The busiest travel day of the year is days away, and airports are already packed this weekend ahead of Thanksgiving. Fox News correspondent Dana Marie McNicol is at the nation's busiest airport, Atlanta's, Harttsfield Jackson International with more.

Charlie, it's the start of the travel rush, and it may seem calm right now, but lines this morning went well past a security checkpoint. One traveler we spoke to said it was the line to check in his bag that made him miss his flight. That's why airport authorities are saying people should get to the airport two and a half hours before their flight. That may seem excessive, but TSA expects to screen about 30 million passengers over the holiday. That would make it the busiest holiday travel period ever.

Definitely not going to make my flight. I've never been in this situation before. Usually, I'm here at the gate waiting with too much time.

The busiest days to travel: Tuesday and Wednesday and the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when TSA says 2.9 million passengers could pass through checkpoints. And from the skyways to the highways, AAA projects millions more will drive to their Thanksgiving destinations. The worst times to hit the road: late afternoon, Wednesday, midday, Thanksgiving, and Friday afternoon. The good news for drivers: gas prices are about 40 cents cheaper per gallon this year, and even cheaper in the south. 17 million people have signed up for TSA pre-check a new record, so make sure you give yourself plenty of extra time. Charlie.

Thank you, Dana Marie. With the holiday travel season comes Black Friday and Cyber Monday. But could robots soon be doing the shopping for us. Check out what happened when Lauren, our very own Lauren, went to Amazon's Robotic Innovation Facility.

But if you come back and look at me, I'm wearing this vest. I'm a live target right now. I'm sending out radio frequency. When I walk closer to the scene, you can see that the robots will stop because they're sensing that a human is coming near. But I came to pick up this malfunction by the robots. They know to stop because I'm close.

All right, so now I'm really weirded out now. I don't know that I like sitting next to.

You right now. I was.

A cobot. A cobot. This makes me very nervous. I'm worried that maybe you've become a droid, but you were outnumbered by robots and you've survived.

The point of that was to show how robots and humans are working together. Artificial intelligence, the future is here and now an AI is just here.

We were working together. It dropped and you had to clean it.

Up for them. Well, I had to fix the robots' mistake. So if you ask Amazon, they have 750,000 employed robots and one million human warehouse workers. I thought those numbers were about to reach par. I mean, I don't think that's that many more humans than robots. But by working together and thinking of all of these new crazy things, we can get our orders 25... Well, they can fill the order 25 % faster, and you can get it 75 % faster. So I asked one of the head of robotics, I said, Does this mean that my husband can literally at 5:00 PM on Christmas Eve, order Christmas presents, and I can get them within two hours? And he said, Yes.

So does that mean that these robots are going to be doing the shopping for us?

I hope. I hope that's the future. But no, not the shopping yet. Not for Amazon.

But just to wrap this up here, this part of this, obviously you were outnumbered. Did you feel like you were working for them?

No, I felt in control in that vest. I'm not going to lie. Really? I felt really helpful. All those robots, those co-bots listening to my brain are.

I actually went back later just to feel the power again.

Where did the power come from the vest?

Because it's.

In on.

Signals, right? Okay, I'm not a roboticist. It's in on signals.

I don't think.

It's a word.

Is it? It is now.

What's his word?

I don't like this, though. I don't want to be friends with robots. I don't want to work together with you. I don't want to. But look at how much technology has ruined America. Everyone hates each other. We're at each other's throats. Relationships are broken. Divorces are high. The more impersonal that our country gets, the further apart we get, the more divided things are going to get. Look at how many people were depressed during COVID with the isolation of that. You had drug overdoses increased 30 % depression, anxiety four times as much as it was before because people were alone. We need to be around other humans. We need that human to human connected. I don't want to be friends with you, Rob.

I bet Griffiniff is like the world's greatest Christmas present shopper. Are you going to submit to the robot and let the robot pick your Christmas presents? No.

Really? I'm not going to let the robot choose.

Your robot overlords? Well, what about a.

Robot that had legs? Well, what about a robot that had legs? Well, what about a robot that makes all the decisions?

I can't replace my wife with a robot.

His wife is more powerful than the robot. There is an option for that.

Kathleen Jenkins got robots. No. I got to go back to it. Were you scared in that room? Was it eerie?

No, it wasn't.

Honestly, I thought everything was just so amazing and cool, everything that they were working on. What I did think was eerie, which I didn't see in person, but I saw a video of, is a robot called Digit that has legs and arms and fingers and can grasp. But you can't say legs and arms because they want to differentiate technology and human. Last point. I do a lot of work with artificial intelligence. Well, yeah, maybe the.

Robots would get a phone. Wait, the back for war or something.

There are schools of thought that say you need to be nice to robots and train them so they can be nice and not take over the world. I really just said that on national television.

This is why I don't want to work together with the robot. But now that I said that, I'm probably a target. You have to be.

Nice to the robot that you eventually.

Work with. I've been screwed now.

I'm trying to.

Train it. I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, robot overlords. I apologize. This is my hospital.

I think we've gotten to some really important territory here.

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