ROB MARCIANO:
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Here in the East, it is warm, and it's one of the busiest travel days of the year. Can you imagine working the tarmac on a day like today? Well, Kris Van Cleave is at Dulles Airport, just outside of DC, to talk about what they're doing there to help folks who are working outside in this heat. Good morning, Kris. Good morning, Rob. About 3 million people expected to pass through airport checkpoints today. That's the most of the year. And for the crews out here, it's going to be extremely hot, a hundred-degree air temperature but also 120 degrees or more radiating up off the ground, and that means crews can't work as long as they normally would. So you either slow the operation down, which you can't do because United has 300 scheduled flights today they want to get out on time. So they brought in extra crews, and then they've got these mobile hydration stations that are running around Dulles Airport. They also have these mister cooling stations, which feel really good right now because when you're loading a plane, turning these flights takes about an hour. So crews are out in the heat for extended periods of time. Notice the sign up here. Extreme temps. Please run APU. That's a reminder to the flight crews to leave an engine on so the air conditioner on the plane is working. That keeps the plane from turning into a sweat lodge when people are boarding. The goal to keep the operation moving and not have anyone get overheated. Vlad.
