reporter ivan rodriguez tells us more about what's expected to be a record season. >> nearly 44 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home this memorial day weekend. 3.5 million of them are expected to travel by air, a 9% increase compared to 2019, according to triple a in 2005, that was the busiest memorial day weekend we've seen in 25 years. >> that was four years after nine over 11 and right before the recession. so that year was particularly busy for travel. what we're seeing now is in 2024, four years after the pandemic, the travel industry has just come back in a big way. >> alex diaz with triple a says memorial day travel paints a picture of what we can expect for summer travel based on their projections, the season is expected to be sizzling hot. the transportation security administration, for its part, also expects setting new records this summer. the agency predicts screening more than 3 million passengers on same peak days this upcoming season. >> airports are going to be packed. if you've flown recently, you know that most flights these days don't have many empty