Jersey. We with crowded flights and Y busy airports and flight delays, R travel can be exhausting frustrating. You can change the experience becausea lot of things are within your control. It's all about making the skies friendlier. Joining us to talk about tt ma at the airports and keeping it at minimum is lifestyle expert Amy wall. Ank you so much. Thanks for having M You have flown how much? More than 6 million miles under my belt. 200 fls a year. In and out of security airports constant one thing I learned is booking the first HT of the day can eliminate a lot of stress. 6:00 and 7:00 moing flights leave on time because the aircraft got in thnight before. You can be up and out before delays stack up. The last flight ouof town not the idea. That has the best chance of getting delayeor canceled. If something happens you have no backup. Maybe you are getting to a cruise ship in the morning, you want to allow several flhts saw somethgoes wrong you don'upset your tripfrom outset. The cruise ship is gone if U aren't there on time. You say get threally early. What are we talking about in rms of Y? Get there early D spend a lot of time in the airport. There are so many thgs that can be assume you athe person randomly selected for extra screening security. Plan plenty of time to get to the airport. If you haven't flown out of laardia lately you could end 30 or 40 on the exit ING to get to the airport. Then can relax and have a cup of cofe. Don't cut it close D miss your flight because of unexpected delays. We are big fan of snacks. Take a bottyou can fill with water once get past security. If there turbulence flight attendants C't have cards the aisle so no beverage service. Pack snacks cially are traveling with kids. Tag about being in a happy which is a tough spot to get in New York. Explain what you mean by When you are treatiher people nicely and being friendly to others around you, you feel better as well. Before you leave for the airport resolve that you will be nice to evyone you encounter starting wite people you are traveling with. Bee to gate agents and smiles are contagious D crankiness is contagious. Be happy a create th space around you corol what youcan and let the rest oit go. Do you ever check bags I never do and if I buy in France I mail my dirty clothes me and pack the ones at I bough I do. I never check anything T absolutely have to have the next morning I will ship it ahead if I do. The main thing you want to do is creattions for yourself. Doework and create ups. If there is a delay or cancellation for your flight or yoag gets lost, you have an alternatand aren't disrupting youip from the get go. I check a bag every time. What do you pay? $25. Is the TSA pre-check wait? Or people travel a lot it is. If you fly once a year for a summer vacation or to someone over the holiday, it dot make sense economically. If you travel rely it does. U will still get long lines. Pre-check lines have more people participating. Not necessarily a short line but a streamlined and quicker process. Happy travel good stuff. Let'sgo to Amy with a look at big dog Sunday. Assume you check bags as well. I do check bags. Bui try to put a inmy backpack. Members of the household that will go far toare E dogs. You're going out for a walk because it's cool have a lot of rain, so likely a quick one early thorning. If you have to goyou might want to dress like dolly. This was sent in by Melissa on Facebook. We have already sen by Regina. And good to se dogs rial day weekend. Seeing a lot of red, white and blue in the lineup. This was sent in byvilma. Loow sad this is. That is because all the rain. This is Aday where we do M of laying indoors. Brutus wassent in by Lindsay Taylor wh a patriotic theme. We love to see your Bethpage R ow not happening today. It's canceled. Uego but a good yesterday. Thank YOUTO our closest friends, 190,000ple came out. I mad I did not brinthe umbrella when I leftthe house this morning. Deeply regret that. I may have a loaner so worry yourself You definitely need it because you ll be dodging showers and downs. This does not last all day. We back a little bit and see a recovery th E rain on and off th qumoving showers. Nocoming down inuckets like we see in a T of spots. This camera comply covered normally this shows us the empirete building and the batty. We have rain over Manhattan now. Temperatures CL across the boughs. Upper 50s Hamilton heights. Lo60s through queens stretching back up to 61 in saint albans. Look at these number. Hovering much of the elday. Right now if we ared temperatures we had yester to tempetures right now, we are 15 to degrees F the mark before the day is over we uld see a 25 gree temperat swing coolthan yesterday when we hit a highof 89. T only cooler air but a lot of rai in green we have a flash floo warning. This is until 10:15. Areas and red have serious downpours. 8:20 in Howell they had 2.37 inches of rain in less an an hour as Ms came through. A 45 minute store for them. Lawrenceville had an cumulation of 2.3 inches. Had water rescues in Trenton inside mercer county. They were rescuing people from vehicles. They were ING up with too much water in too short time and trouble with drain if you live in raflood-prone areas is is your from philadelphito Toms river and the shoreline, those S getting a huge rain in a short amount oftime. Already saturated soil from yesterday. King a quick trip down south to check in on Alberto. 45 mile it will affethe gulf of Mexico. It's a tropicastem and not comple looking as strong hurricane going into the gulf