south carolina. the president just a little while ago says it was always his plan to take it out. we made it clear to china what we were going to do. they understand our position. we will not back off. we did the right thing. has it always been your view to shoot down a chinese spy balloon or only because it became public? oh, no it was always my position. once it came to the united states from canada i told them i wanted to shoot it down as soon as appropriate. they concluded, they concluded we should not shoot it down over land. they are not a serious threat and we should wait. greg: clearly this is his finest moment since corn pop. part of this scooped up and sent over to the fbi for further analysis and despite assuring the american people there was no threat the senior u.s. official says there may have been self detonating explosives off of the vessel. just like jessie s hair appeared republicans are reacting with usual pouncing. the message they were trying to
a fedex cargo plane was forced to the board landing to hit a passenger on a runway about to take off. greg, i feel like southwest needs to not be in the headlines anymore. greg: i would advise them as a freelance consultant to cut back on other things first, right? jessica: like food on the plains? greg: ice cubes. but we are saying standards being relaxed everywhere. customer service, fitness standards with military police nl airlines. this is just a natural evolution towards automation. robots to take jobs but we really don t want them. and we can t be bothered with meeting the standard. so maybe this is how it is supposed to be. ai robots, they don t need to practice. they are ready to go day one and now they never screw up, never,
very quickly, that it looks okay but then a few minutes later, it s frozen. is that right? yes it is. they re using a chemical on the runways now called urea because you can t use salt or gravel for obvious reasons. this is something that s unpredictable because it does a great job of anti-icing and deicing the runway. a really good job. however, it looks black. it looks like a black black ice, if you will. so once it gets to a certain level, once it does freeze, it happens extremely quickly. right when it gets to that freezing point of that runway, it happens very, very quickly. so that could also be one of the reasons that it may not have been reported properly as to the safety of landing there. understandably though, they have shut down all the runways at la guardia airport now. their erring on the side of caution. no planes taking off or landing
it off to the shoulder. chief mark malone good luck to you and the men and women helping, good luck to everyone over there. this is just one part of the country right now suffering from this severe weather, snow and ice and sleet. it s an awful, awful situation. we re standing by for a news conference from the port authority of new york and new jersey dealing with the other breaking news weather related. a delta flight skidding as it touched down at la guardia airport. fortunately stopping before it goes over a berm into the water. we re going to find out what happened. take a look at this video. this picture. this is an md-88 delta. this is delta flight 1086. it took off this morning from atlanta harts field airport. landed at la guardia at 11:05 a.m. this morning. upon landing. the size and the snow was simply too much. the plane began skidding and it
during the last three weeks. there were two drills here at la guardia for exactly this circumstance. last thing i ll report is that we expect to open up the other runway 422 at approximately 2:00 p.m. some flights have been diverted to newark and to other airports. as ron mentioned at the beginning of the conference the ntsb is on the way to la guardia. we will be cooperating with them closely as with delta. we re not going to speculate or comment on the causes of today s accident. with that, i ll turn it over to delta airlines. thank you, pat. this morning, upon landing, delta flight 1086 from atlanta exited runway 13. it was carrying 127 customers and five crew members. customers were deplaned safely and moved to the terminals on buses. they have subsequently been