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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to your morning run. It's Thursday, March 26th. I'm Amy Robach.

And I'm T.J. Holmes, and the acting head of the TSA was on Capitol Hill yesterday, and these

words came out of her mouth. We are seeing the highest wait times in

TSA history. That is where we are. And the history she's talking about, Robes, is saying

four and a half hours is almost standard at some places. It continues. Folks at the airports,

and right now, Robs, hearing from her, she was testifying yesterday, was not encouraging.

Not at all. Talking about how TSA agents are literally donating blood and plasma, sleeping in their cars, because they cannot afford their lives without paychecks.

That is just incredible to get your head around that these folks, many of them, are working for free and they can't pay their bills. 480 of them have quit already, and that's understandable given what we're seeing at the airports.

And what we're seeing at the airports is they're saying this is regular. This is normal now to see some airports that have 40 to 50% of the TSA staff call out every single day. That is just not possible. It's not sustainable. It's why you're seeing all these lines. You said this again yesterday, Robes. We heard another official say we might have to start,

I say we, they might have to start closing smaller airports. We're not there yet, but how much longer can this go, Robes? It doesn't seem like much. I mean, we've been watching even the local

news reports here in Atlanta. That's where we are right now. And to see the line at 5 a.m. outside

of the airport to just get to the security checkpoint area. I've never

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