The travel experience will now become even easier for passengers travelling to the United States from Shannon Airport with the introduction of a new innovative Mobile Passport Control app (MPC ).
visas. so it makes it very difficult even though they have been legally released through the process. so we do work with family and friends to get the resources together that they need as far as travel process, but they re good folks, and i m going to maintain that. and they re in a desperate situation. the deputy director of the opportunity center for the homeless in el paso, texas, john martin, thank you very much. thank you for what you do. and thank you for being on the show this morning. and coming up, music icon patti smith is our guest to talk about her new book and so much more.
in case anything would happen. i ve been travelling a lot of years on thanksgiving. so you know, and plus, the weather is supposed to get bad. so i figured the earlier the better that s early. you re early. yes. how early. like four, five hours early. now, more than 1,000 flights have already been cancelled across other parts of the country. here in the new york city area, the three airports that serve as the new york metropolitan area, jfk airport, laguardia and newark airport all asked passengers to allow additional travel time to show up to the airport earlier than they normally would and they re also recommending that people book a parking spot ahead of time if they re going to need to drive in and park their car so that that travel process can be a little bit smoother so you re not having to come into the airport and spend team looking for parking they re asking folks to do that ahead of time so that people here can continue to move
lviv, which would ordinarily take eight hours. it takes a day and a half or maybe two days because of the dozens of checkpoints you have to go through and also looking for places to stay, because very few places are available. you have to rely on networks, friendships, families, et cetera to get through. it s a very specific travel process to do so. right now, it s a major humanitarian effort underway. this is almost difficult to fathom how widespread of an impact it s having throughout the entire country of ukraine. this as bombs are falling and civilians are dying. you ve kris crossed that country, terrell. how do you describe what you re seeing, what you re witnessing? so right now i can tell you, in the first week, i missed a russian air strike by a matter of 200 meters.
the screening process. take a look. is a robust screening and vending architecture with the dual goals of protecting the homeland and providing protections for vulnerable afghans. we undertake quality control checks at every step of the travel process, including while the individuals are in route and before deploying. katie: hears the word robust, i hope that s the case but what we have seen so far that is not the case. nbc news reports more than 30,000 evacuees from afghanistan to the u.s. without 10,000 needed additional screening as of friday. each demand do you have faith that he can manage the refugee crisis effectively given how he has handled the border? i have no faith whatsoever, you pointed out, as they handled the border crisis, makes them uncredible. it seems the entire goal of this is to bring more unvented