shortages that we saw force thousands of flight canc cancel cancellations. pete joins us now from reagan national airport outside washington. pete, what can we expect this summer when it comes to traveling? well, remember that airlines received $50 billion in pandemic aid over the from the federal government, but airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic in terms of their work forces. now they re being put to the test. people are packing back into planes. look at the numbers from the tsa. it s been screening about 2 million people at airports nationwide the last few days. the numbers are about 87% of where we were in 2019 before the pandemic. they could go even higher. look at the cancellation numbers. bad weather hit the east coast yesterday. 16 00 flights cancelled nationwide yesterday according to flight aware. about 600 flights so far today. went to visit american airlines. they re hoping to avoid cancellations as the summer goes
lot of frustration. you can book free of charge even if you think you are going to be impacted by this. john, we have not seen cancellation numbers since the big ice storm that hit texas this time last year. look, what you re telling me it s the worst travel day, the highest cancellations this year. we had so many the last month. people need to brace themselves for the next 24, 48 hours might look like. keep us appreciated. really were appreciate it. this morning, the fbi is investigating this wave of bomb threats at historically black mess colleges. cnn s joe johns has been covering this from the beginning and joins us live. what are the latest developments? reporter: john, we have learned a few things from investigators. they have identified some people suspected of making the bomb threats to all the hbcus. that s important because of the
snapshots of difficulty of accessing the site. i think that is greatly improved. they said just processing paper actually. well, i understand it is the site for, they put the application into the site and get a determination. that is part of what the process. the site is part of of the portal all the way through. right. this is an integrated insurance vehicle so that will improve and we again, with four months of continuous service, which is far longer than most people had, some of these cancellation numbers, mr. guarranty again pointed this out from florida blue cross, but true of everyone else, these are not january 1st numbers. they re year-long numbers. so over the course of 2014 when an individual s policy is due to expire, that individual somebody could expire january 1st and not be able to get coverage if the website, and vendor said they needed months to test, they would have liked to have months and months to test.