MEA weekend travel surge brings crowds to MSP

Three is the time. MEA weekend is now in full swing across Minnesota. And most schools have today and tomorrow off, so teachers can attend their annual conference. And so that means lots of people heading out of town right now. Hannah Flood has a look at the MSP airport rush this morning. Good morning. Yeah, good morning. Airport officials expect about 16 percent more people to go through security today than on a normal Thursday. Let's take you live inside MSP this morning. To show you right now, all TSA security checkpoints are 10 minutes or less. The pre-check line at Terminal 2 is under five minutes and not too many flight disruptions either so far this morning. We're tracking 16 delays and four cancellations, but you can see people are getting ready to get out of town. And because of the extra days off from school, this weekend has traditionally been one of the busiest times of the year at the airport. Many parents and many teachers say they look forward to this fall break from school. It kind of marks the first major break of the school year of course it's not just airports that get busy a lot of families hitting the road and Lauren will be tracking traffic here in just a couple of minutes and Shannu and Tom I'll just throw out too if you are at the mall at the pumpkin patch at the whatever and you notice it's busier than normal yes that is why if you feel like there are children everywhere it's because they are not in school for the next couple of days yeah it's that time of year and it's like very Minnesotan weekend. All right. Thanks, Hannah. It is 634. An 11 year old boy hit while riding an electric scooter. Sadly has died. It happened a week ago at the intersection of 40th Street North and Paradise Avenue North in Baytown Township. The boy identified as Kai Yu was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Officials tell Fox 9 he died Saturday. an investigation into this incident continues right 6 35 now an investigation is underway in Wisconsin after a deadly plane crash our sky fox chopper captured this video of that wreckage in the town of uh Delana that's just west of the Wisconsin Dells area there so this happened Tuesday night the plane was headed from Kenosha to Menominee when the pilot made contact with air traffic control to report icing and ask to descend. That was approved and then communication was lost. All six people on board the plane were killed including a child. Their identities have not been released at this time but we know both the FAA and the NTSB are helping investigate this crash.