk to you again in a little bit. we ve all been in an airport. you see soldiers in the airport all the time, a lot of them going to and from war zones. carrying a lot of stuff, big bags. those things are heavy. surely the airline doesn t charge them for an overweight baggage fee, do they? actually, no, but we ve got the story of another ticket agent that decided to do things a little differently. wouldn t let a soldier board. get on the plane until he paid an overweight baggage fee. there s been a public outcry now, as you can imagine, but would you believe the airline is sticking by the policy? that story up next. 13 minutes past the hour here on this cnn saturday morning.