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The 132 people on board that flight many of them were forced to climb off the plane, walking on the runway to safety. 24 people were reported hurt. The injuries of three people so severe they ended up in the hospital. Lets go to cnns will ripley. He is live at laguardia. Will, tell us the latest. Reporter its still snowing here at laguardia. You talked about those passengers who were able to walk off the plane. Had this plane skidded just a bit further into the water, we might be talking about a very different situation. This is how slick the runway was. According to the passengers who were on that plane, when they landed the pilot apparently saying there was almost no traction. The plane skidding about 4,000 feet on a 7,000 foot runway resting just feet away from the water. This is after other pilots had reported that they did have traction. It shows you how quickly and dangerously conditions are changing as this winter storm hits the area. Its a terrifying image for everyone who flies. A delta passenger jet skidding off a slick and snowy runway at one of americas busiest airports. The flight from atlanta was coming in for a landing at laguardia. Then lost control, ending up just feet from the water. As soon as we landed we felt the wheels hit the runway and we did not feel the wheels take traction and we started to skid and we skid to the left side of the runway and we continued to skid. We literally were a couple feet away from heading into the water. Reporter airport Officials Say the two planes that landed on the runway before the delta flight reported good braking action. 127 passengers aboard the md88 were evacuated from the plane using emergency exits on the wings. Port authority Officials Say the emergency chutes did not deploy. 24 people were injured, three taken to the hospital. One of the passengers new york giants tight end larry donald, who shot this video. Port Authority Officials dealt with a fuel leak from the plane. The airport remains partially closed with Flight Cancellations for hours. Hes leaking fuel from the left side of the aircraft heavily. You said leaking fuel . Affirm. The ring is ruptured. Reporter tense communications from air Traffic Control. The airport is closed. We got a threefour. Say again . Tower, you have an aircraft off 31. Please advise crash rescue. The airport is closed at this time. Reporter right now, only one runway is open and outbound flights are slowly departing. If you look at the cancellation board, it is a sea of red. Delays are very common here in the new york area. Some of the nations busiest air space, this is only making things much worse. Reports of thousands of flights both delayed and canceled across the country. Jake . It looks like its still coming down there. Is it clearing up at all or is it getting worse, staying the same whats the condition . Reporter the weather conditions we see the snow its coming down its sticking to the roads. There are snow removal crews trying to clear the parking lot behind me. They arent making much progress even with heavy equipment which means its really slippery even to stand out here right now as well. You can imagine they are working extra hard to keep that one single runway safe for the planes that are trying to take off. Will ripley with a scary day for passengers at laguardia. Thank you so much. Joining us now live from new york are two of those passengers. Sam stern and his wife Roxanne Joffe from florida. Thank you both for being here. We are so glad youre okay. How are you feeling . Are you physically hurt in any way . No. Other than a little whiplash and post shock, im feeling okay. Particularly fine. Sam, you say that everything was fine until the plane came in for the landing at laguardia. What happened then . We felt the plane touch down and as it touched down you couldnt feel any traction on the wheels and it was just like being in a car that started skidding to the left and we quickly realized that the plane, it had no control of the plane. How did passengers react, sam . It was really the passengers it was eerily silent on the plane. There was no noise. It was total silence. What were the pilot and crew saying . Were they telling people to stay in their seats, to fasten up . Yeah it took a few minutes, maybe a minute for the stewardesses to stand up. They were very calm but they did indicate that we had to get off the plane as fast as possible. There actually was only one exit. There wasnt more than one exit. Sam, were there any crash warnings from the pilot telling people to brace for impact, anything like that . No. My wife recalled that they did say before we landed that we were just clear, they had opened up the runway again for us to clear. I dont think those were the exact words. Roxanne can probably tell you better. What did they say . They announced we were in a holding pattern, then within three to five minutes, announced that we were landing. Sam, you were sitting in the emergency exit row. After the plane came to a stop you opened the emergency door. What happened . They instructed us to open the emergency door. I pulled on the lever and moved it in and another passenger helped me clear the way on the seat. I was the first one out the window got to the wing and then slid off the wing and there were people on the ground to greet us or to help us rather as we got off the plane. Then single file one by one, people came off the plane. Did they grab their stuff first or did they just go . They instructed us not to take anything with us. Is that on the slide, so the slide did inflate . No. It was on the wing. We came out of the door out of the window rather and just sat down on the wing and slid down the wing. Did it sound like a regular landing up until the moment that it started to slide . Did you hear the thrusters deploy . Everything seemed normal to me. Everything sounded fine. It was just at that moment of impact or that moment of contact, i would say, that we started to lose control. I had no fear. I thought everything was normal until that point. The Port Authoritys defending the decision to allow the plane to land at laguardia. Obviously a lot of other planes had landed with no apparent incident. Whats your reaction . Do you fault the Port Authority . Do you fault delta . I do. I do. I do fault delta and i do fault the Port Authority, because the plane should never have left in the first place. I dont know who made that decision but whoever did made the wrong decision. Sam stern, whats your take . Well we fly an awful lot and we put our faith in delta and you know, it obviously didnt work out today. You know i understand things can change in a moments notice so i dont im not really placing any blame on anybody. Looking right now at how close you were to going into the water theoretically, did you have any idea that this was what was at the end of the runway or was it you didnt even have time to think that far ahead, you were just dealing with the fright of sliding . I was sitting at the ruptured wing so i felt like we were actually in the water. Oh, wow. Because i could see through the wing. So i did, i dont think sam did because he was further back. I was on the other side of the plane. I had no idea. I know the person that sat directly opposite of me in the exit row, the other exit row, told me he was immediately flashing on the plane that went into the river a few years ago and he thought we were going in the water. I did, too. This is kind of an uncomfortable question to ask, but did you think that this was it . Yes. I did. I did. Im still in shock. 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All of the physics here matter because of laguardia airport. Look at the length of this runway. You talk about lagardeaguardia airport, you talk about a runway about 7,000 feet long, the one they were aiming for, compared to other runways, newark more than 11,000 feet jfk, more than 14,000 feet. Much more room to work with as they come in and try to execute a series of maneuvers with those mechanics you mentioned. Their first one is theyve got to get that speed down before they hit the asphalt here to about 155 miles per hour. One of the ways they do that is they flare the aircraft as they bring it in. You felt that when you are in a plane where it feels like it leans back as it touches down. Thats flaring. Theres a particular warning with this plane that you dont want to flare too much because it flies very well and it will want to take off on you again. Thats the first step. Second step theyve got to reverse the thrusters and apply the brakes and try to crank it down to about 70 miles an hour. So you are more than halving your speed in a very short distance on this runway and the thrusters are out of the picture and just with the brakes you try to get it down to 30 miles an hour which would be a taxiing speed for a plane like this. Obviously, it didnt work this time. Somewhere around the middle of the runway here, they had lost control completely. What happened with the mechanics . Well maybe the mechanics all worked right but the flaring issue, maybe the plane never totally set down on the runway. Maybe they just lost traction on the ice the same way you do with your car. Or maybe there was some kind of crosswind or something that helped lift a little bit and move it off. Lot of questions for investigators. Many questions. Well see if we get any answers. Tom foreman, thank you so much. Lets bring in cnn aviation analyst miles obrien. We also have deborah herzman joining us on the phone, former chair of the National Transportation safety board. Miles, what happened do you think . The planes tail got caught in the wind . Well they were landing in a quartering tail wind as pilots call it. The wind was coming from behind the aircraft and a little bit with a crosswind component, so number one they would have been going a little bit faster relative to the ground than they would have been if they had been landing into the wind which is ideal. The reason they probably would have selected this runway is you can land in worse weather so even though the wind was not advantageous it does have better navigation capability to land the airplane. That would have probably been why they chose that particular runway. As youre coming down, you are fighting a crosswind and that causes you to bank the aircraft to compensate for it. Is it possible they ideally what you want to do is land on one side of the main landing gear. Was there a gust which caused them to move over to the side a little bit more did that cause damage to either the wheel, the brake or the wing or some combination, and they ended up basically out of control on a very slick runway. Thats one possible scenario that investigators can look at here. Deborah, can you understand why Port Authority allowed this plane to land . Others had landed safely at laguardia, no incidents. Is it just a crapshoot or should they have known the weather was getting worse and stopped landings . Airports are very reliant on not just the work their crews do the ground crews do on clearing, plowing, treating the runway and testing the braking coefficient. They are also relying on reports from pilots coming in about braking conditions. So the previous crews are probably reporting to air Traffic Control whether or not they had good fair or poor braking conditions and they are looking at the first third, the middle third and last third of the runway to understand those. The problem is when you have a deteriorating weather condition, every aircraft is different. It depends on what speed theyre traveling, what the touchdown point is when they deploy those thrust reversers and brakes. Unfortunately, ntsb investigates a lot of accidents where things werent bad until someone ran off the end of the runway. Miles, the plane slides did not deploy. Thats kind of disturbing, too. Well it appears you see that tail cone is missing. It appears the rear slide, there was a deployment there. If you look at the forward doors, its not an advantageous place to get out of the plane because the fence and the berm and everything else. So the idea that passengers had to go through those doors over the wing and shimmy down the extended flaps would be the course of action. However, i will point out this is kind of a pet peeve of mine. If the plane wasnt about to explode or burn or sink really why not have the passengers sit tight and wait for a truck to come out with some steps, because the injuries occur in the evacuation in these cases. If theres no immediate threat why not have people sit tight. I think thats something that should be considered. I think the ntsb will be considering this as time goes on. Deborah, i thought that airlines had reached a point where they now canceled hundreds if not thousands of flights in anticipation of bad weather, but then this incident happened today. Is there still too much pressure commercial pressure to get places even in bad weather . I think theres tremendous pressure all over whether youre talking about the airlines or anything else. We can look at the news and we see backups, hundreds of travelers stranded on the highways because they couldnt keep up with the weather. So i think the good news is we do see things canceled in advance. That means people are taking it very conservative when it comes to risk but unfortunately, events like this show us that we may not be 100 there yet and weve got to understand what happened. We are very fortunate, you know this plane ended up where it was with just the nose over. But we have seen events at laguardia that did not turn out like this. Flight 5050 in 1989 where they ended up in the water. Weve got to really make sure we learn from this so we dont see something more catastrophic. Miles, 24 people hurt three are in the hospital. What kind of injuries other than the ones you were describing from walking on the tarmac or trying to get off the plane, what kind of injuries do we usually see after an incident like this . Well a lot of times its broken or sprained ankles. In this case we have heard about some neck and back injuries maybe something to do with some sort of whiplash effect potentially in their seats, or maybe the evacuation or some combination of both. Thats the kind of injuries were looking at here. Depending on the health and how nimble a person is it can be a serious thing going down one of these slides. Its something to think about. All right, thank you both for joining me. Appreciate it. Coming up on the lead a major rescue operation under way to help drivers stranded on a highway in the snow. Some have been there for more than 18 hours. No food no bathrooms, in some cases no heat. What is taking so long to get help to these people . Plus a warning from the fbi about an alarming trend. Why are so Many American teens falling under the warped spell of isis . The real question that needs to be asked is what is it that we can do that is impactful . What the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. 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We are getting some more incredible images showing just how risky and dangerous it can be to travel in this major winter storm. Take a look. The snow is falling hard now in new york where that plane skidded off the runway at laguardia earlier today. The same weather system is pushing through 22 states. The south is not used to this kind of weather. Almost two feet of snow fell in kentucky stranding some drivers for more than 12 hours on i65. That interstate of course cuts through the heart of louisville. Further south, it took five trucks to drag a big rig off of ice on a road near dallas texas. Cnns joe johns is out driving around in this mess in the d. C. Region. Are people heeding the warnings and staying off the roads, or is it bumper to bumper out there . What are you seeing . Reporter very much so. People are staying off the roads. If you will just take the camera and look ahead here we will give you some sense of whats going on. This is 4 30 eastern time. Normally in the District Of Columbia rush hour would just be beginning and you would see a lot of traffic on this 14th street bridge going back and forth. Of course we are not seeing that today. The governments closed the schools are closed and you know unlike kentucky where you have seen a lot of people trapped in their cars we havent had that here in the washington, d. C. Area but what we have had is a lot of cars trapped and in bad situations rollovers, that kind of thing. The real problem is you get cars stuck on the road because of the road conditions. This all started Something Like 24 hours ago when rain began in the District Of Columbia. It rained all night long making it impossible for crews to put down salt to put down sand and treat the roads before the snow came. When daylight came then came the snow and you had a whole layer of slush out here in the washington metropolitan area and the plows came through to try to get rid of all of that slush, but its been snowing so hard that as soon as they get rid of the old snow more new snow comes in its place. A difficult situation. Thats why people in the east are begging, begging for winter to end. Here you see some of the plows going the other direction into virginia as we enter the District Of Columbia right now. They have been working long and hard in virginia 12hour shifts on and off, and quite frankly, it doesnt seem like theres much of an end in sight. Joe johns, thank you. Drive safe my friend. Meteorologist Jennifer Gray is with us. She is getting impressive snowfall numbers from the storm. Jennifer kentucky seemed oddly enough to be in the bulls eye for this one. Yeah. Really the hardest hit. We set records in kentucky and you can see this band of purple that stretches all the way through the state. This is where we had the highest numbers and you can see, i65 right there, right where all of those people got stuck. We had 23 inches of snowfall in portions of kentucky and areas of missouri. We had about 15 and just very impressive numbers measured in feet. Of course lexington set a record. It was the snowiest twoday storm ever in lexington, coming in at about 17. 1 inches. Heres your radar. It is pushing out, of course. All the way finished in kentucky tennessee and now its impacting portions of virginia d. C. New york and just on the south side of boston. I dont think bostons going to get the two inches they needed to break that record but still snowing from new york city all the way down to d. C. This will continue to push out. We should have one last push right around the 7 00 hour and then wrapping up for everyone of course a little bit of mix of rain and ice for northern portions of North Carolina including raleigh, but then all of this will push out and very very cold temperatures will come behind it. We could see an additional one to two inches of snow in d. C. The cold temperatures in the south, a big concern down there, of course. Yeah huge concern, especially for tonight. Temperatures are going to be in the teens and 20s. In the teens across new england, 14 in new york 13 in d. C. For tonight. Nashville at 21. Jennifer gray thank you so much. Appreciate it. In other National News they go out of their way to showcase their savagery even killing those who believe in their cause with no hesitation. Yet isis is attracting teen groupies right here in america. Its prompting a disturbing new warning from the fbi. Thats next. 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Jeff bowman who lost both legs in the attack and has been a guest on this show he described seeing Tamerlan Tsarnaevs face in the crowd as he dropped the bag filled with a Pressure Cooker bomb then walked away before detonating it. Cnn National Correspondent deb feyerick was in court all day today. She filed this report. Reporter in the days following the marathon bombings this photograph showed the carnage at the finish line. Jeff bowman was standing next to one of the bombs when it detonated, obliterating his legs. Bowman testified in court today, pointing at a man in aviator glasses and black hat standing next to him under the red and white flag. He looked suspicious. He was alone. Bowman looked towards the race and when he looked back he saw the bag unattended. Moments later, it exploded. When he heard the second explosion, bowman testified, it clicked. I knew we were under attack. A day later from his hospital bed, bowman scribbled a note. I know what happened. 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A Senior State Department official told cnn it would be a few months until that happens but is there a double standard about the acceptability of using personal email accounts for state Department Officials not named Hillary Clinton . In 2012 the departments Inspector General hammered the then ambassador to kenya for, among other things using his personal email for official business against department protocol. Lets bring in cnn senior Political Correspondent brianna keilar. That ambassador submitted his resignation to his boss secretary of state Hillary Clinton. He was apparently doing the same thing when it came to the use of personal email for the business of the people. Its curious because a clinton aide does indeed say she was within the guidelines here. So we dont have the reaction to this yet, jake. But you said she wants some of her emails to be handed over not all of them. She is certainly trying to dampen some of the criticism about her personal email use while she was the secretary of state. But its important to note that the emails shes talking about releasing or having the state Department Review and release are the emails that she and her team and or her team turned over to the state department using their discretion in 2014. As the controversy over the private email address Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state moved into day three with no sign of letting up she finally weighed in tweeting shortly before midnight on tuesday i want the public to see my email. I ask state to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible. There are tens of thousands of emails clinton turned over to the state Department Last year emails her team deemed relevant that remain hidden from public view. Aside from her tweet, clinton has remained mum on the issue. How you doing, hillary . Reporter tmz tracked her down as she left the airport wednesday morning but she dodged the cameramans question which wasnt exactly intelligible anyway. With the blunder in the emails, was that a generalization gap or can that be corrected . Reporter the controversy has kept the white house and state department occupied this week. Secretary of state john kerry in saudi arabia brushed off questions. I think we have all the ones at state. Gov which are appropriately the ones in the purview of the department. Let me check on that when i actually have time to Pay Attention to such an important issue when i get home. Reporter it could be months before the state Department Releases the emails but the political ramifications are playing out now. Republicans painting clinton as secretive and a hypocrite, circulating clips like this one from 2007 when she blasted the bush administration. We know about the secret wiretaps. We know about the secret military tribunals, the secret white house email accounts. It is a stunning record of secrecy and corruption. Reporter but Many Political observers say this wont jeopardize her run for the white house. She probably would be handling this a little bit better if the campaign had already been formed and she had some staff to help her deal with this. I think its a tempest in a teapot. It will be gone before the snow in washington melts. Reporter privately, some democrats say this controversy has them wishing the democratic president ial field were broader than just Hillary Clinton. This episode reminds republicans, democrats the media, that Hillary Clinton, while she is so far ahead in the polls, she isnt invulnerable. She is very much. So you have some democrats telling us they are kind of worried about having all their eggs in one basket. Brianna, thank you so much. Lets talk to the former chairman of the South Carolina democratic party, who we should note is strongly urging Vice President joe biden to run in 2016. Sir, good to see you. You have been critical of the clintons for some time but you seem to think this email controversy plays into a real vulnerability for her as a candidate. Explain. I think one of the criticisms of Hillary Clinton is that shes secretive and that she plays by the rules, her own set of rules rather than the rules the rest of us have to play by. This typifies it. I think the big problem will be pforher not thistempest ina teapot. I dont think it will play out. What will play out is if she turns over thousands and thousands and thousands of emails, there is probably going to be a lawsuit about the emails she doesnt turn over. So it will be litigated. You have trey gowdy at the Benghazi Committee wanting all the emails during a certain period of time. So she is going to have to focus on this. The question is do we want to be dealing with this as everyone assumes her to be the presumptive nominee, or do we want a competitive primary where she has to answer those questions to other people in a debate on the stage, she just brushed off, i saw in your report brushed off any questions about it and tweets out something at 11 30 at night. Is that what we really want in a president ial candidate and is that really what we want in a president . So are you calling for other candidates to come into the race because you dont think she should be the nominee . Or are you calling for other candidates to enter the race because you think a competitive primary will help her in perhaps the same way a competitive primary helped barack obama in 2008 . Probably both. But the fact of the matter is that as a democrat who wants to see a democrat in the white house after next years election this is not good. Its not good for her, its not good for the party and its not good for the country. But lets be honest here. Lets get real. What democrat can beat Hillary Clinton for the nomination . You know i sat in a hotel less than a mile from here in february or march of 2007 with this unknown africanamerican first term senator from illinois who had 2 in the polls and there was this inevitability of this candidate named Hillary Clinton in march of 2007. I have heard this song before. If somebody out there that can compete, i have named a number of people in the media that could compete, joe biden being one of them took her on and she continued to Campaign Like this, they would beat her. We did it in 08 and it will happen again in 2016. What do you make of the argument from clinton supporters who say that look, there are a lot of republicans out there who have email transparency issues you got scott walker the governor of wisconsin, mitt romneys team wiped their hard drives before they left the governors office. They say theres a double standard here for her. Well the email account, is she going to lose over the email account . Absolutely not. What im saying is this is symptom atic of a larger problem. A few weeks ago we heard foreign nationals were contributing to the Clinton Foundation while shes secretary of state. Now we get the emails. Whats the next shoe to drop . Again, we saw john podesta leave the white house according to the clinton folks to come into the campaign to be the adult in the room. What does that say about the rest of the people in the room . Shes got to run the campaign. I was around bill clinton in 92 with him in february 92 in new hampshire, i was with barack obama here and in virginia in 08. I tell you who ran those campaigns. Bill clinton and barack obama. Who the hells running this campaign . All right. The former chair of the South Carolina democratic party, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Talk to you soon. Thank you. In other National News a dire warning from u. S. Intelligence officials about american boys and girls wanting to fight alongside isis. In a new bulletin the fbi and the department of Homeland Security say they are tracking a number of cases of teens seemingly on the verge of trying to make the trek to syria and fight in what isis calls its holy war. More than 180 americans have already traveled or attempted to travel to syria and iraq to join various militant groups including isis. Some are teens as young as 15. Law enforcement officials are even deploying undercover agents now to troll internet sites looking for any warning signs of those who could be the next terrorist recruits. This comes of course on the heels of the news yesterday of a 17yearold Virginia High School student taken into custody and accused of recruiting for the terrorist group. Up next on the lead it is one of the worlds most exotic travel destinations and it could be fading away. Disappearing right before our very eyes. Whats being done to save it . Is it too little, too late . Flo hey, big guy. I heard you lost a close one today. Look, jamie, maybe we werent the lowest rate this time. But when you show people their progressive direct rate and our competitors rates you cant win them all. The important part is, you helped them save. Thanks, flo. Okay, lets go get you an ice cream cone, champ. With sprinkles . Sprinkles are for winners. I understand. Welcome back to the lead. Im jake tapper. The money lead now. Wringling brothers addressing the proverb yal elephants in the room. It will phase out its famous asian elephant shows by 2018 and bring the remaining endangered animals to the circuss center for Elephant Conservation in florida. See . Even elephants retire to florida. Animal Rights Groups for years have been after the company, accusing them of mistreating their animals. The president of people for the ethical treatment of animals says the move is a Long Time Coming and wondered why it will take another three years to complete. The buried lead. He is literally spanning the world, traveling to five continents and some of the most visually stunning places on earth, places that may not look the same in a few years. This year this week rather this sunday bill weir and the wonder list takes us to the galapagos islands. My friend bill joins us now. First i need to get a better agent. This is a really good gig you have. I can hook you up. More importantly, tell us what you have in store this week. Well with no offense to our former employer mickey mouse, if you live animals, the galapagos is the happiest place on earth. It inspired darwin. It is largely untouched. Ecuador has done a commendable job of trying to limit the human visit numbers and keep the island pristine. This island in particular im one of the first people to step foot on it in about a year and a half. We went to visit the floriana mocking bird. Theres about 90 left in the world. It has a lot to do with human encroachment and the things we bring with us like rats and feral cats and the steps they are taking to save this one species are mindblowing. I had no idea the stories i would find but those along with the stunning visuals, the animals, i really hope you will check it out. I definitely will. Im sure the viewers will too. This place barely touched by humanity yet as you noted, what humans are doing is having an impact but its not just specifically bringing rats. Its more largely larger human issues, right . Its everything. In some cases its overfishing. A lot of the same themes. But on islands especially Invasive Species are a huge problem. For example, theres another finch thats endangered because in the 1950s, this certain kind of fly snuck in in cargo and this things larvae climbs into the beaks of the hatchlings and eats from the inside these birds, so yes, we are living through the sixth mass extinction. The first five we can blame on giant asteroids and ice ages but this is human activities fault. Sometimes overhunting, its deliberate sometimes accidental. But the steps that have to be taken to bring them back including the giant tortoise it just takes a mind shift. Darwin when he was there, he noticed the giant tortoises were being overhunted and they still brought a couple dozen on board the beagle and ate them on the way back to england. It just takes generations to understand oh, my gosh this beautiful creature may be gone but lets not let it happen on our watch. Theres no better place to study than. Cant wait to watch it. Bill weir. It airs sunday at 10 00 p. M. On cnn. Thanks so much for the great work you do. Thats it for the lead. Im jake tapper. Im about to turn you over to wolf blitzer in a room called the situation room. That starts right now. Happening now, feet from water. Terrifying moments as an airliner slides off an icy runway just short of a frigid bay. We have the latest on the investigation as air traffic feels the impact. Still stranded. Hundreds of people stuck in their cars some for almost 20 hours on a snowcovered interstate. Many without food, water or ways to keep warm. Ferguson lawsuit. The Justice Department wont file charges but Michael Browns family will file a wrongful death lawsuit. Is this their chance for what they see would be justice . American suicide bomber . As the federal government issues a warning about teens trying to join isis did an american blow himself up in