Today is Saturday, March 28.

Travelers across the country have been dealing with the longest airport security wait times in the history of the TSA, at least according to the agency's top official just this week.

And even though President Trump signed an emergency order to get TSA officers paid again, the agency says it could take months to replace the hundreds of officers who already quit.

Remember, the partial government shutdown has lasted over a month now, leading to unpaid TSA workers missing shifts or leaving their jobs completely.

So today, we're joined by Katie Nastro, travel expert and spokesperson for the travel platform,

going. She's sharing what you can do right now to avoid getting stuck in long lines that are

still expected as TSA tries to get back to business as usual.

We also talk about travel trends and top destinations and how to get the best deals for summer

as the cost of flights continues to rise.

Welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday, when we sit down with a different expert

or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide all the day's news in less than 15 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. Katie Nastro, thank you so much for joining us here on the newsworthy. Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Erica.

So I actually want to start with what a lot of travelers are dealing with right now,

long airport security lines.

How bad is it and which airports are being hit the hardest?

We've seen multiple occasions where lines for airports,

large and medium and small airports, reporting lines out the door in some cases

at very early hours in the morning, like in Austin, at like 4, 5 a.m. And some airports even

had to close various TSA lines because they just didn't have the staff to meet the capacity of travelers

that were coming through. And that's pretty alarming because that just means that the longer

this continues, the higher the likelihood we're going to see those long processing and even

potential for some smaller airports to close. Like we heard from the TSA administer that resources are so

strained in another month, if this still goes on, that we could potentially see small airports.

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