thanks, erica. we re in the short lived lull. between the russia h from the thanksgiving holiday. look at the numbers at airports nationwide according to tsa. 1.4 million people yesterday, that is the anticipated low number of the week. in fact, it is the lowest number we ve seen since february. but look at wednesday. the day before thanksgiving. that is when we saw 2.46 million people screened by tsa at airports across the country. that number only 6% off of what we saw on the same day back there 2019 before the pandemic. in fact, it is really just shy of a pandemic era air travel record. now the big question, when everybody begins coming home on sunday, when we could see this really big number again, and could we see an all time air travel record. p not just pandemic era, but the all-time record, 2.88 million people screened by tsa at airports nationwide on the
tomorrow afternoon, but between now and then not so easy. from another expert, travelocity senior editor courtney scott, let s say you re out there, it s the last day, you re trying to get to thanksgiving by tomorrow. any advice for travelers running into these last-minute delays? a train at penn station, main sleet turning to snow in the northeast. what do you do if you run into trouble now? pack your patience. luck has been on our side today. we ve seen some great lightening up in delays across the country, but expect the unexpected. you never know what s going to happen, so really pack your patience and try to, you know, kill them with kindness. please don t overreact. everyone is doing their best to get you home to your family in time. most of us are coming home on sunday. that is, you know, one of the other busiest travels days of this pertain. there are a couple tips i have to ease the stress of your
what the hell is going on? when you look at these numbers and spend any time in new orleans on the ground, read the headlines and it s clear that there s a crisis going on in the communities. you have all the things that come with poverty. but you also have a state with a wide embrace of this fundamentali fundamentalism and we see it play out time and time again. i haven t been to a second line where there wasn t a shooting. it s as if we come to expect it. we were coming home on sunday. this used to be a standard part of our reality. a lot of times they come right past our house. it s part of what a second line is. we come out, hang out, follow a little bit. but the idea that we re in a