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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 now, Robs, a 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 percent 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.

She said this again yesterday, Robes, and 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?

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