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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy. Here are today's

top stories. It's Thursday, August 29th. If you're planning to get out of town this Labor Day weekend, heads up, it is one of the biggest travel weekends of the year. CETAC Airport says it's ready for the hundreds of thousands of people who will pass through its gates.

Spokesperson Perry Cooper says the airport has already handled some big crowds this summer.

We've actually set a new all-time record twice this month for the largest day of passenger volume

through the airport all-time in August, but we're not going to reach those kinds of numbers

here for the holiday weekend.

Meanwhile, the port is still recovering from a cyber attack that hit last weekend.

Lance Little is aviation managing director for the airport.

The biggest impact to passengers has been for those flying internationally and low-volume carriers.

These carriers are not able to access our common use online

systems during the outage and may still be utilizing manual written boarding passes and

luggage checks. Yeah, you know what that means? Long lines building up a ticketing and security,

though the airport says they're pretty normal right now. CETAC has set up signs to help people find their right gate or baggage claim.

They recommend international flyers arrive three hours early.

Seattle Public Schools families will have to wait a little longer to find out which 20 elementary schools are slated for closure next fall.

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