Air travelers face extended waits as TSA agents miss pay during DHS shutdown

It's not unusual for it to be busy at the Atlanta airport, but you take a look at this checkpoint time. 18 minutes is the best that we've seen all afternoon. You've had some passengers who've been waiting 20 minutes, 40 minutes, some people as much as 60 minutes at different checkpoints in the airport throughout the course of this day.And a lot of that is because the TSA agents in so many cases are not showing up for work. They're taking other jobs during this shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ...