Holly agrees i think. I agree that today is a day to be festive i will say that. Thanks erin. Thanks mike. Appreciate you both. All right. So, the weather actually should cooperate today for all the planes trains and automobiles that are rushing out of town in time for christmas so expect more volume. However, youre trying to get away. And if your travels include an airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick live at Reagan National with all the details. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Just checking around the maps and the travel board arent it and itlooks like the only delaye a few out of los angeles but for the most part everything is on time and going well. The airport here really not very crowded at this point its still a little bit early so we expect maybe later those t. S. A. Checkpoints will stack up just a little bit. If you think that youve seen a lot more crowds on airplanes and in the airports lately, youre absolutely ri
Definitely grown, people trying to get through security here and theres some of that additional security that we talked about. T. S. A. Saying that with the additional load of passengers, they are bringing in additional officers, 1400 extra t. S. A. Officers and additional k9 teams. But the dogs here doing that snisniffing that helps people gt through security faster. These people have been somewhat cleared. You know when they used to have to do the swipe test. Theyre not having to do that any. So, it looks like most people here are in a pretty good holiday mood. Number of people are most people we should say, most of them are going to see family and friends. We talked to a couple of people here at the airport and asked them where they were going and what theyre doing. Im going to go to bogota colombia south america. West palm beach florida. We go away every christmas with my brotherinlaw and his wife went relax on the beach. Nashville 1010ism whats in nashville. Its a beautiful countr
Airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National with some of those details. Mel, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Still only seeing really delays out of los angeles this morning and even then not that many. So, things do seem to be moving pretty well given the fact that this is supposed to be a record year for Holiday Travel. This seventh year in a row travel has increased. Its not your imagination if you think there are more people on the airplanes and the security lines. Weve seen a couple of different configurations here going on in these t. S. A. Lines. Right now this is pretty normal. Passengers are moving pretty steadily. Now, when the k9s are in operation, then its a little bit of a different scenario. They come back and forth and they sniff the shoes and the bags and those instances then people dont have to take off their shoes at security and it really does make things go a lot quicker. We ti
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The answer the Regional Transportation Commission celebrating a wrap on construction for the flamingo corridor. Rich is project manager. Back when we started in 2015 we thought its going take so long. Its gone by really quick. Reporter on time and on budget, a 14 mile stretch of flamingo road is now complete. New bus and bike lanes, improved crosswalks, even low maintenance medians. One of the busiest roads in the valley shi the public that commute on flamingo, walks on flamingo, bikes on flamingo. Reporter but with the good. It was ridiculous. Horrible. Reporter there is carnado. Showing us this is quicker now. Reporter part of a 1 billion widening project at the spaghetti bowl that means ramp closures from now through february. That stinks. [ laughter ] not happy about that. Detours. Making sure the general public does not get lost. Theyll also monitor the changes with traffic cams. Everybody has an opinion. Everybody has a shared experience as we are going through this freeway. Its