Name: TSA: Holiday travel reaches pre-pandemic levels
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Description: Thursday is expected to be the busiest day of holiday travel this year, according to airport officials with the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. At least 37,000 people are expected to fly out of the airport on Thursday.

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Thursday is expected to be the busiest day of holiday travel this year, according to airport officials with the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. At least 37,000 people are expected to fly out of the airport on Thursday.

<p>YOU CAN FIND THE COVID VACCINE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS SECTION ON THE HOME PAGE OF WRAL.COM. &gt;&gt; AS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE HEADED HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND MANY ARE GOING BY PLANE. WE HAVE SEEN A VARIETY OF THINGS. SOMETIMES WE HAVE SEEN LINES SNAKE AROUND RDU AIRPORT AND OTHER TIMES PASSENGERS CAN WALK RIGHT THROUGH. SHOW US WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AT LUNCH TIME. &gt;&gt; Reporter: YOU KNOW, I'M ORIGINALLY FROM CHICAGO. SO I'M USED TO O'HARE AIRPORT. I'M HAPPY WITH WHAT I'M SEEING HERE AT RDU. REALLY SMOOTH AS CARS ARE COMING INTO THE ARRIVAL AREA HERE AT DELTA. I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU INSIDE WITH THIS PASSENGER. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE BUSIEST TRAVEL DAY FOR RDU. DECEMBER23. AS YOU CAN SEE, THOUGH, AS WE ENTER THE AREA, IT IS PRETTY CALM RIGHT NOW. REALLY DIFFERENT STORY, THOUGH. THIS MORNING BETWEEN 5:00 AND 8:00 A.M., THERE WERE LINES EVERYWHERE IN FRONT OF AMERICAN, DELTA AND CERTAINLY SECURITY. NOW WE KNOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FEELING A LITTLE NERVOUS BECAUSE OF THIS OMICRON. WE HAVEN'T OBSERVED A SINGLE PERSON NOT WEARING A MASK INSIDE THE AIRPORT. BUT COVID NOT SLOWING PEOPLE'S WANT TO TRAVEL. YESTERDAY NUMBERS WERE UP COMPARED TO DECEMBER 22. THE SAME DAY 2020 AND 2019. WE STUCK WITH A FAMILY FROM APEX HEADED TO TEXAS. ONE OF THEIR DAUGHTERS ACTUALLY JUST GOT BACK FROM GERMANY. &gt;&gt; WHAT WAS TRAVELING FROM EUROPE BACK TO HERE LIKE? &gt;&gt; IT WAS STRESSFUL. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A NEGATIVE TEST WITHIN 24 HOURS OF GETTING BACK. SO I HAD TO GO TO THE AIRPORT, GET IT, GET THE TESTS DONE AND MAKE SURE IT WAS READY TO GO TO HAVE ALL MY VACCINATIONS AND EVERYTHING TO GET ON THE PLANE. &gt;&gt; Reporter: DO YOU THINK FOLKS ON DOMESTIC FLIGHTS SHOULDN'T NEED TO HAVE NEGATIVE TESTS? &gt;&gt; I DON'T THINK IT WOULD HURT. &gt;&gt; Reporter: NOW RDU EXPECTS NEARLY HALF A MILLION TRAVELERS HERE BETWEEN THE 18th OF DECEMBER AND JANUARY 2, WITH TODAY BEING THE BUSIEST DAY CHRISTMAS EVE EVE. I JUST SPOKE WITH RDU. THEY TOLD ME THEY WANT TO RELAY SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION. MAINLY BOTH ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES CAN BE USED AS PICKUPS FOR PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. SO IT IS OKAY. IF YOU WANT TO PICK UP SOMEONE FROM ARRIVALS. IF YOU ARE WAITING THOUGH, FOR SOMEONE TO GET HERE, AND YOU WANT TO PICK THEM UP AND THEIR FLIGHT HASN'T LANDED YET, THEY WANT YOU TO BE AT THE 1000 TRADE DRIVE CELL PHONE LOT. THAT WILL HELP KEEP THINGS NICE AND MOVING QUICKLY. AND SMOOTHLY. &gt;&gt;&gt; GLAD TO SEE RIGHT NOW THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING.</p>

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Hey, there are meteorologist, Brian Schrader and the WRL severe Weather center. It is the Wral weather alert day but some good news overnight, the storm prediction center did remove the level two risk from our southern counties, but everybody now is under a level one risk for severe weather this afternoon. That means we could see just one or two severe thunderstorms pop up later this afternoon and evening, damaging winds would be the big threat here. This is not a large hail or tornado kind of a setup, but we could see a couple of damages, wind gusts and it also looks like heavy rain is going to be a big issue for us later this afternoon and evening, we have a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. So any showers and storms that pop up could dump a lot of rain. So look out for flash flooding if you're going to be out and it looks like the general time frame for the worst of all of this is going to be between about two pm and 10 p.m. Here's a look at the latest run of Futurecast, putting it in motion through the rest of the afternoon. We can't rule out a little shower here or there through the early afternoon. But then as we head into the mid late afternoon, that's when our shower and storm chances really start to pick up around dinner time and beyond, you can see a lot of pretty significant rainfall showing up, especially around the triangle area and then point south as we head into the overnight hours. So you just need to keep that in mind as you head out today, Bein Bay Cultural Arts Festival in Durham at Rock Quarry Park from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Looks like we are going to be dodging showers, especially as we head into the 567 o'clock hours. Our exposure in downtown Raleigh RL, proud sponsor of Bim Bay and also our exposure. We'll see a little bit of problem with rain later this afternoon and into the evening tomorrow though is looking better maybe a morning shower. But overall for Sunday, I think we're going to see fairly dry conditions in the afternoon with mostly cloudy skies and a high temperature, much cooler around 70 degrees. Big warm up as we head into next week, but it stays pretty dry till we get into Thursday and Friday. And that's our next chance of seeing some showers and storms.

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