chris van cleve for cbs news, reagan national airport, virginia. >>> new developments in the search for missing egyptair flight 80 46789 signal from the plane's emergency beacon is helping search teams nature he down where it likely crash in the mediterranean last week this signal is different from the locate or pings emitted from the plane's black boxes. french ship is on its way to assist search for those devices. >>> making international headlines this noon, president obama is flying back to washington today after a solemn visit to the site of the first atomic bomb attack. weijia jiang was with the president as he visited hiroshima japan this morning where 140,000 people died on august 5th, 1945, and the first of two a tomorrow i can blasts that ended world war two. president obama joined japanese prime minister, in laying wreath the at peace memorial park in hiroshima. he is first sitting u.s. president destroyed by an american atomic bomb. >> seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. >> reporter: the president paid tri

chris van cleve is there with the up close look at mess and what is being done to fix it. >> reporterurity lines are ratcheting up the pressure on the transportation security administration. now tsa is shifting some responsibility, to travelers. >> we're not here to day to blame this on passengers but this is one contributing factor to the lines, being longer. >> reporter: officers they say unscientific show and tell at chicago's hard hit mid wear airport show how items like water bottles and knives backup the line this holds the rest of the bags on that cue from proceeding through. >> reporter: taa says much bigger issues then prohibited items are the staffing crunch and just sheer volume of travelers packing the checkpoints. >> makes wide, an average of 7 , from last year to this year and in some of those larger airports, up to 15 percent more. >> reporter: to handle the crowds the agency is hiring an extra 768 screeners over the next month, also, shifting more k-9 units to larger airports and bumping up part-time work tours full-time. passengers can only hope though steps will alle

chris van cleve, cbs news chicago. >>> the drop in travel and have ticket prices down for the holidayseight without eating healthier. all you need is the absorb plate. modeled like a sponge that collects grease and oil that stays on the plate until of going to your hips. it claims to cut 30-calories from each meal. would you try that. >> i would try anything. >>> taking a live look outside. was not so nice as the meteorologist nearly lost his lunch. >> the national champions -- jeez louise. >> why did that just happen? show that again. >> you can't take it back. >> apparently he has an incredible fear of spiders. >> you think? what would cause to you scream like that, topper? >> i would say nothing. spiders don't bother me. >> i catch and release spiders. >> you do. >> they spin a web and they save you from zika. you're welcome. >>> bats are speaking good and purple martins. >> you are helping to fight zika. >> the only thing i would kill is ticks. i release stink bugs and i say see you in 20 minutes. >>> it is amazing. i have known him for 20 years and all of this new stuff comes up.

correspondent chris van cleve reports now from reagan international airport from outside washington d.c. >> step on over. >> reporter: first real test of the summer travel season is underway, for the tsa. airports are breaking for record crowds, after 231 million-dollar, and flying from june through august, that is 95,500 more flyers a day then last year. >> we're going to keep passengers moving this weekend. but we're also going to keep them safe. that is our principal responsibility. >> reporter: seasonal surge comes as shorthanded, tsa, struggles to keep the security lines moving. >> year to date more than 70,000, american airlines customers have missed flights, due to excessive weight time. >> on thursday carrie philipovitch told congress more than 30,000 checked bags has missed flights because of careening delays. >> it appears tsa did not adjust staffing model after screening protocols were changed. >> this is unreal. >> reporter: as we saw last week at chicago's midway airport patients is already running real thin as wait times have at points surpassed two hours. the nation's air

of washington's reagan national airport to hear the secretary's briefing and cbs news reporter chris van cleve talked to him after that. >> and i am focused on making ur -- making sure we go forward and we focus on this d attention of myself and the tsa administrator. >> and i asked the secretary if he felt they did a good enough job preparing the american public for the lines. >> no, no. >> the situation that is created. >> i don't think so at all. the way it's brought to the attention is the media and thousands being left behind and in almost every airport. >> and so, it looks like the #i hate the wait is not going away any time soon. >>> and new tonight, we got a break from the last two straight weeks of gray and gray and -- . >> for a few glorious hours, almost all of the region was bathed in sun. remember sun? and that weather was different from the last few weeks and so striking that we pulled garrett hague off of the politics beat and asked him to investigate this unusual phenomenon in the sky. why i if there traditional signs like may like mother's day, you can be forgiven thinking we'