If you're bringing food or gifts through the airport this holiday season, it's important to plan ahead for the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint.
reporter: american and southwest acknowledge the pandemic has mate e-made it harder to recover from weather issues. essential not only volunteer for work. reporter: but republicans focused on united s vaccine mandate. as for the rapidly approaching holidays. near 2019 levels of travel. account airline industry handle that? i think we are. all the support services we need, faa, tsa guidelines. disruptive of that. reporter: those complaints have been off the charts. flight ant ten attendants plead. chris van cleave, cbs news.
0 captioning sponsored by cbs tonight, holiday surge. travel takes off. more than 100 million americans on the move, as covid cases skyrocket from coast to coast. the latest variants spreading fast. it s unimaginable to have to go through another winter. you have so much death and misery. but confidence in vaccines and pandemic fatigue appear to have people accepting the risk. i m mar cyst gonzalez. new york city sees record infections, broadway shutters shows, broad way premiers cancelled. pro sports put some games and teams on ice. plus, sticker shock many used car price soar, how the supply chain is to blame. and later, covid-19 miracle, how the woman in montana beat the covid odds and lived to tell her story. nice to see you, this is amazing. this is the cbs weekend news. good evening, i m meg oliver, adriana diaz is off. it s looking a lock like christmas, roads are packed and filling up. the coronavirus is shape shifting again, into the contageous new omicron va
and we have increased airline security and a new set of t.s.a. guidelines. clayton: how do americans feel about the security? we have a pollster testing the pulse of the nation. a lot of people are traveling this morning, frank, at least over the course of the week for the holiday, what did you find doing your research and polling with the individuals of how they feel about air travel? guest: we asked the american people as part of a survey, what you thought about freedom in america today. and the results were startling and it is my number one findings of 2010. we asked the public, are you more or less free than five years ago? only 13 percent feel themselves more free. and 53 percent feel less free than five years ago. and part of that is the reaction to what has been happening in washington. and the feeling we do not have control over our lives.
packed, according to tsa guidelines. is there anything that could have been done differently, should have been done differently to prevent this? there s a couple of things that come to mind but of course, the investigation is ongoing. so what we think we know today may end up not being true, but at least if there is a strong suspicion by the fbi that he was on the plane with the intention of doing the harm upon arrival, it would be very difficult to stop something, someone as determined as that. now, there are some sort of fight or something that raised his temperature and got him to sort of explode, then maybe there are ways we could think about how are people trying to deescalate problems in airports, things like that. the other question is the military. we re so focused on the fbi and that s important to see what they knew and what they might