theories and one of the most likely theories was that the immigration staff had gone home, and therefore, they couldn t allow planeloads of foreigners to come into the immigration hold. when we eventually got to the gate at 6:00 a.m., we had to wait another half an hour before immigration would allow us off the plane because they hadn t got any staff, basically. so just this morning, we got a statement from a customs official who denied that there were any problems. he said jfk is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and he denied the reports that customs officials were sent home overnight. that official was to join us right now, half an hour ago, though, he canceled. i want you to hear from a second flight, right, that was stuck. the air mexico flight from mexico city arrived overnight at 1:15. listen to this man. it was terrible. basically, what happened was we were running out of food and water and the pilot came on to